Collecting baseball cards

“There’s just something unique about vintage baseball cards. The feel, the smell of old cardboard that strangely enough has been one of my favorite smells in the world. Small pieces of art that have been passed around for 70, 80 or even 100+ years. I think that’s what makes some cards similar to a painting or any work of art.”

“My first two best friends and I would run to the closest store that sold cards, which was a K-Mart about 500 feet from our front doors. Whenever we had some money in our pockets it was like Christmas. We’d all run over there. If we had $7, it all went toward baseball cards. We’d go straight to one of our basements and start ripping through pack after pack hoping for the games biggest stars and some hometown heroes.”

“I picked up a pack at a local store for about $12, a Topps Heritage pack with about 35 cards. Same size as my older Topps cards. Cardstock is a bit heavier. The stats are represented horizontally on the older cards, vertically on the newer cards. Not sure if that is a uniform change, doesn’t really matter, just an observation. The background colors on the new cards made it a bit more difficult to read the stats, but then again my vision isn’t so great these days. Also, there appears to be a glossy film on the cards that makes it a bit harder to read the stats. I liked that the newer cards still have the quirky cartoons with the fun facts, like the old cards.”