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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Robert
I just thought it would be interesting to tell but I started collecting HOF only cards in 1973 at the age of 11. During the summers I worked for my dad for $50.00 a week. Every Saturday I would take the bus to Santa Monica and Fairfax to ACME cards, owned by Goody Goldfladen (NOT sure of speling) I would go in there and tell him who I wanted Cobb, Ruth whatever and he would come back with a fist full of cards for me to go through, Cobbs where $6.00 and Ruth $35.00. I once asked him for Plank and he said that was at least a $50.00 card. If I only knew then what I know now.. |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Chris Counts
In the spring of 1970, my mom gave me some money and sent me down the street to the corner grocery store to buy some vegetables. I was nine years old. For reasons I can't explain, I spent the money on baseball cards. The packs contained posters and I very distinctly remember the first one had Ollie Brown of the Padres in it and the second one had Willie Davis of the Dodgers. On my way home, my dad drove by on his way home from work and I explained to him what happened. He seemed amused and took me back to the grocery store where he bought my mom some vegetables and he bought me some more baseball cards. |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Robert
Chris, |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: jackgoodman
If you ever made it into his backroom, it was like one of those rooms in which the owner never threw anything away. Boxes upon boxes upon cabinets upon stacks of other stuff. But, if you asked for a 1917 rootie katootie bread card of Willy the mascot, he would grumble as he went into the backroom and then return within minutes with a whole box full of 'em. He was probably the first real card store. Gosh that brings back memories...... |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Julie
is that the Forum has had this topic so many times that some of us are tired of telling our stories! It's nice to read some of the new ones though!~ |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Robert
Julie, |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: jay behrens
Search function. Known it, use it, live it Aside formt he great people of this board, it's the single best feature of this site. If it's been asked before, you can get your answer right away rather than wait for a response. |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Julie
you should participate, and look up stuff on the "search posts," WHY did you think I was telling you not to post stuff! That's the OPPOSITE of what I said! |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Dave Williams
My sister, bless her heart, gave me a pack of 71 Topps she paid for with her hard earned allowance money. I opened it, pulled a Steve Carlton card, promptly took the scissors to it and trimmed it so it would fit in the pictures section of my wallet. |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Glenn
Found a Ruth card in a library book. No idea what book it was, but I've still got the card. 1986 Big League Chew, but still -- Ruth! Dad took me to my first card show at the Holiday Inn a few weeks later. I purchased a 1972 Kellogg's 3D Ty Cobb, a 1986 Fleer League Leaders card of local boy and rookie sensation Will Clark, and one wax pack of 1986 Donruss -- the highlight of which for me was the Pirates' Johnny Ray because he had the highest career batting average. I left the hobby in 1992 when I was no longer able to keep up with the number of different sets being produced and returned in 2002 when my budding interest in ebay and a gift of Astros tickets from my then-girlfriend (now wife) reminded me of how much I enjoyed those first six years. |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Hal Lewis
I know it ain't "vintage"... |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: Dave Williams
I remember calling Renatto in the early 90's when I had this rum dum card shop part time to order something, I don't recall what. |
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How did you get started Collecting
Posted By: MikeB
In 1974 I was 9 years old. I swept the hair off the floor at a local barber shop and filled the coke machine for 25 cents. I could buy 2 packs of cards and a piece of candy at the dry goods shop across the street. In 1992 I went to my first national. I bought my a T202 with Matty, and it has been vintage cards since. |
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