Pre-Girls

If you collected as a Kid what is the last year cards you collected. This is about it for me, I was 13/14 when 62's came out and by the next year Girls started creeping in to my noggin. I have no recollection at all of 63 Topps but I do remember the woodgrain of 62's.

For me, it was '77 or '78, but was back into it chasing older cards in 1980 when I found the 2nd edition of the Beckett price guide and Erbe and Miller's Baseball Cards book

Jay

The only time I stopped collecting was during college 83-88 and then when I moved to Minneapolis 93- 2000 and then I found ebay and the fuel was thrown on the fire. I have never been big on spending beyond my means for women, being single all this time I guess I have had a longer loving relationship with baseball and it history than I have with anyone woman.

1970 was the first year I remember and always remember going 4 blocks to the store to buy a pack of cards when ever I could save up a dime!!!!!!! Those were the days.

Lee

It was over mid-season of 1960. Like a switch - it was just off. I did get the McCovey and Kaat rookies.
But nobody cared about rookies then.
I got a bunch of other cards too.
I was married (to a different famale) eight years later (still am).
It stayed "off" until the kids were in high school, or almost there - the mid-late 70s - when hobby shops started to exist. Prior to that, I didn't know that you could buy old cards.
And the shop keepers were pushing Goudeys and t-206 hard. Probably because they had so many of them.
But I did not go for them. I still have about six of those cards, both sets combined.
I remember needing a Foxx to complete my 500 HR Club set, and refusing to buy that common yellow Goudey.
But I was weak, and finally caved in and bought the '38 Goudey which seemed less common; still does.
I really did not have much funding; and at that time I was quite interested in old coins too.
I primarilly went for more traditional investments - which took a beating around Y2K, and a worse one last year.

But that's it. 1960.
Wasn't a mistake, wasn't correct. Just was.
Like cars.

Lee and I actually got our first packs of cards in 1969. We were coming back from St Cloud, MN and I spotted some football cards at the gas the station we stopped at. Talked mom into buying us each a pack. I remember getting Jerrel Wilson, Jan Stenerud, Larry Czonka(sp). We also bought some basketball cards that year.

1970 was the first year we bought baseball cards. I remember in 1972 saving up enough money ($3.60) to buy a WHOLE BOX!!!! I still love that set to this day and still have our cards from 1971 and 1972. Lee has all the other years.

We collected everything that was on a card as kids. We bought Wacky Packages, Weird Rods, Globetrotters, Planet of the Apes, you name it. We were card collecting fools.

Jay