Wednesday, January 19, 2022

21 years looks like this

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:
the color on that jim landis card is great, and this gets me one card closer to finishing the set.  in the same order, i picked up a card for my other current set build, 2001 topps heritage:
eric chavez is one of the first 80 cards of the set that have red and black back variants. i forget which one my chavez is and i don't care as far as completing the set goes. 

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...

6 comments:

  1. 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.

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    1. 1981 was a good year to start collecting - more options!

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    1. i used to dismiss it but eventually came around. it's really great.

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  3. 21 year-old cards were certainly more interesting when you started than 21 year-old cards are now.

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    1. agreed. too many sets now for a new collector to really understand or focus on set collecting in my opinion.

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