Anyone Collect Sports Cards/Memorbilia
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nightwanker
Proud first owner of FreeOnes Playing Cards
Hi Doc420
There are some Card Collectors on this thread
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=253474
(Please don't merge these threads. There titles are so different, that it might be helpful finding the topic!)
There are some Card Collectors on this thread
http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=253474
(Please don't merge these threads. There titles are so different, that it might be helpful finding the topic!)
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Oh yeah! I have some Formula One trading cards from the late 80's through the mid 90's. I don't know exactly which ones I have, since I've never opened most of the packs - but I'm guessing Senna, Prost, Piquet, Mansell - maybe an early Schumacher or two? :dunno: I also have some old CART IndyCar trading cards. I have opened a few of those and I have most of the popular people: Mario and Michael Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Emerson Fittipaldi, the Unsers, Rick Mears, Jacques Villeneuve, Zanardi, Danny "I Nailed Christie Brinkley & Won the Indy 500" Sullivan, et al.
But mostly I have diecasts... hundreds of them. Mostly 1/43, but a few in 1/18 and a limited number in 1/24. A pretty good mix of F1, CART and a Le Mans/sports cars. It's been a fun hobby and a good way to remember better days from years ago, especially with American Open Wheel Racing now pretty much dead.
But mostly I have diecasts... hundreds of them. Mostly 1/43, but a few in 1/18 and a limited number in 1/24. A pretty good mix of F1, CART and a Le Mans/sports cars. It's been a fun hobby and a good way to remember better days from years ago, especially with American Open Wheel Racing now pretty much dead.
those darn Twinkies! I used to collect baseball cards, had just a few football and basketball cards. they are buried in a box in my crawl
I plan on having a lot of white sox memorabila, but most I gave to my brother. he has an autographed Ozzie Guillen Jersey and a pic of AJ and Jenks hugging on the mound right after they won the World Series, autographed by both
I kind of, sort of, more of less collect concert memorabilia. Not really memorabilia, but just guitar picks, set lists, backstage passes, posters, and crew shirts from the shows I've worked.
They stopped being worth collecting when people started buying them as a collectable that they hopped would increase in value instead of something to get just because it was fun. Of course all the memorabilia corporations milked it for all it's worth everything became a mockery of what it once was.
I have a shitload of stuff from autographs to cards and everything in between!
(Please see "Packrat" in dictionary.):o
(Please see "Packrat" in dictionary.):o
StanScratch
My Penis Is Dancing!
I started collecting baseball cards in the mid-1970s, and have rarely stopped since then, though my tastes have changed a bit.
I've got complete sets going back to 1968,
I buy an occasional new pack here and there, but most of the time, I go after the older stuff. Presently, I am trying to get all cards of Hall-of-Famers and Cincinnati Reds made during the 1950s.
Frankly, I am not worried about the shape - I do it purely for the love of the game. Right now, it's a buyer's market. Got a pretty nice Ernie Banks rookie for $106 a couple of weeks ago.
I am also very close to a complete 1933 Goudey baseball set, missing six cards. Unfortunately, those cards are 3 Ruths, 2 Gehrigs and one Nap LaJoie (literally, one of the rarest cards ever made). I've a few tobacco cards (Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Three Finger Brown) and even have a few 19th century cards of the likes of Timothy Keefe, Dan Brouthers, Buck Ewing and Monte Ward.
Yeah, I spend a bit on them (even more than porn, believe it or not), but I enjoy it quite a bit.
I've got complete sets going back to 1968,
I buy an occasional new pack here and there, but most of the time, I go after the older stuff. Presently, I am trying to get all cards of Hall-of-Famers and Cincinnati Reds made during the 1950s.
Frankly, I am not worried about the shape - I do it purely for the love of the game. Right now, it's a buyer's market. Got a pretty nice Ernie Banks rookie for $106 a couple of weeks ago.
I am also very close to a complete 1933 Goudey baseball set, missing six cards. Unfortunately, those cards are 3 Ruths, 2 Gehrigs and one Nap LaJoie (literally, one of the rarest cards ever made). I've a few tobacco cards (Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, Three Finger Brown) and even have a few 19th century cards of the likes of Timothy Keefe, Dan Brouthers, Buck Ewing and Monte Ward.
Yeah, I spend a bit on them (even more than porn, believe it or not), but I enjoy it quite a bit.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
I have cards, comic books, and coins because I like them.
Of course, who wouldn't want to turn a hobby into their job?
I wouldn't mind sitting in my own hobby shop right now.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
HeartBroker and gunslingingbird
I have you both beat with my comic collection alone.
I have you both beat with my comic collection alone.
I have you both beat with my comic collection alone.
I wasn't talking about comics, I was talking about all the crap in my room. :helpme:
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
I have a lot of comics, magazines, books, lots of things.
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
I have you both beat with my comic collection alone.
That's something to brag about. Douche bag, much? :tongue:
I collected baseball cards when I was a kid. I had cards from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. One day, while I was off at college, my mom did a little spring cleaning and discarded all of them. She probably threw away a fortune equal to the GDP of Ecuador. I had some great, rare cards in there. Oh well, not worth bitchin' about now.
StanScratch
My Penis Is Dancing!
I have cards, comic books, and coins because I like them.
Of course, who wouldn't want to turn a hobby into their job?
I wouldn't mind sitting in my own hobby shop right now.
I did during the early 1990s, during what seems was the height of the craze. It was a lot of fun. I picked up some great stuff then (Nolan Ryan rookie, for instance).
However, the owner wasn't exactly the brightest.
We had a couple of brothers who were constantly buying cards of Reds 1st baseman Nick Esasky. Esasky went to the Redsox, had a decent year and his value rocketed.
One day, the brothers come in and traded all of their Esasky cards away for a few 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr.s and some 1990 Score "black and white" Bo Jackson cards. Tony was elated and bragged to me afterwards "I finally got those guys! I finally got them back for all the Esasky cards they ripped off from me! He's in Atlanta, he's going to do great!"
"But Tony," I said. "He has vertigo. His career is pretty much over."
Tony vowed to never do business with them again. But, he did. And he got ripped off, again. And again. And again.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
Yes, it is. :tongue:
Also, my mother wouldn't throw my collectables out.
Like your mother did.
:tongue:
StanScratch
My Penis Is Dancing!
Unfortunately, a common tail. My dad had a lot of his cards, comics, coins and stamps from the 1940s and 1950s tossed when he went into the army. That is why they are worth a lot.
Oh well. One can dream...
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
Yes, it is. :tongue:
Also, my mother wouldn't throw my collectable's out.
Like your mother did.
My mother would have spelled collectibles correctly though and left off the superfluous apostrophe. :thefinger So, right back at you with your little humor box...
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