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Originally Posted by nat
This question deserves an emphatic "yes". Learning about the players, the teams, the pennant races, etc., is half the fun of collecting. For the past six months or so I've been collecting Japanese baseball cards and reading enough about the players to write (very) short biographies of them. (The bios are on the post-war side of this site.) I've had a great time with it, and it's learning about the players (and etc.) that's made it so much fun.
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If you have not read it, I recommend "The Chrisathimum at the Bat" - life in Japanese baseball.
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Collecting vintage soccer
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Set in progress: 1994 Upper Deck World Cup autographed
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