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Mine would have to be this card:

The reason being was that it was free. Yes, FREE. The story behind it is that my LCS would have a Christmas holiday drawing for its club members. The grand prize would be a box of product and a few other lesser items. So it happens that I won the grand prize for 2005. In opening the packs I pulled this bad boy. Not bad for a free box of football cards. Some here on the site would probably say that it wasn't truly free as the membership did require a one time fee. Semantics I say. There have been several other very nice pulls over the years. If one still has a copy of Beckett Sportscard Monthly from January 2011 and turns to page 28 they can check out one of those nice pulls. The player in question now plays right field for the Cubs and unfortunately I no longer own the card. Shame on me.

My best and most exciting Non-sports pull was in 1991: the Wolverine Hologram from 1991 Impel Marvel Series 2. I was trying to complete the set and continuing to hope to pull a hologram card. They were SO HARD to pull! I finally pull one and it was my favorite Marvel character. I was thrilled!!! I still have that card and have since completed the hologram set. I actually completed the hologram set before I finally acquired the last card I needed to complete the base set. It took about 15 years to complete both sets, even though I bought a ton of packs in the early 90's. I also have a couple of the 1990 Impel Marvel Series 1 holograms now.

ArkTrav - I'd have peed myself if I pulled that card!!! I would still have it today too. I've always wanted a Favre AU! It doesn't even have to be serially numbered. I just want to have ONE in my collection.

My favorite is a 1968 Topps Johnny Bench.

Most valuable is either a 1967 Topps Tom Seaver or a 1968 Topps Nolan Ryan.

My Mom gave me a dime every school day.  I used to buy packs from the local drug store on my way home from school.  I still have some of those dimes.  They are all silver.

I am going to go a bit overboard and list 5 cards in ascending order of importance (I also apologise now for the crappy pics as I do not have a scanner)

5) 2009-10 Upper Deck Draft Edition - Autographs #34 Stephen Curry AU, 238/249 — Was very happy with this pull at the time but at that stage Curry was not the phenomenom he is now. Certainly a card that has become more significant with time.

Steph Curry

4) 2004-05 Upper Deck Hardcourt - Engraved Endorsements #EE-DH Dwight Howard AU — the first big name auto pull I ever had. Howard was a monster at this stage and I was hyped to get this card. Thought it looked really cool and different too. As Howard's career has unravelled this card has no doubt gone exact opposite of the above Curry's in terms of significance but I was so excited when I got it.

Dwight Howard

3) 2006-07 SPx - Flashback Fabrics Autographs Spectrum #FF-AJ Al Jefferson AU, MEM, 1/1 — my first 1/1 and a jersey auto to boot. Not only that "Big Al" was a bit of a beast at the time. Despite the wheels falling off his career a few years later (going to the Bobcats will do that...) this was stil la great pull — and much better than the second 1/1 I pulled a few years later Go Go Krylyo Fesenko!

Big Al 

2) 1998-99 SkyBox Premium - Autographics #NNO Chris Carr AU — first basketball auto I pulled.  My younger brother had just got one a few months before so badly needed this to pull even! I would have loved it to be someone a bit better than Chris Carr but this one is till memorable.

Chris Carr

1) 1994 Dynamic Series 1 - Signature Gold #SG3 Brad Mackay AU, 916/1000 — first auto I pulled when I was about 11 or 12 years old. I had no idea what autos even were. I used to buy packs of these at the local supermarket and go through the boxes rubbing each pack as the gold cards had raised names and were usually inserted at the back or front of the pack. Took me a long time to realise this one was autographed and the others i had were not and neither were any of my mates gold cards. We must have opened hundreds of packs and this was the only auto we ever got. From teh state of it you can tell this card travelled everywhere with me — it even went through a whole rugby practice rubberbanded next to some commons in my pocket!

Brad MacKay

Hopefully all the links and pictures work!

Ja Morant silver prizm, a few weeks ago 

2018 topps series 2 Ronald Acuna Jr SP. The only other exciting card that I've pulled is a 1991 topps Chipper Jones rookie card (that I still have).

This is still in my collection, and will be for some time.  Thanks again for the deal!

As for my best pull, the first one that comes to mind is this.

Spaz, I still have the Favre/Roethlisberger dual autos. It's the one in the Beckett mag that I don't have.

Still my favorite pull of all time