Do you remember the first Beckett magazine you bought?

[mrmopar]

Someone mentioned this in another post and forgive me if this is a recycled topic, but searching for a topic leads to pages of unrelated threads, so i don't bother any more.

Mine was baseball and either March 88 (Seitzer) or April 88 (Santiago). I was in the Navy by that time and i think a collecting buddy turned me on to the magazine. I obviously missed the boat when I was still in HS.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beckett-Bas...o-Jackson-Clemens-1988-March-36-/321029712474

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Benito-S...intage_Sports_Memorabilia&hash=item2342f9951c

 

[TBTwinsFan]

That's a good question...

I remember my first Beckett being a Pokemon one, but I don't remember my first sports one. Probably in 2003, 2004 somewhere in there.

 

[moxacaine]

no clue but i do know i was older. As a kid i couldnt justify spending all that money on a Baseball, Basketball, and Football price guide when i could just buy a TuffStuff and get all the prices in one. lol

plus i enjoyed all the promos that Tuffstuff used to put in their mags.

 

[DeliciousBacon]

Beckett, no, but I remember the first card publication I ever got was probably in early 1989 or so. There was a huge article about a recently discovered T206 proof strip with a Wagner and a Three Finger Brown. I don't recall the exact magazine, might have been SCD, but this is the strip in question:

http://www.t206museum.com/page/ga_proofswagner.html

 

[Pine Tar]

Yes, I grabbed it, to cover the Hustler magazine I bought

 

[BBCgalaxee]

Never subscribed, or even bought a Beckett when I was a kid.

The earliest memory of a price guide for me was a late '85 C.C.P. (Odibee McDowell cover!) Which I remember reading while in a diner.

 

[All In Cards]

I think it was the jan/Feb 1988 with Mattingly on the cover.

I was at Harbour Place with a cousin and there use to be a place called Jeppi's comic world in the light street pavilion. Had been collecting since 86 and Mattingly was my favorite player. So I finally bought my 1st beckett that day.

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[pac_rat_76]

I traded for my first one. I don't even remember the cards I gave up... but the card shop owner probably came out well ahead!

Don't remember the exact issue. It had Bo Jackson on the cover so probably sometime in '88.

 

[DaClyde]

Definitely the 1987 issue with McGwire on the cover. The story about the kid demonstrating card flipping games with a fistful of McGwire Olympic cards to fling at a brick wall is burned into my mind as one of the most insane things I'd ever seen in the hobby. Maybe he wasn't actually using them, and it was just the photo they used with the article because of the cover, but the implication was clear and annoying. That set the tone for me for Beckett. I think I bought one more issue in the next 10 years, only because Dave Winfield was on the back cover. I was more of a CCP, Baseball Cards, and Tuff Stuff reader from then on.

 

[finestkind]

I think the first one I bought had Bo Jackson. Where he had the football shoulder pads on and the bat over his shoulders. I might even still have it.

 

[sportscardtheory]

Still have it. Mark Grace is on the cover. 1990 I believe.

 

[JEBJJA]

1986- April- George Brett on the cover. My dad got it for my after I did good in my baseball game plus some packs of '86 Donruss.

 

[Dilferules]

February 1989 with Mike Greenwell on the cover. I still have it (along with all of my other old baseball Becketts, tossed most of my football issues years ago). If I remember right I bought it at a grocery store that had a small hobby shop-like display case section. Yes that's how widespread cards were in 1989.

 

[mchenrycards]

I bought the third magazine Beckett ever put out. This was after buying their annuals, which were the only price guides available at the time. I wish I still had the first Beckett magazine I bought as well as the first two he put out.

 

[mrmopar]

Wasn't thinking about Sport Americana...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1979-Becket...ard-Sport-Americana-Price-Guide-/160409997497

http://www.amazon.com/Sport-America...=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414290462&sr=1-4

Had one of those before I bought a Beckett monthly.

 

[Will Style 13]

I think it was in 1990 don't know the month with Ryne Sandberg on the cover. I know I still have it somewhere.

 

[sabrgeek]

Issue #1

 

[Philip J. Fry]

The issue with Jackie Robinson on the cover, I believe it was the 100th issue as well.

 

[stokelydokely]

The January 1996 issue. I must have bought it at a card show at the mall, and I imagine it was at least a month or two old at that point. I remember being struck by the cool photo collage, especially Carlos Baerga looking so casual diving toward second base. The reds, whites, and blues of the Braves' and Indians' uniforms, framed by thick black lines, captured the October drama that I had felt as a 12-year-old Yankees fan in the fall of '95.

The following December, my parents got me a subscription. My very first issue was January '97, with my Yankees and the words "RETURN TO GLORY" on the cover. I thought I was subscribed for at least 3-4 years, but a quick Googling of old covers plus a search of my memory leads me to believe I only got the magazine until October or November '99.

 

[Will Style 13]

The issue with Jackie Robinson on the cover, I believe it was the 100th issue as well.

One of my favorite issues