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06-29-2013, 04:40 PM
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Family history. My great great uncle Elmer Miller played in the 1921 World Series for the Yankees. He was literally the first Yankee to get a hit in a World Series and was the first Yankee to score a run in a World Series. My main collection are graded E121-80 and E121-120 Yankees and Giants from 1921 and 1922. Team mates of Uncle Elmer are my specialty.
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Favorite MLB quote. " I knew we could find a place to hide you". Lee Smith talking about my catching abilities at Cubs Fantasy camp. 
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06-29-2013, 04:42 PM
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Four phrases I nave coined that sum up today's hobby: No consequences. Stuff trumps all. The flip is the commoodity. Animal Farm grading.
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06-29-2013, 05:43 PM
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I like everything about collecting baseball cards. I have met some (now) very good friends, have managed to flip a couple cards and make a few dollars and love the history of the game though I don't study it enough. Last but not least I like the artwork of the cards themselves. There are other things but those are some of them.... Actually, very good question. We all have our own reasons and none of them are wrong.
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Leon Luckey www.luckeycards.com
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06-29-2013, 07:00 PM
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I will always love baseball cards and they will always hold a special place in my heart. I was born in 1980 and have memories of my dad giving me the only part of his collection he still had a little stack of 1958 And 1961 Topps on a Saturday late afternoon in early summer of 1991 we went thru and looked them up in my Beckett. I will always cherish that memory as will I of taking my paper route money and walking to the card shop with 10-15 dollars and trying to get a Frank Thomas or Ken Griffey Jr. I always loved the history of the game and that is why I will always love vintage the most.
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06-29-2013, 09:20 PM
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06-29-2013, 09:30 PM
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The happiest memories of my childhood were baseball related. If I had to make a top 10 list of my best memories before the age of 18, about 9 of them would be baseball memories. I grew up in a chaotic and troubled household and I would spend many hours alone with my cards; grouping them together, putting them in binders, looking them up on a price guide, and mailing off TTM auto requests. When my friends would come over, we would spend hours trading cards and talking about baseball.
Now that I've graduated from college and started my career, I still feel a certain attachment to the 10 year old version of myself.
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06-29-2013, 11:35 PM
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Of course I love baseball and things that speak of history, and come from a family of collectors, but over the years I have become convinced that another driving factor to my collecting is so that I have a reason to create and devise lists that intrique me...see my two recent E90-1 threads for examples of this compulsive behavior.
Brian
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06-30-2013, 06:59 AM
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Discoveries
I like the idea of discovering new things...I have a few modern discoveries now recognized by PSA and have helped joe O with weeding out some fakes also...
now working on some 100 year old discoveries ....that is why I collect!
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