I used to be a huge collector. Have over 600 Chippers and 200 Madduxes and am looking to fill a shit ton of holes over the summer since I’ll have some money to burn. Last summer I sold a ton of my high ticket items since I didn’t have a job and got hosed bigtime on the value of them. Wish I had most of that back.

I’ve collected seriously for a couple of years now. I used to buy the bubble gum packs as a kid, but nothing like today. Now a days, I collect all Braves, but I focus most of my collection toward Frenchy. Here’s a link to the site

Did you guys get to check out my photobucket?

Some nice stuff in there.

Yes, prices on packs are rediculous. I rarely buy un opened products. I buy a ton of singles on ebay. Why spend 30$ on a few packs and hit nothing when i can buy a nice Chipper Jones certified auto on ebay for 30$

I used to collect as a kid back in the late 80’s-early 90’s, when the hobby was spiraling downward. i can remember thinking those Stadium Club’s of Ken Griffey Jr were gonna be worth $100 some day! Of course any Braves card was gold to me and i had a notebook that all Braves cards went in. I got out of it in my teen years, but when i started dating my now wife a few years ago, i saw my future father in law was collecting. i was amazed at what was being done with cards, putting pieces of jerseys and bats in cards. i started getting back into slowly, but now i’m back into it full bore. I have gotten quite a collection of hall of famer game used cards: Ty Cobb bat, Ted Williams jersey, Joe Dimaggio jersey, Mickey Mantle jersey, Hank Aaron jersey, Eddie Mathews jersey, and many others. I buy most of my high dollar cards on ebay, i can’t afford the risk of those expensive boxes. But my proudest moment was when i did buy an expensive box, and pulled a Babe Ruth jersey card. I’m still in shock of how lucky i was! I still keep a Braves only notebook, with Chipper as my favorite player to collect. I just finished up an effort to collect every team checklist card of the Braves (the ones with the team picture). These cards were made from 1956-1981, and started back up again in 2001. Its cool to see all those teams lined up in row. I’ve also gotten into the prospect craze, mainly focusing on Braves prospects, getting auto’d cards of Heyward, Jurrjens, Gorkys Hernandez, Cody johnson, Jeff Locke, Tommy Hanson, and others too. Besides the Ruth card, my other pride is my Braves shadow box, and i’ll try to get that picture up for ya’ll to see. The coolest card in their is from 2007 Triple Threads-a six player card that spells out “Braves”, with game used items of McCann, Francouer, Chipper, smoltz, andruw, and Hudson.

...get players to auto cards…I don’t have anything really stellar, but I have got a few decent ones. There are some websites out there that give you addresses of guys that do sign and return cards. www.stararchive.net (I think) is one. I’ve recently been buying up some cheap, older Braves cards that aren’t worth much in hopes of getting them signed eventually. I am hoping to start back up this summer.

I put my shadow box up on photobucket: http://s183.photobucket.com/albums/x176/drewdyar/cards/

I just got my favorite Jason Heyward card in the mail yesterday.

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd156/cgilmo78/large%20scans/heywardgem.jpg

By the way Rome is a GREAT place for in person autographs.

i spent $140 on chippers from the early 90s i didn’t have yesterday thanks to you assholes. filling these holes is going to be A PAIN IN THE ASS.

ha!

don’t worry about holes man, just buy what you like. Right now is a bad time to buy Chipper, prices are really high. I am actually going to unload some game used cards of Chipper because prices are up, and I do not like the game used. I greatly perfer the autographs.