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DamianI have been a huge baseball fan since I was about 7 when my family moved to Atlanta and I became a Dale Murphy and Brave fanatic. I collected cards for fun until I bought a baseball card collecting kit at a book fair at school in 5th grade. In that kit was a price guide and I was hooked. I used this guide to price a couple of my friends father's 50's and 60's cards and was hooked. My first vintage acquisition was a Clemente rookie that I bought for .50 at an antique show. My step dad was visiting with a coin dealer while I was checking around for card dealers. I strolled up to them to tell my step dad I was ready to go, and the coin guy sees my card binder in hand and whips out the Clemente(no case, sleeve, or protection and in poor condition). Tells me its mine for fifty cents. I was estatic and have been a huge Clemente fan ever since. Needless to say I was now really hooked on vintage stuff. I have collected on and off until about 2 years ago, I really got hooked again through ebay. While having almost always collected 50's and 60's, I never really gave much thought to pre-war cards until about 3 or 4 months ago. I don't know, its like I caught a disease or something. Especially the more mainstream stuff T206, Goudeys, CJ's. There is just a magic in these little cards that make me appreciate the history and culture of the game I love so much. Mark Peavey told me about this forum and I love it. This is a great thread. Thanks Jay. Keep em coming folks.