Do you guys collect modern baseball cards as well?

[BumBum]

I do live in both worlds. I am an amateur historian of sorts of my favorite teams, Cubs and Angels, so I collect both vintage and modern. In fact, 2018 Topps Heritage was what really brought me back into the hobby after a long hiatus. Kind of a good bridge between old and new, which was the appeal for me. I try not to get too caught up in the gambling or prospecting aspect of modern. I mostly just stay focused on acquiring singles of my two teams, especially Mike Trout. Heritage is the only exception, where I will dive into a case just so I can have something to rip once in a while.

[maniac_73]

I do collect modern as well against my better my judgment lol. I do know its junk wax 2.0 but something about shiny cards keeps sucking me in lol

[packs]

I collect modern but I avoid the costly certified autos. Instead I like to pick up signed rookies that were signed after issue:

[ALR-bishop]

Topps sets from 1948 to 2020

[brianp-beme]

I have had a variety of responses to this question over the years:

I stopped collecting current day cards in 1982, and just assumed they stopped producing them that year as well.

I don't want to risk having my Net54 badge taken away if I were caught admitting to collecting modern.

I collect Prewar and modern cards from the 1950's, 60's and 70's. What decade is this?


But seriously, I don't seriously collect or follow modern. Once in every 2 or 3 years I seem to pick up a pack or two just to see how the other 95% live.

Brian

[drcy]

Back when I was an active collector, I collected both. It was not an either/or.

Though I don't at all follow the current cards, so offer no aesthetic or other view of the current state of affairs.

[Kutcher55]

No, although I think the Trout 2011 Topps Update is a totally beautiful and (sorry to use the word) iconic modern card and if I collected one card it would be that one.

[Browns1981]

I got back in collecting 2020 Topps flagship and enjoyed it. Hundreds of dollars and zero big hits later I ended up buying a factory set for $50 just so I could have the complete run. It was fun but really a waste, and much more rewarding buying graded singles online.

[Throttlesteer]

Only modern hockey and specific players from the 80's (Tony Gwynn, Cal Ripken). I agree, I struggle with how limited those serialized 1/1, 1/10, 1/25, etc......when there are hundreds of sets with the same logic. Autographs are cool, but I don't get overly excited about cutting up jerseys. I do have some hockey cut jersey cards, but I would rather buy the jersey intact.

I like owning cards of the players wearing the actual jerseys I own. Part of the fun is doing the research, finding the unique marks, and photomatching.