I was always a collector, starting at age 5 with coins and comic books. But I was tall, skinny, and totally uncoordinated, so I never really got into sports. When I was 16, I was with my parents at the mall (I grew up in Wyoming so it was a four-hour trip to the nearest mall in Montana), and had a couple hours to spare. My friends mostly collected sports cards, so I dropped in a card shop and decided to buy some packs of 1988 Donruss and a Beckett Price Guide. When I pulled a Gregg Jefferies SP RC and saw it was "worth" $5, and only paid 50 cents on the pack, I was hooked. I went home, placed an ad in the newspaper looking to buy cards, and my first purchase was a collection of 17,000 baseball cards that I spread all across the basement to sort.
Within two years, I opened a small card shop during the summers I was in college, and by 1997 I was working in the hobby full-time (and have been ever since)! Who knew that dropping by a card shop in 1988 would lead to an entire career?
Mark
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