Yesterday, we brought you some of the early card collecting memories of our Facebook fans. More than 170 of you have responded the post so today, here are more great stories from folks all over North America. Clint McClain: My favorite memory is the day I got my very first card. I was with my brother and cousin in my grandma's kitchen in the summer of 1979. We … [Read more...] about Bikes, Flips, Twinkies and Trading: More of Your Childhood Collecting Recollections
Hostess baseball cards
Keith Remembers Thrift Stores, Hostess Panels, Honus and Stan
The hobby was just crawling out of the woodwork in the mid-1970s. It wasn't quite mainstream, but it was creeping in that direction. Hostess panels were an obsession for collectors in an era when beyond Topps and the odd oddball set, there just wasn't anything else. The company's imminent demise is dredging up waves of nostalgia for those 1975-79 Hostess sets and how we … [Read more...] about Keith Remembers Thrift Stores, Hostess Panels, Honus and Stan
A Requiem for Hostess Baseball Card Sets 1975-1979
Many of those who chuckled at the mad rush to buy Twinkies and Ding Dongs Friday don't remember the days when baseball card collectors rushed to outlet stores and grocery stores to buy them. From 1975-1979, if you had completed your Topps set, the Hostess baseball card sets were something new to chase. You couldn't order them from the company, either. You had to … [Read more...] about A Requiem for Hostess Baseball Card Sets 1975-1979
Hostess Gave Collectors a Sweet Tooth in 1975
It might sound strange in these days of multiple baseball card sets sometimes being issued in the same month, but back in 1975 when anyone put out a new set, it was big news in the collecting world. With no competition, Topps wasn't forced to do anything beyond cranking up the presses for its first and only major product each year. In 1975, though, there was another … [Read more...] about Hostess Gave Collectors a Sweet Tooth in 1975
Ode to the Oddball Set
Call them regionals. Call them oddballs. Call them Ishmael. Those little sets that you see pop up on the backs of cereal boxes or in cereal boxes or at your local ballpark's "fire safety night". Make that used to see. The oddball set seems to have fallen off the face of the earth in recent years. … [Read more...] about Ode to the Oddball Set