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Posted By: Mike Snyder

What makes the hobby most interesting to me is the caricatures of the players. I collect T206 and 205s. 33-34 Goudey and 1952 Topps are of a class of their own. Although I have never seen Ty Cobb or Christy Mathewson play ball, their pictures can create scenes in my imagination that bring me back to the days when baseball was a different sort of pasttime.

I go for the most infamous names in the sport, although there are many not-so well-known pre-war cards that I would consider to be values as they can be gotten very inexpensively. THey might be good choices of investment considering where the industry is headed, value-wise.

I remember the good days (60s) of baseball when interest was mainly in what the player contributed to the game, not what the game contributes to him. I never knew how much Mickey Mantle or Hank Aaron made. It was never an issue.

Although players A-Rod may go down being one of the best, his name will always be tainted to me becasue of the glutonous amount of money he makes and how much is determined by money.