I was big into collecting baseball cards when I was young, from around age 9 to 15 when I started to migrate to hockey cards. My years in baseball however coincided with the hobby bubble of the late 80s and early 90s and now as we all know, most of the cards I collected as a kid are completely worthless, except for the memories.
I pursued hockey cards for a little before becoming jaded by the mind numbing number of set issues that existed and the subsequent chase cards that followed as well. I stopped collecting for a number of years as I graduated college, got married, bought a house...all those things in life that put a hold on hobbies such as collecting.
I actually bought a box of old books at a garage sale, simply for decorative purposes in my living room, to discover a stack of about 10 1953-54 Parkhurst hockey cards burried in the box in an envelope. This spured me back into collecting.
I'm a history buff and a sports history buff at that, the logical topic of my collection I decided should be what I know and love, sports history aka vintage cards.
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