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Whining about collecting modern cards

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budler

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Joined: Dec 2017

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:01 AM

My Husker collection is like your Cubs. In 1991 I figured I had 69% of all the huskers cards out there. My though was I can get them all. Then years later I find out there was a lot more older cards then I have on my list.

In the 80s and early 90's my son and myself build sets. When he quit collecting I started focusing on Topps sets and my Huskers. Then 2000 it started to be my Huskers only.

The frustrating part for me is . Ahman Green played for a lot of years (1998 RC) and was very good. He has only a few more cards then Ameer Abdullah (2015 RC) By my count Ameer has more Autos in his rookie year then Ahman has all his years. Ahman, Ameer and Suh all have over 2,000 cards. Guys from Nebraska that never made the roster has a couple hundred cards.

Lerxst2112 wrote:

I suppose I'm at a loss as to what people are interested in collecting anymore. I'm an old school guy. I started with the goal of collecting every Cubs card. Then the late 90's hit and that pretty much went out the window. First just Topps/OPC, then add Donruss and Fleer, Sportflics, Score then Bowman returns with Upper Deck. And then it explodes, every company has multiple releases. Then we start with chase cards and multiple parallel sets. That's not good enough so we make artificial short prints. It's mind boggling. I'm pretty solid on Cubs pre 1996 or so. The last 20 years.... pretty much just Topps base cards. I don't even know how brick and mortar stores survive anymore. It has to be on retail product and I'm not sure what the margin can be on that. I tried finding some basic Topps cards I needed with zero luck at local stores. They don't even look like they're set up to sell singles from sets. Random cards are stored haphazardly in monster boxes, no real rhyme or reason. I love the thrill of opening up a pack. Brings me back to the 60's sitting on the sidewalk corner after buying packs at the local corner store, wad of that sugary gum in mouth, sifting through cards... got em, got em, need em. There's just too much product now, much too expensive (especially for kids) with too little I care to call part of "my collection".

Guess I really need to get my for trade set up. Been spending time getting the collection and wants/needs entered in. Already at #3 for Cubs card collectors (still a lot to get put in) and that's with the last 20 years having only Topps base cards of the Cubs.

Billy Kingsley

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Joined: Aug 2011

Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:33 AM

That is definitely a problem with modern cards. It's not even collectors who caused it, but flippers. I can't tell you how many NBA players get cards as rookies and then never again. There's far too many.

One of my favorite things is to watch the new people entering my collection climb the charts tracking how many I have of each person. That's kind of been taken away, partly by the fact that I'm getting less new cards, partly because of the way current cards are made.

But I know anybody who primarily played before the 1990s, is not properly represented on cardboard. Somebody like Bill Russell or Wilt Chamberlain should be way higher than they are.

I know that in my top 10 most cards, every one of them entered the NBA between 1984-99, and the guy from 99 is only in the top 10 because he's my all time favorite and I chase his cards as singles. I know that anybody who entered the league in the 2000s is unlikely to make the top 10. LeBron is closest and he just cracked the top 100 in 2017, let alone top 10. The highest player who entered the NBA in 2007 or later, the year I took my break before coming back in 2012- the last I checked he ranked 367th. That was a few months ago and I've added a few of him since then, but he probably has not gotten much higher.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018 11:17 PM
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