Why we love the hobby

[orly57]

Every time I go on to N54 lately I feel so much negativity about the hobby. I post as much as anyone, so I am by no means pointing fingers here. I thought it may be nice for us to post our favorite card from our childhood so we can remember what we love about collecting. Mine is a tie, and certainly not pre-war, but they did inevitably lead me to pre-war baseball:

[rdixon1208]

I loved the Bo Jackson bat on shoulder card too, but Dave Justice was the man!

[yanksfan09]

My first real favorite card was this one... I traded my brother a Nintendo After Burner game for it! He originally won it in a "chance" raffle envolope for $1 at our old local card shop!

Later on after 1996 my favorite card probably became my 1993 SP Jeter rookie that I forgot I had sitting in a box of "commons" before Jeters rookie season.

Thankfully the Jeter survived decently and is now an SGC 7. I still have the Jeter and the McGwire (raw).

[cardswin53]

I pulled a Stan Musial in one of the first packs I can remember buying as an eight year old in 1961. Still one of my favorite cards. It started me on my goal of collecting all of the St. Louis Cardinals cards from that year. I turned 64 on Saturday and am still collecting Cardinals cards and memorabilia. Musial 1961.jpg

[orly57]

David Justice, Ben McDonald, junior Felix, John olerud, and all the guys whose rookies were supposed to pay for my retirement! Justice's DecK High numbers was the Bell of the Ball in 1990.
Erick, I love the Nintendo reference, trading with your brother, and remembering the ancient local card shop. That is our childhood condensed in one post. Just missing a garbage pail kids reference.
I love that the Musial card led to a lifetime of a focused collection too.

[71buc]

These two for me

[BruceinGa]

Originally Posted by cardswin53

I pulled a Stan Musial in one of the first packs I can remember buying as an eight year old in 1961. Still one of my favorite cards. It started me on my goal of collecting all of the St. Louis Cardinals cards from that year. I turned 64 on Saturday and am still collecting Cardinals cards and memorabilia. Attachment 262644

I also was introduced to baseball cards in 1961. I loved the Yankees and Tigers but I wasn't a collector. I had plenty but we would flip them most of the time. After about three years I gave away all that I had.

[BeanTown]

Originally Posted by rdixon1208

I loved the Bo Jackson bat on shoulder card too, but Dave Justice was the man!

I met David Justice in a night club in Buckhead during the Atlanta 96 Olympics. He was just going through his divorce with Halley Berry (If he only knew the future). He and Charles Barkley were both at the club and we all talked sports for a good hour. Both guys were fun to be with. As a spin to my story was in my future was the girl that Halley Berry beat to win Miss Ohio. I ended up with the runner up.. lol. I'll take it!

[Joshwesley]

As a kid the grail for me was the 90 lead frank Thomas.

Finally got one in about 1994 and paid an arm and a leg for it. Still have it at my home office in a screw down case!

Always wanted the 1991 SP Michael Jordan... never could pull one.
I went through an entire wax box once and struck out

Got out of collecting from 1995-2015 when I stumbled on this site by mistake....

Instantly, I've been hooked...started with pre-war, but I'm getting a GM-10 Sp Jordan from eBay this week! Spent a good $15.00 on it 😂😎

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

My brother was in having his tonsils out in 1981, I bought him 3 rak packs of topps. for the longest time we managed to hold onto a few of the original cards from those packs through assorted purges, moves etc... finally lost the last one a couple moves ago and it breaks my heart.

If you ever find a heavily worn 1981 Topps George Brett with "AP" written on the back in black crayon, I'd probably buy it from you!

I do still have my original "directed" collection. In about 1982 I decided I wanted every Steve Garvey card. Then he went to the Padres, but in that short window I did acquire quite a few for a preteen on a budget.

[glynparson]

it is because i love baseball, i love spending time with friends, i love traveling around to shows and other venues searching for treasures, but most of all i love all the time i have spent with my dad collecting. As for which cards got me into it I guess 1958 mantle all star, 1969 Bench, 1963 Rose, 1964 Stargell are all cards i remember being fond of when i started collecting in 1979/80.

[orly57]

The Tong's Chinese Restaurant reference made me laugh out loud. Rumors abounded through Milam Elementary that an un identified Tom Thumb Convenience Store still had a box, but it proved to be a myth. It was more elusive than the Ark of the Covenant.

[glchen]

When I was 11 years old, I saw this card at a card shop at a mall in the city that we went to occasionally. I was able to save enough money to purchase it, and it was the only card of my youth that I ever had in a top loader. When I got back into collecting around 7 years ago, I was able to unearth it, and got it holdered for protection.

[orly57]

Mattingly rookies are often credited for the 80's card explosion. That donruss was one of the wet-dream cards of our youth.

[Joshwesley]

Mattingly donruss
Conseco 86 donruss
McGwire USA card
Griffey UD
Frank Thomas 90 leaf

Those were the baseball cards I remember the most from the crazy era of cards

[Grammont]

'88 Score... was fun having a new card company then when i was a kid... soon after that you knew they were garbage. Upper Deck changed the game right after that


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[Buythatcard]

When I was a kid, I was a huge Roger Maris fan. Collected all his cards and pasted newspaper clippings of him all over my wall.

My favorite card was the 61 Topps.