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

[wildcats97champs]

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

I'm 29 Been Collecting Cards Since I Was 15 And Gu Since I Was 18. I Use To Own A Card Store But When The Econ Crashed I Was Forced To Close It Down

[ethanoah]

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18 - Started collecting around 8 or 9 with cards and got into game used stuff about 5 years ago.

[WadeInBmore]

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29 YOA. Been collecting GU since 2007 and got back into collecting baseball cards (vintage RCs only) in 2006.

wade

[3arod13]

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50. Been collecting for 36 years. Started out with sports cards (36 years); then autographs (22 years); then game used (13 years). My first game used was a Juan Gonzalez game used bat, batting gloves, and cleats. Was hooked from then on.

Regards, Tony

[momen55]

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40. been collecting stuff for over 25 years, mainly clemente. game used for about 10-11 years.

[athletics61]

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I'm on the old side at 61, though still in great health. Now retired, and walk typically 5-10 miles daily. I've been a baseball fan since 1957 ( I remember the Dodgers moving from Brooklyn). But I started game-used collecting only about 5 years ago. I grew up in the small town of Milledgeville, Ga (of recent NFL infamy), but moved to South Carolina as a young adult, and was never near enough to a major-league team to know g-u stuff was available until recently.

Coxfan, good for you! I walk 4-6 miles daily and ride a bike for leisure fun.

I am 48 and have collected cards since 1977. My first game worn jersey was purchased in 1988; it is a green 1985 Athletics Bill Krueger and I still have it.

Don

[lowell25]

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34 years old.

Started collecting cards in 86'.

Started collecting gu items 04'.

[Masimen]

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38 years old. Been collecting since about 96/97, although I got my first game used bat way back in 81 while at a Yankee game, when Aurelio Rodriguez cracked his bat during BP and guy walked up and handed it to me. Still have that bat.

[coxfan]

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I'm on the old side at 61, though still in great health. Now retired, and walk typically 5-10 miles daily. I've been a baseball fan since 1957 ( I remember the Dodgers moving from Brooklyn). But I started game-used collecting only about 5 years ago. I grew up in the small town of Milledgeville, Ga (of recent NFL infamy), but moved to South Carolina as a young adult, and was never near enough to a major-league team to know g-u stuff was available until recently.

[sox83cubs84]

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I was 51 last September, and have been into game used items since 1975.

Dave Miedema

[legaleagle92481]

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Wow we are all on the young side (or is it just that those who are much older did not want to respond). It is great though it means that the hobby will be strong for years to come.

[MarinersFan34]

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Age: 32

Collecting Cards: 1986

Collecting Game Used: 2002

[UGA-1]

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42 years old and started collecting baseball cards at age 12 up until around 35. Had over 750,000 cards! Started in GU collecting and have sold 95% of them to fund this venture.

[Ollie]

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I'm 23, 24 in three months. I've been collecting for 5 years.

[tmpjets]

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I am 24, have been collecting cards since I was 7 and auot/game used since 2002. It is like a drug. Go Mariners!