How Did Everyone Get Started Collecting Vintage Cards

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Posted By: John

i started collecting cards when i was in kindegarten and a kid brought in a bag of cards and gave me a few of them,then i started buying packs with my allowance,and i got cards from early 70's thinking those were old cards! my father bought me a calendar of baseball cards organized by decades,and thats when i first saw old judge,t206 etc cards,and i always wanted(and still do to this day) the buck ewing with mascot old judge card...when i was 14 i saw a t206 for sale went home to get money,rode my bike back and the card was sold! and i never saw another for sale till i was 16.I went to cooperstown with my father and grandfather and we went to larry fritsch's card museum,and he had a T206 bresnahan,portrait in good condition for $40,i had to have it....so since then ive been collecting t206's,old judges and type cards from most other vintage sets....someday ill get the ewing/mascot card that i wanted so bad 15 years ago