Welcome to my first post!

Original, well-loved, cards from my youth. Rose: "I'd walk
through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball."

My Story:
I started collecting sports cards back in 1970 when I was about 9-yrs old. If I recall correctly, the first packs I opened in 70 and 71 contained a card of Pete Rose. Rose became my favorite player because of his hustle and desire to win, and he was one of the main cogs of the Cincinnati Reds Big Red Machine, my favorite team. (I still consider Rose to be one of the best players ever, but I have no respect for what he has done outside of the white lines)

I collected a lot of cards up until mid 1975 which is when my interests changed, but I never got rid of those cards (nor were they thrown away by mom or dad, thankfully). I got back into collecting, on and off, from the mid 80's up to this day, but only baseball cards.

Over the years, I realized I had a fairly decent collection of player cards from those days and started to organize my collection into a few groups, mostly cards of members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame, Negro League, and some other unique mini-collections. I continue to try and build up these collections to this day.

With the other remaining (and numerous) cards in my collection, I started some other collections of cards that I thought were cool and I thought might be of interest to others (errors, nicknames, stadiums, no. 1 draft picks, 2-sport athletes, etc.). I'm hoping there are others out there that may be interested in those, and maybe we can make some exchanges.

Earlier in 2019 I stumbled onto some baseball card blogs that I found to be really interesting and informative, and realized that there are like-minded collectors out there that might be interested in seeing some of my collection and sharing information. If you see a gap in my collection and feel compelled to help fill it, please be sure to let me know how I can reciprocate.

So this is my foray into the blog world. I don't know where it's going to go, or how frequent I'll post, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.

I hope you enjoy this site, and I hope to make some connections to share information, perhaps trade with, and establish some new relationships. Feel free to connect, and thanks for stopping by.

Regards,
Bill

aka CinciCuse Bill