simple question? why do you collect;?

[maniac_73]

Now that I'm an adult I can buy the stuff I only dreamed about when I was a kid.

[EvilKing00]

Love of the game, love of history of the game, owing a piece of it I guess, and owining anything thats rare and interesting.

[AMBST95]

It's a way to reconnect to my youth and share it with my children. I've been a baseball fan for as long as I can remember. Very much like Jimmy Fallon's character said in the movie, Fever Pitch, "I've loved the Sox my whole life. Name me one thing that you cared about when you were 5 that you still care about now." In my case it's the Orioles, but it doesn't get truer than that statement. There are very few things that are important to us for our lifetimes. My family and sports are 2 that come to mind. Baseball tells the story of the American spirit and card collecting offers an opportunity to enjoy in that.

[Bocabirdman]

Why do I collect? Because the wife makes me. She says that of all the vices I have dabbled in, cardboard is the most harmless.

[guy3050]

I'm fascinated by the rich history of our game of baseball, cried when my beloved Expos moved to Washington in 2004. I must have watch Ken burns Baseball at least 50+++ times, I really like to look at my +100 year olds pieces of cardboard

[g_vezina_c55]

I love sport history

[T206Fan]

Im kinda strange in the way I collect I love baseball but for me its the thrill of the hunt or chase more so then owning the card.

[ullmandds]

As a young child...baseball was life to me...we'd play until it got too dark...or our moms called us in...we'd play whiffle ball when enough players could not be fielded for proper batting practice. I'd throw a super pinky or tennis ball against the brick veneer of my house until my arm would fall off or I'd break a window and get scolded.

A love for the ny yankees...instilled in me by my dad...he'd take me to countless yankee games and the odd annoying game at shea tainted by all of the airplanes constantly flying overhead.

My neighbor...who was a sportswriter for the herald tribune used to tell me stories and give me the occasional nugget of card/memorabilia for shoveling his driveway or mowing his lawn.

This combined with a love for the history of the game and the #'s that went with it...714...then 755...4191...then 4256...511...23(grand slams for gehrig)....406...424...190...184...I could recite all of the major records...the # of every player on the yankees and up to minute stats at all times.

Now add to this mix these little cardboard gems encompassing all that I lived for as a kid that first activated my collecting gene!

I lost interest in my late teens until midway through college...then started up again. Now it's the nostalgia...the longing for the care free days of my youth...and the ability to obtain cards I could never afford as a child.

I always thought that if I were to ever get a tattoo...it would most likely be baseball related as this is one constant that will never change in my life...my love for baseball...it's history...and the cards that accompany it!!!!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Because, to quote the great line from Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun, it expresses me.

[oldjudge]

First, I love to collect things. Someone once said that there is a collecting gene and I think that is right. Secondly, I love history and, more importantly, baseball history. I have collected other things in the past (stamps, coins, figurines, minerals, murex shells) but, with the exception of baseball cards, I lost interest. BTW, collecting script cards is a great endeavor. Many are available, some pretty difficult, and a few very very tough. If you want to expand beyond baseball, remember that the script series also includes boxers. GOOD LUCK!

[usernamealreadytaken]

They just came with the cigarettes . . .