chippernate
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Pre war. Love the look an feel of those cards
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poll: favorite baseball card era
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matfanofold
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- Aug 10, 2008
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My favorite era of Baseball cards, as in the era of cards I like the best would be the 50's. Some of the greatest players to ever play the game spotted the cardboard in the 50's like Aaron, Mantle, May's, Matthews, ect.. The designs are still awe inspiring today, and they are still available in decent quantity and quality.
My favorite era of card collecting was the 80's, the early 80's in perticular. It was such a great time for baseball cards. Infact, I believe it to be the best time for baseball card collecting period. It was a time when the hobby was expanding exponentially, vintage was still relatively cheap and you could bust packs/boxs and all but expect to make money. It was that good! There were still attic finds to be had, and it was a more simple time for collecting. Yep, for me, the 80's were as good as it gets!
My favorite era of card collecting was the 80's, the early 80's in perticular. It was such a great time for baseball cards. Infact, I believe it to be the best time for baseball card collecting period. It was a time when the hobby was expanding exponentially, vintage was still relatively cheap and you could bust packs/boxs and all but expect to make money. It was that good! There were still attic finds to be had, and it was a more simple time for collecting. Yep, for me, the 80's were as good as it gets!
predatorkj
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- Aug 7, 2008
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I like the 90's , 80's, and the current stuff.But I also loved the 50's stuff as well.My idea is the 50's and even the 60's had some of the most iconic cards ever to come out.Pre War is great but there are only a handful of iconic cards from that era.Cards that anybody would recognize.The 50's and 60's has more than a few.
As far as 90's...lets face it...between 1990 and 1999 the technology used on cards became the best it ever had been.The design and the concepts have never been outdone.The only thing that comes close is the aspect of more autos and more GU stuff and different refractor colors.But the 90's had a little bit of everything.Good sets, good design, autos, GU, different colored refractors and even reprints of some of the older stuff.
The 80's was good for many of the reasons Matfanofold mentioned above.That is when I started collecting and it seemed the sky was the limit for the hobby.
Today's stuff is cool too.When I was a little kid in the 80's it was inconceivable to me that you would one day be able to pull an autograph card or a game used card without ever having to go to the stadium to obtain it.That to me is one of the coolest things about the hobby and what really got me back into it after kind of lurking around the edge for many years.Today I have many autos of players I will never have a chance to meet(some of them have even passed on) and I can be pretty sure most if not all are real legit signatures.It doesn't get any better than that unless you just happen to dislike autographs.The game used aspect is pretty cool too.
All in all I like the 90's the best simply because I really eat up the design aspect.Its pretty cool to see some of the designs and the diecuts and other concepts introduced.Plus it was the early stages of including autos and game used cards in packs.The bad thing is...the 90's was when sports cards as a whole started to die out.In my experience basketball became the most heavily collected sport and this was mostly among kids.But as a whole collecting sports cards gave way to other interests many had because I guess the feeling and enthusiasm that ensued in the 80's just wasn't prevalent any more and people just stopped.Before 1992 I saw a plethora of shops.After it...I had trouble finding any.I even thought about getting back into collecting in high school but there just weren't very many, if any, shops around.Even today I have to go out of my way to go to one.Its weird to me that the 90's had some of the best concepts and new ideas ,yet its the very era that the industry started to slip and fall.
As far as 90's...lets face it...between 1990 and 1999 the technology used on cards became the best it ever had been.The design and the concepts have never been outdone.The only thing that comes close is the aspect of more autos and more GU stuff and different refractor colors.But the 90's had a little bit of everything.Good sets, good design, autos, GU, different colored refractors and even reprints of some of the older stuff.
The 80's was good for many of the reasons Matfanofold mentioned above.That is when I started collecting and it seemed the sky was the limit for the hobby.
Today's stuff is cool too.When I was a little kid in the 80's it was inconceivable to me that you would one day be able to pull an autograph card or a game used card without ever having to go to the stadium to obtain it.That to me is one of the coolest things about the hobby and what really got me back into it after kind of lurking around the edge for many years.Today I have many autos of players I will never have a chance to meet(some of them have even passed on) and I can be pretty sure most if not all are real legit signatures.It doesn't get any better than that unless you just happen to dislike autographs.The game used aspect is pretty cool too.
All in all I like the 90's the best simply because I really eat up the design aspect.Its pretty cool to see some of the designs and the diecuts and other concepts introduced.Plus it was the early stages of including autos and game used cards in packs.The bad thing is...the 90's was when sports cards as a whole started to die out.In my experience basketball became the most heavily collected sport and this was mostly among kids.But as a whole collecting sports cards gave way to other interests many had because I guess the feeling and enthusiasm that ensued in the 80's just wasn't prevalent any more and people just stopped.Before 1992 I saw a plethora of shops.After it...I had trouble finding any.I even thought about getting back into collecting in high school but there just weren't very many, if any, shops around.Even today I have to go out of my way to go to one.Its weird to me that the 90's had some of the best concepts and new ideas ,yet its the very era that the industry started to slip and fall.
