Tell us of your interests other than BB cards & Net54 ?
 

The sun is out here in Pennsylvania....after a week of steady rain. So, do I hit some baseballs with my Grandson....or, play tennis with him ?
Ronnie is a Southpaw, and has an edge on me. There should be a "law" banning left-handed tennis players :)

In any event, we will take the top off the T-bird and ride in style.

So, when you are not glued to your computer (viewing Net54)....or enjoying your vintage sportscards....tell or show us of your other interests ?



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TED Z

I also collect some non sports card sets:

N114 Civil War Generals, 1938 Horrors of War, 1933 Goudey Indians, 1930's Mickey Mouse Gum

stay busy coaching soccer for my kids

and hopefully play some poker when a tourney comes up with some friends.

me and jim jr like to fish
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When not collecting cards, I prefer to drop the "d" and play with cars...

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Nothing better than hanging out at the ballpark with my family

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I also like to take interesting nature type photos

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I enjoy motoring. Great fun in 2007 driving from Chicago to Cleveland for the National.

Looking forward to doing more when the Missus retires in a couple of years.

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my other hobbies/interests
 

Let's see there is...

metal detecting

coin collecting... especially ancient Roman coins. I like getting the uncleaned ones and cleaning them myself through electrolysis and other means.

online computer games (MMORPGs) - Ultima Online, Vanguard, EVE, etc.

traveling

Unfortunately, I only have time and money to do one hobby/recreation at a time now. So, it's baseball cards (and even with just that one I'm pretty limited), so everything else has pretty much been put on the back burner for awhile. With a 3rd child nearly here, I don't foresee expanding my free time for these hobbies for awhile.

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Wow...................mine are not near as exciting as some. I like coaching my son's Under 11 soccer team and playing my drums (alone or jamming with my "band"). My "band", a group of older married guys who get together when our wives let us. LOL! You know weekend musicians............you know the type.

I'm a big fan of video games, especially vintage Nintendo games. I probably still play stuff like Punch Out and Super Mario Bros as much as I did when I was a kid!

Recording locals bands here in the Nashville area and trying to explain to the wife that cards are an investments and that saving accounts are bad news.






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Lol!
 

Thats funny, my kids dragged out the old SEGA Genesis game system and proceeded to pummle me silly with a chair while playing WWF (wrestling you know). It has been a long time since we played that, how do they still remember the moves? The graphics are horrible, but its fun nevertheless.

I think we program those moves into our brains as kids and never forget them. I'm 28 and I still remember all the moves and codes like I did when I was 5-6 years old. :)

Boating and fishing on the Suwannee River here in Florida.

DH

I love geneology and am constantly researching family history.. I have a membership to Ancestry.com and all their database archives if anyone ever needs some family research done just shoot me a PM. I have also used the arhives to reseach pre war baseball players.. :D

A Couple of My Hobbies
 

I am the guy standing in the middle 4th from the left or right!

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1970 RoadRunner

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When I'm not looking for T206's, I play video games and pastor a small church.
*Note that these three activities are most definitely not listed in order of importance.

Black and white photography, running and a lot of travelling all keep me busy!

I'm sort of a weekend grease monkey with a Fish & Chips flavor!
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What I Do
 

I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old that dominate most of my time. My boy just wants to throw the ball and my girl wants to talk about how much boys stink. What a great life! Other than that, I am thoroughly enjoying the Rockets' playoff run. I bought season tickets this year for the first time, and I couldn't be happier with the value.

I collect historical autographs. A few examples:

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And I fly. Heres a photo--taken many years ago, I admit--of me with the 1930s-era Tiger Moth I used to fly when I lived in England.

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A fellow video game guy here...from the original Nintendo to the current generation of games. Anybody here have an XBox 360? Wouldn't mind getting a game of something together with some fellow Net54 members, so if anyone is interested just send me a PM and we'll exchange GTs.

I also enjoy reading about a variety of subjects from baseball to politics, science (especially astronomy and space exploration), investing, and history. I also enjoy writing, especially screenplays, and have a few in progress currently.

Finally, I've also been spending more time at the gym lately trying to get in better shape...I've let it slide the last year or so and am starting to feel it.

Non collecting-related baseball activities (sort of):

-Tracking down lost/missing players, both dead and alive
-Finding relatives of deceased players to gather new biographical info
-Visiting neglected gravesites of players

Autograph-related activities, non-baseball:

-Collecting the signatures of other people who intrigue me (mostly literature and rock & roll)

Other:

-Trivia junkie
-Texas Hold 'Em
-Travelling North America

cards....work and
 

these keep me busy...

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I knew Jim Morrison wasn't dead.

I have several interests....hmmm...in no particular order: :)

My Daschund, Tic Tac (don't laugh at his name - one of my ex-gf's named him - I had no choice in the matter)

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The Bimmer (there's a German theme going on here I noticed)
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My Bike
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and of course my GF :)
(sorry, I took the picture down :) hehehehe - I think she'd kill me if I put that up. Interestingly enough, she helps me get deals on cards....not quite sure how she does it ;) )

HO scale slot car drag racing, like to build my own and race on my home made 36v drag strip.

One hobby that I would like to get into is stocks. If there is anyone that would like to give me a crash course on how to start online let me know. Shoot me an e-mail I would like to talk with someone that give me the ins and outs of doing this by myself.
Thanks.

I just got into it myself - I had wanted to try it and I studied it on my own for about 3 months, right as the market was tanking. I read up on Zecco.com (GREAT site to buy stocks and even better for 1st time buyers). I purchased a large quantity of Citigroup when the whole AIG fiasco was at it's height in the media (as AIG went down, so did the other players). I purchased it at a staggering $0.97 cents a share. It's now at $3.86 (as of 2:05 PM). I did the same thing with Ambac (I studied the dropping stocks and used a site that you can play for fun using mock-monies and see how my predicted stocks did -they did GREAT! So I funneled some money in - here's the link to the stock game site: Test your Stocks!

Attachment 269I love to travel.

Other than cards.......I love deer hunting.....collect Vinyl....LPs that is.......texas hold'em

etc.
 

I love researching and advising health care providers on appropriate uses and abuses of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes at the end of life.
I also love my '63 sea foam green impala. :)

best,
barry

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#2

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#3

Slowly moving away from cardboard and #2 into doing and being

marvin j
 

Amazing. You happened to buy C at exactly its 52 week (and probably all time) low, to the penny. With that kind of start, what will you do for an encore?

I am an avid birdwatcher and general nature lover. My graduate studies focused on vertebrate ecology and behavior. Jeeps have always been an obsession. I currently own a 1997 Jeep Wrangler which is my 6th since I was in high school (my first was a '77 CJ5).

In addition to baseball I have an equal of not greater interest in vintage football. I also collect old clocks (which was my Grandfather's obsession...I have one of his clocks in every room of my house), antique books, and old 78's to spin on my 1923 Brunswick phonograph (which was in my Grandparent's basement for close to 60 years under an old blanket).

Hehehe - thanks Pete - I also purchased Ambac at $0.81 cents a share - it's picked up to $1.44 right now.

My next purchase will be Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac (all three companies are too large to fail - it's a risk, but definitely a calculated risk that I know was going to pay off). I went to the NYSE website and looked at ALL 100+ pages of stock listings and went after the banking businesses (what goes up, must go down, and vice versa). I then looked at the 52 week high and low.

Fannie Mae at the bottom end is about $0.76 cents a share, high is about $0.88 cents - but look at the 52 week high; no way in hell that's going to stay there. Even if it goes up to only $5.00 a share...and my buy price is around $0.80...and I purchase 1000 shares....that's $4,200.00 pure profit.

PS - I'm also looking at Colonial Banc Group. I WAS going to buy ALY at under a dollar, but didn't pull the trigger - now look where it's at...I was not happy about that one hehehe

Buy Low, Selll High. That's all you need to know.

Wow! Let me write that down somewhere!

:p

Marvin J.,

That's a great-looking Doxie.

Thanks Rob - he's a holy terror, but fun. He's brindle colored and I take him to work everyday (I work with senior citizens and they love him to death! :) )

other interests
 

Hoops, hiking, beautiful women, golf, Kate Beckinsale, working out, researching the Civil War, etc..

thumbs up.

Travel, music (all kinds, especially jazz and rock) and collecting Tibetan texts (and books in general) and painted scrolls. All told, I have spent about three years in Asia, mostly in India and Nepal.
The text below is a 150 year old copy of The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa.

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Yours truly on the top of the Jokang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet, with the Potala Palace/Namgyal Monastery in the background. It was the Dalai Lama's former residence in Tibet before the Chinese takeover.

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A photo of Durbar Square in Bhaktapur, Nepal, in the Kathmandu Valley

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I'd accept a 10 percent cut in pay if I could take our dachshund to work every day.

Hhdl
 

JimB,
absolutely beautiful.
sweet ananda.

best,

barry

My other interests are:

Genealogy - I've traced my paternal line to the 18th century (I'm a Jones, so it can get pretty difficult) and numerous other family lines back to Charlemagne.

Historical/Political autos - Just added James Madison to my collection

Playing around with the stock market

XBox 360 - don't find a lot of time to play, but when I do, it's usually Call of Duty: World at War

A Renaissance dilettante in my spare time
 

Other collecting interests are Polynesian art, particularly the works of Hawaii's John Kelly and Tahiti's Jacques Boullaire, old postcards and mutoscope pin-up cards. Pictured is the Honolulu Bat Cave where the reading, musing, collecting and Net54ing takes place.
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Passions include listening to '20's and '30's jazz whenever I can, studying karate at Shihan Bobby Lowe's Kyokushin dojo (green belt for those who are wondering), and traveling the wide world with the bride.
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Well, there are the 3 kids which take up a good deal of my time; I also teach a class every morning and enjoy my garden in the warm months.

I love to Ski. Downhill and Cross Country. Also a long distance runner. It keeps me feeling younger then my years.

Just married
 

I collect N2 Indian Chiefs, politics, reading (non-fiction and fiction), and XBOX 360.

Also, just got married about 4 weeks ago so focusing on being a good husband (and balance my addiction to vintage bb cards):D

Here's a pic from our honeymoon in the Caribbean!

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My other addictions...
 

include attending every high banked dirt racing track my son and I can find. The dirt is alot like cardboard...I can't seem to function well without a constant feed of either. Other than that, my family...the best addiction of all!

A friend got me into bass fishing about 10 years ago. For 3 of those years I competed in small tournaments. I fish for about any species here in Ohio, but enjoy the aspects of bass fishing the most.

Jantz

Being from Kentucky, I thought I would get in touch with some of their culture...I collect Bourbon bottles, mainly Maker's Mark.

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Playing drums with my band (we even get paid most times).
Hiking, camping, and kayaking.
Chasing skirts! (Yeah, I know - at my age?!)
Contemplating the origin and nature of the Universe.

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- Hanging out with my Wife and Daughter
- Mountain biking
- Hiking
- After 15 years of bass playing, I am now trying my hand at guitar
- Reading

I am a Piranha keeper and breeder. I have been into them for the past 18 years. They are my passion and hobby.

A former symphony violinist, I'm finishing my twentieth year of conducting and teaching orchestra.

When my younger child went off to college, five years ago, I returned to an earlier preoccupation - tournament tennis. It's a seven-day-a-week way of life, and has led to a national ranking in 60-and-over singles.

My wife and I travel quite a bit (Australia and Israel this past year). I read baseball history, specializing in Jewish ballplayers.

Soon I'll be retired and a grandpa. Right now, I feel like a teenager.

Picture captions: 1) My brother and father watched me win a trophy, and 2) I played at my son's wedding.

Illini- I had a piranha that lived for 15 years (1964-79). Is that considered old for a piranha? He had a red belly but don't know what kind he was.

The details of my life are quite inconsequential...
 

I race cars, play tennis, and fondle women, BUT I have weekends off, and I am my own boss.

In addition to wasting countless billable hours on N54, I practice Bikram yoga 3-4x a week, write extensively on cards mostly for my boxing card web site and encyclopedia, collect Academy Awards tickets, and cook. Tomorrow I am playing hooky with some friends and catching the opening show of Star Trek. Live long and prosper!

run, climb mountains/bushwack in ME/NH, Music (1945-65 jazz, modern classical, punk/indie)

jim

I enjoy surfing, golfing, playing poker (NLH), fishing and traveling.

Other than BB card interests......
 

Double-dating tonite so I'm driving my 4-seater 1960 Thunderbird.



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:)....Check-out my license plate on the '60 T-Bird....I just cannot get away from those T206's....:)

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TED Z

Did you request that plate number Ted or was it just luck?

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I also do genealogy, golf, fish, and spend time with these two:

Farming (although that's my occupation, not really a hobby), Watching baseball (Yankees)/football (Giants) and occasional basketball (LeBron/Knicks fan---2010?)

Also enjoy fishing and riding on my boat in the summer when I get a chance(little 16' Boston Whaler) on Long Island

Skiing in the winter 4-6 days a year usually, video games, movies...

The '50 Jag is awesome!

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David

That's one large CJ Matty :D

Thanks. It's certainly my favorite. I absolutely love to restore these cars. Here are a few more shots of the Jag (and the new Jag). Also, just finished the top on the 1800 Roadster and snapped these pics a few weeks back).

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Other interests

dog agility with Matty the Aussie

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and baseball books

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Yes, that is long but not unheard of, I have 6 Red Belly's that are going on 13 years now. I am sure yours was probably a Red Belly, I am into the rarer breeds of them. I am into the Gold, and Purple ones...there are two different families of them.The Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus families...I am most proud of my Diamond Black Piranha, and of course my beloved Elongatus Piranha , he is the most aggressive of the species.

Hobbies include collecting fashion photographs, cognitive science, music (a strange couple maybe, my favorite genres are classical and hardcore punk; have season tickets to the Seattle Symphony which I think is top notch). I also volunteer for a local non-profit playhouse and gallery doing lowly volunteer stuff. I never think of my hobbies as hobbies, they're just stuff I am interested in and do. It's takes someone else to point them out as hobbies. Unlike with some people you hear about, I never decided or was told I needed to find a hobby. I've been doing stuff ever since I was little kid, much of which would be labeled as hobbies.

I've always been interested in woodworking and just recently got into restoring antique radios. Here's a before and after. It works like new and I listen to it 4-5 times a week.

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Illini- that sounds really cool. I assume each one has its own tank. We had another piranha before this one, and we introduced the red belly one as a baby into the same tank. When red got big enough, he killed the other. He spent the rest of his life in a 55 gallon tank. Once we tried to move him and we took a big net and cornered him at one end of the tank. Then out of nowhere he shot across like a buzzsaw, making a hole right through the net. But he was a great pet, I cried when he died.

I enjoy coaching wrestling where I teach in Michigan, and I have a ball wrestling with my 3 boys under the age of six. I also enjoy deer hunting, fishing and camping. There is no place I would rather be in the summer than Oldsmobile park cheering on the Lansing Lugnuts, Blue Jays single A affiliate, or Comerica Park hollering for the Tigers.

My family, other sports cards and nonsports, medicine (the healing art rather than the busines), kayak fishing, mountain biking, reading, writing, the stock market, collecting Morgan's, rock and mineral collecting and study.

Other Interest...
 

4 Kids all playing Ball right now and when ball is over, they are playing ball.

Family, Work, and I sneak in some Net54 along the way with a few minutes dedicated for card collecting...

Photography, nature, birding, theatre, reading, classic rock concerts, going to Mets games and travel (not often enough).

Interests
 

From seeing the above posts, it is no wonder I lose out on many wanted items!
For the last 25 years, I have been in charge of 140 softball umpires and 100 basketball referees. Started out as a "Summer job", but, as I am no longer a teacher or coach, it has become full-time. I assign over 13,000 games per year and work about 400 myself, which is my hobby income.
Below is one of my favorite umpiring memories: umpiring a mens baseball league championship game at Wrigley Field. Even took the kids out of school for that treat. The boys spent the entire day in the dugout, running all over Wrigley. What a day to remember! That picture was taken 14 years ago, so Andrew, on the left, is graduating from the University of Illinois (like Dad) next weekend. Kyle, on the right, is a junior at Iowa. My father graduated from Northwestern, so we have a chunk of the Big Ten covered!
I run baseball and basketball tournaments for youth in the Chicagoland area and also umpire slow pitch tournaments including Nationals, Worlds, and Super Worlds. Spend most of my money putting kids through college and wish I could travel more.

Dan b
 

You asked...."Did you request that plate number Ted or was it just luck?"

I found this old Pennsylvania license plate in an Antique shop.


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TED Z

Looks like everyone is into a lot of interesting "hobbies" or should I say more correctly "lives". Personally, I spend a considerable amount of time coaching basketball and cross country at the high school level, it has been an exciting ride over the last 25 years. Playing guitar (personal enjoyment only) and travelling with my wife (this summer Australia and New Zealand) are my primary vices. I also love it when the family is able to get together at the same time. Below is a photo of everyone and their significant others and also my first convertible (sorry, no photo with the top down).
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