OT Avatar User ID genisis of your collection

[almostdone]

Great idea for a thread. I often wonder some of the stories behind names as well as aviators.

A while ago I was completing a near ten year journey to have a card of every Hall Of Famer from the 1909 on. I did this by wheeling and dealing on an extremly tight budget. I was down to one player left, Honus Wagner. I did most of my findings on eBay but couldn't come up with a card in my budget. Finally one popped up, a 1914 Polo Grounds. I contacted the seller to get some more info about the card. Through our messaging he mentioned he had tried for a month to "sell on Net54" but had no takers. I had never heard of this site so while the auction was still on I checked out the site, was blown away and joined. When I needed a user name I sat in front of my computer and all I could think of was "I'm almost done". I used it, won the card and completed my quest.

My aviator is of a display case I made to house part of my HOF collection. Making custom cases is another of my hobbies.

Btw, last year I sold all of my prewar HOFers except 7 to surprise my wife on her 40th birthday with a second honeymoon trip which we took about two months ago. I had realized that the journey to completion was much more fun than actually being completed. I still have the Wagner though as well as Ruth, Gerhig, Cobb, Speaker, Young and Johnson.

Great thread. Hope this catches on. I'd love to hear more.

Drew