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  • What was I THINKING?!?! Collecting Josh Childress

    Every collector hopes to find the next big thing in any sport they collect. It's easy to target the #1 picks, the guys who are overhyped and splashed across TV and the internet 24/7, but it's also thrilling to find those under the radar guys. Guys who don't get much fanfare but have potential to be top caliber players. Josh Childress my friends, was NOT one of those guys. I wanted to believe with all my heart he was...but sadly it wouldn't come to be true. My friends always ask me, WHY Josh Childress? My answer, NO CLUE. Seriously, I don't have one valid reason, he played for Stanford, a college I don't follow, he was drafted by the Hawks, again, a middle of the road team, with not that great of a hobby following to begin with and a team I don't care about. Was it the mushroom fro??? Maybe I thought he was marketable with that awesome fro? He was taken 6th
    in the draft by Atlanta, so I guess I convinced myself
    something had to be there. To be fair, his stuff was never
    expensive, I believe the most I ever paid for a Childress card
    was 18 bucks, and it was an inscription card from SP Signature
    that Josh Childress signed and inscribed "The Real Deal", but it
    was pretty obvious Josh Childress was not gonna set the collecting
    world on fire. I accumlated around 15 different auto'd cards of him
    not to mention countless X-Fractors, Gold Refractors, etc. He wasn't
    a bad player in Atlanta, but he was just average. He then played in Greece
    for one year before coming back to the NBA signing with the Suns and being
    relegated to bench duty. I probably could've just saved my money and bought a
    nice Dwight Howard rookie card (I didn't even pick the right Hawk, Josh Smith
    would've been wayyyyyyy better) but instead I thought the future was Josh Childress....
    What was I THINKING!?!?


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    Chris P
    http://chrisptop100.blogspot.com/

  • #2
    If it makes you feel any better, at one time when I as younger I collected Harold Miner. LOL!

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    • #3
      And I collected Clarence Weatherspoon at one point too
      TRADING FOR

      Ken Griffey Jr.

      Raiders and Dolphins from 2012-2020
      A's and Reds from 2012-2020

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      • #4
        A buddy of mine collected Childress too.

        He even traded a Magic/Bird dual auto for a large lot of Childress.

        He is still spewing about that trade lol

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        • #5
          Hahahah wow that's crazy!! There was one point I remember bragging that I owned all of Clearence Weatherspoon's rookie cards!!! I thought I was the envy of my friends! lol
          Chris P
          http://chrisptop100.blogspot.com/

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Chris P View Post
            Hahahah wow that's crazy!! There was one point I remember bragging that I owned all of Clearence Weatherspoon's rookie cards!!! I thought I was the envy of my friends! lol
            Clarence Weatherspoon for President lol!
            TRADING FOR

            Ken Griffey Jr.

            Raiders and Dolphins from 2012-2020
            A's and Reds from 2012-2020

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            • #7
              Harold Miner!!.......me too!

              Originally posted by key2win View Post
              If it makes you feel any better, at one time when I as younger I collected Harold Miner. LOL!

              I collect Utah Jazz players cards and Autographed cards
              I also collects Football, Baseball and movies cards
              Please click my banner to go to my photobucket

              Wanted: 09-10 Certified Fabric of the Game of Andrei Kirilenko & Mehmet Okur
              FYI, I live in Hong Kong!

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              • #8
                I still DO collect Clarence Weatherspoon!!! :/
                If you guys have any you want to offload please LMK!
                Cheers
                Ant

                Looking for Jamal Mashburn and Clarence Weatherspoon
                FS/FT: http://s1086.photobucket.com/albums/j446/awoj21/

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                • #9
                  In baseball, I collected Von Hayes and Ricky Jordan. Phillies 1st basemen didn't do me much luck!!
                  Favorite baseball players include: Mike Schmidt, Steve Carlton, Kirby Puckett, Pete Rose, Tyler Colvin Mark Appel
                  Favorite football players include: Peyton Manning, John Elway, Daunte Culpepper, Mike Alstott, Blake Bortles, and Dri Archer
                  Collecting: 2012 Topps Mini 1987 topps... non-certified autos (in person or through the mail), autographed cards with bible verses

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                  • #10
                    Hey, I still spend $$ on players like Luke Walton, Chase Budinger, and Jordan Hill ......just because they're alum. at the college team I watched most of my young adult life....and I didnt even attent that school!!

                    ...and I still have a 92 Topps Gold Weatherspoon that I cherished for a LOOOONG time.....Harold Miner was the MAN back in the day!!

                    too funny.
                    Currently looking for:
                    Football: The Gronk!
                    Basketball: Dennis Rodman, Scottie Pippen, & Michael Jordan, 90's refractors or #rd stuff, Damon Stoudamire, Penny, etc.
                    Baseball: Paul Goldschmidt & Mike Trout
                    + HOFer slab bed or raw.

                    Collecting University of Arizona current and Alum players!!!
                    Go Cats!!!

                    Trade page:
                    http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn29/deannal_2008/

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