1969 Topps

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Nov 13, 2021 - 5:46PM
PasseGaming

Another perfect example of a classy simple design that Topps is known for. Reminds me of their 74, 88 and 89 sets. Keeping it simple but drawling the eye. I really dig this set, wish I had more cards from this era.

Oct 26, 2021 - 5:02PM
Bradd Robbins

New to the site. Look forward to seeing what it can do for my collection.
I was six years old - I remember being given cards by someone in the family. Still have some of them. At that age, I ruined some by making art projects with them. If only the older me could have stopped the younger me.

Oct 14, 2020 - 9:21AM
mccabeterrymac

I was an 8 year old who loved Baseball cards! This was the set that started it all for me. My team was the Reds ---- Pete Rose, Tommy Helms, Lee May, Bobby Tolan, Tony Perez and Johnny Bench.

When that's the 1st Major League team you've ever loved --- wow. Then over the next ten years you grow up watching The Big Red Machine and you're spoiled forever.

May 25, 2020 - 3:12PM
David Marti

I was 6 and this was the first year I was truly interested in baseball! My father used to bring me home a pack a day. Yeah, I had a pack a day habit! By the end of the season I had a complete set. My mom is holding on to it until she passes. I'm currently working on a second set for my oldest son. It's to go along with the 1996 set we put together the same way!

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Jan 18, 2020 - 12:07AM
Vvvergeer

Anyone actively cognizant of the fact that the Senators have TWO manager cards? I wasn’t. This amuses me.
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Oct 17, 2017 - 9:09AM
parsley24

IndyBean17 has got the trading bug back into me after a real hiatus for 20 +years. This and the Heritage 2017 set are my first tackles to get back int he game.

Feb 16, 2017 - 9:30PM
Armand_Rosamilia

1969 is the year I was born so I'm slowly building a complete set one card at a time so I'm sure I get really nice cards. I also collect all the variants as well.

Sep 22, 2016 - 4:00PM
bkim

I stated collecting cards in 1965. This was the first year I had the whole set. I would buy a box of cards, 24 packs wholesale for $.85. In OctoberI saw an ad in THE SPORTING NEWS, where I could buy the 7th series cards. Took paper route money and ordered them.from I think Kit Young

Aug 18, 2016 - 12:17PM
clewis0761

The first pack of cards I ever opened was the 1969 Topps base set around April of 1969 or May of 1969 on my birthday from a place named Sankee's Hardware on the square in the township of Hutsonville, IL. I was hooked. If I could get my grandparents on my fathers side to take me to Robinson, IL they would go to a old store on the West Side of Robinson that had cards. I remember pulling 1971 Frank and Brooks Robinson's. I was 8 years old at that time. I remember asking my mom whether they were brothers since they played on the same team. My brother a year younger and I played on the same team. Made sense to me. Innocent me learned that they were not brothers but that was it. I was heavy into until I was 14. I picked up a few in my early 20's but little. In the 1996, 1997 years my 5 year old son was a Pokemon nut and it got me started. Then in 2006 on vacation in Cedar Point, Ohio I learned how to search ebay using my cell phone and started buying. The next year we came back for two weeks in a suite on the beach with the water park and the roller coaster park right out the back door, I went to town and bought tons of retail boxes. My then wife told me I'd never keep it in order so I bought several collector albums with ultra pro pages. I have never stopped since.

Jun 22, 2016 - 4:25PM
RoundtheDiamond87

The first '60s card I ever owned was a 1969 Topps Bob Allison back in the late '80s/early '90s. I put that card in a "glass case" for many years, until I discovered card shows where low-grade commons could be found for about 35 cents in the early '00s. I continued to chip away at this set until today, when I can say that I'm only one Mickey Mantle card away from completing the entire base and insert sets. Unbelievable.

Nov 23, 2014 - 11:36AM
Kaline6

This was first set I collected. 10 years old. Rode bike down to small store to buy packs. Bought first wax box then also. Got busted by my mom for always having gum in my mouth. Gum from those packs. Especially notable because I am a Detroit fan, and Tigers just took series the year before.


Edited on: Nov 24, 2014 - 7:16PM

Jan 23, 2012 - 8:30PM
kcjays

The first pack of cards I ever remember buying was from this set. (I was 8 years old that summer.) When I started collecting cards again in 1978 this was the first set I completed. Not my favorite set but it will always be special. Had a chance at a show in KC (1982?) to buy as many Mickey Mantle cards as I wanted from a dealer for $15 apiece. I told him I had a complete set and didn't need any extra Mantle's.
kcjays


Edited on: Aug 19, 2021 - 2:31PM

  

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