How old are members on our board?

[CaramelMan]

Very nice family!
Who is inheriting your world class collection?

[bn2cardz]

I put my age in a while ago, but see that the thread has moved to the offspring.

I am 31 and have three children, with one just announced as on the way due to be here July 8th. My oldest is 3 with her birthday in Septemeber. So for a couple of months we will have 4 children under the age of 4.

Yet somehow I still seem to have a baseball collection as of now. This last week I started cleaning out the remains of my childhood collection from my parent's house (80-2000s cards) and the 3 year old has been wanting to go through the boxes and look at them. She also loves to look through auction catalogs when they come in the mail. She yells at me if I look at it before or without her "My baseball book, you share!" There are several torn catalogs that have made their way into their toys because they are loved very well by her. On top of that when given the choice of a baseball card show or the zoo two weeks ago she chose the zoo, but as we left the zoo she asked "can we look at cards now?" I tried to explain we only had time for one and she was not happy, but told her we could look at some when we got home which satisfied her.

My youngest is 10 months old, but when he was 3 months old my wife started giving up a baseball card when ever he would cry and once he had it he would stop crying (when she told me this it made my day) so for a while she had it as part of her diaper bag arsenal to cary around a baseball card "just in case".

So I feel I have done my part to keep the collecting going, but they are too young to know if it will stick.

[chipperhank44]

I'm 29, married with a 5 yr old boy who loves baseball & card collecting. I've only been collecting vintage cards for 10 months and I love it!! I have 4 modern cards left, that's it!!

[JohnP0621]

Im 54. Have a 21 yr old Son and 18 yr old Daughter. Both are away in College. Both Love to play sports. But are not into collecting. They just dont get it.
I used to Coach them in Little League ,Softball and Basketball. Boy, I miss those days. Collecting Helps Me fill the Void.

John P

[toppcat]

I will be 52 next week. Some old gray haired guy looks back every time I see a mirror now....

[Cardboard Junkie]

Dang! You've got hair?

[ValKehl]

As folks all over the USA are celebrating Thanksgiving this November 28th, I'll also be celebrating my 70th birthday!
Val

[Vol]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

As folks all over the USA are celebrating Thanksgiving this November 28th, I'll also be celebrating my 70th birthday!
Val

Happy early BDAY Val!

I am 34 and bout to ask my girlfriend to marry me.

She gets jealous of my "Net54" time haha

[Big Six]

I'm 41.5 with three beautiful, athletic softball playing daughters (12, 12 & 9). They love the game and seem genuinely interested in the hobby. They LOVE coming with me to meet players and get autographs and they are getting the hang of asking for foul balls at any games we go to. I think they appreciate how much the hobby and the game mean to me so they are pretty open minded. I can't tell you how cool it is to be able to play catch with your daughters and not be afraid to hum a throw in there knowing they will catch it...and having to pay attention because they will hum the return throw right back. I'm a lucky guy...

Shown...Lily (12), Emma (12) and Sophie (9)...

[Leon]

From the looks of the poll it seems our membership age is in the low 40s on average. That means a lot of us are above average!! Thanks to everyone who voted. It's hard to get 500 people to do anything .