Comments on: My Youthful Obsession with Fuck-Face http://www.marathonpacks.com/2008/12/i-was-huge-baseball-card-collector-as/ someone warn the plains! Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:15:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Scott http://www.marathonpacks.com/2008/12/i-was-huge-baseball-card-collector-as/comment-page-1/#comment-2272 Scott Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:49:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2008/12/my-youthful-obsession-with-fuck-face.html#comment-2272 man, I've got like 30 Don Mattingly cards sitting at home. Dude was my favorite. I have the complete '84 Topps set. I used Bar Mitzvah money to buy it. man, I’ve got like 30 Don Mattingly cards sitting at home. Dude was my favorite. I have the complete ‘84 Topps set. I used Bar Mitzvah money to buy it.

]]> By: Eric (not the author of this site) http://www.marathonpacks.com/2008/12/i-was-huge-baseball-card-collector-as/comment-page-1/#comment-2269 Eric (not the author of this site) Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:40:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2008/12/my-youthful-obsession-with-fuck-face.html#comment-2269 Yes, i must admit, this is embarrassingly close to home for me too. We must've grown up at the same time.<br/><br/>I grew up in Indy myself, and distinctly remember going to Indianapolis Ice hockey games around 1993-96. Back then, there was a small makeshift card shop at every game, sprawled across 3 or 4 folding banquet tables that were set up in the space behind the goal. Between periods, they'd open up for 20 minutes to sell cards. My weekly allowance went solely to purchasing cards at Ice games back then.<br/><br/>Oh yeah, and I still have a shoebox (an Air Jordan shoebox, no less!) full of Becketts in a closet somewhere from that same era. They're even stuffed in plastic sleeves. Yes, i must admit, this is embarrassingly close to home for me too. We must’ve grown up at the same time.

I grew up in Indy myself, and distinctly remember going to Indianapolis Ice hockey games around 1993-96. Back then, there was a small makeshift card shop at every game, sprawled across 3 or 4 folding banquet tables that were set up in the space behind the goal. Between periods, they’d open up for 20 minutes to sell cards. My weekly allowance went solely to purchasing cards at Ice games back then.

Oh yeah, and I still have a shoebox (an Air Jordan shoebox, no less!) full of Becketts in a closet somewhere from that same era. They’re even stuffed in plastic sleeves.

]]> By: Adam http://www.marathonpacks.com/2008/12/i-was-huge-baseball-card-collector-as/comment-page-1/#comment-2268 Adam Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:34:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2008/12/my-youthful-obsession-with-fuck-face.html#comment-2268 "If any of this sounds familiar--obsessive gathering and organizing, finding missing pieces to complete sets, setting up sub-rosa networks for "trading", then you'll understand why my segue into music collecting was such a natural progression."<br/><br/>Brilliant, and so embarrassingly close to home. “If any of this sounds familiar–obsessive gathering and organizing, finding missing pieces to complete sets, setting up sub-rosa networks for “trading”, then you’ll understand why my segue into music collecting was such a natural progression.”

Brilliant, and so embarrassingly close to home.

]]> By: Matt http://www.marathonpacks.com/2008/12/i-was-huge-baseball-card-collector-as/comment-page-1/#comment-2265 Matt Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:36:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2008/12/my-youthful-obsession-with-fuck-face.html#comment-2265 fuck yes Fuck Face!<br/><br/>i definitely had that card, as well as a blacked out version if i remember correctly. <br/><br/>my uncle gave me his 1967-69 Tops cards in the mid-late '80s and i proceeded to use them, and Beckett (obvs) to procure modern day cards i deemed more valuable.<br/><br/>one trade i remember well is that i traded a Nolan Ryan rookie card for a Donruss Don Mattingly rookie.<br/><br/>what can i say? Yankees fans are as Yankees fans does... fuck yes Fuck Face!

i definitely had that card, as well as a blacked out version if i remember correctly.

my uncle gave me his 1967-69 Tops cards in the mid-late ’80s and i proceeded to use them, and Beckett (obvs) to procure modern day cards i deemed more valuable.

one trade i remember well is that i traded a Nolan Ryan rookie card for a Donruss Don Mattingly rookie.

what can i say? Yankees fans are as Yankees fans does…

]]> By: w&amp;w http://www.marathonpacks.com/2008/12/i-was-huge-baseball-card-collector-as/comment-page-1/#comment-2262 w&amp;w Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:14:00 +0000 http://174.132.200.226/~marathon/mpax/2008/12/my-youthful-obsession-with-fuck-face.html#comment-2262 Oh man, this is a blast from the past. We were definitely collecting together -- almost exact same time-frame, an unfortunate moment since it seems our adolescence coincided precisely with a moment of overproduction in the card industry, making even those carefully collected complete sets worth bupkis. (I had a clatch of Wally Joyner rookie cards. And felt a little suspect/resentful of Upper Deck's sudden, pricey entrance into the game with those $14 Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards.) And Beckett's! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Oh man, this is a blast from the past. We were definitely collecting together — almost exact same time-frame, an unfortunate moment since it seems our adolescence coincided precisely with a moment of overproduction in the card industry, making even those carefully collected complete sets worth bupkis. (I had a clatch of Wally Joyner rookie cards. And felt a little suspect/resentful of Upper Deck’s sudden, pricey entrance into the game with those $14 Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards.) And Beckett’s! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

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