[TobaccoKing4]

playing a Sim Baseball simulation on whatifsports.com was actually what got me into collecting vintage. You can use any player from 1887-present and make a team with them on a budget. After playing a couple seasons, I started to get favorite players in the sim, and be more interested in the players I was constantly drafting like Nap Lajoie, Hughie Jennings, Willie Keeler. This all happened in 6th or 7th grade.

I had been collecting modern cards casually buying only from target and k-marts, and had purchased several rookie cards off ebay of Griffey Jr. and Curt Schilling, (I have a good memory) I wasn't a serious collecter. But since I got interested in those players, I went on ebay and decided to search for cards of those players. I saw how high the prices were of those so then I looked for different cards from the set and was able to land a T206 Delahanty, Washington for $22, my first T206 card and it was in VG condition, I still have it.

I'm not sure if I would have ever gotten into vintage if it wasn't for that baseball simulation game, but I think that it is a good way to get young kids "closer" to these players and when your son is going through looking for players to draft and see's Hugh Duffy hit .440 one season, and how much better that is than Chase Utley, even though Utley is a great player. He will be amazed and want his card, thats how it worked for me atleast.