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  • pistonsfan9826
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    well i went to cvs to get a sports magizine but ended up getting the sports collectors monthly back when it was just called tuff stuff. i read about ttm autographs and then it just got me into collecting cards and autos.

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  • daeldred
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    How I Started Collecting

    It started out as almost a joke! Some friends and I were sitting around at work (while it was slow) and decided we would take a run up to a local card store, just to check it out. Well, of course we bought some packs of cards, didn't really get anything good in the packs, but that of course got us hooked! This was about 20 years ago! I am the only one out of the three of us that stuck to collecting and I still love it!
    Dale.




    Originally posted by Dlong1 View Post
    I ran this once on another site and we really got to know the members.

    Share with us the story of how you got into collecting and what it means to you.

    Dan

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  • CaptKirk42
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    Originally posted by MichelleAnn View Post
    When I was about 7 or 8, my mom bought some Monkees' cards that I enjoyed putting on my bike wheels. I was 28 when I really got into collecting. My first card was a Ray Knight rookie card.
    Ray Knight now does the Pre-and Post Game shows for the Washington Nationals on the MASN cable station (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network) with Johnny Holiday a local DC area broadcast celeb (he does the University of MD basketball and football play-by-plays) I haven't heard of any changes to the team yet, they sometimes make changes during the off-season so when Baseball season starts back up a different announcer is there. For the 2008 season the Color Commentator was Don Sutton, last year Don was gone and Rob Dibble was in his place. I think for 2010 they are keeping the same people for now.
    http://www.masnsports.com/index_nationals.html

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  • MichelleAnn
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    When I was about 7 or 8, my mom bought some Monkees' cards that I enjoyed putting on my bike wheels. I was 28 when I really got into collecting. My first card was a Ray Knight rookie card.

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  • cubman1941
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    That should be interesting. I gather you are sticking to Topps or, at least, the older sets. I used to do it all but quit in 90 when all the stuff started coming out, the 1 of 1's, etc, and one could not really finish a set, or as they say now, a master set. I kept a few of my football sets, 90 Fleer Update, 89-90 Score, 81-84 Topps and a couple Stadium Club. Last year I took over 300 sets, B/B and F/B to an auction in PA. I also got rid of all my "star" cards, ove 5,000 trying to pare down. Well, must hit the sack, getting late for an old man. Nice chatting with you.

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  • Mister_Ed
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    nice! my current insane collecting goal is a complete run of all topps football sets, from the 51 magic to the present. ive got a lot, but still have a LONG way to go...

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  • cubman1941
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    There are a lot of fakes out there and one has to be careful but, if you buy from a reputable dealer, you can do all right. Of course, it makes it that much more pricey. I have been taken on some 1914 Cracker Jack cards that someone went to a lot of trouble to make them appear authentic but that was before I learned to look at the backs more carefully. When one starts collecting it sees to multiply. I also have a lot of old Bears and recently have gone into getting Mighty Mouse:>}

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  • Mister_Ed
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    yeah, there simply arent that many. ive never actually owned any, although my vintage collection, especially football, is pretty nice. Pre-war stuff seems to be so tough to find, and there are so many fakes out there that I would probably only buy graded versions, to make sure they were legit, and those are pricy, to say the least

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  • cubman1941
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    Actually my daughter got me that book for my birthday last year. It is a very good book. One interesting thing to me about the tobacco cards is the number of varations there are. I have around 65 Cubs but with 16 different backs and the number of different fronts the list goes on and on. Most of mine are Piedmont or Sweet Caporal, I have never seen a TY Cobb back nor a Broadleaf. The other thing is how many of them are still around.

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  • Mister_Ed
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    i agree completely with your assessment of the tobacco cards, they are fantastic. I just finished reading a book called Crazy 08, talking about the 1908 baseball season. A good portion of the book was based on the Cubs, and reading about that team, with Tinker, Evers, Chance, and the others, was absolutely fascinating. Im still hoping to find an authentic card of each of those three guys- what characters and what a cool story
    check the book out, if youve never read it- its fantastic
    E

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  • cubman1941
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    Ed,
    Thanks. I have a lot of stuff, mostly cards. My kids are not Cubs fans (Brewers, Packers and Tampa Bay Bucs) so all my stuff will go to auction when the time comes. I still enjoy looking, buying and trading. Along with this I also have sets from about 1981 up with a 1954 (my favorite), 75, 76, 78 and a few others. I enjoy the tobacco cards teh best.

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  • Mister_Ed
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    wow- thats an awesome story- id send you all the cubs stuff ive got, but im guessing you have it all already...
    Ed

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  • cubman1941
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    I started in 1952. I remember thinking how terrible the 1952 Topps were and I loved the 1953 Bowman black and white. Then things happened and I quit, probably because in our small town of 1500, cards were hard to come by. In 1976 my daughter got me a box of Hostess Twinkees for my birthday because they had baseball players on it and I got started again, growing today into what may be the largest personal Cub collection going, starting with 1895 and going to present.

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  • CaptKirk42
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    I don't have a specific memory of the start of my card collecting since I have 2 older brothers both of which had some cards. There always seemed to be some buried treasure in our basement utility room that doubled as a storage/dump room. My first few recollections were of late 60s baseball cards and "Man ON The Moon" cards. I still have a handful of that set, someday I want to complete it.

    One of my first collecting memories from when I was like 5 or 6 was trading with my brother from our plastic storage "lockers". I think mine was blue and my brothers was red. They were roughly the size of a shoebox all plastic with about 10 to maybe a dozen little adjustable "shelves". I also recall I used to "mark" my cards either with red pen bad or black magic marker. I probably saw a Zorro movie because I would put a big "K" on the card sometimes it was on front sometimes on back. UGH. Fortunately (or unfortunately in some cases) I don't have many of those anymore if any.

    When I was in Jr High I had a friend that I used to "trade" with, we also went to the comic store once a week or every other week. We would play a card flipping game where we would set up a "field" of about 10 - 20 cards on the floor and then stand or sit back a few feet and take turns tossing our traders out onto the field. The object was to get the card you throw to land on one of the other cards at least 50% of the way. Then you won both cards. My friend was a lot better at the game, I also suspect he cheated a few times, as we often had disagreements about whether a card was being covered enough of the way. I lost most of my early 70s and particularly a lot of 1975 cards that way.

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  • sanjosefuji
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    I started back in the late 70's/early 80's when one of my neighbors gave me a box of 1979 Topps baseball cards. Then in 1981, my parents bought me a Fleer baseball set when we were on a trip to Seattle (which is how I became a Seahawks fan... a whole different story)... but I still didn't really start collecting until 1983. That's when I started going out and buying packs of cards trying to make sets. To this day the 1983 Topps set is one of my favorites of all time.

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