On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:11:39 -0400, "Robert Glenn Plotner"
<rgplotnerNOSPAMALOT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Colin William" <colintwilliam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:67n1kgF2pegnaU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Some discussion of baseball cards and when they jumped the shark over
at
>> BTF:
>>
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/wax_heaven_the_day_baseball_cards_died/
>>
>> 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 packs s****adically in the early to mid 90s. Stopped because I
>> couldn't justify the cost, and got sick of getting a gazillion
duplicates
>> of the same Luis Gonzalez cards. I have them all in a box somewhere
around
>> here, but damned if I know where.
>>
>> My favorite card, as I think I've mentioned before, features Glavine in
>> his Braves uniform playing hockey. I also tend to like cards for guys
late
>> in long careers, so chock full of stats on the back. Nolan Ryan cards
were
>> especially good for that.
>>
>> Colin
>
>First cards I bought as a kid were the '74 Topps. I think bubble gum
packs
>were about .15 cents. The wrappers were sealed via wax, and I remember
the
>unlucky card at the back usually had wax creases on it.
>
>I collected heavily up until college in '86, all of this before the
>explosion of the "premium" cards, and then sold my collection en masse to
a
>dealer for about $1200 if I remember correctly. I had complete mint sets
of
>the '73 and '72 Topps received as my favorite boyhood Christmas gift. I
also
>managed to collect various cards going back to Topps "red back" origins,
>Hank Aaron rookie card, Koufax, Berra, early Leaf, and various oddities
>including a "cigarette card." I used to send off for the Kellogg's 3-D
sets
>and cut off the 3 card panels that used to be on the back of Hostess
>Twinkees, team logos air brushed out as Topps had exclusive rights.
>
>I used to organize all the cards alphabetically in great stacks by teams.
>They covered my desk like miniature skyscrapers. That is, I would have
every
>Johnny Bench card from rookie to current year in order in the great Reds
>pile with every other current player on the team. I kept up with all the
>roster moves in The S****ting News and would move cards around
accordingly.
>
>They also became like flash cards to me, all of the stats on the back
>quickly committed to memory. I also played a little game where I would
have
>a friend conceal a card behind another card and have them slowly reveal a
>tiny strip at the top. I could name the player on practically any card by
>seeing less than a 1/4 inch strip revealed and usually without even any
of
>the player in the picture -- not an obsessive ability mind you, I just
>picked it up by handling the cards.
>
>I still regret selling the cards for the usual nostalgia reasons, though
I
>still have any of the cards I managed to get autographed. One day when
I'm
>wealthy...
>
>
>Robert
>
We used to buy them and of course mom tossed them all out at some
point. We were from Mass but went to Maine each summer for vacation
and it was great because there we could get packs with the Red Sox
players in them whereas in Mass you almost never got any cards with
the Sox. One of my first introductions to targeted marketing. They
made you buy more cards in the Boston market to collect the Red Sox
players.
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