Has reading caused your wantlist to grow?

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Posted By: Mike

I started collecting cards as kid, beginning in about 1960. I still have many thousands of the cards from the late 50's and early 60's. If graded they would all be 2's 3's but who cares, I love em. Will never part with them. I then got back into cards and pre war in about 88, when extra cash flow permitted. I love baseball history. I started reading every book I could get my hands on. I bet I honestly read 50 or more books. Now I have a nice library of baseball books. Bio's on players, price guides, books on pre war cards. Of course different things start to stand out. Era's, players, teams, personalities. At first I was buying any and all pre war I could get my hands on. Luckily my wife was ok with this. But as time goes on you have to narrow your focus, or you go broke. So how it has ended up is, I fell in love with the depression era, or from the mid 20's to the mid 40's. I eventually started collecting any and all Jimmie foxx cards and ephemera. My goal is to get all cards and variations. Which also led to a love of the depression era A's team. Which I collect. I still have many items left over from the prior chase. T cards, Black sox, which I love. Gehrig and hack wilson. I got interested in Jimmie foxx, because he seemed like a nice guy, I thought his cards were undervalued, and I was writing back and forth with his step daughter. So yes, reading about all the different players and eras definitly plays a huge role in what I ended up collecting.