Dealers (or fellow collectors) who lit the fire

grandslamcardscria · #1 07-12-2009, 10:07 PM

As a kid I started collecting in the early 70's.. The majority of all my purchases was hockey.. I suppose that was all that was left over at the local grocery store in my hometown...
Years had passed and early on in my marriage I literally pulled that shoebox from my parents attic.. Surprisingly enough most of the cards were still rubber banded together and still in amazingly decent shape. This old shoebox got me back into collecting...
Some of my early deals were with Kit Young and Bill Henderson and I was very envious of there inventory... When the internet came to be I was very active on different BBS 's and participated in Teletrade auctions.. I was a huge fan of the early online auctions prior to Ebay.. I remember discovering Rottmans auctions and thought I was in heaven... Man, Id spend $1000's on 50's commons and superstars.. I just couldnt believe the bulk I could buy for so little...
I also remember buying off David Rudd and his list auctions by email.... This is where I got my first taste of some really great pre war material.. Darn him anyways!!!!

Steve D · #2 07-12-2009, 10:26 PM

After getting started through Larry Fritsch and Renata Galasso from 1975-77, I kept going via dealings with card shop owners like Bill Goepner, Nacho Arredondo, J.R. Hewitt and Nelson Katz in San Diego CA, as well as at card shows with guys like Steve Brunner, Will Davis, Bill Heitman, Tony Galovich and Charlie Seaver from L.A., as well as Frank and Vivian Barning.

Steve

camlov2 · #3 07-13-2009, 11:16 PM

For me it was my dad. I remember going out to the baseball card room growing up and being able to go through the drawers and binders of cards that he had collected. When I had to give a speech in Jr. High I decided to do it on the history of cards, it was pretty easy since he had already shared with me enough knowledge to speak for the time allowed. It seems that every time we get together we end up talking about a set or card that I have seen online.

smokeyjoewood · #4 07-14-2009, 02:04 AM

Mr. Schaeffer on Plymouth Rd., a crusty old bugger who sold me all 4 Cobbs for a hundred bucks. I had to mow a lot of lawns to save that kind of dough as a ten year old. Unfortunately he passed away not long after that and his little store closed down.

I worked at a couple of card stores during high school and college, this helped me acquire a lot of vintage material. People would bring in collections all the time and I would get to go through them and cherry pick. Mostly 50's and 60's stuff, but still fun. At one store, "The Old Ball Park"(anyone remember this place?), Chuck Scrivener(former Tiger) was in charge and I used to bust him all the time about his 78 Topps cards. I must have had about 40 of those babies, one in every pack it seemed like.

Mrc32 · #5 07-14-2009, 09:22 AM

Ditto on those who said their Dad.

If Dad didn't have that old Stewarts Department Store box full of cards from his collecting days in the mid 50s, I don't know if I would have ever gotten started.

I miss ya Dad!

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