In a baseball card coma (1982 - 1988)

[1963Topps Set]

In 1982, after a decade of avidly collecting baseball cards with a passion, I suddenly stopped. I was warned not to, but I was burned out. Plus I had just graduated High School, getting ready for college and a lot of other changes going on. The big thing was the 1981 baseball strike, this left a real sour taste in me.

In 1984, I actually started watching baseball again with the exciting Dwight Gooden and the Mets. During this time, a co-worker of my father's offered to buy my baseball card collection, me, not realizing what was going on, still refused. A guy on my bowling team bought a Tom Seaver rookie for his son for $90.00. I said "You paid $90.00 for a baseball card!"

In the spring of 1989, from out of no where, I got the baseball card bug again. I don't know why, I had not even looked at my cards since I stopped. I dug out my old cards, went through them and expected to pick up right where I left off in 1982. BOY, was I in for a huge surprise!!

[thecomebacker]

My sportcards coma was from 1992 to 2012.
Baseball from 1992 to 2019.
But I am BACK!

[seanofjapan]

My baseball card coma began in 1993 and when I came out of it around 2011 or so I found myself living in Japan, so I started collecting Japanese cards instead.

Weird how life works out.

[rats60]

My coma was only from 1981-1984. My brother woke me up when at college he found a baseball card shop and the owner was looking for Reds cards. He told him he would pay 20.00 for Bench Rcs. That was a mammoth sum at the time and my brother had 12 of them. The cards that we enjoyed collecting were now worth money.

[Peter_Spaeth]

1974 (end of HS) to 1991 (not sure what possessed me to buy a wax box off the drug store shelf, and it was all downhill from there).

[GasHouseGang]

My baseball card coma was from around 1990 to 2006. I had decided I was done when it became too overwhelming to collect everything issued by the major manufacturers in a year. There was just too much production. I kept what I had, but didn't add anything. I finally got back into active collecting when a friend talked me into going to the 2006 National Convention in Anaheim. That got my juices flowing again, but I stayed away from the new stuff and began collecting vintage.

[bnorth]

I had 2 myself, one from around 93 to 96 and one from around 02 to 05. Even during those periods I would still buy the occasional box of new cards if it was on sale.

[Mike D.]

For me it was the college years...1994 to 1998. I've had a few mini-comas since then...and also a number of "collecting goal resets".

[mrmopar]

My coma was about 1989-1993. I awoke to a different card world and it sucked me in hard.

[jchcollins]

Collected as a child starting at age 9 in 1986. My first coma was from about 1994 when I was in high school, until '99 when I got out of college. But I had found eBay as a senior in college, and that ignited something within me again - and I got back into it for a few more years until I went back to grad school in 2003. This sucked all of my time and energy for 2 years, and then we started a family and I forgot about cards entirely. Did not really get back into it this time around until 2015.

[chalupacollects]

My coma - 1990 - 1999... too many options, stuck to finding vintage here and there...

[tonyo]

1996-2009 coma coincided with the birth and first 13 years of my first daughter.

pre 1996, strictly bought the current issues of all sports, no vintage, pre-war etc....

post 2009, for some reason bought a blaster of u.d. goudey at target, and the ball slowly started rolling again. Decided to collect the set.

I discovered 33 goudeys while searching for 2009 goudeys on-line, bought a Travis Jackson, loved the feel and look, decided to pick up a few more lower cost 33G HOFers. Happened across Net54 about that time and caught the pre-war bug big time.


Hard to believe I've been visiting this fine chat board for 10 years

[Econteachert205]

Coma from about 1993-2012. No regrets.