What Would 8 Year Old You Think About Your Collection Today?

[brian1961]

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

[brad31]

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.

[alaskapaul3]

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

[Balticfox]

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:

























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.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by brian1961

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

+1 They seem to be all the rage now.

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[jp1216]

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?