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heartyourlife
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Seems like everyone collects a variety of different things, whether it's complete sets, team/player sets, prospects or HOFers, and everything inbetween.
My question is: why do you collect what you collect? Where does your motivation come from? What got you into your particular collecting habit?
I collect three main things:
- Cards featuring certified autos and/or relics of players in Cardinals uniforms, who have played for the Cardinals at least one major league game in their careers.
- All Cardinals Heritage & Archives/Fan Favorites auto and relic cards
- All Cardinals All-Star auto and relic cards
I collect Cardinals because they have been my favorite team since as far back as I can remember (I'm 35). Ozzie Smith was my favorite player growing up, which is kind of funny because the only position I never manned once in little league was shortstop haha. My goal is to have at least one auto and/or relic of every player available.
I love Heritage and Archives because it reminds me of when I started collecting cards as a youngster. One day my dad came out of the attic and took me into his bedroom. He put the bags on the bed and said "have fun sorting these". It turned out to be all his cards from his childhood, which amounted to complete sets of 1956-1969 topps baseball, 1955 All American football and 1957 Topps football plus a ton of dupes. Needless to say there are a ton of awesome cards in there. He used to take me to the LCS all the time and helped me set up at card shows all the time. So Heritage and Archives will always remind me of my dad and his impact on my collecting.
As far as All- Star cards, I went to my first All-Star game, appropriately enough, at Busch Stadium in 2009. I've also been to Arizona in 2011 and Kansas City in 2012. For any of the games I go to I put together a complete All-Star Stitches set from Topps. For 2009 I'm going after every auto and relic card from Topps except the jumbo patches, and am one card away from reaching that goal.
So what's your story?
My question is: why do you collect what you collect? Where does your motivation come from? What got you into your particular collecting habit?
I collect three main things:
- Cards featuring certified autos and/or relics of players in Cardinals uniforms, who have played for the Cardinals at least one major league game in their careers.
- All Cardinals Heritage & Archives/Fan Favorites auto and relic cards
- All Cardinals All-Star auto and relic cards
I collect Cardinals because they have been my favorite team since as far back as I can remember (I'm 35). Ozzie Smith was my favorite player growing up, which is kind of funny because the only position I never manned once in little league was shortstop haha. My goal is to have at least one auto and/or relic of every player available.
I love Heritage and Archives because it reminds me of when I started collecting cards as a youngster. One day my dad came out of the attic and took me into his bedroom. He put the bags on the bed and said "have fun sorting these". It turned out to be all his cards from his childhood, which amounted to complete sets of 1956-1969 topps baseball, 1955 All American football and 1957 Topps football plus a ton of dupes. Needless to say there are a ton of awesome cards in there. He used to take me to the LCS all the time and helped me set up at card shows all the time. So Heritage and Archives will always remind me of my dad and his impact on my collecting.
As far as All- Star cards, I went to my first All-Star game, appropriately enough, at Busch Stadium in 2009. I've also been to Arizona in 2011 and Kansas City in 2012. For any of the games I go to I put together a complete All-Star Stitches set from Topps. For 2009 I'm going after every auto and relic card from Topps except the jumbo patches, and am one card away from reaching that goal.
So what's your story?
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