Why we love the hobby

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by rdixon1208

I loved the Bo Jackson bat on shoulder card too, but Dave Justice was the man!

I met David Justice in a night club in Buckhead during the Atlanta 96 Olympics. He was just going through his divorce with Halley Berry (If he only knew the future). He and Charles Barkley were both at the club and we all talked sports for a good hour. Both guys were fun to be with. As a spin to my story was in my future was the girl that Halley Berry beat to win Miss Ohio. I ended up with the runner up.. lol. I'll take it!

[Joshwesley]

As a kid the grail for me was the 90 lead frank Thomas.

Finally got one in about 1994 and paid an arm and a leg for it. Still have it at my home office in a screw down case!

Always wanted the 1991 SP Michael Jordan... never could pull one.
I went through an entire wax box once and struck out

Got out of collecting from 1995-2015 when I stumbled on this site by mistake....

Instantly, I've been hooked...started with pre-war, but I'm getting a GM-10 Sp Jordan from eBay this week! Spent a good $15.00 on it 😂😎

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

My brother was in having his tonsils out in 1981, I bought him 3 rak packs of topps. for the longest time we managed to hold onto a few of the original cards from those packs through assorted purges, moves etc... finally lost the last one a couple moves ago and it breaks my heart.

If you ever find a heavily worn 1981 Topps George Brett with "AP" written on the back in black crayon, I'd probably buy it from you!

I do still have my original "directed" collection. In about 1982 I decided I wanted every Steve Garvey card. Then he went to the Padres, but in that short window I did acquire quite a few for a preteen on a budget.