Your First Baseball Cards

Left Seater · Post by **Left Seater** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:45 pm

Never was a fan. Not sure why, but my friends and I just never got into them.

Prolly had something to do with the fact that baseball was our least favorite sport. I still remember the day we told the varsity baseball coach we weren't playing.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 3:54 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:I left all of my comics (shitloads) and my baseball cards (bigger shitload) with a friend in Mobile. He never finished high school. This is the house he lives in now:

Mental ward?

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:45 pm

...one of the first I can remember...Wolfie?

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:53 pm

ChargerMike wrote:...one of the first I can remember...Wolfie?

He's still pissed because his mom threw away his Honus Wagner card.

Python · Post by **Python** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:19 pm

My brother and I still have every one we ever collected, somewhere around 25,000 or so. I've got most of the ones pictured up there, 3 of the Yaz cards I think. I have no idea how much our collection is worth, but we'll never sell. We'll leave it up to our children to do something stupid with them after we die, like throw them away or sell them for a few bucks.

ChargerMike · Post by **ChargerMike** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:33 pm

BSmack wrote:
ChargerMike wrote:...one of the first I can remember...Wolfie?

He's still pissed because his mom threw away his Honus Wagner card.

...she did, she sure did. I had the whole friggin tobbacco series and she sh!tcanned it. :wink:

ADAM · Post by **ADAM** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 6:04 pm

I could kick myself in the ass for not saving these cards....

Johnny Bench
Nolan Ryan
Reggie Jackson
Rolly Fingers
A.J. Foytt
Evil Kneievel
Parnelli Jones
Dan Marino
John Elway

And many others.........

Hind-sight is always 20/20...

Moby Dick · Post by **Moby Dick** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:05 pm

in 89 when i first started colleting, the little store here in town used to sell Donruss. I believe it was the first year Donruss was around...anyhow..the cards were only 49 cents a pack so i was always buying them when i had money.

I'll be damned if i didnt open up a pack of those fucking cards and NOT see Candy Maldonado staring me in the face.

i probably had seriously 80 of his 89 Donruss cards before i finally got pissed off and threw them away.

him and Jose Uribe were in every fucking pack.

Python · Post by **Python** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:42 pm

Yep, I remember opening packs of Donruss cards in '85 and being able to memorize the exact order the cards would be in. I guess Donruss packaged them all the same, every stinking time.

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:50 pm

Actually Bri is not far from reality here. I had a lot of cards from the early thru mid 1950's. I'm sure I had Mantle and Aaron rookie cards along with them. I also had a full set of 4x6 1949 Yankees photos that had their autographs on them given to me by a lady on my old Syracuse Post-Standard paper route. I remember that Yogi was actually Lawrence Berra on his. About the time I mustered out of the US Army, my folks had moved. When my Dad sold the house after my Mother died, I went through all the stuff she had stashed. Along with original issues of Mad magazine, the baseball cards were also missing.
I have this image of movers asking my Mother if she wanted the box of stuff moved to the new house and her saying--no--it's just some old stuff my son doesn't want; or maybe they simply helped themselves.

socal · Post by **socal** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:59 pm

My first:
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sincerely,

Luther

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:28 pm

Some personal favorites

KC Scott · Post by **KC Scott** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:37 pm

Still holds the Royals single season HR record....... 38

/facepalm

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:18 am

Bye Bye Balboni !! Saw him crush one almost to the RR tacks over the left field fence when he was playing for Columbus against the Syracuse Chiefs.
Here's another guy that was almost HR or K.

He was one of the few "sluggers" that never played minor league ball.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:38 am

KC Scott wrote:Still holds the Royals single season HR record....... 38

/facepalm

What a wimpy mustache for a Royals players.

Sincerely,

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 12:46 am

Roach wrote:Nice work Sam. Here are a couple I had...

Along with a bunch more my brother sold for $20.00. The old story. I wonder if Roger is dead yet.

Wonder no more.

Deader than David Carradine.

Moby Dick · Post by **Moby Dick** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:06 am

another card i always saw...even tho it was a couple years before i started buying packs..buddies were always trying to trade me this card. i'd never take it tho cause they'd always say "but he played at Okla St, he was a qb too!" blah blah...

now i gotta listen to his ass on sports talk radio here.

i DID take him for a sizeable pot at the casino playing some 1/2 one night. that felt good.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 1:19 am

Moby Dick wrote:

another card i always saw...even tho it was a couple years before i started buying packs..buddies were always trying to trade me this card. i'd never take it tho cause they'd always say "but he played at Okla St, he was a qb too!" blah blah...

now i gotta listen to his ass on sports talk radio here.

i DID take him for a sizeable pot at the casino playing some 1/2 one night. that felt good.

Looks like dude smoked some sizable pot prior to that pic.

Rollie Fingers · Post by **Rollie Fingers** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 2:57 am

ADAM wrote:I could kick myself in the ass for not saving these cards....

Johnny Bench
Nolan Ryan
Reggie Jackson
Rolly Fingers
A.J. Foytt
Evil Kneievel
Parnelli Jones
Dan Marino
John Elway

And many others.........

Hind-sight is always 20/20...

Nice. Except I ought to be first.

LTS TRN 2 · Post by **LTS TRN 2** » Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:00 pm

I've got a Bonds rookie card......uh, it's for sale.....well?......

Just waitin' for the big bidders to step up..............

Terry in Crapchester · Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:02 pm

Very first baseball card I ever got . . .

Python · Post by **Python** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:24 pm

Kellogs 3-D and Hostess cards.

Great memories.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:46 pm

Python wrote:Kellogs 3-D and Hostess cards.

Great memories.

Still have my 3-D Johnny Bench and Cesar Geronimo cards somewhere. Good stuff Python.

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 6:12 pm

Python wrote:Kellogs 3-D and Hostess cards.

Great memories.

I had the Ralph Garr 3-D card from Frosted Flakes. I was as enthralled with it as Cuda is with a shiny object.

Moby Dick · Post by **Moby Dick** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:48 pm

DallasFanatic · Post by **DallasFanatic** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:49 pm

First one I ever had.

Python · Post by **Python** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 2:21 pm

Just because.

Cosmo Kramer · Post by **Cosmo Kramer** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:12 pm

Moby Dick · Post by **Moby Dick** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 6:02 pm

^^^

talk about getting over

T1B

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