i started buying and collecting baseball cards in 1978. what that meant was that a 1957 card was 21 years old at that time. certainly vintage (i consider pre-1970 to be vintage), and i remember seeing a 1957 card at the card shop and thinking that it was really old.
i recently bought a card from topps' 1957 set as i continue to chip away at my set build:
when the cards arrived, it occurred to me that the chavez card would be the same to a new card collector in 2022 as the 1957 cards were to me when i started collecting. time marches on...
I started collecting (baseball cards) in 1981... so last year was 40 years (although I took a few breaks here and there). Anyways... I remember thinking 40 years before 1981 was 1941. That was the year Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Sorry... my ADD kicked in and I lost my train of thought.
ReplyDelete1981 was a good year to start collecting - more options!
DeleteI love that '57 set.
ReplyDeletei used to dismiss it but eventually came around. it's really great.
Delete21 year-old cards were certainly more interesting when you started than 21 year-old cards are now.
ReplyDeleteagreed. too many sets now for a new collector to really understand or focus on set collecting in my opinion.
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