How many have gone from collecting new cards to collecting vintage?

[Promethius88]

Originally Posted by Leon

I did rookie HOF'ers when I first started around 20+ yrs ago. But the (mostly 50s-70s) cards were so common I quickly went backwards to pre-wwii. I never went back to the newer stuff. Mostly it just got older and older

Rumor has it that Leon has a Jesus Christ and the 12 Apostles team card. Think it was issued at the Last Supper but little is known about the actual distribution and the print runs since that original info was lost in a fire sometime around the 7th century.

[CobbSpikedMe]

I started in the 80's with modern (at the time) but always wanted vintage cards. I used to read Beckett back then and saw the prices for star vintage cards and was discouraged away from vintage thinking I wouldn't be able to afford any of it. I really wanted T206 cards but thought they were really tough to find and would have been too expensive even if I did find them. Fast forward to like 15 years ago or more and I got my first T206 I was hooked on prewar. Then I found the old Network 54 boards and joined there and it was all about prewar for me. I then found out that had I just looked for T206s at the shows in the 80's I would've found them and they would've been pretty cheap. I was very disappointed that I missed out on them back when I was a kid. Those are what I really wanted back then. Oh well. I've been a prewar/vintage collector at heart since the beginning I guess. I do still pick up a modern pack every now and then just to open them and see who I get. But I give away most of those modern cards to other collectors.

[lloydchristmas]

It’s the case with me. I collected as a kid in the 90’s, came back to in the last decade and the abundance of autograph and material cards do nothing for me.

[Leon]

This sounds like me today. I just have no interest in the new stuff whatsoever. Of course in the late 60s, as a collecting kid, it was all Topps and maybe a Fleer or two. But as said up in the thread, as an adult, I quickly went from HOF rookies (mostly Topps) to pre-war.

Originally Posted by lloydchristmas

It’s the case with me. I collected as a kid in the 90’s, came back to in the last decade and the abundance of autograph and material cards do nothing for me.

[jerrys]

Started with interest in both vintage and new. Not many card shows - made baseball card contacts at coin shows. New Topps sets, late 1970s - $8.00/set. Vintage T206 cards: $2-$10 - Cobb $50, W600s: $75-$150 HOF $150-$300 rarely found, Goudeys: $5-$10 Ruth $50-$100.

[jchcollins]

I got started with cards because Topps' Garbage Pail Kids were so popular when I was in 3rd grade. This led me to find a trading buddy at school who also collected baseball cards. My first card packs were '86 Topps, 35 cents at the local 7-11 or Cashion's grocery store. By the next year or so I had discoved what old card were down at a local antique shop. The cards were actually from the collection of former Milwaukee Braves catcher Paul Burris - who was from the area and still lived nearby, retired. I remember buying a '62 Topps Gil Hodges and a bunch of '54 Topps commons. Burris had stamped them all "1954" in small letters on the front. Anyhow, that set the hook. I collected modern (what at that time had become junk era wax) until I was in high school, but was always way more intrigued by the older cards. I traded with dealers at shops and shows, and had accumulated a nice little collection of postwar stars and HOF'ers by the time I went to college. I was interested in prewar, but back then it seemed that virtually no shop had anything as old as tobacco cards. You did see them at shows, but they were always way out of my price range. I was born too late lol, started going to shows in the late 80's instead of 20 years earlier. I put the cards away in college, but got back into it when I discovered online auctions and ebay around 1999. The rest is history, I've collected on and off - mostly on - ever since. I could care less about autos and relics and it's very rare that I will buy a "pack" of anything new today. I think Topps Heritiage is cool, but way too expensive for what it is for me to consider seriously going after them.