Why are you here?

[packs]

I liked history and modern cards were too expensive. I started collecting pre-war when I was 9 or 10 years old. I bought a Miller Huggins hands at mouth T206 and a Matty White Cap for about $100 in a sea of tables that had A-rod cards priced through the roof.

[2dueces]

Collected as a kid. Went to shows in the early 70’s. Lost touch until I saw some football cards 1966 Topps in 1987 at an antique shop. Remembered those little cigarette cards from the shows in the ‘70’s at $1 a piece. (T206). Started picking them up a few here and there. After around 250 culled the collection to only portraits and back stamps FF Baker. Finished all my football sets from 1960-70.
Started collecting RPPC of long gone and forgotten town teams. Now I just come to stir up sh$t.

[JollyElm]

My slightly older brothers were allowed to take me along as they walked (quite a distance) to 'the stores' to get whatever my mom needed. Inside the stationery, they taught me the beauty of trading my meager allowance for packs of baseball cards...and that feeling has never gone away.

[Bigdaddy]

Everybody has got to be somewhere.

[jbsports33]

Really interested in history and baseball has so much rich history!

Great Stories, Numbers, Players, Fans - Year after Year!

I also love the colors of the older cards and designs!

Jimmy

[steve B]

A number of things along the way.

late 73, moved to a new town, and the kids were into a lot of stuff, model rockets, bicycles, sports and cards.. Watched my first world series, which was also Willie Mays last.
Next spring, Hank Aaron and 715, and the Hank Aaron special cards showing what older cards looked like.
75 - And the Red Sox got into the world series! They lost, but surely they'd win next year when Rice was healthy. (Yeah, but I was 12)
Somewhere between 74 and 77 I traded for a 1968 card, and got the survivors of my 69 and 71 cards out of the toybox.

Moved to a new town in 77, and there was a whole store with old baseball cards!! And some little ones that looked like tiny paintings. (T206)
Also, the next spring was a big one for cards. Chillee Willee discs, Papa Ginos discs, the usual Topps, Fleer stickers, Rc Cola cans, The usual hostess cards...

Had a few years mostly away, but kept coming back to the hobby every couple years. Found this in I think 2009(That long ago?!)

[aljurgela]

.... with a conversation with Lou Dials in the 1980s hearing about all these players "better than mays and aaron" that I had never heard of.... if only good ol' Lou knew how much that conversation with a 14 year old meant and how much $ I have invested in chronicling the history through cards.... I am sure that he would be in shock.... they reality is that he was right.... there were so many amazing baseball players that were (and still are not) known that deserve to be....