Favorite Baseball Card(s)

[RedBarron]

what is your favorite card / set / cards and why?    This should be good, maybe, yes or no.


I shit you not, the first pack of cards my mom bought for me was a pack of 1985 Topps.  The top card was:




I had been a sandberg fan since 83 but never was into card til 85.


Then, in 1987, Andre Dawson went ape shit on the NL.  Homers galore!  I wanted a Dawson card (Cub) so bad, but they didn't exist (not where i could easily get one).   Then in early 1988, my Dad took me to a card show in Pine Bluff.  The first card he bought me was this one:

88 Fleer Andre Dawson




For Christmas 1985, my grandmother bought me a wax box of 1985.  She and I sat and sorted out all the cubs. . . to hell with the gooden rookies, puckett rookies, and clemens rookies.  We wanted the likes of rich hebner, jody davis, ryne sandberg, and keith moreland.


   

[Bonny]

1956 Topps is my fav
I got this Grady Hatton when I was 12 at a flea market. They had all this laundry baskets full of assorted cards. You could go thru and grab 1000 cards for 10 bucks.

Over the years Ive bought a bunch of '56's. Most of them in bad shape.

[fathedX]

The 1975 Topps set was my first experience with baseball cards.  I have some of the set, but not all.  I had them in a binder and would spend hours checking them out.  My grandma bought me the full set in 1976, so I just kept them in the box.  Whenever I needed a baseball card fix, I would open up the binder.  I had the Reds on the first page because I loved the Big Red Machine and Ken Griffey was my favorite player.  I still have this binder.  I always took good care of my shit, which is why I still have so much of it (and it is difficult to walk in my basement).

[TempoGL]

i'm a little bit younger than most of you guys who have so far posted in this forum.  the first pack of cards I ever got was 1989 Topps.  My dad bought a pack for me when we were in K-Mart.  it was early 1989, cause I remember by June 1989 (when school got out) i was already heavily into trading cards with other kids on the school bus and recess.  i remember a kid at the mall refused to trade me his 1989 Fleer Nolan Ryan card, but the joke was on him, cause I already had this beauty in my collection.

[RedBarron]

better hold onto those '89 topps and donruss. . . .they are hard to find.

[erhajj]

great thread.
My first cards were 1987 Topps.  I remember getting pack after pack trying to complete the set.  I also remember my younger brother complaining that I would not give him on of my doubles of the Mark McGwire from that set.  I was not about to do that.  I loved the wooden looking borders on the cards and I still have that set to this day as well as several of the A's team set from that year.

Right now I collect A's cards.  I have tons of team sets and singles plus a gem mint Rickey Rookie (that a baseball teammate gave me this year as a gift).  I have a gold of getting every Topps Oakland A's card every made (in the regular and traded set). 

[BeefMaster]

My favorite card is a 1991 Post Cereal card of Ryne Sandberg.  I am to this day pleased at how fortune smiled upon me so - I only got two boxes of that cereal (I don't even remember what kind it was), and in one of them was a card of my favorite player.

[ultimate7]

Good choices everyone, my first packs were 1980 topps, but I really got into collecting in 1983 when my uncle got me a box of packs. 

'75 and '85 Topps are nice designs, as are those '88 Fleer

[TempoGL]

i also liked 1986 Topps, I think I may be the only one.

[erhajj]

I have the 86 topps set and many of the A's team set. 

I live the topps cards from 1986 until 1990 because I can go and get boxes of them for really really cheap.  Good times.

[TempoGL]

I live the topps cards from 1986 until 1990 because the gum inside the packs is still somewhat edible.  Good times.

[Gantry]

The first pack of cards I bought was 1984 Topps, one of those rack packs or whatever they call it.  My favorite year for cards was either 1985 or 1987.  85 had the more memorable set of cards to me as that is when I first started collecting.  87 was when I REALLY got into cards and started going for multiple brands and for complete sets...

My favorite cards based on look would probably be 1983 Topps, loved those cards:

[erhajj]

MArvis Foley, the uncle of mick.

[ultimate7]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/foleyma01.shtml

Somehow had 6 career IBB (most amazing would be the 1 in 1982).  In 1982 he had more BB than hits.  Didn't play in '83, had his best year(arguably) in 1984, then never played again.

[Gantry]

For the record, I don't remember this Marvis Foley - merely came up with a good pic on the google images search.  No clever credit should come my way...

[RedBarron]

i also liked 1986 Topps, I think I may be the only one.

Nope, you aren't alone.   My grandmother purchased me this set for Christmas 1986.  Of course, I took all the cards out.  I was able to get another set later on in life.

I owe a lot to my grandmother.  She got my mom interested in baseball who in turn got me into the game.  Both of them bought me baseball cards.

[erhajj]

This reminds me of something....

[nomaaa]

i got this card when i was born, it was some sort of birthday present. cool thing is, it has ryan's handcock on it. it's at the bank, i go look at it every so often.

[BeefMaster]

i got this card when i was born, it was some sort of birthday present. cool thing is, it has ryan's handcock on it. it's at the bank, i go look at it every so often.

This frightens me.

[nomaaa]

it shouldn't.