1952 Topps Baseball

[tonyo]

Personally, I like collecting cards I'm not afraid to hold. Also there is nothing like holding a stack of raw cards and flipping thru them like you did as a kid. Only this time, you can pretend you were a kid in the 50's.

[wolfdogg]

Originally Posted by tonyo

Personally, I like collecting cards I'm not afraid to hold. Also there is nothing like holding a stack of raw cards and flipping thru them like you did as a kid. Only this time, you can pretend you were a kid in the 50's.

True....same with me. When I was working on my '52 set I had them in top loads....they still are. Maybe 5-10 card are graded and I busted out maybe 20-25......Mantle is raw but in a PSA slab that I busted another '52 common out of.....in 4-pocket pages in album by series....

[betafolio2]

Originally Posted by tonyo

Personally, I like collecting cards I'm not afraid to hold. Also there is nothing like holding a stack of raw cards and flipping thru them like you did as a kid. Only this time, you can pretend you were a kid in the 50's.

Tonyo, you really hit the nail on the head for me! Nothing beats glancing at and flipping through a few dozen (or hundreds) of baseball cards while in the process of building or upgrading, say, a late 1970s set. Or opening a fresh pack of 1991 Topps -- yeah, they're kinda worthless, I know, but they're the last Topps cards to be made of REAL, un-plasticoated, dark-stock cardboard, and you can easily push them through your fingers while SIMULTANEOUSLY enjoying the 21-year-old-but-still-sweet bubble gum smell that permeates the cards! Has anyone reading this thread ever noticed how the more recent Topps cards -- take the 2001s as an example -- tend to SERIOUSLY stick together, almost to the point of having to damage their plasticoating to pry them apart, after just a few years in storage? I made that unpleasant discovery among my card boxes last month while organizing some of them. I was opening up a few of the boxes to reminisce, and I couldn't hold any of the '01s in my hand and flip through them like I could when I first opened them. But isn't it funny that you can open a box of, say, 1960s cards that haven't seen the light of day in 20 years and EASILY slide them through your fingers like no time had passed at all. That, to me, is like time travel. Just like Tonyo said, it's like I can pretend I'm a kid again, but in a slightly earlier era.

[wolfdogg]

Originally Posted by betafolio2

Tonyo, you really hit the nail on the head for me! Nothing beats glancing at and flipping through a few dozen (or hundreds) of baseball cards while in the process of building or upgrading, say, a late 1970s set. Or opening a fresh pack of 1991 Topps -- yeah, they're kinda worthless, I know, but they're the last Topps cards to be made of REAL, un-plasticoated, dark-stock cardboard, and you can easily push them through your fingers while SIMULTANEOUSLY enjoying the 21-year-old-but-still-sweet bubble gum smell that permeates the cards! Has anyone reading this thread ever noticed how the more recent Topps cards -- take the 2001s as an example -- tend to SERIOUSLY stick together, almost to the point of having to damage their plasticoating to pry them apart, after just a few years in storage? I made that unpleasant discovery among my card boxes last month while organizing some of them. I was opening up a few of the boxes to reminisce, and I couldn't hold any of the '01s in my hand and flip through them like I could when I first opened them. But isn't it funny that you can open a box of, say, 1960s cards that haven't seen the light of day in 20 years and EASILY slide them through your fingers like no time had passed at all. That, to me, is like time travel. Just like Tonyo said, it's like I can pretend I'm a kid again, but in a slightly earlier era.

We need a "LIKE" button...........

[Volod]

"We need a "LIKE" button..........."
Ah, I prefer the good old keyboard - it's more time-consuming, but gives greater satisfaction. So call me a relic of another era.
Just my view, but holding raw, or even sleeved, cards in your hands is the real essence of collecting. It's what drew most of us to them as kids in the first place. Once they become "objects d'art," or encased in heavy plastic and held in an investment portfolio, they are really something else - belonging to the material realm.