OT: Topps is at it again........B18 Blankets

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

okay, kind of off topic but these are actually pretty cool if you collect B18's..........

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Posted By: James Feagin

Old news Tom, those have been out almost a year This year Topps is doing Allen and Ginter! blech

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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

I think stuff like this is awesome, because it introduces young collectors to prewar cards.

-Al

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Posted By: jay behrens

They came in the Topps Turkey Red cards.

Jay

I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home, I would be arrested. So, I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Al, I agree, but I think it's falling on deaf ears. The only way young kids will ever get into the history of the game, in my opinion, is from their fathers and elders introducing them to it.

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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

Jeff, I also think it works the other way - it reintroduces vintage collectors to modern stuff.

Lots of vintage collectors are into the Heritage stuff. I love the little cards that Helmar Brewing produces. And I'll probably try and build a set of those B-18s, because I think they're really cool-looking.

Granted, it won't turn me into a collector of shiny stuff, but one thing I miss about the hobby is the job of opening packs of cards myself, and seeing what's inside.

-Al

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Posted By: Daniel Bretta

Good point Jeff. I was a Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire collecting fool until my dad gave me 3 Old Judge cards including a Dan Brouthers. When I looked in the price guide I noticed that it said Brouthers was a Hall of Famer...My dad convinced me to stop buying caseloads of 86 Topps/fleer/donruss and said I should be looking into older cards. I started reading everything I could about the history of the game and I was hooked....I traded all of my Mark McGwire olympic rookie cards to the local card shop for Ernie Banks, Frank Robinson, Al Kaline, and Reggie Jackson's rookie cards...and from there I've never looked back. I still buy a Topps factory set every year, but that's the only new cards I buy any more.

I was able to hook my college roommate on 19th century baseball by playing stratomatic games with players like Hoss Radbourn, et cetera, but he never got into colleting cards.

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Posted By: Jeff Prillaman

The kids love learning about the old stuff if you present it right. I spent last Wednesday in an afterschool program showing a group of third graders a ppt I threw together quickly talking about the history of the game and the history of cards. After the presentation we played jeopardy where the questions were almost all vintage questions. Then I gave the kids cards of the guys we had just talked about - Ty Cobb, jackie Robinson, Hank Aaron, Ruth Dimaggio, etc --

They were into the history and excited about the prizes and the game. It would be nice if Topps put together a 20-30 minute DVD presentation or something professional looking that could be used in history classes.