All Trade Bait, All The Time...: A Dual Contest Answer

Friday, July 27, 2012

A Dual Contest Answer

hey everybody,

happy friday and happy weekend ! the Dodgers battle for first place as we open a weekend series down by three games against the hated ones! good thing i bought a pyramid sampler on the way home yesterday.

on to this dual contest post. Fuji san is running a contest at his place, so i'm responding to his question: when did i decide to collect sports cards, and what caused it? i'll be simultaneously answering the question from my contest: if you had to focus your collection to one aspect, what would it be?

1955 Brooklyn Dodgers WS HERO

to be honest, fuji san, i can't pinpoint a moment when i decided to collect, but i know i woke up to it somewhere in the late 80's. back then i was spending a lot of time browsing bookstores and their magazine racks, and i discovered beckett magazine. evil to some, i know - but it was my door into the hobby. i was immediately hooked, and it hadda be baseball cards.

i started going to weekend card shows and visiting the Local Card Shops around me (both of which were much more plentiful back then). i was hooked !

immediately i knew my primary focus - VINTAGE !! gimme those old time baseball cards. for me, a quad relic autograph can't hold a candle to cardboard masterpieces of long past baseball heroes...

Koufax is perhaps my most revered to collect

i noticed about 90% of the respondents to my contest question said they would focus on collecting their favorite teams. i love my team as much as the next guy (or gal), and i certainly enjoy collecting cards of the best baseball team ever...