I was eight years old in 1958. I'd have been astonished to know that Casey Stengel was ever young.
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My 8 year old self would be happy I was collecting again after a 30 year absence.

Hey, I like to think that I don't resemble your remark! Leon, can you ban this member? :)

When I was eight years old, the 1963 Topps Mays #300 was my favorite card. Here it is in all its original glory. Carried the card with me everywhere. Still mint.😂

My 8 year old self would say, “ why no Babe Ruth or Gehrig. You’re slacking.”

To which I would reply, “we always liked Mantle, Mays, and Aaron more.”

My 8 year old self would be stoked I still have the 1978 Topps set he put together ALL YEAR as an 8 year old...he would be ticked if I still didn't have it! He would be laughing that I also have a mint set sitting right next to it...he would make fun of that!

He also would be shi^^ing his pants...at 8 I only had access to cards like the Rose and Aaron rookies through a book in the library at school. Owning one seemed the same as owning a yacht back then, just wasn't a reality. He would be STOKED. Heck, he thought the kid that actually had a 1966 Topps common Hector Lopez was a GOD at school...haha

Lil' me would ask big me, "what the heck is a Herpolsheimer?"....and... "what happened to our 1987 Topps Will Clark investment"?

Me from 14 months ago wouldn't believe how my collection has changed (before I joined Net54 and caught the vintage bug).

At 8 years old, I don't think I knew what a baseball card was. At about age 10, my family moved to a nearby town where by the kids in my new neighborhood introduced me to both baseball and baseball cards. I was 11 when I got my first baseball cards - 1955 Topps. By 1956, I was an avid card collector.

8-year-old me would probably wonder why there are barely any 1980s cards in the collection considering many of the 80s magazines, newspapers, & 'investors' said / implied they would be more valuable down the road.

Then I would be asked where did all the old man cards come from.

8 year old would be a little bit impressed but generally dismayed at the lack of "In Action" cards from the early/mid 70s.

Do you have any Pokemon cards? --- Brian Powell

My 8 year old me would probably be most impressed by my 1980 Pepsi Bruce Sutter.

However, my 14 year old self would be blown away as my collection surpassed my wildest dreams and includes so many of the cards I stared at for hours in the Topps book (the one with small color photos of every Topps card that my parents bought my brother and me for Christmas). He would be most impressed by my Ernie banks rookie and be very frustrated that he couldn't look at it out of its PSA prison.

Hmmph Ty Cobb?! Wait! He was never on the Phillies?! What gives.

Actually I really don't understand how my eight year old self could be anything but knocked out by my present day collection. The cards I admired in the schoolyard as an eight year old and then ended up collecting in 1960 are now at the core of my present day collection! These were the cards that enchanted me then - and still do now:


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I collect the same and similar cards these days to recapture the wonder and magic I felt holding and looking at them as an eight year old! The cards are a direct mental connection to my eight year old self. That's what collecting is all about for me.

But because I have so many more of these 1960 cards, my eight year old self would be enthralled by my present day collection. Granted my younger self would wonder what possessed me to save the wrappers.

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+1 They seem to be all the rage now.

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1) Where is my 1980 Steve Garvey? Why isn't it in 'the' box? Wait, Garvey didn't make the HOF??
2) You are telling me that our creepy neighbor that was giving out '79/80 Hockey wax packs for Halloween that had a card worth how much?
3) The most valuable 1980 card is Rickey Henderson? Who?
4) Who the F@%K is Billy Ripken?