Are you a pre-war or post-war baseball card collector? You can't be both. [Archive]

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01-26-2006, 07:46 PM

Posted By: identify7I was born 6/18/45. Midway between VE Day and VJ Day. I am therefore a pre-war baseball card collector. How about you?

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01-26-2006, 07:51 PM

Posted By: JerryIf you were born during the war wouldn't that make you a War collector.

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01-26-2006, 07:58 PM

Posted By: Jim ClarkeI am so OLD that I can remember when the DEAD Sea was on sick.. JC <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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01-26-2006, 08:02 PM

Posted By: SteveWhy can't you be both? I certaintly am or are you asking a hypothetical question? Steve

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01-26-2006, 08:23 PM

Posted By: Rob LI guess I can contribute. Born in '65 so I guess I am a Viet Nam War collector. Rob L

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01-26-2006, 09:07 PM

Posted By: AnsonChalk up another one for Nam collector.

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01-26-2006, 10:10 PM

Posted By: Josh K.Steve, I think the point being made is that if you were born after the war, you are a post war card collector (i.e. you are a person born after the war who collects cards - though the cards you specifically collect may be pre or post war themselves).

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01-26-2006, 10:26 PM

Posted By: Brian GoldnerI was born in 1959, so i guess that i am a Cold War Collector. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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01-26-2006, 10:53 PM

Posted By: CatCuban missile crisis collector here.

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01-26-2006, 11:13 PM

Posted By: JerryBorn 8/12/48, 3 days before Babe Ruth died, so I'm a Pre-Post Mordem collector.

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01-26-2006, 11:42 PM

Posted By: Cobby33I went over these modifiers with my class tonight. So what is the question: "Are you a collector who collects pre-war cards (versus post-war cards); or "are you a collector who was born in the pre-war era (as opposed to the post-war era)?

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01-27-2006, 12:48 AM

Posted By: Joe P.If my memory recalls it. Pre WWII was pre Dec 7 1941. USA or Pre Sept 1939. Europe 1931 Manchuria/Manchukuo by the Japanese. The above is a little hard for me to remember because I was born in May of 1931. The first card that I flipped was a 1941 Playball.

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01-27-2006, 01:51 AM

Posted By: scott ingold1970......but i DO collect both.With a heavy preference toward pre war.

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01-27-2006, 03:07 AM

Posted By: Martin NealKorean war here. Addicted to pre WW1 cards.

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01-27-2006, 04:39 AM

Posted By: leonI'm a Bay of Pigs collector <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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01-27-2006, 04:44 AM

Posted By: Steve DawsonAnother Cuban Missile Crisis Collector here...born in November 1962. Steve

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01-27-2006, 05:39 AM

Posted By: Mark EvansSeptember 1949...a peacetime collector

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01-27-2006, 05:53 AM

Posted By: identify7Peace time collectors are uncommon with our history. Wasn't there a war with Grenada? Isn't that a Ford product? Did the USA attack Detroit? Of course gentlemen you have responded as I had hoped. This post was intended for fun. And Joe P.: my interpretation of pre-WWII was in accordance with the edict of our Exhaulted Leader "I think pre-WWII means pre-'45". Therefore, as far as VBC Forum's interpretation stands pre-war = pre-end of war.

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01-27-2006, 06:10 AM

Posted By: SeanI guess I fall in the Star Wars age...1977. I like the pre-war and have been known to buy Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom cards.

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01-27-2006, 06:40 AM

Posted By: PaulI'm 1961. I think I'm a Bay of Pigs collector too.

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01-27-2006, 07:31 AM

Posted By: Ted ZanidakisI am a PRE-WAR baby (Nov 5, 1938); however, upon returning to the hobby (thanks to my kids), I first collected post-war cards and sets during the 1970's. By the early 1980's I became interested in pre-war cards, so I concentrated more on Goodwin's, T-cards, Goudey's, Diamond Stars', and PlayBall's. Meanwhile, I still was trying to complete 1948 - 55 Bowmans, 1949 Leaf's and 1952 - 1985 Topps sets. So, we can do both....sorry Gil, but these interests are not mutually exclusive. If you love BaseBall and the cardboard gems that represent it, then the sky is the limit. Perhaps, I really do not understand your question ?

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01-27-2006, 07:31 AM

Posted By: William BrumbachSeptember, 1973, looks like that makes me a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973">Chilean Coup</a> collector.

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01-27-2006, 07:41 AM

Posted By: Joe JonesI am a "war in the bush" collector (1981).

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01-27-2006, 07:48 AM

Posted By: James FeaginI was born during the 1975 World Series, so I guess I'm either a "cursed" or "big red machine" collector.

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01-27-2006, 07:58 AM

Posted By: darren4/4/70 -- Vietnam and Tris Speaker

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01-27-2006, 08:05 AM

Posted By: Mike Campbell1954, no war. Only Peace. Jimmie Foxx. So what this makes me, I have no idea. Maybe in makes me nostalgic for the way baseball used to be, and was played.

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01-27-2006, 08:05 AM

Posted By: AnonymousI was born during the cuban missile crisis.. ..and now i collect cigars and paranoia.

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01-27-2006, 08:43 AM

Posted By: JimBSummer of love. JimB

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01-27-2006, 09:14 AM

Posted By: Bill Kaselhmmm...born in 73 so that makes me GenX, which means I really dont care about anything and every problem I have is my parents fault. WHOO HOOO I feel better now! Used to collect the mass produced series in the 80's and 90's and even have some shiny cards, but now it is strictly Pre-War for me. I wouldn't turn down a Gem Mint Dale Murphy rookie, but I aint looking for it either. Bill "The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad, so I had one more for dessert"

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01-27-2006, 09:25 AM

Posted By: warshawlawThis is America, you can do what you want. <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> I collect everything up to 1980, and I even have some cards after that (mostly autographed inserts of HOFers and potential HOFers). Just finished my 1961 Golden Press HOFers set and I put it together the old-fashioned way, on the cheap and by hand.

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01-27-2006, 11:13 AM

Posted By: identify7Yes Warshawlaw, you can do pretty much as you wish. You can be all that you can be. But if you were born after WWII (unless you believe that life begins upon conception), you can not BE a pre-war collector. Edited to add: But it really depends on what your definition of "is" is.

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01-27-2006, 12:08 PM

Posted By: jay behrensI've been around so long I remember fipping cards of the Pharohs. Jay I've just reached Upper Lower Class. I am now officially a babe magnet for poor chicks.

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01-27-2006, 12:20 PM

Posted By: Bruce BabcockI'm a pre-Bowman collector.

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01-28-2006, 12:15 AM

Posted By: davidcyclebackSpeaking of birthdays, I saw on Friday a Mozart concert conducted by Itzhak Perlman on Mozart's 350th birthday. He started by having the audience sing happy birthday. I was close to the stage and a couple of times during the concert I thought, "I should have brought a baseball and got an Itzhak Perlman autographed baseball." Non-baseball player signed baseballs seems to be the vogue these days.

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01-28-2006, 12:17 AM

Posted By: Julie Vognar<img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/033102jump_1_prv.gif">

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01-28-2006, 06:48 AM

Posted By: Joann1959 - Castro's Revolution. Hmmm. Maybe I should try to add a "Cuban Card wing" to my collection. Right now? Pre-WWII, with focus and favorites clearly moving to only Pre-WWI. Joann

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01-28-2006, 08:51 AM

Posted By: Gene PalmerJune 1953, so I guess that would make me a hiney side of the Korean war collector. However, seeing that I'm married the weight falls to the side of whatever the wife lets me have collector.

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01-28-2006, 08:58 AM

Posted By: AnsonJoe, you are a Reganomics collector

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01-28-2006, 11:47 AM

Posted By: Bruce BabcockActually, yesterday was Mozart's 250th birthday, not the 350th!

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01-28-2006, 12:39 PM

Posted By: davidcyclebackI thought he looked pretty good for 350.

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01-28-2006, 02:02 PM

Posted By: Bill StoneEntered the world at what I consider to have been the most perfect time in history --November 1945. The War had just ended and good times were ahead. A super time to grow up safely, play ball and collect and trade baseball cards - the only thing missing was a major league team in Los Angeles but even that arrived in time.

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01-28-2006, 02:14 PM

Posted By: Henry Eshelman1991, were there any wars then? need to some some research about my birthday Thanks, Henry Eshelman Website:www.freewebs.com/vintagebaseball

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01-28-2006, 02:29 PM

Posted By: jpaol99 Pre Gulf War collector 1983. Justin

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01-28-2006, 06:56 PM

Posted By: Bretti collect pre war stuff, but i was born way after the war lol.

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01-28-2006, 08:30 PM

Posted By: DJHenry, are you 14? I was born around the time Neil Armstrong stepped on the cheese in the sky and I collect pre-war only (except for my 1953 Topps). Been collecting for twenty-four years, seriously for around sixteen. I feel old. <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14> DJ