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I want a happier thread
Posted By: Rich Klein
So let the board (and me) know when you realized you were hooked on collecting -- and if you started with modern cards/memorabilia and moved back -- what was the epiphany that brought you to the pre-war world. |
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Posted By: Bill Stone
Thanks Rich !! I was a collector as a youngster and fortunately some of my 1950 era cards survived. In the 70s I acquired a whole lot of Mothers Cookies cards as well. I began my pre-war collecting as a result of buying a framed group of T-206 and T-210 cards at a flea market. I had never seen the T-210 series before and it started me on my research of the Blue Grass League and eventually collecting the series. |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
I knew very early on that I was a collector. My parents were very big into collecting (Dad: Stamps/antique toys, Mom: Dolls) and they went to estate auctions and sales nearly every weekend when I was growing up. I started collecting cards in the late 70s as a kid with both sports and non-sports cards by buying packs and putting sets together. I gravitated towards vintage when my dad gave me some N172's that he found in a scrapbook. He told me if I was smart I would stop buying up boxes of new cards and go after the vintage cards....well I stopped buying the new stuff, but I also didn't really go after much vintage either as I pretty much stopped collecting when I went to college...it wasn't until I got out of college that I started collecting again attempting the T206 set....I got about 90 cards into that before I sold them off to concentrate on other cards and memorabila. |
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Posted By: Paul
I started collecting cards in ther late 60's when I was a kid, & a huge Mets fan. Collected cards from packs at the store, & chewed up all the gum I could. About 1980 I put all my cards (thousands of them) in a huge box with no lid in our attic, & started concentrating on rock-n-roll & girls While my cards were up there, we had a cat who would climb the ladder into the attic, & hang out there for long stretches of time. Hmmm, wonder what he was using for a litter box? Everyone of my cards were stuck together in one big clump of piss!!! Started again collecting the shiny stuff on & off until the mid 90's when I went to a card show at Los Arcos Mall in Scottsdale. I bought some T206's of Johnson, Tinker, & Cobb. I was amazed how interesting they were compared to the new stuff, & along with my strong passion for the history of the game, I was hooked. |
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Posted By: MikeU
Great thread Rich. |
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Posted By: David
The moment I was hooked was 1989. Gee, what an awesome year to get started. lol I had bought a few packs of cards before then but not much. I had heard about the 89 Fleer Billy Ripken nasty phrase on the end of bat from who knows where. A day or two after I did I was at a local gas station and notice they had packs of 89 Fleer. I bought one pack just to see and there it was. I was hooked from that moment on. I quit collecting a few years after that. Just within the last year I turned to vintage. Was amazed how cheap 90 year old+ cards were compared to modern shiny stuff. Still love that Ripken though. It will always stay in my collection. |
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Posted By: RC
PaulPaulPaul - I forgive you for having a frown face in your post, I think everyone will agree that cat piss will do that to a person! |
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Posted By: Dave F
I started collecting at six years old in 1982. It was all Topps for me...and I'd trade any card for a card of my worthless Braves at the time. The mid 80's was pretty painful as I'd trade Clemens and the likes for Bob Horner's and Bruce Benedicts. I got into pre-war cards about a year and a half ago after a small attempt at the 1952 topps set. |
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Posted By: Jason Carota
I collected as a kid from about 1987-1994'ish. At that time, I collected all modern. I stopped around '94. I have my wife to thank for getting me back into the hobby. A couple of years ago, she booked a series of card shows at the hotel she worked for at the time. When she told me, I decided to check the show out and see how the hobby was. I noticed quite a few changes since I left (game used/autogr/serial numbered cards.) Needless to say, the hobby bug bit me and I was back. |
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Posted By: barry arnold
great thread, Rich. |
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Posted By: Rob
My parents bought me the 1986 topps set when i was around 8 yrs old. I taped many of the cards to my door. |
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Posted By: Mike
I started getting involved with baseball cards when I was about 6. 1960. Virtually every boy I knew had a shoebox full of cards. We traded them, we used them in the spokes, we made up games with them. One game a friend of mine and I made up was, a form of hide and seek I suppose, whereby one of us would hide a card, in my grandfathers garage. ( i was living there then.) If the person looking for the card found it, he could keep it. I am sure there are still a few in there somewhere. I grew up with a very cruel and somewhat psychotic step father who used to like to beat the crap out of me when I was small.( every week) Among other things, but one time when he really wanted to punish me, he took all of my cards and hid them from me. Now that was more than I could handle. talk about hitting where it hurt? he knew just how to hurt me the most. But walking to the store, shooting the breeze on the way there, and on the way back, wow, such fantastic memories. I wish I could go back sometimes. I bought thousands of cards. I still have every one of them. None are graded, and PSA wouldn't give me more than a 2 if I did. They were well loved and played with. I have a 57 or 58 Minnie Minoso with a hole through his face. I will never let that one go. |
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Posted By: Rob L
I started collecting baseball cards in 1970 when my family in San Diego. I was 5 at the time. I remember waiting for the ice cream man and jumping on my bike to pay a quarter for another pack of Topps cards. I seem to recall (but I'm not completely sure), that they came in small boxes and had more than 10 cards at the time. In 1972, my father was transferred to Japan and can remember my excitement when I was able to buy those disco looking Topps cards at the commissary. Back from Japan in 1974, I continued collecting until I started high school. |
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Posted By: Jason L
I was home during the summer break, and Mom came home from the grocery store late one morning (Cubs game hadn't started yet)....We had a split-level home, with the stairs just outside the kitchen door, and to this day, I can vividly remember it was a sunny, hot day already, and I recall her handing me that first pack of 1984 Fleer, saying she saw it at the checkout and thought I might get a kick out of it, since I'd been indoors watching so many ballgames that summer...I sat there on the third step, opening it and going through it while she unpacked the groceries. |
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Posted By: Bruce Babcock
Thank you, Rich. |
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Posted By: Silver King
I was born in 65 and lived in Sacramento. In the 70's the A's were great and I spent a lot of time at the ballpark getting autographs. I witnessed an inside-the-park grand slam which made the Centerfold of SI and when the issue came out I was in the picture up cheering for the opposing runner to score because it was an incredible event. I purchased tons of packs of cards hoping for an A's player in each pack. One day I caught a foul ball hit by Willie McCovey (he played on the A's for 1-year). He signed the ball after the game and I was hooked on everything baseball related. I quit collecting cards in the 80's and have boxes of cards in my attic. One day I find out my great-great-grandfather "Silver King" played ball in the 1880's. For 20 years I thought I could only find him in books. Ebay came around and all of a sudden I realized I might be able to find some of his items. I have a small Silver King collection and now I've expanded to a few other cards and am now trying to figure out a way to explain my obsession with my wife. |
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Posted By: Jason L
It's ok to be obsessed with your wife! That helps in alot of areas. |
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Posted By: Mike Massenzio
I started collecting in the late 80's. Like many others my age I ripped through packs of 1987 Topps and those horrribly designed 1988 Donruss looking for Corey Snyder and Greg Jefferies rookies. Good thing the stories my parents told me about the players from the 1940's - 1950's ignited a passion in me to ditch the new stuff and try to find cards from that era. But also like many other 13 year olds I rarely had the cash to purchase any quality pre-war or early Topps and Bowman issues, but that didnt stop from buying any VG vintage cards that came through the local dealers door. And unlike many others my age the collecting bug was still with me through out high school and college and once I discovered Ebay and my collection took off. The hardest part is keeping a straight face when my friends say that their collection from the late 80's early 90's must be worth thousands by now. |
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Posted By: Bob Pomilla
First started buying/collecting cards in '57. Continued buying through '65, at which point, lost interest. Picked up buying current stuff again in 1997 as I entered my second (third, fourth?) childhood. In 2000, I took the plunge into the world of vintage. The beauty, the history-marvelous! Not too long afterwards, became disgusted with the direction current cards were taking and decide to concentrate on vintage. |
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Posted By: peter chao
A few years back I went to a coin and card show in Santa Clara, CA. I brought a lot of my shiny new stuff to trade in case I found a card I couldn't afford. The show was a dud because there was only one table with any cards on it. |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
When I was a kid bought both the new and old cards. I bought packs at stores and, as I liked Laurel & Hardy, old movies and cards, it was natural to also be interested in the old stuff. |
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Posted By: Dave Williams
I ripped my first pack in 1971, and got a Steve Carlton which I promptly trimmed and put in my wallet in the picture section, as I was a Cardinal fan thanks to Harry Caray. A couple years later a guy who worked with my dad gave me about 200 early 60's cards, including 50 or so Hall of Famers, including Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Banks, and I was hooked. |
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