Why we love the hobby

[glynparson]

it is because i love baseball, i love spending time with friends, i love traveling around to shows and other venues searching for treasures, but most of all i love all the time i have spent with my dad collecting. As for which cards got me into it I guess 1958 mantle all star, 1969 Bench, 1963 Rose, 1964 Stargell are all cards i remember being fond of when i started collecting in 1979/80.

[orly57]

The Tong's Chinese Restaurant reference made me laugh out loud. Rumors abounded through Milam Elementary that an un identified Tom Thumb Convenience Store still had a box, but it proved to be a myth. It was more elusive than the Ark of the Covenant.

[glchen]

When I was 11 years old, I saw this card at a card shop at a mall in the city that we went to occasionally. I was able to save enough money to purchase it, and it was the only card of my youth that I ever had in a top loader. When I got back into collecting around 7 years ago, I was able to unearth it, and got it holdered for protection.

[orly57]

Mattingly rookies are often credited for the 80's card explosion. That donruss was one of the wet-dream cards of our youth.

[Joshwesley]

Mattingly donruss
Conseco 86 donruss
McGwire USA card
Griffey UD
Frank Thomas 90 leaf

Those were the baseball cards I remember the most from the crazy era of cards

[Bill77]

1988 Topps, Donruss, and Score were my introduction to baseball cards. My mom would bring home packs and sometimes boxes of Topps cards from the store she worked at every day that summer. My brother and I along with a few of our friends would buy every pack we could find in the little town we lived in when we could get money. My brother usually took all of the best cards either for his collection or to trade to one of his fiends. I remember trying to collect Will Clark cards and never being able to keep them, so I started collecting Jack Clark instead because Jack Clark/Will Clark whats the difference right? After several moves and not collecting baseball cards for years I found my baseball cards again, all Jack Clark. Fun times. My favorite card that I still have from the 88 Topps set is the Eddie Murray record breaker with the box on the front.

[orly57]

Bill, I can cut you a sweet deal on a Dom DiMaggio rookie.