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Originally Posted by shernan30
Good morning Net54,
Tomorrow, Friday the 6th, I will be showing my collection to my vintage base ball team, The Ohio Village Muffins, at our end of the year banquet. I get to spend a little time talking about it and want to get some stories about why you collect to add.
I have a passion for the sport and the history. My goal is to be able to preserve some history of Columbus base ball and tell the stories of the players. My collection cover players from the 1877 team through 1950 with a lot of focus on the 1889 Columbus Solons presented in the OJ set.
So why do you collect?
Is there a family member that played in the deadball era?
Is it just an investment?
What got you started? I'd like to tell a few different stories to maybe influence one or two teammates to start collecting.
Thanks,
Steven |
I collect because I enjoy baseball and the history in it preserved in baseball cards. Started as a kid collecting all the topps Cubs cards and expanded backward to have allerrors and variations of the Cubs base set and the came forward to include topps updates. I draw the line at insert cards as there are way too many of them.
My great great uncle played for the Yankees in 1921 and 1922 and played in the 1921 World Series.
Not just an investment but it became an investment
Got involved with prewar by collecting cards of my Great Great uncle Elmer Miller