Just Curious what the Average Age of a Collector is and How many years have you been collecting Game Used?

[sandiegosportsfan]

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I am 34 and have been collecting since I was about 18.

[casmith12]

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I am 17 and I have been collecting g/u for 5 years

[spartanservitto]

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25, since I was 12.

-Tony

[gdgyankees]

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15 and ive been collecting since i was around 6 or 7.

[solarlottry]

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My name is Paul Martin and i am 43 and have been collecting for 17 years. I had a fairly extensive 49ers collection but sold most of it about 12 years ago. Since then i have bought a few shirts here and there but nothing big until i had the chance to buy 4 home 49ers shirts from last season with the pink captains patch. Now i am back in and looking for the shirts i sold! i actually have been able to re-acquire one of my old shirts and was thrilled. I bought a Stubblefield game used in the 1993 NFC championship game from GF about 18 months ago and had owned that shirt way back in 1995!!!!

Always looking for any 49ers GU shirts!

[Yankwood]

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I'm 54 and practically inactive at this point. Lots of reasons for that but I still look around. I started collecting bats in the early to mid 80s and dabbled at jerseys for awhile but mostly stuck to bats and Rochester Red Wings items.

[ryant7]

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Ill be 25 in July and i have been collecting Game used Stuff since i was 15. I can remember going to old cardinal stadium in Louisville to watch the Bats play i averaged a cracked bat a night. The collection grew tremendously Opening season i think i had an average of something like 2 and a half bats a game. The next season they hired me as a batboy and i stayed there for 2 years. Greatest 2 summers ever. I still collect and still have lots of contacts with the Bats.

[bigtruck260]

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I am 35 and have collected stuff since I was 9.
I bought my first game used bat at the Union Station clubhouse store back in the early 2000's.

[dcrules01]

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39 been collecting for 4 years

[xpress34]

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46 and I've been collecting 'something' for as long as I can remember... comic books as a kid, then coins, then 1st Day Covers...

In High School I go back into comic books and started really getting into baseball cards... in college I sold all of my Silver Age Marvel Comics to pay for tuition (a year too early I might add - right before the boom) but still collected cards and autos and got introduced into GU items when I purchased a 1972 Texas Rangers flannel for $25... man I wish I still had that jersey!!!

From there I added bats and hats and have flipped my collection many times over the years due to expenses, ex-wife, etc...

I have been solidly back into since about 2000 and have a great wife who understands my collecting bug and backs me on it... ironically, my kid (16 now) can't stand baseball, but just got into comics in the last few years, so I am rebuilding my Silver Age Marvel Comics collection as well!!!

I'm enjoying reading everyone's stories!

All the best -

Chris

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I'm 33, began with cards as a teenager, game used stuff for about 2 years

[karamaxjoe]

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45 years old and have been collecting Sox jerseys since the strike year in 94 when I found a flannel in my father-in-laws attic.

[Mulligans]

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Hey Bobby...Great Bonds story!

Enjoy it while you can...you hit a certain age (like some of us) and you are guaranteed that no player will ever hand you his GU stuff!

Then you have kids and you just HOPE that they can wiggle there way in there to get something good for Dad to get his hands on!!!!

[geoff]

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I am 32 Years Old And have been Collecting Game Used-Worn Items since late 2005.I Started Collecting Cards And Autographs ever since I can Remember as A Kid.I do still Collect Autographs but now I get them all myself And I really don't Collect Cards anymore except with my Father who Collects Tobacco Graded Cards.If anyone has Any Graded Cards let me know.


Thanks
Geoff

geof631@yahoo.com

[lehmsbobby]

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ill be 17 in august.

Have been interested in game used since Barry Bonds handed me his game used bat out of the dugout in 2000. All of my bats that I had up until I found this site last year were given to me by players at games, but I am now branching out a bit.