09 February 2010

we all remember our first, right?

i do. sort of.  this card
was in the very first pack of baseball cards i ever opened.  a 6 year old, sitting in the back seat of the family station wagon, was handed a pack of 1977 topps by his uncle.  somewhere in that pack was this mike schmidt card.  i don't remember any of the other cards (although i have a pretty beat up bill travers card that i must have had for quite a while), and i sadly don't remember if there were any dodgers in the pack.  i think one of the reasons i remember the schmidt so well is that my dad had bought my first baseball glove earlier that year - a rawlings mike schmidt model.

i would hit the hobby full force in 1978, and that set is still my all-time favorite, but mike schmidt and the white bordered pennant set was first.

3 comments:

dayf said...

My first was the 1980 Mike Schmidt.

Schmitty sure does get around, don't he?

AdamE said...

My first card was an 86 Topps Walter Payton Recoed Breaker card. I still have it.

Play at the Plate said...

My first was a 1981 Fleer Steve Carlton.

http://playattheplatedude.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-story-part-1-beginning.html