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...Mine was the 1975 Topps baseball set. I was 8 years old and had just started receiving a $1 a week for allowance. Raking leaves, mowing the dirt, or lawn as my dad called it..I think they were just weeds...Anyway, the local .05 and ,10 in Westwood had baseball cards for .15 a pack and long green or red rope gum for a .10 and I loved tht gum and that is when I started buying these cards. I didn't understand the mini cards or that they were a parrallel set. But I kept those also. I still have this set, and am still tying to complete it. My dad thought I was wasting my money buying picture cards of people who play a kids game. That's why it is my favorite, because it was my first. What is yours and is there a story behind it?

Growing up, I just really liked the 1990 Score and Leaf sets as well as 1991 Stadium Club.  Now that I am older, I think my favorite is 1972 Topps set.  Visually it is fun and awesome. 

The first ever set I remember avidly collecting was the 2007 Topps Football set, so that has to be up there.

I think we've had this thread before, but I'm always game.

According to my ratings on this site, it's a tie between 1975 Topps and the T205 set. I'll stand by those ratings. I technically started collecting in 1970, but the '75 set was probably the second year when I really bought a ton of packs and came close to completing the set. And it has everything I love: colorful, unique front design, with name, position, and team; full stats on back; team cards with the manager featured; all-star designations on the players' cards; and the MVP special set was awesome; 660 cards for only 24 teams; great rookie cards and hall of famers; leaders cards; a full set of post-season cards. It was perfect. The '75 and the '72 set are probably still my favorite two complete sets in my collection. .

The T205s are gorgeous. Just gorgeous. And they're over 100 years old, AND even have stats on the back. I love them. .   

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I have found that this type of thread is better when it is limited to a decade or two.

my favorite design is 75 topps, but my favorite set I have is 71 topps

in the 80s, I like 87 topps the best

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Given my age and collecting period, the 1987 Topps set will always be nearest and dearest to my heart.  I started in 1986, but that was a pack here and there and I didn’t understand.  It was those beautiful wood border 87’s that exploded my passion for collecting.  It was also the set all my friends started collecting with as well, so it is the big set we all remember and associate with youth.  It has to get the nod!

I was 10 when the 75' set came out and remember my 5&10 had a ton of rack packs, I had my $3 allowance because I was an 'older man' lol so after church on Sunday while my Dad was at the bakery, My Mom and I would seach racks and cellos for Aaron, Seaver, Brock, etc..anything I needed to complete the set. oh, the memories. That set has to be near and dear to my heart and my favorite as well.. For the 50's- 1952 & 1954 are favorites, for the 60's- 1965 & 1968, for the 70's- 1972 & 1975, for the 80's- 1983 & 1987, for the 90's 1997 & 1998, and the most recent set designs I like are 2012. Something about the newest sets- no borders, too much color, they all look the same to me.

The 1st set I ever seriously collected was 1982 Fleer, so it holds a special place for me.  I found 1976 SSPC much later, but I love that set and am trying to complete it now.

1975 is my least favorite for no reason other than that was the first complete set I bought and didn’t get to buy packs that year. 1972 was the first year I started buying packs so that set will always be my favorite.

I suppose my favorite, like several others stated, generally coincides when you first start to get the urge to "collect" things and in my case due to growing up in Manitoba and at that time card shops really hadn't come on the scene the 1962 Post Cereal issue would rank as a fond if not favorite. Many a box of Post Alpha-Bits were obviously eaten during that time and somehow is still a standard in the kitchen cupboard after all this time.