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Stone193
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My hobby is collecting things...
It's a blend of:
1. intellectual curiosity
2. the desire to acquire
3. the need to catalog and organize things - since I have no control over the chaos in the surrounding world
4. perhaps looking for immortality thru passing my collection to my son?
5. and a certain amount of just plain ole wanting to "show off"
Things are getting a bit askew here - I would like us to celebrate our hobby and remember children do this innately.
IT WAS ADULTS WHO INTRODUCED THE PRICE GUIDE TO THEM! - thus, corrupting (perhaps) for life what this picutre represents to me.
Let's - at least - try to win back this spirit.
mike
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joe
I have always said that collecting is just to remind me of a time when things were much easier!!!!
No jobs, taxes, house payments, bills, ect........
Just wanting to be like the guys on cards!!!!!
Good call Stone193!!!!!!!!!
Good times I remember...
I've wondered, why do people collect so much? Why spend so much time on something...especially collecting little pieces of cardboard? Is there a method to the madness?
Cards created a big sense of wonder for me in the 80's.
I'd buy modern packs with my friends for 50 cents at the local liquor store. Then I'd get one of those hygrade price guides and dream about a 53 Topps Willie Mays or a 33 Goudey Babe Ruth.
I loved the variety and depth of the market. From t206 to modern cards.
Any grade.
Any sets you want...team sets, player sets, big sets.
You can trade.
You can watch your cards go up and down (unfortunately, mostly down!)
Then the business aspect, the math. And thus, an obsession
<< <i>I've been collecting forever it seems like.
I've wondered, why do people collect so much? Why spend so much time on something...especially collecting little pieces of cardboard? Is there a method to the madness?
Cards created a big sense of wonder for me in the 80's. >>
"Rosebud...."
That's why we collect, usually.
Some are tough with limited production, this is both. What happens when these are all 10's?
<< <i>Good call once again and jmbkb4 and Very nice on your refractors! Some sets are tough because of the $$$
Some are tough with limited production, this is both. What happens when these are all 10's? >>
What happens is that I say "good job" to the members on the registry ahead of me. I have about $5/card + grading fees in well over 95% of my PSA 10s. These cards could go the way of Brien Taylor and I still couldn't lose money on them (if I were to sell).
These aren't for sale anyways, so it's a moot point. My 2 completed sets are for my son.
Which brings us back to stone's original topic.... carry on .....
Also, I notice the boys in your photo are trading 1963's; hope their moms didn't dump them if you get my drift.
Dimes: 54S, 53P, 50P, 49S, 45D+S, 44S, 43D, 41S, 40D+S, 39D+S, 38D+S, 37D+S, 36S, 35D+S, all 16-34's
Quarters: 52S, 47S, 46S, 40S, 39S, 38S, 37D+S, 36D+S, 35D, 34D, 32D+S
74 Topps: 37,38,46,47,48,138,151,193,210,214,223,241,256,264,268,277,289,316,435,552,570,577,592,602,610,654,655
1997 Finest silver: 115, 135, 139, 145, 310
1995 Ultra Gold Medallion Sets: Golden Prospects, HR Kings, On-Base Leaders, Power Plus, RBI Kings, Rising Stars
that enjoy the same things that I do. Collecting raw brings back our childhood memories
of days gone by. Of youth recaptured and gone again.
Mike, Remember my post "That's when I remember why I collect again?"
Great pic, Joe
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
My cousin Jason and I would set all our cards up, EXACTLY like that, on my grandparents bed when we'd have family get-togethers at their house. Then we'd trade
It was alway fun. Then we'd run over to the 7-11 and buy packs of 1989 Upper Deck. I remember one time the guy at 7-11 gave me the whole box for the price of one pack - I was beside myself when it happened and I just took them. I don't think I understood the wrong of it at the time. Anyways, I still owe my cousin a Gregg Jeffries 1989 Donruss Rated Rookie
Anyone got one? He'd fall over laughing if I sent it to him now LOL!
Thanks for the picture and the memory - good start to what is going to be a long day!
Bill
"Old Days
Good times I remeber
Fun days
Filled with simple pleasure
Drive-in movies
Comic books and blue jeans
Howdy Doody
Baseball cards and birthdays
Please take me back
To a world gone away
Memories
Seem like yesterday"
<< <i>Chicago had is right:
"Old Days
Good times I remeber
Fun days
Filled with simple pleasure
Drive-in movies
Comic books and blue jeans
Howdy Doody
Baseball cards and birthdays
Please take me back
To a world gone away
Memories
Seem like yesterday" >>
Great song!!
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Cards are for kids, but us big kids enjoy them as well.
Sweet Morsels Toffee and Chocolates
great pic
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
You should have seen me explaining to him that a 92 Bowman card was really Manny Ramirez. He has only known the Manny with the dreadlocks, not a clean cut 20 year old. He picks up the card and states "Manny was really, really young". As far as book value goes, who cares, he certainly doesn't, every card he owns that was in a top loader has been taken out and played with. The innocence is great. What he doesn't realize is that his reading is getting better when he looks at the cards.
The only scary part is that when I get a new game worn jersey in he sits on the bed looking at it with me, saying "mark here, mark here, ohh a nice hole here, and a couple burns". Great, a 7 year old who appreciates wear and holes in a jersey!
He has trouble with simple addition, yet he knows which Red Sox have been Sea Dogs and Spinners in the past. Talk about messed up priorities, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
The other night when I interviewed over the phone with that guy that's been on here wanting to talking to people, he asked me a question. He asked what my family thought about me collecting. I told him my wife was super understanding and supportive. But, what's really sad, the person who got me into collecting, my dad, has no understanding. He used to collect all the stars in the 50's and 60's. He also collected comic books. Now anytime I find an awesome card, his question is, "When are you selling it and how much do you think you'll get?"
It's really sad. Some of the greatest cards I own aren't worth a dime, but I like them. I really wish more kids were into the hobby these days. I don't know what it will take, but I'm willing to help.
I would strongly encourage folks to do some trading and raw set building, it's a lot more fun the simply collecting plastic. (which has it's place, but be honest, its not nearly as fun as HOLDING the cards in your hand.
-Claude
Sentiments shared here really apply to my collecting of publications. When I share with friends/patients old programs and magazines, we enter a time machine. One who had a tryout with the Dodgers after the war (Korean..LOL) two cute 80 year old women told me about the minor league games they went to in 40's... countless stories of card collections that were thrown out, games watched on TV etc.
Discussing baseball cards and memorabilia is really america's official language, it crosses all age, socio economic , racial et al boundaries.
<< <i>Mike- nice picture. For a few months now I have been asking people for extra basketball cards that they do not need or want. My sister is a teacher in downtown Cincinnati and she uses the cards as an incentive to get the munchkins to do better in school. Last fall she gave the kids that worked hard to improve the best cards, one kid got a PSA8 Kobe rookie-he had no clue what the "book" value was, he did not care. Another kid got a game used card of his favorite player and he cried! That freaked me out. A common game used card (to me) was this kids treasure. I do not like basketball myself but I am glad that me and my friends- you all......have made this mission of mine possible. Mike >>
It's funny that you mentioned this as I just posted a topic on the buy/sell/trade section of this message board asking people for cards for the exact same purpose. It's amazing how much a little kid treasures a fifty cent base card of someone like Tom Brady or Steve McNair. If anyone reading this has any modern cards from the last 2-3 years please PM me and let me know how much you want for them as they will be for 2nd graders. Commons, stars, anything neat or basic is welcome. The hobby is important and book value should not always matter, just the look on a little boy's face when he gets a Tony Romo card for doing good on his work reminds me of how I was when I pulled a Charles Barkley card from the penny stack at a card shop - I still have the card and it still brings back the memory.
- Joe
She took them over to their house after Christmas, and said the little fellow put his new video game away just to play with the cards, and Mom said she thought he would cry when she gave him the Mantle card.
That's what it's all about!
Bob...
I think I see an 89 fleer, but that's me.
Great pic!
<< <i>Can anyone make out what year those cards are on the bed?
I think I see an 89 fleer, but that's me.
Great pic! >>
Looks like '63 Topps to me.
Stone, c'mon back!! If Axtell can do it 67246842764279421684287 times you can do it once!!
<< <i>My wife is always asking why I spend so much time reading this message board or searching ebay for cards. Now I can show her why. >>
yes, show here ms green sneakers
Robert
Remembering what grade I was in , who I was hanging around with , what kind of trouble I was getting into , How I was gonna get out of goin to school so I could flip for cards or colors and take all Bobby's Yankees .
Now that I have given 90 % of my collection to my son I really still haven't lost any of the interest , I have just as much fun ripping with him , watching his excitment when he gets a really great pull or seaching the memorabilia shops for that special autograph or card .
If cards are for kids , then it's a kid I will be forever .
" Well, we got crapped on again dad "
" Time to get some more boxes "
And can't forget about my wife , she is an animal when it comes to buying autographed baseballs . . . .she's got the worst addiction I have ever seen in that respect and I thought I was bad . . .TUH !
just because mike sad a bad word, does that mean he can't EVER come home...?
"Let's - at least - try to win back this spirit."