Friends who don't understand pre-war collecting.

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Originally Posted by sandmountainslim

Just makes me want to shake my head.
I have a friend who is long time friend and plays in the same fantasy baseball league with me now/played in the same Little League with me 34 years ago and has collected cards since he was a kid. He collects Johnny Bench cards and has a pretty good collection of 70's thru modern cards mostly Topps. I try to talk bb cards with him and he likes my Dimaggio Exhibit and my Willie Mays cards and my Mantles and Hank Aaron cards as well as the Fleer Ted Williams stuff I have but when I try to talk T206 or anything from the pre-war era like my small Goudey collection he just turns up a nose at it all!
I was telling him about my T206 Gandil and the Cicotte card I got last week and I may as well been telling him about Soccer or WWE cards, "Nobody ever heard of those guys. Why would you pay money for them?" Nobody ever heard of them?? What baseball planet did you come from?
I need to start dissing his Johnny Bench rookie like he walked up with a Sammy Sosa collection
I had to rant to someone and ya'll are it

I actually think this is very common. People get stuck in one era of collecting and don't care about any other era. Post about modern cards on this forum and you would get the same response as posting about WWE cards. I think it is very normal really.

A good friend should at least act interested, I know when I bring up cards several of my friends act like they care.