OT. Wives

[shernan30]

My wife is a collector of modern cards. She does buy me cards, but I haven't got her to buy me anything vintage or prewar just yet. When she does get me packs of modern cards they are usually Turkey Red, Allen & Ginter, or other sets mimicking the older ones. I have caught her looking at Mickey Mantle and 1934 Goudey cards, so I may be getting some vintage stuff in the near future.


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[bigred1]

The only card my wife ever bought me was a 75 Nolan Ryan, 5 years ago, not in the best condition, but I still have it. She does support my habit, feel very fortunate.

[MyGuyTy]

My wife supports my hobby as well, but has zero interest in it (probably a good thing, lol). Has no problem with my purchases but would never go looking for a card for me. She might snag a Yankees item/shirt from a sports collectibles store, but never actively search out a particular card on the web that I wanted.

[philliesfan]

Anyone want to trade wives? Mine gives me grief when I go to a Baseball Fantasy Draft on a Saturday..............

[ParisianJohn]

When we were dating my wife was dismissive of my cards. She never looked at them, nor did she ask how much I spent on them (good thing). She'd just make comments like, "They're just cardboard. I don't get it". Then one day she decided to look at them, and the first card she picked up was a T205 Eddie Collins. She said, "Oh, I like this." I knew I could continue to indulge myself at least until we got married!

After we were married she got an idea of how much my cards were worth, and she went through a phase where she tried to get me to sell them, in particular my T206 Cy Young portrait, which I will have surgically sewn inside of me before I put it on the market. But then not much later she saw my T206 Jerry Downs and fell in love with the colors and gave off on the "Sell them" routine.

Last month she picked up the Zappala's "The T206 Collection" that I'd gotten out of the local library. She was thumbing through it and said to me, "Some of these really are so appealing. I think you need to get the portrait card of this Walter Johnson guy". I'm deciding to obey my wife without question on this one.

[sycks22]

My wife likes looking at the '38 Goudey Heads up cards I get it. She laughs when she sees the big heads. We were in an antique mall yesterday and saw a picture and said "Isn't that Walter Johnson?" I was a happy camper.

[Fred]

How many wives actually know how much their husbands sports card/memorabilia collectionn is worth? For that matter, do many of us actually know what our collections are worth?

My wife doesn't really care about my collection, I just hope she doesn't give it away if something should happen to me.

[Section103]

I cant really endorse them.

[Maddog]

My wife says since this is my only real vice why complain. I go to work every day, come home every night and pay all the bills so if this makes me happy why not.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Fred

How many wives actually know how much their husbands sports card/memorabilia collectionn is worth? For that matter, do many of us actually know what our collections are worth?

My wife doesn't really care about my collection, I just hope she doesn't give it away if something should happen to me.

Since I admittedly have a bit more into my cards than I should, relative to other resources, she knows about as well as I do how much they are worth.

Also, she knows I collect tobacciana and helps with that when we go to antique stores and malls. She's been really good about the collection and knows I enjoy it a lot. That being said, sometime in the next years I will probably sell some of it to put my daughter through college. I consider it part of our savings..as she does.

[jg8422]

My wife is a Penn State Alumni and a huge fan. She didn't give me any grief when I purchased any of my 3 Joe Paterno 1950 Topps Felt Back cards.

[Kenny Cole]

My wife knows what my collection is worth but still thinks I'm crazy. However, she has assisted in my craziness by buying me (with help, but generally not from me) at least the following cards, and has pitched in money for me to buy some others, so I think I'll keep her.

[ParisianJohn]

Originally Posted by Fred

How many wives actually know how much their husbands sports card/memorabilia collectionn is worth? For that matter, do many of us actually know what our collections are worth?

My wife doesn't really care about my collection, I just hope she doesn't give it away if something should happen to me.

Good point. I would say that I have a decent idea of how much my pre-war cards are worth, but post-war is another question. I was born in 1975 and have a brother who is ten years older than me. When he stopped collecting I got his 1970s Topps sets, which I held onto. Couldn't really tell you how much they're worth, especially as I've never had any of them graded, and there are some potential 8s and 9s of HOFs. I do however, have a pretty good idea what my late 1980s Topps cards are worth!

My wife has looked at eBay a few times to see how much some of my cards, like Babe Ruth, are going for. I'm just afraid I'll come home one day and she'll be mailing out my cards to the highest bidder. Which might even be me.

[darkhorse9]

[MyGuyTy]

Originally Posted by darkhorse9

Classic......so true.

[Fred]

Hahahahahahaha.... now that was good!

[Kawika]

My wife can pronounce Lajoie correctly.

[wolf441]

While my wife has no real interest in my collection, her dad designed the World Series trophy (he worked for Balfour before he passed away in 1976) as well as several other baseball awards and the Chrysler Eagle, so she is a keeper!!

[t206blogcom]

My wife is the one who encouraged me to get back into collecting and to put together my T206 set. She would get a little pissy at times when the mailbox was stuffed with bubble mailers, but overall, she's been great with my collecting.

She's come to a couple of card shows and got a kick out of seeing some of the real old stuff. She even chatted it up with Dan McKee once at a show.

For the past two years, she's bought me season tickets to the Nationals - one seat for me, one seat for her. We have a good time going to the games even if she isn't into baseball all that much. This past Christmas, she also got me an autographed, game-used Bryce Harper bat to go along with the season tickets. How do you beat that?