Anyone familiar with collecting sports cards or any collectable for that matter knows that the internet is a great resource when it comes to tracking down new additions for your collection. Since many of collectables are now purchased or traded via the internet, opening the mailbox to see it filled with bubble mailers has become pretty exciting! Within the sports card community, people often like to share the new cards they've added to their personal collections through forums, YouTube, and blogs. I've never really been successful with keeping any thread on sportscardforum.com up to date with my mail days so I've decided to give it another shot by creating this blog to track my mail days from this day forward. I really hope I'll be able to stick it out!
While the main purpose for this blog is to keep track of mail days, there will be times when I will discuss other issues within the sports card hobby or perhaps something eventful or worth writing about when it comes to sports in general.
Now a short insight into my background and who, what, and why I collect...
I'm from Honolulu, HI., and I used to collect sports cards and trading cards such as Magic the Gathering, Pokemon, etc. Eventually I grew out of the collecting phase of my life and got into other hobbies such as sports, video games, drawing/painting, model building, etc. I recently got back into the sports card hobby at the end of my senior year of high school in 2007. A friend of mine got me back into collecting when he asked me if I wanted to go check out a card shop near his house. This was the day that started it all... I left the shop that day with a 2006 Topps Finest Basketball Hobby Box... after ripping it open later that night at his house I was hooked! I was completely stoked to pull a Brandon Roy base rookie as well as the refractor version.
Here's a look at the cards that got me into the hobby!
Brandon Roy - 2006 Topps Finest Refractor RC #89 (Left) & Brandon Roy - 2006 Topps Finest RC #89 (Right)
Flash forward a few years now... I've just returned home to Hawaii from college at the University of Oregon where I spent the past four years earning my B.S. in Geography. During my years in Eugene, I've become a die hard duck fan and decided to attempt to collect cards of former ducks across all sports. The main focus of my collection being Football Cards since there are a handful of ducks currently in the NFL. I've also been able to obtain a few NBA cards since there are several ducks in the NBA such as Aaron Brooks and Luke Ridnour. Finding Ducks Baseball cards has been more challenging but I'm glad the school brought back baseball in 2009 so there's a chance Ducks will begin to enter the Majors in a few years. While the majority of my mail days will be focused on adding to my Oregon Duck Collection, I also collect cards of my favorite baseball team, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and my favorite basketball team, the Portland Trailblazers!
Look forward to discussing my mail days and other issues/topics within the sports card hobby with all of you within the near future! Feel free to post comments or questions for me and I will do my best to respond!
- Tom
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