tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247623134067875623.post6543015358726952327..comments2023-08-22T07:45:22.989-07:00Comments on My Best Friend collects Chipper Jones: In Action CardsMy Best Friend Collects Chipper Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07894995163272487944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247623134067875623.post-31899357211865540402015-08-07T12:37:31.315-07:002015-08-07T12:37:31.315-07:00I believe that collecting baseball cards has enhan...I believe that collecting baseball cards has enhanced my love of the game. I started collecting as a kid during the late 60s. I still have some of those cards and they are beat up with major creases because I took those cards with me wherever I went. I also remember Saturday afternoon taking breaks from mowing the lawn and watching the NBC Game of the Week with Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek.<br />How the hobby has changed since when I was a child. Back then there was only one set to collect and I wanted to try get every card. When new cards came out, I would hang with my friends and was willing to trade any of my doubles for cards that I needed.<br />I remember the late 80s and early 90s and even in my little hometown, you could easily find a card show each month. At that time, I had an old friend, who wasn't really a baseball fans but he started collecting cards. I remember he had some 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr cards and how he thought that these would someday put his daughter thru college. A couple years later, he was no longer collecting. A few years ago, I saw him at another friend's wedding, and he told me that he still had some unopened product in his garage. His wife was wondering why he was still hanging on to the cards. I told him that it was likely that he paid more for those cards twenty years ago then what he could sell them for now.<br />After almost 50 years, I still enjoy collecting baseball cards. I still like to look at new cards. However, I think card collecting today is not really for kids. That makes me sad. What kid has $4 or $5 to buy a packet of eight to ten baseball cards. I don't blame them, I'd probably spend my money on something else. <br />I have adult friends who buy boxes of new cards and they get excited when they pulled a card that they can put on ebay, hoping to get hundreds of dollar for the card. <br />Nowadays, I buy a couple of boxes of Heritage at the beginning of the baseball season and open them with my adult daughter. Most of the cards I get are duds and if I tried to sell them, I feel that I would maybe get back 10 to 15 percent of the cost of the cards, that's if I was lucky. The best part of opening these cards is that I share them with my daughter. Priceless. <br />Jeremy, thank you for your comments and welcome back to the hobby. I hope it brings you great joy.My Best Friend Collects Chipper Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07894995163272487944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247623134067875623.post-61950774777708175252015-08-06T20:06:38.442-07:002015-08-06T20:06:38.442-07:00Since returning after a 25 year hiatus I have to s...Since returning after a 25 year hiatus I have to say I have a new perspective on cards. However, it didnt happen until after my 14 year old (who doesnt follow baseball at all) educated me. See when I was a kid, I collected for profit. I thought my mountains of bball cards would put me through college. Well, there is only so much a 1990 Donruss Ken Griffey Jr can get you. So when I returned I decided to give my boys (11 and 14) all of my "valuable" cards and I would keep the "commons" so as to trade with them and continue to stimulate the bball card culture. So after giving all my beloved gems I was left with rows of what I used to refer to as duds. Come to find out there were hundreds amd hundreds of HOFers in my collection I simply over looked as a kid. So after I pulled all those and set aside my dupes in a trade box. I then fell in love with the Walgreens repacks. However, I started notocing my 14 year old wasnt too into it. I asked him why dont you like all these big name stars. He said... dad they arent doing anything, they are boring. So I started looking at the cards through his lens and a whole world opened up. Plays at the plate, 2nd basemen in mid air, pitchers about to need Tommy John surgery etc. So now I blend my original ways as a kid, with my new perspective of what a good baseball player is as well as my love for every and anything cardboard. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313000349858442206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247623134067875623.post-60884782645880403882015-08-06T17:42:59.490-07:002015-08-06T17:42:59.490-07:00Since returning after a 25 year hiatus I have to s...Since returning after a 25 year hiatus I have to say I have a new perspective on cards. However, it didnt happen until after my 14 year old (who doesnt follow baseball at all) educated me. See when I was a kid, I collected for profit. I thought my mountains of bball cards would put me through college. Well, there is only so much a 1990 Donruss Ken Griffey Jr can get you. So when I returned I decided to give my boys (11 and 14) all of my "valuable" cards and I would keep the "commons" so as to trade with them and continue to stimulate the bball card culture. So after giving all my beloved gems I was left with rows of what I used to refer to as duds. Come to find out there were hundreds amd hundreds of HOFers in my collection I simply over looked as a kid. So after I pulled all those and set aside my dupes in a trade box. I then fell in love with the Walgreens repacks. However, I started notocing my 14 year old wasnt too into it. I asked him why dont you like all these big name stars. He said... dad they arent doing anything, they are boring. So I started looking at the cards through his lens and a whole world opened up. Plays at the plate, 2nd basemen in mid air, pitchers about to need Tommy John surgery etc. So now I blend my original ways as a kid, with my new perspective of what a good baseball player is as well as my love for every and anything cardboard. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313000349858442206noreply@blogger.com