Dodgers Baseball Card Collection: July 2013

Friday, July 12, 2013

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/dodgers/2013/07/09/los-angeles-dodgers-arizona-diamondbacks-luis-gonzalez-yasiel-puig-mark-mcgwire/2504523/

All I could do was laugh at this article. Luis Gonzalez is one of the nice guys in baseball but to expect a player who was ten years old when you played ball and had no access to major league baseball games on television to recognize you and give you the time of day when everyone's been trying to get a piece of him since he's come up while he's at the cage focusing on batting practice is less of a story about him disrespecting a "legend" and more about the "legend" not knowing how to handle being humbled by not being recognized. McGwire was the real class act helping Gonzalez safe face.

Introduction

I began collecting baseball cards in 1987 when I was 11 years old. After little league games we would receive a raffle ticket which we could use at the field snack bar and I began choosing to use mine on a pack of baseball cards. I stopped collecting in 1992 when the popularity of cards exploded. I moved my interests to music. I picked up collecting again as an adult in 2002. When I started back up I made the decision to create an area of focus for my collection. I am a HUGE Dodgers fan so I decided that I would collect every Dodgers Topps card from 1995 (the year I graduated H.S.) and earlier. I chose to stick with just Topps because that's what I collected when I was younger. Over time that focus has held to form with a couple exceptions. At some point I began to include odd-ball food cards (and discs) to my collection and also decided that I would collect any cards that were vintage (prior to 1965). I don't spend too much time looking for them but if they cross my path I certainly will not pass at the opportunity to snatch them up! Hope you enjoy following me on the journey to completing my collection!