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when and how did you start?
Posted By: scott
i was wondering how long you have been involved with pre-war cards? how did you start?sell a previous collection for capital to buy? a very broad question...i know. |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: pete ullman
funny you should ask...I was just pondering posting that exact question. |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: Julie Vognar
Son got me hooked in 1979, because I had to accompany him to the bb card shop with his $5 allowence each week. He quit after three years; I didn't. Had to sell almost all of them in 1989 to support family, and then got into 19th century cards. |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: JudgeDred2
Julie, in what city were you located when you started collecting? |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: Seth B.
When I was younger, my favorite card store got a 9-card binder page of T206s. This was in 1989 when a 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco was the holy grail, and my Dad brought me fancy-schmancy "Upper Deck" cards from a business trip to Seattle, as you couldn't get them nationwide yet. (I pulled a very valuable Ricky Jordan rookie, there's a bust!) |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: Keith O'Leary
A hunting friend of Dad gave me about 50 T206s that were his father's. This was back in 1967. The group had a green and red Cobb BTW.
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: Richard Lloyd
Well, |
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Posted By: Geno
I started collecting pre-war when I was high school. I grew up in Freeport, IL and made the trek into Chicago for the National (or maybe it was just a big show) sometime around 1981 or so (can't remember the year exactly). Anyway, I was looking for a Reggie Jackson rookie and saw a lot of ten or so T205s in VGish shape. I bought them all, including Frank Chance, for about $10 and the guy threw in an Ex-Mtish Eddie Collins for another $15 or so. That hooked me on T205s and I finally completed a basic set about five years ago. Man, that seems like it was yesterday... |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: davidcycleback
When I was a kid I used my allowence and/or yardwork money and ordered a 1933 Goudey from the Larry Frisch catalog. For the money you got a random common. I still own the card (Jack Quinn). Back then I also bought from the catalog a couple of autographed baseballs (Lou Brock and Steve Garvey) and a 1941 Play Ball reprint set. But not all at once-- I wasn't made of money. |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: Anonymous
david... |
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Posted By: Robert
I started collecting when I was about 11 years old in Los Angeles. I loved the Big Red Machine and my dad was from the Bronx and used to sneak into Yankee stadium as a kid in the early 40's. He told me about those great players and we got books about the history of baseball, so I became obsessed with the old timers more so then the players of the day. That summer we went to N.Y. and my dad took me on a trip to Coperstown where I really got hooked. I used to work for him in the summers and got $50.00 a week and every Saturdeay I would take a bus to ACME, owned by Goody and buy cards of only Hall of Famers, Cobbs, Matty's, Johnsons where all $4 or $5, Gehrigs and Ruth where $25. I would look in my books and read about players and go and ask for them and buy them. After my Bar Mitzvah my dad let me buy $2000 worth of cards and I picked up a T206 Plank for $150. I still have them all in a safety deposit box about 2000 cards in all. Maybe one day I will sell but not in the near future. I only wish I knew about all of the error cards and tried set collecting. I probably could of gotten T206 commos for less then $1.00 each. Oh well, woulda, coulda, shoulda. |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: Adam J. Moraine
I am not sure as to when I began collecting prewar. However, my late grandfather (God bless him) had gotten myself into baseball card collecting in 1988 because he had wanted me to have a hobby. He had just recently retired from his job in 1988. Therefore, he had plenty of time to help me focus on my collecting interests. We would attend local baseball card shows, as well as local baseball card shops too. I STILL have about 99.9% of the cards that we had purchased together. Mostly 1950's-1960's cards since neither one of us knew what to collect. I wish I knew THEN what I know NOW. But my grandfather, was not a collector, nor did he follow baseball. Gradually, he did get "into" baseball as my hobby, became my passion. He would attend the Bob Feller Museum with me, and watch the World Series and all-star games with me. One of my fondest moments, was watching Mac's 62nd homerun game with him on television. Those my friends, are the memories that I will cherish, and miss forever. |
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Posted By: Rob
I started this year after a 5-year hiatus from the frustration with modern cards. It's coming along slowly because, for one, the items I want rarely come out of the woodwork, and two, I don't have the financial firepower to obtain them right now. |
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Posted By: bob donaldson
When I was about 10 (1972) I got a catalog from Wholesale Cards in Georgetown Conn. I still have the catalog. I loved looking at all the old cards and for Christmas/Birthdays my mother would let me get some cards. I got a couple T206 for 75 cents and miscellaneous Topps/Bowman cards from the 50's. The Goudeys were $4. Couldn't afford those! A few years after a card store opened in my town and I would spend paper route money there. Finally bought a Goudey Lefty O'Doul for $5. Then my dad got me a Joe Cronin for my BDay. Got the last card (#92 Gehrig) from a board member about a week ago. Only took me 30 year to complete the set! Minus Lajoie of course. |
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when and how did you start?
Posted By: Julie
King's Baseball Cards |
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Posted By: JudgeDred2
Julie, |
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Posted By: Julie
Street in berkeley--posters, modern art. I am told he still sells baseball cards out of the basement--but I'[ve never caught him in. |
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