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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
I mean: you buy cards, you put them away. Wow. End of hobby! As Joann would quip: lololol. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Dan Bretta
My collection helps me further my education of the game of baseball. I know what interests me, but sometimes when I pick up a new item and start the research it takes me in a whole new direction and I like that. I would bet most people here enjoy the research as much as the cards otherwise they'd be on the beckett boards discussing the latest insert cards. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: David Vargha
It keeps me from being out in the general public. Many people are thankful for that. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Eric B
You can say the same things about art, music, sports, Sitcom television, etc. What's your point? We should all become Amish??? |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
Amish? Is that bad? |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Richard
There are times where I think along these same lines and wonder what the 'point' to this hobby is. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Brian C Daniels
to tease Koteles who sold me a chunk of his collection ( I still have ) |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: anthony
just how dumb they really are when they say "oh, you collect baseball cards? how immature"... i explain to them that my collection is worth more than their BMW SUV, i watch their jaw drop, then i tell them to go piss up a rope, but thats not everyone i come across. most of the time i'll pull out my star/hofer players and think of what it would of been like to see these guys play. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I have never had a single person tell me they thought my collecting cards (and memorabilia) was dumb or immature...yet I hear people say stuff like that all the time here. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Eric B
No, the Amish aren't bad. My point was that art, music, sports, TV and card collecting all serve no "purpose", like you mentioned. Neither does flower gardening, antique car collecting, painting your house yellow, or wearing clean underwear. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: V117Collector
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Anonymous
Gilbert, don't totally agree, but you do have some good points. I would love to collect vintage cars, vintage to me would be 1950's and 1960's, you can at least drive them. A few problems, I can't afford them and I hate working on cars. I do go through periods where I wonder what I am doing. I have had 100's of vintage bobbers, sold them, had complete sets 1967 through 1996, sold them, had unusual memorabilia, sold that too. Right now I'm wondering should I sell my Old Judge cards and buy some more Cobbs. Also have some comic books. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: anthony
where do you live??? i live just outside of los angeles (with over 180 countries represented) and i can honestly say that i've been told that more times that i can remember, including by my stupid x wife, who thought i was an idiot for wanting to buy a NM 1952 mickey mantle at $6000 back in '88 at the "boardwalk and baseball" in florida....when i showed her the paper one day that had the same card go in auction for $50k she almost sh*t her pants! since that day she didnt complain much about me buying baseball cards, now she just complains about everything. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: nbrazil
this is essentially asking why do we collect baseball cards. and the answers vary as much as the number of collectors that are a part of this board. from a practical standpoint...yes...they dont do "anything." But, as a poster states above...neither does most forms of art (he includes other things like sports, but i wouldnt put them in this category since they CAN provide something tangible to the individual [such as physical exercise, entertainment, etc]). In art, we find meaning from what we see/hear/touch. The artist has his own meaning embedded in his piece...but, in the end, it's our own interpretation that counts. the same goes for baseball cards. some people do it (or has some motivation in it) for investment purposes (which seems to be the motive of the poster who mentions the increase in the 52 topps mantle). Some do it to hold onto memories of the past. the list of reasons can go on and on. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Anthony, I live in Nebraska.....People are a lot nicer here than in LA I guess. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: John_B_California
Life is way too short to be worrying about what everyone else thinks. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Sean Coe
Why does a hobby have to do anything other than give satisfication to the participants? I have never met anyone who thought my hobby was dumb or immature, but if they did I wouldn't care. Half of the fun is being able to relax with my collection and become a kid again, at least for a moment or two. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Gilbert Maines
A long time ago, when I first started buying cards in packs, I found a book which had the yearly statistics of old ballplayers. Although my friends seemd to have no interest in those guys, I was fascinated by the stats. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: bob donaldson
Well it's a hobby, it doesn't necessarily have to do or accomplish anything besides give me a smile, help me appreciate the game I love or bring back favorite childhood memories. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: warshawlaw
The process of collecting relaxes me. I find thinking about cards, looking through them, going to shows, etc., to be a great stress reliever. That's worth whatever I spend in and of itself. Doesn't hurt that the ROI beats anything else I've had... |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Bill Stone
Other than the pure joy of the cards themselves I like to think that the hobby has enabled me to enjoy so many other things about baseball --for instance I bet our community of collectors get much more out of watching Ken Burn's Baseball documentary or Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars not to mention Eight Men Out and Field of Dreams !! than other movie fans. The hobby also contributes so much to understanding the historical influence of baseball in the American culture. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: steve f
We took our vintage collection to a retirement home for a casual card show. Believe it, our collections WILL do something and very powerful I might add. Call the Rec Dir of your local nursing home and set one up, they'll be thrilled to have you and you'll get a chuckle out of it as well, I promise. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)
Gil, |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Alan
My collection concentrates on Jewish sports history !!! |
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Posted By: Bob
Well, it keeps me off the streets and out of bars for starters Seriously as I collect more and more players, I find that I am more interested in finding out something about them and I have started to read for pleasure again, as opposed to listening to books on tape (lazy) or the stuff I do at work. Also, there is the opportunity to meet new people and interact with them through emails, forums and shows (in person). 99% are good guys (or gals although I have never met a female collector). Finally, there is the investment end of it, the dreaded "I" word. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: davidcycleback
The traditional reason to have a hobby is to have something to do to fill the time or relieve the stress, away from the stress of work or whatever. If a hobby doesn't have a serious purpose beyond enjoyment and relaxation, that can be it's purpose. |
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Posted By: Brett
Well, I can understand why people put their baseball cards in safes, but when you think about it, you have spent thousands of dollars just to have the cards in a safe 90% of the time. Whats the joy in that ? Thats just like buying a brand new Ferrari. Whats the use of owning one if its going to be in the garage 90% of the time right ? |
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Posted By: Chad
Like most Americans and especially Americans who grew up poor, I have an affinity for the underdogs which is why I collect Negro league players. In a way, I think collecting the cards of great, but forgotten players like Johnny Davis and Oscar Levis and Esteban Montalvo and Lefty Lamarque and Terris McDuffie and Nip Winters keeps the memory of them alive. These guys weren't hall of fame caliber, but they would have been multiple all stars if they'd played in the majors adn they don't deserve to be forgotten just because of the color of their skin. An offshoot of this is that I like to collect cards of early Japanese baseball, obscure minor league teams, Venezuelan cards and Federal League cards. The more forgotten and marginalized the more they fascinate me. In a way, I think we use cards to recreate the time and place of the beaseball and era the cards represent. That's the fun of it for me, at least. The one set of cards that doesn't exist that I really, really wish did exist, would be a set of cards from the team the Dominican dictator Trujillo put together to win the Dominican baseball championship and help keep himself in power. Still, sometimes, I think I should be using this money to use for my other passion--SCUBA diving. It's tough sometimes. |
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Posted By: davidcycleback
Chad, your point is good. Many early players, and perhaps even teams, would be long forgotten if it wasn't for card and memorabilia collectors. Collecting encourages interest in details of the past that would otherwise be forgotten. At the least, collecting heightens the interest and appreceation of the history. |
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Your hobby doesn't do anything.
Posted By: Geno
I don't get it - doesn't anybody else put their cards around the table, play poker, and drink beer with them? I'm in the middle of a great game with Barney Pelty, Zach Wheat, and Elroy Face as we speak. You have to watch Face, he sometimes cheats a bit on the ante. After that, we are going down to the pub - the guys in SGC/PSA slabs sit under my pint and let me know when I need another one...if I take Don Mossi with me, I always get the better chick of the two... |
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Posted By: Frank Evanov
My hobby does tons of things for me. It relaxes me after a tough day at work. It excites me to find something that I've been seeking for a long time. It challenges me to hunt down that missing card. It entices me to read about the people on the cards and how they lived. It enrichens me both in a literal and a figurative sense. It mystifies me as to when or where a card was issued. It introduces me to people whom I've never met, but now consider friends. I'd tell you more, but I'm too busy with my hobby! |
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