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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Good point Jeff. I was a Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire collecting fool until my dad gave me 3 Old Judge cards including a Dan Brouthers. When I looked in the price guide I noticed that it said Brouthers was a Hall of Famer...My dad convinced me to stop buying caseloads of 86 Topps/fleer/donruss and said I should be looking into older cards. I started reading everything I could about the history of the game and I was hooked....I traded all of my Mark McGwire olympic rookie cards to the local card shop for Ernie Banks, Frank Robinson, Al Kaline, and Reggie Jackson's rookie cards...and from there I've never looked back. I still buy a Topps factory set every year, but that's the only new cards I buy any more.

I was able to hook my college roommate on 19th century baseball by playing stratomatic games with players like Hoss Radbourn, et cetera, but he never got into colleting cards.