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For me it's the 86 Topps set.  That's the first set I ever finished.

'75 Topps baseball for me.

1973 Topps baseball. The way the cards continued to smell like the gum after being opened. Being able to read real info about the player with the little cartoon. I never had trouble reading the backs of these cards.

1972 Topps baseball. I remember walking about a mile (uphill both ways in the summer snow) to a grocery store that sold the cards. Seems like they were about a dime a pack. I first learned about sales tax when I had to put a pack back because I didn't have the extra penny. The '72 Topps is one of the all time best!

Bunch of youngsters....mine was 1966 Philadelphia football. At least one of my two best friends had the Bob Hayes RC (we didn't know it was a rookie card) and I never got one in packs. But I bought it here at a convenience store in Del Rio, Texas.

I don't believe the store's still there from my search a couple of years ago when I found this picture.

1978 O-pee-chee/Topps baseball cards. Growing up in Canada I did not know Topps existed. That summer we visited my cousins in Maynard, Mass. One day my Uncle went to the local A&P to buy some buns & hot dogs for a BBQ and I saw these rack packs in the grocery store of all places! My cousin & I were allowed to grab one. I opened them and the top card was some Dodger, looked just like the OPC on the front, turned it over and it was card 500 something (OPC cards had either 264 or 396 max) and the back was a drab grey colour, not like the off-white easy to read ones I had back home. Was then and still is my favorite Baseball set or sets in this case.  

<edit>https://www.tcdb.com/ViewCard.cfm/sid/80/cid/21017/1978-Topps-539-Vic-Davalillo to be exact ... my first ever Topps card

Awesome story, love the complete reversal. Yellow foreva!

So many of the 80s/90s but probably 1989 Topps Baseball with the added nostalgia of the Talk cards.

I always questioned the yellow boarders, but I bought them back in the day as I was chasing the Pro Vision and All Star cards. Today, the pop numbers on the Black Pro Vision and All-Star cards have very few PSA 10. Because of this they fetch a pretty penny when they come up on online auction with a grade of 10.   

There's many card sets that I look back fondly on including 1991 Regina Rugby Union and 1992 Regina Rugby League releases and 1993-94 Topps basketball and 1998-99 Hoops and Fleer Tradition to name a few.

However, what really sticks out in my mind is a single card — 1995-96 Skybox Jerry Stackhouse RC.

I remember this being in a vending machine in a local store for $20 NZ. I thought it was so amazing and so much money — $20 was the *yearly* allowance I had allocated to me for boarding school. I still find it pretty cool that I now own this card (and that you could get it for less than 0.20c!)