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How Did Everyone Get Started Collecting Vintage Cards
Posted By: Jay Miller
Most people start collecting cards as a kid. I know I used to go down to the corner candy store and buy my packs and try to put sets together.I never gave much thought of cards from prior years.For me getting into vintage baseball cards came after college, marriage and kids. A friend of mine in Connecticut collected vintage baseball cards and he thought I would like it. In fact, he suggested that I try Old Judge which he had collected for a while and thought was a really interesting set.That is where my addiction started and I was wondering how others reading this got started. |
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How Did Everyone Get Started Collecting Vintage Cards
Posted By: Vognar Julie
In 1979, when my son was 9, he got $5 a week allowance. |
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How Did Everyone Get Started Collecting Vintage Cards
Posted By: Brett Domue
Great topic. Warning! Lengthy response! |
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How Did Everyone Get Started Collecting Vintage Cards
Posted By: Kevin Cummings
When my son was born back in 1983 we did his birth announcement to look like a baseball card (using the company of former major leaguer Jim Bouton). To make it more realistic, we bought wax packs of 1983 Topps, carefully inserted my son's "card", resealed the packs and gave them out. I'm sure a few of my friends got some very nice rookie cards (like Wade Boggs) thanks to me! |
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How Did Everyone Get Started Collecting Vintage Cards
Posted By: leon
I used to collect cards when I was a kid. I decided to get into coins so I sold my garbage bag full for $50.00.....that was a lot of money in '73.......I didn't get interested again until about 6 years ago when I kept seeing a very small (maybe 15-20 tables)show set up a local mall. I met "smiling Dave".....a gentleman that has/had cards that were vintage....maybe 40's and later.....I couldn't believe you could get a '54 Banks in pr-fr condition for about $15-$25......at this time I did not know about the condition-value ratio's......Please understand that almost all of what Dave had/has is in pr-vg at best, condition is only a "by-line"....so I started talking to him (while wife and kid were shopping) and eventually bought some stuff from him. That got me hooked. Then I went to a regional Tri-Star show and saw the REAL vintage stuff. I was even more hooked. The rest is history....best regards |
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How Did Everyone Get Started Collecting Vintage Cards
Posted By: Jay Miller
Great response! I think you hit on a fantastic topic for future discussion in your last paragraph. |
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How Did Everyone Get Started Collecting Vintage Cards
Posted By: John
i started collecting cards when i was in kindegarten and a kid brought in a bag of cards and gave me a few of them,then i started buying packs with my allowance,and i got cards from early 70's thinking those were old cards! my father bought me a calendar of baseball cards organized by decades,and thats when i first saw old judge,t206 etc cards,and i always wanted(and still do to this day) the buck ewing with mascot old judge card...when i was 14 i saw a t206 for sale went home to get money,rode my bike back and the card was sold! and i never saw another for sale till i was 16.I went to cooperstown with my father and grandfather and we went to larry fritsch's card museum,and he had a T206 bresnahan,portrait in good condition for $40,i had to have it....so since then ive been collecting t206's,old judges and type cards from most other vintage sets....someday ill get the ewing/mascot card that i wanted so bad 15 years ago |
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