What defines your collection? Why is baseball different?

[jacksons]

Great post, thanks!

Lifelong baseball fan but have always been drawn more to early 1900s NY players. My Dad used to tell me stories about growing up in NYC. He used to track down players at train stations and get their autograph, back when there were three teams to follow. A train schedule was his ticket to go and see every player that came into NY to play ball. When my Dad told me about his own father who used to watch Christy Mathewson pitch, I felt a strong connection to that era through those stories. And since I never met my grandfather, who passed before I was born, I suppose I consciously started collecting photos and cards of players of his day as a way to learn as much as I could about the game then, and to see it through his eyes.