Sharing the hobby with the next generation...

[bn2cardz]

I love when I see people post photos of their children at card shows.

I just found out yesterday that our next child will be a boy. Right now I have two girls and my 23 month old already loves looking through the cards. Here are some pictures of her looking through some T205 and T206 graded cards (I only let her handle the graded and screwdown holdered cards)









The most fun part of watching her go through them was when she had mommy identify the player on one of the cards for her.

Please post images or stories of how you are passing the hobby on.

[DerekMichael]

I honestly think that through collecting cards, my Dad and I have gotten some really great quality time together, and have really done some bonding. I feel very thankful for the experience.

Cute kid!

[bn2cardz]

Yeah I had a lot of bonding time with my dad. From the first time I got "Myfirst baseball card collecting kit" through a mail away book program when I was in kindergarten. I remember my dad sitting down with me when I got that and going through the cards. Then to when I was a teen my dad and I would set up at shows. He put up all the money for the table, and I got to keep the money from what sold. This last year my dad did one last show and had me go with him and he sold off everything, that is when I realized he had only done it to spend time with me. Now that I had my own family he just didn't see the point anymore.

[vintagerookies51]

My dad doesn't even collect, but he got me into the hobby a few years ago when he bought me a '65 Hank Aaron for my first vintage card. (got it at a Minnesota Twins fest)

[teetwoohsix]

Hey Andy-

Congrats on the good news (son on the way) , that's awesome !!
Also cool to see your daughter enjoying those cards. I wish I had known about pre war cards at that age

I don't have anyone in the next generation to share cards with, but there were a couple of people I worked with who collected back in the 60's and would love to talk about cards/baseball from that era. One guy in particular seemed to enjoy these talks, so I brought him a beater T206 and gave it to him hoping he would be as fascinated with them as I am and get into collecting them. It didn't work , so I just lost a beater, that's all

Sincerely, Clayton

[bn2cardz]

In my original post I said she was looking through t205 and t206 cards. Looking back at the photos, though, I don't see her looking at any of the t206 cards (she did have access to some). I guess the gold borders on the t205 cards interested her more. Also her favorite from the stack she had out was the Kid Elberfeld T205. This was the card that she was asking me wife about. I think it was the nice bright red with the gold borders that caught her interest.

The Elberfeld card:

[egbeachley]

My girls call them Dad's "Stinkin Cards". But they do love the new Wacky Packages that were stuffed into their Christmas Stockings and Easter Baskets. Their favorite is My Little Phony - Stinkie Pie.