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Pillar of the Community
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I go through this same thing. I was saving up for the next local coin show a few months back when a sports card show came to town! I ended up blowing some of the money there. But the coin show is now this coming weekend and I don't think I will hit another card show until the big one this December.
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I completed my 1973 Topps baseball card set (all 660 cards) a couple of years ago. Luckily I kept the cards in good condition from childhood. that's a very nice set kenkat with all those all time great players in it. are the cards well centered it is hard to get well centered cards on vintage issues. Quote:
I stay away from baseball cards after years of collecting them. The problem with these is that a star player like Sammy Sosa or Mark McGwire could have the value of his cards cut down in half overnight by steroid allegations. I agree CoinHunter53562 I stay away from most modern players and I will not collect modern baseball cards for the reasons you stated plus I hate the fact that some of the modern players ruined the records of the game. the only modern player I really collect is derek jeter Quote:
Another thing that I found discouraging was the influx of new brands, sets, chase cards etc. It got to be too expensive to collect all the cards of your favorite players. I agree the amount of different brands now is crazy that's why I collect from 1980 back you only have one brand and a couple of cards at most for each player you want to collect. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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my comic books have been crying for attention
i really need to look at what I have mostly 70's DCs w/ some Marvels
wish I would have kept more of em
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Valued Member
United States
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You see...I collect collections and hobbies. (and exasperated looks from my wife) Truth!  I have hobby attention disorder... I'll go on a binge for one particular topic, spend a couple weeks learning everything I can about it, spend all my disposable income for a given time on it... Then a month or two later I'll be on to something else. Then a year or two later I'll come back to it for another couple of months. Most would call it a character flaw, I think it makes me more "colorful"  Quote:
My other love is motorcycles.
I have one model that was made only for one year with less then 2000 made world wide.
Now only if it were a coin it would be worth a lot more. "Sometimes, 'rare' just means 'nobody wanted them when they were new either'" The problem with cars & bikes is that almost nobody collects the whole set! Edited by PennehChaos
07/27/2009 2:44 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I collected pokemon cards... think of how much silver I could have bought! :(
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The answer to that question is a resounding NO! As a kid I collected rocks. Yes, rocks, like the ones you find laying around on the ground. Nothing special, just your everyday milky quartz and sandstone.
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that's a very nice set kenkat with all those all time great players in it. are the cards well centered it is hard to get well centered cards on vintage issues.
Thanks, Scott. I did focus on getting cards that are well centered and with minimal blemishes and no creases or major corner dings. I bought these things like crazy when I was 10 - they were 10 cents a pack with gum - and Topps was the only choice. I was fortunate in that I had a lot of duplicates that I had saved, so I was able to pick the best of the bunch in many cases. And I did spend some money to either fill in cards I didn't have or upgrade a card in poor condition. I'm not great at card grading, but I'd say the average card grade is around PSA 7/Near Mint. I eliminated anything below a PSA 6 for the most part and probably have a few PSA 8's and 9's in there. Gosh, maybe I need to join a sports card forum. I have some 1972 and 1974 cards - wonder if I could trade 1973's and build those sets out also? Hmmm...  Ken |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I bought these things like crazy when I was 10 - they were 10 cents a pack with gum i wasn't even around then I wish packs were 10 cents now. and I could of seen those players play back in the 60s and 70s.my grandmother still tells me stories of her spinning mickey mantle cards in her bike when she was a kid  I wish she would of saved them |
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United States
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When I was a kid begging my Dad for baseball cards everytime when we stopped in a store, they were 5 cents a pack. I remembered when they went up to 10 cents a pack....he grumbled about it. I actively bought cards through the late 1970's and stopped. Started buying again in 1987 for about 5 years. Big mistake. The thousands of dollars I spend in those years were wasted. Should've bought silver!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I have a 1994 Z28, but one could always use another Camaro I have a 93 Z28 (first year of the body change)that was special ordered with a 94 LT1 with a 6 speed transmission in Feburary of 93  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I joined our youngest son in collecting baseball cards. We have about 50,000. Cream of the crop are five Mickey Mantle cards we invested in together.
I have since given all the cards to my son, and hope he will pass them on to his son sometime down the road.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2490 Posts |
Back when I was a young man, and dinosaurs walked the earth, there was this thing called The Beatles. So I collected a few cards, magazines and records. Seems I forgot to stop. 10,000 or so pieces Beatle related and 3-5000 pieces of MacCartney related later; it's taking up much needed coin space.
Then there's the cigarette cards, not to mention the books....................
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Pillar of the Community
United States
581 Posts |
hobby attention disorder
I think that sums it up just nicely.
I still actually collect comics...but they have to be graded. They are the only ones that really hold value and condition.
I also got another exasperated look from my wife today...WOO-HOO...I should have taken a picture. (make a collection out of those too)
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