Hello - I'm 41 years old, a 6th grade math teacher, a father of 3, and addict.
The other day, my wife was looking at our bank account. She said, "Paypal for $40, paypal for $60, paypal for etc... That's $160 you've spent on baseball cards this month. DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM?" I looked her in the eyes and said,"Yes, I'm a baseball card addict. I think I'm going to drop the hobby and pick up cocaine." Nuff said. (Not to mention she had a $50 purse, $60 jacket, $150 jacket on the tab....)
I love the beaters... of course I'd love to have an sgc 84 Lajoie, but even so, I like to look at the SGC 10s. The ones that have been played with by the kid who thought he was the best player back in the day. I used to collect when I was a kid. I played Catcher and 2B, so of course Carlton Fisk and Bobby Grich were my favorites. Who'll remember those guys in the future? Some day, some kid will get my SGC 10 Fisk/Grich scraps and hopefully think of me
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Love the sport, but think that it is dying. They need to do what the NFL does with contracts. Any given year, any NFL team can win the Super Bowl. With baseball, the big market teams win. Any given year, you can predict who is going to win ($$$). Big market teams win, small market teams lose (poor M's). My sons would love baseball if Safeco was rocking. It's been 12 years though...