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Gonzaleznut
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I know that I am not the only collector here of HOFers and other great players from baseball's past, but it sure seems like there are fewer and fewer of us.
I posted a thread both here and on Blowout about a couple of recent HOFer Auto pickups. Several people here have shown great appreciation for the items and that makes me proud, but not nearly as many as I would have expected.
On Blowout not a single person has relied to my thread. Now if I had posted some Bowman Chrome auto of a player that hasn't even sniffed the bigs and will most likely amount to somewhere between jack and squat in baseball, I would have gotten a dozen responses!! Collecting players who have actually contributed significantly to the game is much more satisfying than trying to pick the next big prospect.
I think the collecting public is waaaay too skewed towards the "Never-Will-Be's". It is a travesty that Bryce Harper and Addison Russell autos are more expensive than Joe DiMaggio, Hank Aaron, or Willie Mays.
I do find FCB to have significantly more collectors who have an appreciation and respect for the finer things in baseball, but still far too few.
My rant is over. Now I can take my lumps from all of the prospectors out there and the people who say "let people collect what they want."
I agree that people are free to collect whomever they want, but I just wish more appreciated the greats of the game. To me it is a shame.
I posted a thread both here and on Blowout about a couple of recent HOFer Auto pickups. Several people here have shown great appreciation for the items and that makes me proud, but not nearly as many as I would have expected.
On Blowout not a single person has relied to my thread. Now if I had posted some Bowman Chrome auto of a player that hasn't even sniffed the bigs and will most likely amount to somewhere between jack and squat in baseball, I would have gotten a dozen responses!! Collecting players who have actually contributed significantly to the game is much more satisfying than trying to pick the next big prospect.
I think the collecting public is waaaay too skewed towards the "Never-Will-Be's". It is a travesty that Bryce Harper and Addison Russell autos are more expensive than Joe DiMaggio, Hank Aaron, or Willie Mays.
I do find FCB to have significantly more collectors who have an appreciation and respect for the finer things in baseball, but still far too few.
My rant is over. Now I can take my lumps from all of the prospectors out there and the people who say "let people collect what they want."
I agree that people are free to collect whomever they want, but I just wish more appreciated the greats of the game. To me it is a shame.