(12-28-2011, 11:57 AM)ryancholden Wrote: I'm curious. I assume that most of the people in this forum and those that are collecting baseball cards are pretty big baseball fans. My questions are about your rooting intrests:
1) How many of you are fans (diehard, fair weather or otherwise) of one particular team?
2) How did you get to rooting for that team? Were you born into it (maybe your dad rooted for the team)? Did you move to a city with a team?
3) How many of you have a favorite player that is NOT on your team?
My parents moved from North Jersey to South Jersey before I was born and made the decision to try and make me a Philadelphia sports fan early on. When I was old enough to decide on my own, I quickly dropped Philly teams. In 1984, my Dad took me to my first Yankees game and saw this cool new rookie first baseman play named Don Mattingly. I was hooked on pinstripes and the Yankees ever since.
I have a grouping of 12 Yankee players that I purchase cards for on a rotating monthly basis (Pettitte, Bernie, Gardner, Jeter, Mattingly, Matsui, Posada, Rivera, Swisher, O'Neill, Cano, and Tino), but my 3 all-time favorites are still Mattingly, Jeter, and Cano. With Jeter, I have the quantity with 700 cards and with Cano I have the quality with 102 cards but a lot of them are serial numbered, autos, and relics.
I have to say that most of the players I like on other teams are either ex-Yankees or are on my fantasy baseball team (Longoria and Desmond Jennings for example).