Slightly OT: Why We Collect

[sbfinley]

Going to the bar was not a viable hobby once I got married. Bought a t206 on eBay and found this site (the former site.) Blew every available dollar for about 5 years on cardboard. Sold it all and went to back school. Had a kid. Number two on the way now. Still finding dollars to blow on cardboard. Don't drink as much.

[nebboy]

I love baseball and the history of it. How baseball was and still is part of the fabric of what we are as a country. So collecting helps me find so many new things about the all aspects of the game. I do have an addition to the search, it's in the searching I get the thrill of the hunt for new cards/memorabilia and the bits and pieces of a great game that is associated with it.

[Exhibitman]

Collecting is in the collectors DNA. If it wasn't cards it would be something else. I've been at it nearly all my life.

I was fortunate to be there as a kid in the card club and card show era. It was my intro to business. I ran a table at a card club show when I was 12 years old. I still operate as a secondary business and hope that once I stop the law practice I will be able to make cards my prime business. So yes it is an investment, one that I happen to enjoy.

No family in baseball but two boxer cousins. Ray Miller (my avatar) was #1 ranked as a lightweight and was the only man to KO HOFer Jimmy McLarnin. He is in the 1951 Topps Ringside set as a referee. Also in E211 York Caramel and the 1928 Exhibit set. I didn't find out about him until I was college age.