who's the biggest collector nerd here game!

[milkit1]

I thought I'd try a new game called who's the biggest collector nerd here. Rules are simple:
Anyone wanting to compete should state specifically why they deserve the honor. Can be in story and/or picture form.
Said person should contribute a beater pre ww2 card.
After a week we vote. You type your user name and whom you think should win. You can't vote for yourself.
Winner gets all the beaters.

Ill start:
I am currently playing a COMPLETE 1910 season of Stratomatic. I've created custom cards of every player with a printed picture of them. I play during my downtime ar work and am currently on game 105. I started dec 31 2010 so I should be finished around early 2014. Currently donie bush has 93 steals!
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Ok there's the standard for which you have to beat.

Ill be contributing a 1933 goudey beater.
Hopefully we get a lot of contestants, someone could be in for a great prize of quite a few cards!

[brewing]

You have me beat.

[milkit1]

Have I set the bar too high?

[Cardboard Junkie]

I am 62 years old. I don't have a job. I don't have a vehicle, I don't own a T.V., and I haven't been off island in 10 years, but I really don't have time for this, (gotta get back to my cards). Dave (Cardboard Junkie). ps I could contribute a beat 34/36 batter-up.

[milkit1]

Woh, pictures are definitely helping lol. Thanks dave!

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by milkit1

Have I set the bar too high?

I don't think you set it too high since you didn't show how you were a collector nerd, but rather a baseball fanatic. On the other hand though I know there are people on here that by reading previous posts have set the bar to high if they decide to chime in.

[milkit1]

I created custom cards, is that not collector enough?

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by milkit1

I created custom cards, is that not collector enough?

No offense but no, not in my opinion. Baseball nerd? Yes. But when I think of collectors I think of people that acquire things that were produced by outside means.

Again, I don't mean to offend but by just that post I don't think you would win. I, too, have made my own baseball cards and sit and read through baseball stats for comparative purposes and set up my own formulas but none of that would make me a collector nerd, just a baseball nerd so I don't feel I could compete with those who have researched enough to write a book or have started websites that compile information for the rest of the collecting world. Just my 2 cents.

[Leon]

ok....so a lot of us baseball card collectors have been baseball players in our lives. I am currently into (softball) and have been into baseball all my life. Many of us might remember the one major, break out thing in their career. Well, mine was 1974 in Nasa Area Little League...which is Clear Lake City (where Nasa is) and just south of Houston. Our regular little league team had our whole infield make the All Star Team that year. I was fortunate to be the 2nd best batter in the league that year, right behind a guy named Pat Ray. So our All Star team made it all the way through Bi-District and went to the Texas state finals. We got to stay a whole week in the girls dormitories at Baylor University in Waco (it was summer so no girls were there, nats) ...At any rate we won our first game and if we won 3 more we would go to the National Tournament. We faced a team from LaGrange that had a pitcher who was 6'1" tall. I never forgot his name, Marvin Marburger. They beat us in that 2nd game in the tournament and went onto win the State title that year. I don't think they won the National title but were in the running. When I saw this postcard recently on ebay I had to have it. I couldn't believe I saw this after 39 yrs.....Marvin is the tall guy in the center of the back row...I think I went something like 1-3 off of him. He was good. How many collectors have a card with a background like that?