Collecting Baseball Cards
Collecting baseball cards has always been a passion of mine and something that started from the day my mom took me to my very first baseball game. I remember it quite clearly, I was only five at the time, but I still remember because that was the time when I got my first baseball card, which you must understand was a magical thing for me at the time.
I treasured it above all else and in fact I still have it, a little ear-worn perhaps, and maybe a little rough around the edges, but still my most prized possession even if it’s not my most expensive baseball card. You see, the thing is that collecting baseball cards has become my hobby, my extreme hobby, but my hobby nonetheless.
I consider collecting baseball cards to be an art form, and something that I am very good with. The fact of the matter though is that not everyone appreciates what they have in their baseball cards, so they don’t take as good care of it as they should have done in the first place, but then again, I guess little kids are a bit difficult to separate from eternally grubby hands.
I scour endlessly through the baseball shops to find the best cards for my collection. These cards can be ones like vintage cards, rookie cards and different current baseball player cards. Of course these cards may be ones which are already in my collection but that does not really matter.
With the many different duplicate cards I have the means of trading these cards for other cards which I have yet to collect. This does not really mean that I will get the cards that I really yearn for or that these cards I trade for will be in the best condition but that doesn’t matter.
The fact of the matter remains though, that collecting baseball cards isn’t for everyone. Not everyone will feel the rush at holding a Troy Glaus rookie card in their hands or the joy of seeing for the first time a card they had thought never to see in their lifetime.
The same anticipation that I feel when I know that I’m going to get my greedy little paws on a vintage Mickey Mantle card is not necessarily felt by many people, and this I consider to be a great loss to them. For me, it’s a boon because there are less people out there collecting baseball cards which means that there’s more for me to find and collect!