In a baseball card coma (1982 - 1988)

[thecomebacker]

My sportcards coma was from 1992 to 2012.
Baseball from 1992 to 2019.
But I am BACK!

[seanofjapan]

My baseball card coma began in 1993 and when I came out of it around 2011 or so I found myself living in Japan, so I started collecting Japanese cards instead.

Weird how life works out.

[rats60]

My coma was only from 1981-1984. My brother woke me up when at college he found a baseball card shop and the owner was looking for Reds cards. He told him he would pay 20.00 for Bench Rcs. That was a mammoth sum at the time and my brother had 12 of them. The cards that we enjoyed collecting were now worth money.

[Peter_Spaeth]

1974 (end of HS) to 1991 (not sure what possessed me to buy a wax box off the drug store shelf, and it was all downhill from there).

[GasHouseGang]

My baseball card coma was from around 1990 to 2006. I had decided I was done when it became too overwhelming to collect everything issued by the major manufacturers in a year. There was just too much production. I kept what I had, but didn't add anything. I finally got back into active collecting when a friend talked me into going to the 2006 National Convention in Anaheim. That got my juices flowing again, but I stayed away from the new stuff and began collecting vintage.

[bnorth]

I had 2 myself, one from around 93 to 96 and one from around 02 to 05. Even during those periods I would still buy the occasional box of new cards if it was on sale.

[Mike D.]

For me it was the college years...1994 to 1998. I've had a few mini-comas since then...and also a number of "collecting goal resets".