Hello all,
I've blogged before. I've done family blogs, personal blogs, some sports reporting blogs and other random writing. But I've never done any sports card blogging - which is odd considering that I love to collect sports cards.
I've collected basketball cards back when the Shaquille O'Neal rookie was the first real redemption that had to be sent out to collector's. Then, as most people in the card blogoshpere will also relate with, I quit collecting through my late teens and early twenties. Priorities, you know.
But now I'm back. I'd never considered blogging before about cards because I was a huge fan of Wax Heaven. Mario did it best, and I was content to check his site twice or three times a day for news and commentary. Now he's gone. He's got no idea how respected he was.
Now, what kind of a collector am I? Well, I love the Steelers for football, but I've never collected football cards. I love baseball, and watching the Padres, but collecting baseball is a huge undertaking, and building sets sometimes feels like it's archiving more than collecting. And I love boxing and MMA, but those kind of cards are new in the making. I love soccer, US team and English Premier League, but there are no cards of those. SO......
That leaves me with my beloved Trail Blazers. Love the Blazers. Absolutely love them. I scream and pump my fist. I curse officials and coaching. And I've decided that my sweet tooth for collecting is best satisfied with collecting basketball cards. In particular, I like to build sets. My first set to build of this year will be the Panini flagship. I've got two boxes coming my way for Christmas. I'll video tape my breaks and give commentary.
But my collecting passion, my true niche, is collecting (and I hesitate to say it out loud in case somebody starts sniping my ebay buys) is Nicolas Batum Bowman Rookie cards. I've got a real fine collecting going of the Bowman and Bowman Chrome variations of Batum. And I look forward to sharing it all here. I'm going to get active in commenting on the blogosphere, and I hope you all check me out from time to time.
Oh, how cool is it that I got http://www.basketballcardblog.com/? So simple, and it was available for ten bucks a year. It must be a sign.
4 comments:
Nice, what are the odds that we'd have the same idea at the same time. Speaking of sniping ebay buys, I'm a huge Rudy fan. I bet your the guy who outbid me on the Rudy/Batum SP Auto! Oh, well I don't need it that badly. Good luck with your blog. Hopefully we'll get more people in Portland interested in collecting.
LOL,
No I didn't win that auction, but I think I may have had an early bid on it.
Yeah, we need to generate some love for this side of the hobby, especially locally.
wow. a basketball collector. I didn't think there were any anymore.
welcome to the whole sports card blogging thing, and good luck!
Goodluck on your blog! Basketball is horribly under represented at the moment.
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