Friends who don't understand pre-war collecting.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by sandmountainslim

Just makes me want to shake my head.
I have a friend who is long time friend and plays in the same fantasy baseball league with me now/played in the same Little League with me 34 years ago and has collected cards since he was a kid. He collects Johnny Bench cards and has a pretty good collection of 70's thru modern cards mostly Topps. I try to talk bb cards with him and he likes my Dimaggio Exhibit and my Willie Mays cards and my Mantles and Hank Aaron cards as well as the Fleer Ted Williams stuff I have but when I try to talk T206 or anything from the pre-war era like my small Goudey collection he just turns up a nose at it all!
I was telling him about my T206 Gandil and the Cicotte card I got last week and I may as well been telling him about Soccer or WWE cards, "Nobody ever heard of those guys. Why would you pay money for them?" Nobody ever heard of them?? What baseball planet did you come from?
I need to start dissing his Johnny Bench rookie like he walked up with a Sammy Sosa collection
I had to rant to someone and ya'll are it

I actually think this is very common. People get stuck in one era of collecting and don't care about any other era. Post about modern cards on this forum and you would get the same response as posting about WWE cards. I think it is very normal really.

A good friend should at least act interested, I know when I bring up cards several of my friends act like they care.

[sandmountainslim]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I actually think this is very common. People get stuck in one era of collecting and don't care about any other era. Post about modern cards on this forum and you would get the same response as posting about WWE cards. I think it is very normal really.

A good friend should at least act interested, I know when I bring up cards several of my friends act like they care.

I went to a flea market (Collinsville Trade Day) saturday and a guy with a table of junk had a common rough 59 Topps on top of a stack of cards held together buy a rubber band....so naturally I hoped there were MORE fifties Baseball cards in that pile. I asked to see the stack and there was that 59 followed by about 35 cards of Brutus Beefcake, The Undertaker etc lol I guess his ploy SORTA worked but I didn't buy anything so it didn't work like he had hoped.

[BruceinGa]

10 or 12 years ago my wife and I would go to Scottsboro for Trade Day and Unclaimed Freight and made it once to Collinsville, lots of guns, chickens and goats, lol.