On Apr 28, 6:32 pm, "Colin William" <colintwill...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Some discussion of baseball cards and when they jumped the shark over at
>
BTF:http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/wax_he...
>
> It got me to wondering, do any of you ever buy them these days, or did
you
> in the past? What are your favorites, and why did you stop?
I bought some cards back in the 90's, but never a lot of packs. Got a
couple mixed batches at a good price from time to time, but in any of
that I'd just pick out the players & teams I liked and find a way to
pass along the rest. I put more effort and money into collecting the
Starting Lineup s****ts figures [which actually included cards, but I
kept most of them in-package]. Like the cards I rarely went for whole
sets or subsets, just players & teams I liked and a few other
rarities.
When Kenner finally lost out on all the s****ts contracts to McFarlane
Toys, I did buy some of his figures for the first few years. They were
much larger scale with better detail, and he only put out about 6
players at a time. The variants made the search interesting, and since
I didn't want every single player, the higher price wasn't so bad. But
now it is hard to find any of them at retail stores and too many
people are glomming the variants, often before they hit the pegs.
That, combined with McFarlane choosing very few players who interested
me, has me to the point where I have only bought one or two in the
last year or so. I should probably pick up that Hank Aaron one before
Walmart clears them out, though.
As for just cards, the only s****ts ones I have bought in the last
several years were some Braves team sets from Disney. My card buying
has pretty much ****fted into the non-s****t world now.
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Nick
http://www.myspace.com/nickmonitto
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