I’m a bit of a collector.
I have a few things I like to work on collecting, as funds go. Baseball cards is a big love of mine, as well as geocaching coins, pathtags, geocaching signature items and pins, which I get when I travel or go to different places. I also have some random autographs I like to collect. The one other thing I have, which might be hard to showcase here, is some art. It’s mainly street art and things like so that I grab when I travel.
I’m sure there might be a few other things, but those are the main ones.
In those collections, I have some cool things. At least in my eyes. So I’m going to try and do a weekly feature here where I showcase a different piece of my collection.
This is the first week of it.
Of course, to start things off, I need to go to the baseball card collection.
And it makes sense to go with Pete Rose.
Growing up, I was a massive Pete Rose fan. I’m a firm supporter of him being in the Hall of Fame. Rose was toward the end of his stellar career when I started watching him. I was a Phillies fan and he brought a whole heap of experience to that team, helping the Phils win the 1980 World Series.
Here’s the card:
Being Rose is banned from baseball, I’m pretty sure that means he can’t have any cards in sets that are connected to the MLB or the MLB Players Association.
So a couple of years ago, Leaf put out a set all about Pete Rose. As you can see, there are no team logos in the image. Anyway, if you purchased a box of these cards, you got several packs (the cards were decent) and a guaranteed autograph. I already have a couple of Rose autographs — one I got in person and it’s signed on a ball, and the other is a large photo given to me as a college graduation present from a friend — but having one on a card was too much to pass up.
I purchased the box and this is the autograph I got.
It’s a sharp signature and a pretty decent card. I don’t know if I’d buy the box again as it was a little more expensive than the card is likely worth (Rose signs a lot), but it was fun to open this box. My only disappointment was the card was in a top-loader holder (which is OK), but just in the box. I didn’t get the thrill of opening it in a pack to see what I got.
Still, it’s a great addition to my personal collection. I’ll share more from all my collections in coming weeks!
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It’s fun to have collections. I have postcards that I’ve gotten when traveling but friends also send me there from wherever they go. I have some framed and need to get another frame as have too many from cool places!
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Postcards are cool as well. I have all the postcards I’ve received on postcrossing as they are random, so very cool to have! 🙂
This is very cool. I collect old beer coasters and have many from the 60’s and 70’s that are hard to find.
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Old beer coasters sounds really cool. There are some great ones out there.
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