WHY do you collect WHAT you collect?

Bicem

Why did you choose the cards that you are most actively pursuing? Is it a favorite player/team? Favorite set design or year? Cards you think will go up in value? Cards you grew up with?

I'm sure this has been discussed before - but I'm relatively new to the boards. For me, it's the 1911 T3 Turkey Reds. I'm fascinated with baseball from that era and love the beauty and display quality of the T3's.

mikeschmidt

That Mathewson is a card of beauty.

RonBurgundy

1957 Topps cards are the most beautiful Topps cards of the modern era.



Stay classy,


Ron

thekobeshow

I don't collect baseball, but I think his question is why we collect what we collect right?

We'll I collect what I collect for pure love and the fact that i'm selfish. Instead of buying food sometimes or clothes or pay bills ontime I buy sports memorabilia. I like to spend my money on things that I can see or I feel like it's wasted money. Some would tell you that they careless about value, but I just like to buy things that I feel my money will stay there in the case that when I eventually die, my family or whoever could turnaround and sell it or burn it or bury it with me.

Sometimes I look at stuff I buy and say man, I could of went out to red robin and spent 30$ on a plate of food for 4 people tonight or whatever runs through your mind. I think it's a selfish hobby in only which the buyer feels somewhat good for buying what they did, but all in all at the end of the day....collecting doesn't make me feel good it makes feel distant from others, but I can't stop collecting. It's who i'am and I respect anybody who works hard, pays bills, the rent, and still buys whatever it is they collect.

That's a true collector.

julen23

1984 donruss are mirror images of 1957's, minus teal backs, but they are really beautiful cards though.

Julen

1977topps

I am working on a set of 2000 Topps Gallery Players Private Issue baseball. I bought a few boxes in 2000, and got an Aaron Rowand PPI. This was one of my first serial numbered cards, so I thought it was kind of cool. I bought a few more boxes, found a few more PPI's, and decided to put a set together. Since there are only 250 of each card, there is a rarity factor that I like, but as you can imagine, this makes finding them hard. I now have 100 of the 150, 32 are graded of which I have 14 10's. Last year I started a registry set, and so far am the only one.

TripleCrown

I casually collect various years of cards from 1909 through about 1985. I have a special love for cards ranging in between 1955 and 1969, as I was born in 1962 and all my baseball heroes are from in and around that time period. Anything after 1985 and before 1995 is just crap to me. Anything after that became too over-diversified and too insert oriented for my liking. But you're talking about someone from a time when you used to bust open packs of Topps baseball cards and then you'd carry them around in your pocket like a badge of honor. It wasn't about investment value, or sets, or population reports, it was because you loved baseball and loved having your favorite players on cards
Nowadays' I collect my heroes from "the days" mostly, having lost all my childhood cards. There is a value attached to many of those names I have like Mantle, Mays, Aaron etc.., which doesn't hurt from an "investment" standpoint. But most of my cards are ungraded, which stills allows me to (carefully) from time to time hold the actual CARD in my hand and "remember when it was a game".

jskirwin

Beats the heck out of me. I don't know why I suddenly picked up the hobby again about 3 years ago.

When I was a kid the only set I ever completed was the '78 baseball. When I picked up the hobby I decided to upgrade it, then focus on baseball sets between 1967-78 - those being the years that my dad was alive and taught me the love of the game. I know when I cross over I'll meet him listening to Jack Buck and Mike Shannon on KMOX as they announce the Cardinals playing in (and winning) Heaven's World Series!

But then there is Pete Rose. There's something about him that I like. A talented man who let his ego go to his head, who then loses it all. I want to see him redeemed - not by baseball, but by his admitting to himself that he screwed up.

Some football stars have crept in - giants of the game like Terry Bradshaw, Staubach and Namath.

Baseball to me is like what the main character in Field of Dreams believes it to be: something special and timeless. I suppose the cards are simply a part of that.

MantleMarisFordBerra

I collect Yankees cards, esp. from the '50s & '60's.As you might be able to guess by my screen name, I am a HUGE Yankees fan. When Iwas a kid, I would hear stories about the legendary Mickey Mantle, and the thought of actually owning one of his cards was a dream to me. I never really liked the modern cards, I liked the what some might call "crude" quality of the older cards. They seem like they were made for kids, not for....well, investment purposes. Now I won't lie, the investment aspect of the cards I collect certianly appeals to me, but I have a true love for the team,players and cards I collect.

Susquehanna

For me, I have tried to refine my collecting habits to 'the cards I've always wanted' - without focusing on condition - and cards that catch my eye - like the 56t Bednarik with him flying at the camera. Sometimes these two interests collide, like the 53B Reese, 71T Munson. I still enjoy the chase, as well as the sense that I am holding on to a piece of my childhood. After all, I can't let the wife win all the battles .

Nick

roastedcat

Actually I've decided to let Garret Morrison (Knuckles) create the whole entire Hall of Fame set for me, starting with vintage and work my way up. This should be interesting. I will post all of his creations when I get them.

Knuckles your creations is the best!!!




















Jery

fiveniner

I collect PSA graded 1959 Topps Baseball 6 or better.I have bought enough 59s to probably build 2 complete sets but have sold all the extras as I upgraded,Now in the last year I decided to build a complete master set with all variations and both grey and cream back varaitions.I am at around 60% as of now.If I count GAI and SGC and BVG near 70 %.
You may guess it.It is by far my most favorite set of all times.Most of my collection is from 1948 to 1961 and a few 70s sets all complete in Raw form

Overrated

I have a 52 topps mantle! there is nothing I rather own! the most awesome card of all time.

Stone193

I enjoy collecting things...

I always have.

I collect "what" looks interesting.

mike