This series is all about you, the readers. My opinion is mum on every subject, however, you guys have the open mic per say on here. So without further ado, here is today' topic:
What year did you start collecting? What got you into collecting?
I started in 1993 and my father and I got into it together. Enough with me, I wanna hear about you!
For me it was 1992, when a friend brought some cards to our summer daycamp. I had only started watching baseball earlier that year. He and I probably spent half the day flipping through his album, and I knew I wanted to start collecting cards too. For some reason I decided Topps was my favorite, possibly because those were the first packs I found at the grocery store my family would go to every Sunday. Eventually I found a card shop, and wound up buying a factory set after seeing the price of that and doing some math against buying enough packs to complete it.
ReplyDeleteIt was probably the late 80's for me. My older brother collected cards so I was always around his collection. Being a big baseball fan my parents started buying me cards. The rest is history.
ReplyDeleteIT WAS IN THE LATE 60'S. MY DAD WAS A BIG PIRATES FAN BUT HE LIKED MICKEY MANTLE. I STARTED WITH BASEBALL AND THEN MOVED ON TO FOOTBALL AND HOCKEY.
ReplyDelete1988 for me. I was 4 years old, and I've never stopped. I don't know how I discovered it but it was probably my brother who I can thank- he also got me into comic books and action figures, both of which I am still collecting or involved with. I know my first cards were from the 1988 Leesley Bigfoot set, and after that came the Star Wars duplicates he had gotten when the sets were available in 1977-83. I always thought they were the first but he remembered that he didn't give them to me until after I had the Bigfoot cards. Eventually I discovered NASCAR and then in 1996 NBA basketball and that has been my focus ever since.
ReplyDeleteI started seriously collecting in 1990, my first year of middle school. The hobby was really hot at my school at the time-- seemed like everybody was bringing cards to school to show off and trade-- so I checked it out and got into it. Collected heavily until mid 1993, then stopped till re-entering the hobby around 2012.
ReplyDeleteMine was late 1994 - a box of 1990 Pro Set Series II football cards. Super Bowl MVP set, Emmitt Smith RC, I was hooked!
ReplyDelete1977 - mom started buying me packs of star wars cards
ReplyDelete1980/1981ish - neighbor gave me a box filled with 1979 topps baseball cards
1981 - parents bought me a 1981 fleer baseball set
can't pinpoint exactly when i actually started collecting/collecting... but these were some key years for me.