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

[Mark17]

I'd look at my Twins GU jersey collection and say, "Wow! But can't you get a Pascual?"

[judsonhamlin]

Whose mom gave you all those cards?

[nat]

Eight year old me wouldn't believe it. Pre-war cards were this weird rumor. The local card shop didn't have any of them. No one I knew had ever even seen one. When I was about eight I decided to collect one card of every hall of famer, but at the time that meant trading with the kid down the street, because he got a Carl Yastrzemski card from his older brother. Hunting down anything more than a few years old was nearly impossible.

I got my first pre-war card two or three years later. My dad is into coins, and we went to see a guy he knew who had a store. In amongst all the coins there was a small stack of Goudeys. As I remember it there was a lancing beam of sunlight shining down on them, and a chorus of angels intoning "gloria in excelsis deo"; but I might be misremembering. Lord, I mowed a lot of lawns to afford the Joe Cronin that I bought that day.

[butchie_t]

My 8 year old self would mock me today with the comment; "betcha wish you had not thrown out all those cards when you were 13 years old, huh?"

I was wise beyond my years at 13, knowing I was too old to collect and dumped all I had up to that point. Mind you covering the 60's mainly and up to 72. Then at an even wiser old age of 14 I started over with collecting. Ahhhhhh, to be young again, just not so damed dumb.

Cheers,

B.T.

[Seven]

My eight year old self would love my collection but probably wonder why we stopped collecting Bernie Williams.

He would also be wondering why we live in a basement.

[Johnny T]

Funny this question came up...just yesterday, instead of looking for cards to buy, I decided to take some time and revies and appreciate what I already have. I left my office at home thinking how lucky I am to have what I have.

I was always into old cards, even as an 8 year old. I'm certain my 8 year old self would be in awe of what I have, just like my 56 year old self!!!

[insidethewrapper]

Can you imagine as an 8 year old, biking to the local party store and buying a pack of cards and never opening them ?

[refz]

My 8 year old self would be proud and happy of what I have today and the stories that went along with them!

Realistically my 8 year old self was blown away by my father’s Mickey Mantle collection and vintage hof. He taught me the ropes of vintage and educated me on values. I rarely collected modern. Thanks dad!

[Snapolit1]

My 8 year old self couldn’t care less what vintage cards I have collected as an adult.

[Yoda]

My 8 year old self would be happy I was still collecting, buying, selling and trading baseball 50's and 60's HOF'ers. He would be surprised at my pre-war and 19th century stuff and be curious about the players, their teams and histories. And he would probably ask me, "Christ, how old are you now?

I suspect Kevin Struss was collecting E cards when he was 8.

[runbrett]

The younger me would wonder -
1. Why did you keep 22 1978 Mike Lum cards?
2. Why do you have so many doubles when you could trade them for something else?
3. How come you never got enough money to order the Kellogg's sets that were available via a mail-in offer?
4. When a neighbor gave you 1000 1971s why didn't you ask him to include some players who you actually heard of?