Sharing the hobby with the next generation...

[mrvster]

to keep our cards valuable and self preserving......

i want to pass mine down one day

[jefferyepayne]

I didn't drag my boys into card collecting, sports did. Once they got interested in baseball and football, they got interested in sports cards. I am guilty of steering them toward vintage cards, though ;-)

Today we go to card shows together and it's become a nice father / sons activity that we all enjoy. Not sure if they will outgrow this activity or not but I win either way! If they stay involved, we will continue to enjoy the hobby together. If they don't, they can give their cards to me cause they have some that I need! ;-)

In general, I think card collecting is a great hobby and, unlike so many other hobbies, the $$$ you spend on it are not flushed down the drain in the process.

jeff

She loves the Monster Pics taken about 2 yrs ago @ age 6. I buy them and she takes then out and puts them away. I am not allowed to touch them at all.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by Pup6913

I buy them and she takes then out and puts them away. I am not allowed to touch them at all.

Cards were meant to be handled only by children and not adults

[bn2cardz]

I am bumping this old thread to say that my Daughter has graduated to wanting me to read the back of the Goudey cards to her. She sat on my lap and would hand me one and ask me to read it so I read the card to her, then she put it in a stack and continued until the stack was done.

Then this last weekend she asked me to read through last year's REA auction catalog. After reading about the t206 Doyle err card (first lot in the catalog) she went and played, came back and gave me the catalog and turned to lot #2, the t206 Wagner. She wanted me to read more but it was bed time. So I guess the new favorite bed time book for my 2 year old daughter is the 2012 REA catalog.

[jimivintage]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

I am bumping this old thread to say that my Daughter has graduated to wanting me to read the back of the Goudey cards to her. She sat on my lap and would hand me one and ask me to read it so I read the card to her, then she put it in a stack and continued until the stack was done.

Then this last weekend she asked me to read through last year's REA auction catalog. After reading about the t206 Doyle err card (first lot in the catalog) she went and played, came back and gave me the catalog and turned to lot #2, the t206 Wagner. She wanted me to read more but it was bed time. So I guess the new favorite bed time book for my 2 year old daughter is the 2012 REA catalog.

That's awesome!

My oldest daughter, 8 year old Brooklyn, and I are going to the Strongsville show together tomorrow. She's really excited to "blow her $5" on some serious cardboard! I'm not bringing much money, so if I don't find much I like, I'll probably just blow it on her. Should be a great time!

[g_vezina_c55]

My son is just to young now ... 17 month ....
I hope he will have the same love than i have for all these little piece of cardboard...And i hope he will enjoy going to the show with me

[arc2q]

I am really glad you raise this topic of passing on the hobby to children. I thought about this just last night as I looked at the shelves of thousands of virtually worthless cards I have from the 80s and early 90s.

As a kid collecting I always lamented that my grandmother supposedly threw out my father's old cards -- supposedly various cards from the 50s. Who knows what he really had but it haunted me. So I vowed never to get rid of any of my cards in case my sons wanted them some day.

Now, I have no doubt they may some day want and maybe even cherish the vintage pre-war cards I have (T206, T205, etc.), the good rookies and HOFers I have from the post-war era, and a select few big names from recent years. Well, maybe they won't, but I like to believe someday they will see value in those.

But will they care at all about long boxes full of 1000 random 1990 UDs or 1988 Topps? Doubtful. Should I even keep them or will it be an exercise in hoarding? I can't imagine in about 2023 my son is going to get excited as he shuffles through the likes of Damaso Marte, Ellis Burks, and Biff Pocoroba...

Then again, they don't take up much space if properly stored. When the time is right, though, I will try to teach the boys about vintage baseball card collecting. Maybe starting with the REA Catalog...

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by arc2q

I am really glad you raise this topic of passing on the hobby to children. I thought about this just last night as I looked at the shelves of thousands of virtually worthless cards I have from the 80s and early 90s.

As a kid collecting I always lamented that my grandmother supposedly threw out my father's old cards -- supposedly various cards from the 50s. Who knows what he really had but it haunted me. So I vowed never to get rid of any of my cards in case my sons wanted them some day.

Now, I have no doubt they may some day want and maybe even cherish the vintage pre-war cards I have (T206, T205, etc.), the good rookies and HOFers I have from the post-war era, and a select few big names from recent years. Well, maybe they won't, but I like to believe someday they will see value in those.

But will they care at all about long boxes full of 1000 random 1990 UDs or 1988 Topps? Doubtful. Should I even keep them or will it be an exercise in hoarding? I can't imagine in about 2023 my son is going to get excited as he shuffles through the likes of Damaso Marte, Ellis Burks, and Biff Pocoroba...

Then again, they don't take up much space if properly stored. When the time is right, though, I will try to teach the boys about vintage baseball card collecting. Maybe starting with the REA Catalog...

While I don't think cards from the 80's-90's will ever have any real value, I think years from now people will still want them because they were cards they collected as a kid. If you have no problem with storing them, why not keep them. Part of the good with those "worthless" cards is teaching kids how to take care of them. Better to learn on 1980's over-produced cards, rather than cards from the pre-war era.

I'm saving mine cards from then to keep me busy when I retire. Haven't looked through most of them in 20+ years, so having 125,000+ cards to look through will kill some time.

I'm also holding out hope that someone will organize a mass burning of piles of 1980's-90's cards, so the value of mine will go up. Might be a good idea for the national