I think Will Rogers put it best, "I've never met an OBCer that I didn't like". Not only does the group help members fill in holes in their collection, they unwittingly are a part of hobby history. As Joshua referenced above, if they are not the first, they are the longest lasting website dedicated to collecting baseball cards (all eras). They reach back to the old Prodigy days, Kit Young hosting the Hawaii trade show and $1.25 a gallon gas in California. Plus they possess the largest vocabulary of hobby slang
