What does your collection do for you?

[Dave Grob]

There are any number reasons why people collect what they do. My collection is fairly large, somewhat diverse, but very heavy into pre-1980 major league uniforms. So what does my collection do for me?

1. It serves as personal and professional reference library.

2. It allows me the ability imagine.

It is the second point that I would like to expand and expound upon. I have no first hand personal experience of witnessing a major league game in person prior to August of 1969 (Crosley Field). I never saw a game at Ebbets Field, and to be more precise, it was demolished before I was born. Yet I have always been fascinated with the thought of having been old enough to have enjoyed that special intersection of time and place…Brooklyn in the late 1940s and 1950s.

My collection provides me with visual and physical references to feed my imagination through things like this…something I call “The Colors of Ebbets Field.”
What does your collection do for you?

Dave Grob
davegrob1@aol.com