What do you recall as being THE HOT CARD when you first started collecting?

gemint · June 10, 2011 8:19AM

I first really started collecting in 1976 and don't recall a "hot" card. Cards weren't really worth money then, so a 'hot' card was considered any Pirate card in Central PA. If I had to pick one it would be the Stargell.

gameusedhoop · June 10, 2011 8:43AM

The two I always hoped were in my packs at the age of 7. They just looked sooo cool.

benderbroeth · June 10, 2011 9:11AM

shaq o'neil...alonzo mourning....and any trailblazer cards i could find!!!

Yankees001 · June 10, 2011 9:47AM

Kevin Seitzer and Mike Greenwell

How the memories suck

Dave

killer26 · June 10, 2011 2:38PM

The Bash Brother's baby! I was a huge Conseco fan.. But the card that resonates most in my memory was my dad's Jordan Star rookie, only because it was of him getting a dam rebound and by far the most expensive Jordan rookie!!

killer26 · June 10, 2011 2:39PM

<< <i>I first really started collecting in 1976 and don't recall a "hot" card. Cards weren't really worth money then, so a 'hot' card was considered any Pirate card in Central PA. If I had to pick one it would be the Stargell. >>

Andre Dawson in that god awful uniform!

hammered · June 10, 2011 5:18PM

I also started collecting in '76. Living in Socal, for me it was Garvey, Lopes, Cey or of course Hank Aaron.

But the following year, it seemed everyone in my neighborhood had to have this card:

dontippet · June 10, 2011 11:10PM

1985 Topps Gooden. I remember pulling my first one.

fiveniner · June 11, 2011 6:26AM

The Mick back in 1959 hands down.Yogi was up there too.Locally I grew up in Northeast part of Detroit and you had to have the Kaline,Maxwell and Kuenn Cards without a doubt.No rookie card hoopla in those days.

illinifan912 · June 11, 2011 10:56AM

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The two I always hoped were in my packs at the age of 7. They just looked sooo cool. >>

those goalie masks didnt scare you when you were a kid?

gameusedhoop · June 11, 2011 9:55PM

Nope, not at all. It was BEFORE the Halloween movies, and growing up in Salem, Massachusetts you see much scarier things walking around downtown on any Halloween. (and most other nights for that matter)

wrighty · June 12, 2011 9:04AM

I haven't had time to read the whole thread but these two were supposed to be the next great players that I remember from my first years of collecting:

1979 Carney Lansford
1980 Joe Charboneau

What do you recall as being THE HOT CARD when you first started collecting?

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