Off-Topic Forum

I figured you for a vintage guy which is cool.  Actually the first full set I put together was the 1970-71 Topps NHL.  Mario for me though will always be the greatest ever.

I do follow hockey; in my mind, Steve Yzerman may have been the greatest ever in contributing to his team's success in every way conceivable.

My most prized card is the 1995 Marvel Masterpieces Wolverine signed in person by the artist Nelson de Castro. I got to meet him at a comic convention, and he is a really nice guy, so the memory of that meeting definitely makes the card even more special.  

Back in 1982 my dad came home with 10 Beautiful 1955 topps cards he purchased for me from a friend of his. He paid his friend $20 at that time for the cards. The most expensive card he paid for cost him $5....it was the Harmon Killebrew  #124 RC.  It'll always be my most favorite card. I'll never part with those cards. It's a great memory and still a conversation piece for me and my 85 year old dad.   

I'm 46 I started when I was 14 and never stopped my oldest card(s) are 1888 presidential possibilities , Poor Boys of Russell Alexander Alger (my avatar) and an 1888 old judge Joseph Mulvey  of the Philadelphia Quakers/ Phillies

im needing a few cards from the turn of the century and a Troy Haymakers to get a card from every year from 1867

I am 43 and the Ozzie RC was released before I was even one year old. But he became my favorite player when I was 6 or 7 watching Cardinals games with my dad. I didn't even know about the rookie card until I was 10 or 11 and then tried to get one. I couldn't (and later wouldn't) spend a bunch of money on a copy and I wanted a really good card. All the ones I found in my twenty's were either too expensive or not nice enough condition. I finally acquired the card I have now in a trade when I was 30 or 31.

As for football, the Panthers didn't exist on the field until I was a senior in high school (1995). I was a football fan before then, but have mostly chased Panthers cards since then. This thread is about "most prized card" and I don't need to defend picking a pack-pulled premium product Brady RC over other cards. But, I do still have a 1971 Topps Joe Namath card that I got in a trade as a teenager. I don't like him or the team. I only wanted the card because it was older than me and I've held on to it since then. Now it's not even close to my oldest card overall (1889) and I have another football card that's a couple of years older than the Namath.

NASCAR didn't get national-release cards until 1988. I have many cards from that first year and all of the years since then. But nothing I own in that sport compares to my avatar.

Baseball would be my Mike Trout 2011 Bowman Chrome RC. I bought it for $45 about 7 years ago.

Football is my 2013 Panini Prizm Finite 1/1 of Lavonte David. That set is my first rainbow completion for Lavonte.