gladdyontherise
06-24-2009, 03:55 PM
We all have our stories on how we got into the sport card hobby. Well mine is probably just as odd as everyone elses.
I was around seven years young. I was a heavy WWE (then WWF) fan. I collected anything of Wrestling, shirts, hats, memorabilia. All except cards. Well one day, at Meijers, i saw a box of WWF trading cards, i was very intrigued by it, so i begged my mom to buy it for me, of course she gave in and got it for me. I went home and had a blast opening it, i got the full base set and a ring used mat card, i forget the player, but i thought it was the greatest thing in the world!
For the next three years I continued collecting Wrestling cards, while my older brother, three years older than I was was heavily collecting Hockey cards. He got me into Hockey because he was buying boxes of Hockey cards that got 400-500 cards in one box for $20. Well i continued collecting Wrestling cards, but quickly got into Hockey as well. The only problem was that I didn't know who most of the players were because i didn't like to watch Hockey at all, so that quickly ended my collecting Hockey, but not my collecting Wrestling.
About one year later, I began to take an intrest in Basketball. This was at the 2003-04 season. I always loved the game of Basketball, so I thought to myself, why not! Well i had a $80 gift certificate to spend and i found a box at Meijer for a 2003-04 Upper Deck MVP box that guarnteed 1 LeBron James card per pack. There was 36 packs. Now as a 10-11 year old, it didnt matter these LeBron cards would be virtually worth nothing, i was to happy to know that the #1 pick of the draft had one card per pack!
Once I had got into collecting Basketball I slowly ended collecting Wrestling, I grew out of it and was no longer interested, what had first got me into collecting was no over with. They were sold in a garage sale, and at this point I kind of regret getting rid of them.
As the years went by, I began to collect Baseball cards and Football cards as well. I began to watch Baseball in 2003, the year the Detroit Tigers (my hometown team) Lost 119 games. However, I didn’t begin to collect Baseball cards until 2005, I stuck to buying retail packs out of the local party stores vendy machine that had singles and retail packs. That summer, I pulled my best card to that point, at first I almost threw the card out because I didn’t realize what it was until I turned it over, it ended up being a 2004 Topps Total Pedro Martinez 1/1 Printing Press Plate. The odds I later found out of pulling a 1/1 out of a retail pack where slim to none, but I somehow did it! I’ve collected Baseball ever since!
In 2006 when I started to watch Football I quickly got into collecting them as well. The summer of 2006, I opened the most boxes of my life, trading cards to a local card shop in exchange for boxes of cards, I had so much fun doing that which is what the hobby is suppose to be all about. Having fun trading, opening boxes and putting them away! I collect Football still, but not much.
That’s my story of getting in the hobby and my experiences, it may be like some of your experiences and it may be completely different than others. It started with good marketing skills, but my brother helped me out along the way.
I was around seven years young. I was a heavy WWE (then WWF) fan. I collected anything of Wrestling, shirts, hats, memorabilia. All except cards. Well one day, at Meijers, i saw a box of WWF trading cards, i was very intrigued by it, so i begged my mom to buy it for me, of course she gave in and got it for me. I went home and had a blast opening it, i got the full base set and a ring used mat card, i forget the player, but i thought it was the greatest thing in the world!
For the next three years I continued collecting Wrestling cards, while my older brother, three years older than I was was heavily collecting Hockey cards. He got me into Hockey because he was buying boxes of Hockey cards that got 400-500 cards in one box for $20. Well i continued collecting Wrestling cards, but quickly got into Hockey as well. The only problem was that I didn't know who most of the players were because i didn't like to watch Hockey at all, so that quickly ended my collecting Hockey, but not my collecting Wrestling.
About one year later, I began to take an intrest in Basketball. This was at the 2003-04 season. I always loved the game of Basketball, so I thought to myself, why not! Well i had a $80 gift certificate to spend and i found a box at Meijer for a 2003-04 Upper Deck MVP box that guarnteed 1 LeBron James card per pack. There was 36 packs. Now as a 10-11 year old, it didnt matter these LeBron cards would be virtually worth nothing, i was to happy to know that the #1 pick of the draft had one card per pack!
Once I had got into collecting Basketball I slowly ended collecting Wrestling, I grew out of it and was no longer interested, what had first got me into collecting was no over with. They were sold in a garage sale, and at this point I kind of regret getting rid of them.
As the years went by, I began to collect Baseball cards and Football cards as well. I began to watch Baseball in 2003, the year the Detroit Tigers (my hometown team) Lost 119 games. However, I didn’t begin to collect Baseball cards until 2005, I stuck to buying retail packs out of the local party stores vendy machine that had singles and retail packs. That summer, I pulled my best card to that point, at first I almost threw the card out because I didn’t realize what it was until I turned it over, it ended up being a 2004 Topps Total Pedro Martinez 1/1 Printing Press Plate. The odds I later found out of pulling a 1/1 out of a retail pack where slim to none, but I somehow did it! I’ve collected Baseball ever since!
In 2006 when I started to watch Football I quickly got into collecting them as well. The summer of 2006, I opened the most boxes of my life, trading cards to a local card shop in exchange for boxes of cards, I had so much fun doing that which is what the hobby is suppose to be all about. Having fun trading, opening boxes and putting them away! I collect Football still, but not much.
That’s my story of getting in the hobby and my experiences, it may be like some of your experiences and it may be completely different than others. It started with good marketing skills, but my brother helped me out along the way.