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Dave ReyI'm 36 -- an old 36, as I have a 19 year-old daughter attending the University of Idaho on a track scholarship. While I started out collecting the same cards as my friends when I was 8-years-old, by the time I was 12 I started to trade for 1950s cards from one of my friends' dad. Still have the 1952 Topps Mickey Vernon that was my first pre-1977 card.
While I now work as the media spinmeister for Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash., I spent eight years as a reporter and editor and most importantly, three years working at the now-defunct University Trading in Seattle after I finished up at the UW.
While at U-Trading I got to see the best of the vintage stuff that would get dug out of attics, basements, garages and old houses in the Seattle area. I've spent the majority of my life trying to learn everything there is to know about baseball, so the job was a great way to advance that ambition.
My collecting focus right now is to get one card of each of the 50 best players at every position, preferably a card contemporaneous to their playing career.
I'm pretty much down to the pre-war guys now...