A Detroit/Michigan sports fan who grew up in Hawaii

[marcmywords]

Hi everyone. I'm Marc and I started collecting in 1979 in Hawaii, where I grew up after moving from Michigan a few years earlier, and collected throughout the 1980s, mostly baseball and some football. I was an early fan of sports history, mostly focused on baseball, and also a stats nerd who read my first Bill James Baseball Abstract when I was 12.

I returned to the hobby in 2022 and have since co-started the YouTube channel Vintage Card Voyage with my friend Ken, attended my first National in 2024, and recently started a weekly newsletter called Drawn to Cards where I write about the hobby, including a collector Q&A where I draw the collector's favorite/grail card, allowing me to revisit another interest I had in the 1980s.

I'm currently trying to collect graded baseball HOF rookie cards, along with a Topps 1970s baseball run and finishing up a mostly raw Al Kaline run, all of which should ideally occupy me for a while. I'm also looking forward to learning a lot more about the world of vintage cards so that I'll eventually feel like I have something to add in these forums.