What Would 8 Year Old You Think About Your Collection Today?

[ullmandds]

my 8 year old self would say WTF! Where did all these "postcard" sized things come from? They're NOT CARDS!!!!!!!!

[trambo]

My 8 year old self would probably not enjoy all of the old cards I have now. Pretty sure 8 year old me would prefer Tony Perez to Tris Speaker and Tom Seaver to Walter Johnson.

Fun question to think about, that's for sure!!

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

He'd be very happy and wouldn't have expected anything less!

[Casey2296]

"So this is where our fascination with the 1972 Kellogg's All Time Greats set leads to?"

[BobbyStrawberry]

"What's with all these miniature cards of dead guys?"

[mr2686]

You mean I can sell these and buy a new bike?

[horzverti]

Originally Posted by mr2686

You mean I can sell these and buy a new bike?

Haha! You can buy ALL of the bikes.

My 8 yr old self, "wtf are these??"

[The Detroit Collector]

My 8-year-old self would see that even as I got older and life happens, I never stopped doing what made me happy.

[z28jd]

I had a baseball card calendar at seven years old and was immediately drawn to the older cards on it. That same year I went to the Hall of Fame and read the yearbook cover-to-cover on the ride home, then went to Old Timer's Game at Yankee Stadium on tickets I picked out for my birthday.

So eight-year-old me wouldn't be surprised that I had so many pre-war cards. He wanted a Ewing/Mascot Old Judge for a year at that point, so he'd be happy to find out I've had one for about 20 years. Didn't waste much time getting one of those. He didn't know a Williamson/Mascot existed, so that would have been a nice surprise to show him.

[jthorst75]

I'd be wondering where all my Joe Charboneau rookies went

[D. Bergin]

"Why are all those unopened boxes just sitting in your closet"

"What's a slab?"

"Did your uncles buy you all these cards at the corner store, or did you win them playing knockdowns and covers on the playground?"

[conor912]

Love this question, as it’s one of the things that crosses my mind often. I collect as an extension (and homage to) my childhood. That’s one of the main reasons I don’t do slabs. As mentioned, while eight year old me’s brain would certainly explode if he saw my collection today, he’d also remind me that I could buy a lot of other really cool things with that money…and that packs are meant for opening!!

[brianp-beme]

Little me would be thinking "Neat cards, but I bet older me wishes he had a time machine so that he could go back and, with his bigger, adult size allowance, buy more wax packs from the corner drugstore counter, because then older me can find the missing cards I still need."

Brian