Baseball fan or just a collector?

[jingram058]

I collect and I am a fan. But I am a fan of the game as it was before all of the idiotic rules changes and big money ruined it. And that is why I collect old radio and TV broadcasts from the time before that happened.

[Johnny630]

Love them both!!

[HOF_Forever]

I'm a huge fan of the game. I still play in a men's league. Playing will always be most important to me, followed by researching the history of the game and following the Cleveland baseball team. Cards bridge the gap across generations of the game and intersect nicely with collecting. I mostly stick with cards because I don't have the money or space for an extensive game used memorabilia collection.

[mortimer brewster]

Originally Posted by jingram058

I collect and I am a fan. But I am a fan of the game as it was before all of the idiotic rules changes and big money ruined it. And that is why I collect old radio and TV broadcasts from the time before that happened.

Same here. I traded old broadcasts with people all over the country before Youtube killed the hobby.

[Fred]

I'm going to have to guess that most people that collect baseball cards had to have liked the game at some point unless they're purely in it as a business.

It would just seem a bit odd (arbitrary) to just decide to collect baseball cards for no reason. I can see collectors losing interest in the game and continue to collect but in my mind, there had to be a reason to start collecting in the first place. Who knows, maybe tomorrow I'll wake up and decide it'd be fun to start collecting frog figurines, it'd probably be a lot cheaper.

[Butch7999]

z28jd said it all for us in post #5.
Well, almost all. We woulda gone on for pages about
how much and why we hate every rule change since
the adoption of the DH. And yet we still love the history,
and somehow we still watch and attend and follow...