2020... The year in review!

[Leon]

Possibly my favorite pick up of 2020...

[Kevin]

I collected on an off since the 1980s. Instead of collecting in my late 20s and early 30s, I spent my $ on wine, women and song. Good, but fleeting times. I wish I invested 5% of the money I wasted from 2000-2014 in cards.

During the pandemic, Peter Schwartz who I know from Islander games, started posting his ticket stubs on Twitter. I had some serious FOMO. I went to my folks house, finally found ticket stubs from the late 70s and 80s Isles glory days, posted a few on twitter. My friend from imaginesports (Steve Brightman) retweeted some and some baseball card collectors liked my pics and started following me. Then I followed them and saw all these great "mail days" that they posted. I then went to my folks house and unearthed my T206 collection. About 140 cards. I reached out to John Goodman, my go to dealer from East Hampton, and bought 4 cards from him. Then...I tweeted a few of mine. @t206podcast liked one of my posts and I was like "There's a podcast??" and I listened to every episode in 2 days. I reached out to Justin and Jay. Justin has been really kind and gracious and he pointed me to net54. Leon allowed me to join the group and I've added about 25 cards or so from here since October.

Monster # 169. Would like to get to 170 tonight. Might check out John's eBay store.

2021 Goals: Napoleon Lajoie T206, break 200 "Monster Number"

Sorry for the flow of this post. I'm by myself with the kids tonight.

[upstateNYmilb]

Originally Posted by Leon

Possibly my favorite pick up of 2020...

I really decided to focus on vintage, and pre-war cards this past year. While reading and listening to podcasts (The Monster and Vintage Baseball Card Podcast) I learned about Jefferson Burdick. Very cool that he lived in Syracuse, my hometown and where I currently reside. This article and photo are awesome.

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[Snapolit1]

To my eyes the only real story in 2020 (separate of course from the Covid havoc that permeated every aspect of our lives) was the steady drumbeat of extensive, highly coordinated, highly sophisticated fraud in nearly all corners of the hobby, met with a universal shrug of the shoulders, yawn, and a "what'cha gonna do really" by most collectors. Lower head, forge ahead. What's a little criminality among friends.

In some pursuits, this stuff would be considered shocking. In this hobby it's just the price of admission I guess.

As far as 2021, I can't wait to see the next batch of 1,000 pristine autographed Goudey cards that suddenly appear out of the ether.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

To my eyes the only real story in 2020 (separate of course from the Covid havoc that permeated every aspect of our lives) was the steady drumbeat of extensive, highly coordinated, highly sophisticated fraud in nearly all corners of the hobby, met with a universal shrug of the shoulders, yawn, and a "what'cha gonna do really" by most collectors. Lower head, forge ahead. What's a little criminality among friends.

In some pursuits, this stuff would be considered shocking. In this hobby it's just the price of admission I guess.

As far as 2021, I can't wait to see the next batch of 1,000 pristine autographed Goudey cards that suddenly appear out of the ether.

There sure are a lot of signed cards nowadays. It's almost like they are making more all of the time.

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