Collecting Vintage: Baseball vs. Football

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As someone who collects both baseball and football items, a few thoughts come to mind:

1) baseball has been part of "mainstream" culture (e.g., Babe Ruth, Casey at the Bat) for a longer period of time, with many teams in the same location for long periods of time. For example, I'm a Giants fan, and there are many years of items to collect/covet.

2) There are many more vintage baseball items than football items, so it is easier to be a baseball collector.

3) I wonder if many of us played baseball (or more baseball than football) as kids, even if it was not at an especially high level.

4) Maybe there is something (a shared personality trait) about the type of people who are drawn to baseball that makes them especially likely to be drawn to collecting (e.g., interest in statistics, analysis).