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Well, I guess a few of us could just be "mold spore enthusiasts", too.
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Actually, if elevating himself because he doesn't like graded cards and supposedly doesn't care about the value of his collection gives him joy -- and it clearly does because he posts about his perceived superiority quite often -- then good for him. He's enjoying the hobby in his own way: self-congratulation. It is, however, a slap in the face to the countless number of collectors -- yes, collectors -- who don't fit his narrow definition. |
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I don't really get the point of trying to define what a collector is or should be. We all have different life circumstances and budgets so the things we accumulate are going to be different. If you always dreamed of owning a '52 Mantle, and now you can afford it and justify it, you have to consider the value and leave it in a graded holder.
I'm not going to make this argument because I don't think any of us are more true collectors than anyone else, but the argument could be made that the guy who owns a bunch of high value slabbed cards is "more of a collector" than the guy who has a shoebox full of $5 cards. You could argue the guy with all the big time cards actually loves cards more because he's willing to take the risk involved with spending a larger % of his money than the shoebox guy on cards because he loves them that much. Now, I think what I just wrote is asinine, but so is inferring that the shoebox guy is more of a collector than the slabbed guy. It would be great to focus on what unites us rather than our differences.
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Here's my Woody, which I got back when I was a kid at a local show as my first '34 Goudey. I remember General Alvin Crowder (a pretty darn good stat line for a totally forgotten player) was my first Goudey card from the 1933 set. He's seen some rough days, and unfortunately this one has a normally printed back instead of a blank reverse.
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When it comes to graded, my wheelhouse is "Looks nice for a low grade."
My lane is a bit wider than others because surface is more important to me than centering. While some are out there willing to pay a bit more than the number for great centering, I'm out there trying to pay less than the number because I'll sacrifice on centering for a sharp looking card. I'm not concerned about resell. While I do make occasional upgrades I'm mostly out there looking for a card I don't mind having for the next 20-30-50-whatever years. |
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Love the English cards. There is a great story about his pranks in his SABR bio:
But he also had an impish side: English “was like ‘Peck’s bad boy’ in the grade-school books of the day. He looked innocent but wasn’t. English’s favorite prank was to crawl across the floor of a hotel lobby and sneak up on an unsuspecting businessman reading the newspaper. English would light the bottom of the paper and slip away as the newspaper caught fire.”
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Looks like English is the hobby language spoken on this thread. But if you want to broaden your linguistic horizons, I suggest going after this Woody in the 1934
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How about the guy that goes back to collect all the cards from when he was a kid, to maybe relive his joy when he first discovered baseball. What about the collectors who like cards from the turn of the 20th century and before, in order to appreciate what baseball, and our country, was like back then. Or those who find obscure and under-appreciated corners of the hobby and focus on them, in order to make them better known for the rest of us. There are collectors who focus on their favorite player, or their favorite team. Some goofy guys even focus on error cards. There's a lot of us out there, and the great thing about it is there is a card for every collector. Sent from my SM-S906U using Tapatalk |
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