03-13-2020, 10:31 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-02-2020, 09:35 PM by DrMitchJ.)
Some quick thoughts about 2011 ... The Trout are Jumping, AGAIN!
Some quick thoughts about 2011 ... The Trout are Jumping, AGAIN!
I started back into cards 9+ years ago.
As I mentioned in previous posts, I usually picked up a pack or 2 during baseball spring training as a throwback to my old collecting days and perchance nab a few Yankees in the process. One day in Target, seeing Heritage for the first time, I happened to pick up a pack of that 62 throwback design and I was rewarded with an awesome hit. My lucky Brooks Robinson red auto pull set me up for my card collecting resurgence. At the time I was extremely ignorant about the changes to the industry and trends and etc ... and I was flying by the seat of my pants. This was also prior to me discovering this very useful forum and all the helpful contributors therein.
Anyway, back when I was buying cards in 2011, I was picking up way too much of Flagship because of that online contest and I unwittingly lost some good cards in trades of contest cards for old Topps cards ignorantly thinking they were gonna be pristine gem mint from the Topps vault ... I was in for a rude awakening when these uncollectible cards showed up ... some even looked like cards that I put in my bicycle spokes decades ago ... but I digress.
Just by total dumb and misguided luck, I started collecting Anthony Rizzo RC cards only because my nephews have the same last name and I figured that eventually, they'd inherit my card collection. Buying up 2011 Update packs for Rizzo cards and contest codes brought me a whole load of other rookies that I really didn't know. In fact back then, I thought Mark Trumbo was Mike Trout and viceversa ( both rookies, both Angels, both MT) anyway, my disappointment was in only amassing about a dozen Rizzo RCs but having sooooo many multiple other RCs like Trumbo or was it Trout?
Turns out I was really lucky to have a butt load of Trout US175 when all was said and done. Like Bob Ross was quoted as saying "a happy little accident"
So, the moral of the story, at least in retrospect regarding my collecting habits / strategies... dumb luck has always been better than my own targeted purchasing of players/prospects. i.e. Casey Kelly, Arismendy Alcantara to name a few of my failed attempts. I'm probably the countries foremost (only) Casey Kelly collector, BTW. yay me :/
As I mentioned in previous posts, I usually picked up a pack or 2 during baseball spring training as a throwback to my old collecting days and perchance nab a few Yankees in the process. One day in Target, seeing Heritage for the first time, I happened to pick up a pack of that 62 throwback design and I was rewarded with an awesome hit. My lucky Brooks Robinson red auto pull set me up for my card collecting resurgence. At the time I was extremely ignorant about the changes to the industry and trends and etc ... and I was flying by the seat of my pants. This was also prior to me discovering this very useful forum and all the helpful contributors therein.
Anyway, back when I was buying cards in 2011, I was picking up way too much of Flagship because of that online contest and I unwittingly lost some good cards in trades of contest cards for old Topps cards ignorantly thinking they were gonna be pristine gem mint from the Topps vault ... I was in for a rude awakening when these uncollectible cards showed up ... some even looked like cards that I put in my bicycle spokes decades ago ... but I digress.
Just by total dumb and misguided luck, I started collecting Anthony Rizzo RC cards only because my nephews have the same last name and I figured that eventually, they'd inherit my card collection. Buying up 2011 Update packs for Rizzo cards and contest codes brought me a whole load of other rookies that I really didn't know. In fact back then, I thought Mark Trumbo was Mike Trout and viceversa ( both rookies, both Angels, both MT) anyway, my disappointment was in only amassing about a dozen Rizzo RCs but having sooooo many multiple other RCs like Trumbo or was it Trout?
Turns out I was really lucky to have a butt load of Trout US175 when all was said and done. Like Bob Ross was quoted as saying "a happy little accident"
So, the moral of the story, at least in retrospect regarding my collecting habits / strategies... dumb luck has always been better than my own targeted purchasing of players/prospects. i.e. Casey Kelly, Arismendy Alcantara to name a few of my failed attempts. I'm probably the countries foremost (only) Casey Kelly collector, BTW. yay me :/
I guess if I saved used tinfoil and used tea bags instead of old comic books and old baseball cards, the difference between a crazed hoarder and a savvy collector is in that inherent value.