Does Anyone Still Just Collect Cards?

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by Mike D.

It is fun when it still happens. Not pre-war, but my brother, who's in his 40's, recently bought some lots of the "less than big name" players he was a fan of as a kid off eBay. 140+ card lots of Julio Franco cards with lots of oddballs, for example. I think it cost him less than $10 delivered, which is pretty good for a bit of fun considering you can't buy a fast food lunch for that anymore.



I wrote an article a while back on the different types of collectors.

Mike, that was an enjoyable read. You nailed a bunch of types. I think you missed a bunch, though, too.

How about the guy that goes back to collect all the cards from when he was a kid, to maybe relive his joy when he first discovered baseball.

What about the collectors who like cards from the turn of the 20th century and before, in order to appreciate what baseball, and our country, was like back then.

Or those who find obscure and under-appreciated corners of the hobby and focus on them, in order to make them better known for the rest of us.

There are collectors who focus on their favorite player, or their favorite team. Some goofy guys even focus on error cards.

There's a lot of us out there, and the great thing about it is there is a card for every collector.

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[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

There's a lot of us out there, and the great thing about it is there is a card for every collector.

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My two piece bikini Babe agrees with everything you mentioned, but he especially understands that he found the right collector.


Brian

[jingram058]

Bumping this thread to see if anyone's collecting opinions have changed?

I still collect raw, low grade cards because 1) I can afford them, 2) I can enjoy them by handling them (which is a big deal to me), and 3) I myself don't care about investing (I have other investments).

[steve B]

I must have been busy in March, I didn't reply originally.

I'm a bit of both.
Nearly all my cards are not graded. For many of them it's mostly pointless.

I do have a few graded ones, and have sent some in.
I only sort of thought about value when I did, aside from a few modern cards I was going to sell.

My wife and I have talked about this a bit.
She thinks I like the hunt more than the catching. And that's sort of true.
It is nice to see cards I thought were really nice get recognition of that through grading.

When we talked about value I explained it as "It's sort of a hunting game, and the value of the catches are just the way of keeping score. "
So more points for finding something at a low price, or something that is special in some way. That goes across all my collecting.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Mike D.

I wrote an article a while back on the different types of collectors.

Originally Posted by The Importance of Knowing What Type of Sports Card Collector You Are - Mike D

An interesting subset is people who say they don’t care about value, and bemoan the prices some cards have reached, making them harder to acquire.

But then they’ll go spend thousands on some rare ... gem because they like it.

That's not actually inconsistent though. Consider. The first cards I ever owned were four 1958-59 Topps Hockey cards I picked up off the street one late winter day when I was in first grade. Over the last 45 years I've therefore taken delight in assembling a sharp bright set of these cards:





But the last card in the set is Bobby Hull's rookie card:

(Not mine.)

I'd acquired one way back in 1980 but it wasn't in nearly the condition of my others. So do I now tighten my belt and spend the truly big bucks to complete my set with a really nice Bobby Hull card?

Or do I spend the money instead buying more of the other cards from the same year such as the Topps 1958 and 1959 Baseball, Planes, Target Moon and Wacky Plaks?



Since I have other Bobby Hull cards featuring better poses, to this point I've been doing the latter.

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

Mike, that was an enjoyable read. You nailed a bunch of types. I think you missed a bunch, though, too.

How about the guy that goes back to collect all the cards from when he was a kid, to maybe relive his joy when he first discovered baseball.

That's me!

[brianp-beme]

When I call collect on this board, you all have to foot the visual bill.


Brian (collecting collector's collection castaways for the sake of assembling said cards for some seriously scintillating scans. This type of collecting should not occur while operating heavy machinery, does not need to be confessed to a priest in a little wooden booth, nor should it be a topic discussed on a first date)

[ullmandds]

i have much more surface area in raw cards in my collection...many in binders many in boxes.