Card Collector Universe

I’ve been collecting cards for roughly thirty years.  Baseball cards.  Hockey cards.  Football cards.  Not so much basketball cards (though I did pick up quite a few packs of those ”Hoops” cards at one point.) 

Baseball cards have always been my favorite though.  Tradition I guess.  It started with a pack or two here or there at the local candy store my father used to take my brother and I to on Saturday mornings.  Once I had a paper route it was up to boxes of Fleer and Topps cards.  As well as my first few sets.  The 1984 Topps Traded set with the Dwight Gooden rookie card (and the Gary Carter in an Expos uniform card, both with the brighter pink and blue backs.)  Then the 1984 Fleer set with the Roger Clemens and Don Mattingly rookies.  Then the 1985 Topps set with the McGwire Olympic rookie card, and the Topps debut of Clemens.  

Now…..with eBay around, and chrome cards and refractors, and parrallels and patches and autographed cards and……you name it.  Collecting cards has exploded into a whole new industry with limited editions and special sets and cards and hobby boxes that makes the hobby more confusing but also much more exciting. 

So this is my blog about the hobby and my fascination with it.

Feel free to e-mail me at bestbythenumbers@gmail.com.

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