What's your most treasured baseball card of a Sox player?

MFYankees

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1964 Topps #210 - Yaz. That was my first year buying Topps cards - 5 cent packs that had 5 cards, a coin, and the horrible gum.
 

Green (Tongued) Monster

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These two cheap ones are my favorites. Junk era is the sweet spot of my collecting and I am a proud owner of the provision insert set in all PSA 8 or 9. Best insert set ever created.

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My holy grail is the 1948 Leaf Ted Williams which I am saving up for, but it may be a while. Absolutely gorgeous card.

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I treasure every card for different reasons. I collected from 1972-1981 when my grandfather, who owned a convenience store, would give me several full boxes. I cared less for the stats on the back than the stories that were told on the front. Oscar Gamble's afro would mesmerize me, as would the extension of the swing on Freddie Lynn's rookie card. My most perplexing card has to be 1973 Marty Pattin (sp?). He looks like 150 years old in that card photo. Was that his normal look?
 

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I'm not a collector, but I do have a 1979 Topps Fred Lynn card. We have a low A ballclub out where I live (Rancho Cucamonga Quakes). My wife and I go to games there all the time and have for about 20 years. About 10 years ago there was a player sitting in a small booth with very little signage around stating who it was... basically a small sign that said free autographs. Nobody was in line and people were walking by without much notice. I leaned over to my wife and said "Holy crap... I gotta go talk to that guy". Walked up to this fine gentleman and said "You're Fred Lynn!". I guess he lives around here. Anyway, he had some cards and signed one for me. Totally cool day.
 

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1976 topps Dewey Evans card. I bought it at a baseball card store outside of Fort Knox before I deployed to Iraq for D Storm. The card made the trip with me and was in my lbe first aid pouch the whole time. He signed it ~1995 or 96 at a card show at the then called Rhode Island Junior College and then posed in a picture with my 3 year old neice and I. She has the card and the picture. I have the memory.

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Papo The Snow Tiger

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Mike Andrews was my favorite player as a youngster. This is my first card of him. The first one is showing lots of wear, but I've bought newer ones in better shape since 1968.

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Put a chunk of my 14-15 year old paper route pay into a beat to hell '67 Yaz that I've managed to hold onto in the same level of beat to hell all these years later.

I was also always partial to the 1984 Topps Wade Boggs. My 7th grade art class group painted a copy of it a few feet tall. Nobody had cameras back then so it will just live in my mind.
 

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I was an active card collector from roughly 1957-1968, (1 pack of Topps 5 cards one stiff piece of bubble gum, a nickel at a time, not from hobby shops etc) and still have a few hundred survivors ('67-68) from mom's need to throw out my stuff, a basement flood, and a vindictive ex (more later), so at one time I had some decent cards. But my best card was a gifted card from my once ex-BIL, who while DIY bathroom renovation/tearing down walls found a shit ton of old baseball cards and old newspapers that were used as insulation circa 1930-40s.

Knowing I was a Sox fan he sent me a 1941 Play Ball Ted Williams, because he knew I was a Sox fan.

I was totally blown away, called to thank him, got the back story and asked what other cards he had. And he said quite matter of factly, he didn't know as he threw them out, only keeping the Willliams card as he recalled I was a Sox fan. This is a smart guy, Doctorate from Oxford, head of psych Dept at a large university, and he tosses gold! F'ing dope.

I suspect my ex knowing my attachment to this piece of Sox memoribilia, snagged it, along with some other goodies, during a somewhat contentious divorce.
 

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Cassvt2023

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I had Wade Boggs sign his 1987 Topps card for me at Filene's Basement at Downtown Crossing somewhere around 1991.
 

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Gotta be my 1st Yaz.

And the painterly feel of the photo is sublime - see also Lynn's '76 card
Same. I started collecting baseball cards in 1976 and this was the first Red Sox card I pulled (I believe the Fergie Jenkins traded card was second). I am way to excited for Topps Heritage this year assuming it is the 76 design.
 

agibson2000

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I have a few old Dewey, Boggs, and Clemens cards. I was able to find a Yaz card at an antique shop, I’d have to look through my book I have to see what several others are in there. I think when Papi started out with the Twins I believe I have one or two of them also.
Anyway, I was lucky enough to get this Pedro patch card from one of those “mixed” type boxes you’d see at a Target/Walmart
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pst-2

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My freshman year of high school a friend sold me a Wade Boggs Topps RC for $5 when they were going for a little over $30 because I was a fan and he had a few more. I still have it.