In a baseball card coma (1982 - 1988)

[1963Topps Set]

In 1982, after a decade of avidly collecting baseball cards with a passion, I suddenly stopped. I was warned not to, but I was burned out. Plus I had just graduated High School, getting ready for college and a lot of other changes going on. The big thing was the 1981 baseball strike, this left a real sour taste in me.

In 1984, I actually started watching baseball again with the exciting Dwight Gooden and the Mets. During this time, a co-worker of my father's offered to buy my baseball card collection, me, not realizing what was going on, still refused. A guy on my bowling team bought a Tom Seaver rookie for his son for $90.00. I said "You paid $90.00 for a baseball card!"

In the spring of 1989, from out of no where, I got the baseball card bug again. I don't know why, I had not even looked at my cards since I stopped. I dug out my old cards, went through them and expected to pick up right where I left off in 1982. BOY, was I in for a huge surprise!!

[thecomebacker]

My sportcards coma was from 1992 to 2012.
Baseball from 1992 to 2019.
But I am BACK!

[seanofjapan]

My baseball card coma began in 1993 and when I came out of it around 2011 or so I found myself living in Japan, so I started collecting Japanese cards instead.

Weird how life works out.

[rats60]

My coma was only from 1981-1984. My brother woke me up when at college he found a baseball card shop and the owner was looking for Reds cards. He told him he would pay 20.00 for Bench Rcs. That was a mammoth sum at the time and my brother had 12 of them. The cards that we enjoyed collecting were now worth money.

[Peter_Spaeth]

1974 (end of HS) to 1991 (not sure what possessed me to buy a wax box off the drug store shelf, and it was all downhill from there).

[GasHouseGang]

My baseball card coma was from around 1990 to 2006. I had decided I was done when it became too overwhelming to collect everything issued by the major manufacturers in a year. There was just too much production. I kept what I had, but didn't add anything. I finally got back into active collecting when a friend talked me into going to the 2006 National Convention in Anaheim. That got my juices flowing again, but I stayed away from the new stuff and began collecting vintage.