What Brought You To Collect Vintage?

[markf31]

I was big into collecting baseball cards when I was young, from around age 9 to 15 when I started to migrate to hockey cards. My years in baseball however coincided with the hobby bubble of the late 80s and early 90s and now as we all know, most of the cards I collected as a kid are completely worthless, except for the memories.

I pursued hockey cards for a little before becoming jaded by the mind numbing number of set issues that existed and the subsequent chase cards that followed as well. I stopped collecting for a number of years as I graduated college, got married, bought a house...all those things in life that put a hold on hobbies such as collecting.

I actually bought a box of old books at a garage sale, simply for decorative purposes in my living room, to discover a stack of about 10 1953-54 Parkhurst hockey cards burried in the box in an envelope. This spured me back into collecting.

I'm a history buff and a sports history buff at that, the logical topic of my collection I decided should be what I know and love, sports history aka vintage cards.

[Bicem]

college roommate showed me a t206 red Cobb, I was forever changed.

[ullmandds]

I was a hardcore collector as a kid...50's-present...which was 1977-78 when I first started set collecting. I had most major cards from the late 50's -present...and while at a card show with my dad I was offered a t206 matty white cap beater for $2. I couldn't pass that up...I thought it was sooooo cool...I eventually amassed about 10 vintage cards before I sold the majority of my collection to fund a car in 1987. I got back into card collecting in college with the 90-91 upper decks and after blowing hundreds of dollars on that crap...my love for bb cards was rekindled...and since I didn't want to collect all of the cards I once had and sold off...it was vintage...and only vintage to this day!!!!

[Exhibitman]

A book.

I was baseball crazy around 5th grade and I got a book at a school book fair about the great pitchers, including Johnson, Mathewson and Hubbell among others. I had been collecting postwar Topps cards every year and when I read those stories I decided to get cards from the old timers. First it was the 1972 Kellogg's ATG 3-D cards from Danish-Go-Rounds [don't ask], then the 1973 Topps alltime leaders cards, then The Complete Book of Baseball Cards by Steve Clark, and finally the 1976 Topps Alltime Allstars. I got my first "real" prewar card a year later, a T206 Johnson I have to this day.

[drc]

I started collecting stuff when I was a kid, everything from coins to baseball cards to political stuff to newspapers, and was always interested in vintage stuff. Even in non collecting eras I liked Glenn Miller and Model-A cars (in books, I didn't own one) and Laurel and Hardy films. So even when I was 7, the old had appeal to me. It only made sense that old baseball cards and memorabilia would be of interest.

[ullmandds]

"I was baseball crazy around 5th grade and I got a book at a school book fair about the great pitchers, including Johnson, Mathewson and Hubbell among others. I had been collecting postwar Topps cards every year and when I read those stories I decided to get cards from the old timers. First it was the 1972 Kellogg's ATG 3-D cards from Danish-Go-Rounds [don't ask], then the 1973 Topps alltime leaders cards, then The Complete Book of Baseball Cards by Steve Clark, and finally the 1976 Topps Alltime Allstars. I got my first "real" prewar card a year later, a T206 Johnson I have to this day."

Great point that had slipped my mind!!!! I had those 72' kellogs 3d all time greats too...and I remember being so intrigued by the 73' all time leader cards...AND the 76' sporting life greats cards which I'm sure helped direct me to vintage!!!
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[ethicsprof]

A good friend gave me the baseball cards from her great aunt's estate in
1982. I received some T206s,T210s,T205s, and T203s. After that it was all about vintage.
all the best,
barry

[kmac32]

Great great uncle played center field for the Yankees, found his E121 card and decided to collect a 1921 world series subset all E121 series 120 and series 80