In a baseball card coma (1982 - 1988)
 

In 1982, after a decade of avidly collecting baseball cards with a passion, I suddenly stopped. I was warned not to, but I was burned out. Plus I had just graduated High School, getting ready for college and a lot of other changes going on. The big thing was the 1981 baseball strike, this left a real sour taste in me.

In 1984, I actually started watching baseball again with the exciting Dwight Gooden and the Mets. During this time, a co-worker of my father's offered to buy my baseball card collection, me, not realizing what was going on, still refused. A guy on my bowling team bought a Tom Seaver rookie for his son for $90.00. I said "You paid $90.00 for a baseball card!"

In the spring of 1989, from out of no where, I got the baseball card bug again. I don't know why, I had not even looked at my cards since I stopped. I dug out my old cards, went through them and expected to pick up right where I left off in 1982. BOY, was I in for a huge surprise!!

My sportcards coma was from 1992 to 2012.
Baseball from 1992 to 2019.
But I am BACK!

My baseball card coma began in 1993 and when I came out of it around 2011 or so I found myself living in Japan, so I started collecting Japanese cards instead.

Weird how life works out.

My coma was only from 1981-1984. My brother woke me up when at college he found a baseball card shop and the owner was looking for Reds cards. He told him he would pay 20.00 for Bench Rcs. That was a mammoth sum at the time and my brother had 12 of them. The cards that we enjoyed collecting were now worth money.

1974 (end of HS) to 1991 (not sure what possessed me to buy a wax box off the drug store shelf, and it was all downhill from there).

My baseball card coma was from around 1990 to 2006. I had decided I was done when it became too overwhelming to collect everything issued by the major manufacturers in a year. There was just too much production. I kept what I had, but didn't add anything. I finally got back into active collecting when a friend talked me into going to the 2006 National Convention in Anaheim. That got my juices flowing again, but I stayed away from the new stuff and began collecting vintage.

I had 2 myself, one from around 93 to 96 and one from around 02 to 05. Even during those periods I would still buy the occasional box of new cards if it was on sale.

For me it was the college years...1994 to 1998. I've had a few mini-comas since then...and also a number of "collecting goal resets".

My coma was about 1989-1993. I awoke to a different card world and it sucked me in hard.

Collected as a child starting at age 9 in 1986. My first coma was from about 1994 when I was in high school, until '99 when I got out of college. But I had found eBay as a senior in college, and that ignited something within me again - and I got back into it for a few more years until I went back to grad school in 2003. This sucked all of my time and energy for 2 years, and then we started a family and I forgot about cards entirely. Did not really get back into it this time around until 2015.

My coma - 1990 - 1999... too many options, stuck to finding vintage here and there...

1996-2009 coma coincided with the birth and first 13 years of my first daughter.

pre 1996, strictly bought the current issues of all sports, no vintage, pre-war etc....

post 2009, for some reason bought a blaster of u.d. goudey at target, and the ball slowly started rolling again. Decided to collect the set.

I discovered 33 goudeys while searching for 2009 goudeys on-line, bought a Travis Jackson, loved the feel and look, decided to pick up a few more lower cost 33G HOFers. Happened across Net54 about that time and caught the pre-war bug big time.


Hard to believe I've been visiting this fine chat board for 10 years

Coma from about 1993-2012. No regrets.