Evolution of collecting habits (aka "slow Thursday")

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Posted By: ty_cobb

For those of you are wondering who the hell is
'ty_cobb'? I've been a board contributor since
it was formerly hosted on Full Count baseball cards,
and being a bit of a dinosaur have never changed the
name I post under.
My name is Dan Koochin and I grew up in a semi-pro
sports household. First cards I remember having are
1970 O-Pee-Chee hockey, wifey bought me the Bobby
Orr for my birthday a few years back, its one of the
first cards I owned. I was hooked, I had most of the
1970,1971, and 72 baseball sets as a youngster. Dad
had won the hockey Memorial Cup with the Edmonton
Oil Kings in 1963, played exhibition against Toronto's
Johhny Bower that summer, and played in Canada's first
Winter Games in Montreal (I think 67'). Red Wings camp
didn't work out and we moved to Europe, he won the
championship with Italy in '73. We spent several years
travelling through Europe, in 74 we crossed Africa
overland from Cairo to Cape Town. I returned to Vancouver in 1976 and promptly rebuilt my old 70s baseball sets. In 1979 I came across a publication called the Trader Speaks and purchased 3 Ty Cobbs from
an ad in the back. I was hooked on T206 and by 1983 had
acquired about 150+ players. In the 80s I sold my collection. Around 1995 I became interested in home
computers and it made things a heck of a lot easier to acquire cards with the internet. By 1998 I was on Ebay
and decided I wanted to try the T206 set again by rare back variations. Many of the old Full Count baseball
card board members were of tremendous help both in
acquiring cards, and with sharing their knowledge.
I couldn't have done it without you guys. (You know
who you are).
This year has been the most dramatic change for me
in collecting habits, I've started 1900s Military
cards as well. Have N224s, T79s, T80s (including
rare Uzits packaged with the T206s),Breisch Williams,
and Zira.
My card website is at
http://members@shaw.ca/bluemanitou/

and for the hockey fans like Jeff O. I'm
building the Edmonton Oil Kings site at
http://oilkingchampions.tripod.com/cup.htm