Collections: Part 2 - Electric Boogaloo

So, I covered 3 collections of mine in yesterday's entry. Today I will go over my most prized collections. Guitars and sports cards/memorabilia. ...and I think I will save the guitars for last.

Sports cards/memorabilia:
It is amazing that I can remember the first sports cards that I collected considering I cn't even remember what I had for lunch yesterday. Yet, I distinctly remember buying packs of 1992-93 Topps basketball cards and getting a Michael Jordan card out of the set. I was SO excited. That was Shaquille O'Neal's rookie year, too, and I currently have bunch of his rookie cards from various sets.

Over the years, I've spent a ludicrous amount of money on sports cards. (Probably over $50,000). I would almost say that collecting cards is an addiction since I do tend to have cravings/urges to open packs every so often.

Some of my top cards are:
1986-87 Fleer Michael Jordan PSA 8
a 1994 Score Alex Rodriguez Call-Up PSA 10
2007-08 Topps Finest Kevin Durant Blue Refractor BGS 10 (remember, I LOVE blue things)
2007-08 Topps Finest Derrick Rose Blue Refractor BGS 10
2009 Leaf Limited Barry Sanders Material Monikers 04/10 (That means there are only 10 in the world)

Thanks to my mom collecting baseball cards when she was younger, I have some old ones like Yogi Berra rookies, a Stan Musial, and some others.





I'm not as fervent a collector of memorabilia as I am of cards because as I mentioned I get a rush/high from opening packs or boxes of cards. I don't get that with memorabilia, though. That said, I have a few autographed mini-helmets (remember how I like miniature things?), a couple of autographed footballs and baseballs, an autographed baseball glove, etc, etc.



The top helmet in this picture was autographed by Barry Sanders, the middle one by Drew Bledsoe, and the bottom one by Ray Rice.

Since this post was a bit longer than I expected (and I didn't even cover about 90% of my collection), I am going to devote a separate post to my guitars.

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