https://www.sportscardforum.com/blogs/47394-historic1985 SportsCardForum is your source for everything related to sports cards for collectors and non-collectors alike! en Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:13:10 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.sportscardforum.com/images/misc/rss.jpg https://www.sportscardforum.com/blogs/47394-historic1985 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1048-2010-T206-or-Allen-and-Ginter Wed, 08 Dec 2010 03:14:46 GMT Im in the process of deciding which hobby box I should get. I like both sets equally, but if it was you, what would you get and why? Leave me a little response so I can maybe decide on what to get. ... Im in the process of deciding which hobby box I should get. I like both sets equally, but if it was you, what would you get and why? Leave me a little response so I can maybe decide on what to get.

Thank you fellow collectors,

-historic- ]]> historic1985 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1048-2010-T206-or-Allen-and-Ginter https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1044-Old-vs-New Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:11:23 GMT ok,

its round two of this whole blogging thing, and the last blog got 29 views. I was surprised, and I'm sure most of you didnt really care to read it, but like I said, its for the collectors that just might be interested.

This wave of new baseball cards that Topps keeps coming out with has put me on the fence for many reasons.

OLD: Who wouldn't want an original 1951 Bowman Willie Mays!? I know I would...if I had started saving 20 years ago. But it's not so much the player for me as much as the year and the history behind it all. Yeah, Mays was an up and coming rookie in 1951, but it was a card manufacturers 4th year in business that lasted from 1948 to 1955. Its the fact that the card from that era that you have in your possession has a history and story all its own. Whatever card from whatever year that you might have...take a look at it and just imagine where it's been, and what it took to get into your collection. Maybe you'll have a little better appreciation for those certain cards.

NEW: Who wouldn't want a card fresh from a pack with Tim Lincecums signature on it!? I know I would!!! TWICE! The cards these days are somewhat comparable to vintage, minus the story and history. They still put the good ol' Hall Of Famers on the cards, now, with a piece of their jersey, bat, or even autograph...if your that lucky.

To be honest. I enjoy both. Vintage doesn't lose its value, but I'm gonna hang on to my 2010 Allen and Ginter Buster Posey Relic Jersey and see what happens...along with the 58' Mantle, as any collector would.

Thanks again for reading...

-Historic- ]]> historic1985 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1044-Old-vs-New https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1042-Baseball-Cards-for-Christmas Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:05:25 GMT Hello fellow collectors...or buyers, sellers and traders,

Clearly im Historic1985 on a few trade sites and I'm new to all this "online" trading, buying and selling of strictly baseball cards. I've been able to collect baseball cards since I was old enough to...16 years to be exact. so im not an old timer with wisetales of opening wax packs of 50's and 60's Topps just for the gum and using the 52' Mantle to make my bike sound like a motorcycle.
I come from the times of wax packs of early 90's topps and the thin foil wrappers of upper deck where, at the time, it was incredible to get a card with an engraved "silver or gold" signature of some no name player only to find out 16 years later its still worth 40 cents.

But one Christmas morning a looooong time ago my dad introduced me to REAL baseball cards. I unwrapped a bubble mailer full of "vintage" Topps baseball cards. I remember the first thing I said when I laid my eyes on that one card. It had a yellow background with some dominican looking guys face in the circle. I said, "who's Bob Clemente?"
That 15 to 20 card lot/christmas present consisted of 1959's of Yogi Berra, Hank Aaron, Roger Maris, Duke Snider and many more that I wish I could remember. All in all it was almost $1000 BV worth of cards. And being the stupid arrogant teenager I was back then....I sold them all....for basically nothing.

10 years later....lesson lived, lesson learned. I still sell cards. But thanks to the internet, I know, that I can always relive those amazing past Christmas mornings again and again.

These days I appreciate what baseball cards have taught me, and what joy and excitement it is to have the access to the great history of baseball and its historic memorabilia.

thanks for reading, im going to start blogging more and more...not so much for the reader, but for me, and if you feel the same way I do then lets hear what you got.

thanks again

Historic1985 ]]> historic1985 https://www.sportscardforum.com/entries/1042-Baseball-Cards-for-Christmas