My younger brother collected cards because I did. He was better at it because he didn’t care as much. He was also good at saving hi money. But he stopped around 13. We had good friends who were also brothers and we traded all the time. One of them and I kept collecting hockey cards until 17. When I got back into collection 15 years later, I would always tell those three what I was getting and what was happening in the market (I sent one of them a set of ‘84 Topps when he was recovering from a serious injury). They indulge me in varying degrees, we opened three boxes of ‘88 Big Topps this fall on our annual trip. My brother knows one the Net54 guys and arranged for a time to hang out with him and look at his insane collection. But they don’t collect. Maybe when their kids move out of the house they’ll get back into it at some level, if I keep at it.
