Today is question day:
How did you get in to collecting cards?
When I was young I remember
playing with cards, not collecting them but flipping cards and sticking them in
my spokes. The first cards I remember collecting was in 1979 when I would go up
to a local convenience store and buy packs of 1979 Topps basketball. For some reason,
I still remember pulling Jack Sikma. I collected until 1987 when I stopped and
then returned in late 1992 when Shaq hit the scene.
I don't have the Jack Sikma card any more but this is the one that brought me in to the hobby.
I don't have the Jack Sikma card any more but this is the one that brought me in to the hobby.
I had become a monster truck fan in 1986, from then until about 1992 it was my favorite thing in the world. In 1988 the first of only four monster truck sets was issued and I got quite a few of them. Also in 1988 my brother gave me his duplicates from the original star wars sets,and I've been in the hobby ever since. I'm still trying to complete that first Bigfoot set, too. I bought a box and have up to 5 copies of several cards but I an still missing some.
ReplyDeleteFor me it was the 1986 Topps stickerbook. I started collecting cards the following year.
ReplyDeleteMy first memory of actually opening packs and collecting cards were the 1977 Topps Star Wars cards. However... there's a small chance that I had already picked up a few Hostess cards here and there, since I remember having them too. Just not sure which actually came first.
ReplyDeleteI was definitely collecting in 1981. That's the year my parents bought me a 1981 Fleer set along with packs of Donruss and Topps. A neighbor had also given me a big box of his 1979 Topps baseball cards by then as well.
I had Star Wars cards but I don't remember ever opening a pack.
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