⚾Getting Back Into Sports Cards? Do These 7 Things First🙂
David Gonos
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✅Our Lists of the Best Rookie Cards From Every Year in Each Sport!✅
⚾ Baseball: https://davidgonos.com/who-are-the-be...
🏀 Basketball: https://davidgonos.com/who-are-the-be...
🏈 Football: https://davidgonos.com/best-football-...
🏒 Hockey: https://davidgonos.com/best-hockey-ro...
Getting back into sports cards after years away? Before you start buying hobby boxes, entering breaks or chasing every hot rookie card, follow these seven steps for returning collectors.
A 45-year-old buddy recently asked me how he could recapture the fun of collecting cards as a kid while also buying cards that might hold or increase their value. That combination of childhood nostalgia and adult money can build an incredible collection—but it can also lead to some expensive mistakes!
In this Comeback Collector guide, we’ll talk about how to:
⚾ Decide what you really want from the hobby
💵 Create a realistic monthly card budget
🛣️ Choose your collecting lanes
📝 Build a dream-card list before spending
📦 Balance buying singles with ripping wax
🔍 Sample unfamiliar products without overspending
🤝 Find trustworthy collecting advice and enjoy the process
The central rule is simple:
*Buy singles to build your collection. Rip wax for fun.*
You don’t need to collect every player, rookie, parallel, team or product. You have the rest of your life to build a great sports card collection, so choose a few meaningful targets and take your time.
If you’re a returning sports card collector trying to build a better collection with a real-world budget, subscribe to the channel and join our Comeback Collector community!
Get the free Happy Hobby Sports Cards newsletter and podcast:
https://gonos.substack.com
*TIMESTAMPS*
0:00 Getting back into sports cards
1:22 Welcome to the Comeback Collector community
2:10 Step 1: Decide what you want from the hobby
3:35 Step 2: Set a monthly sports card budget
6:42 Step 3: Choose your collecting lanes
10:35 Building an ’80s quarterback rookie-card collection
12:08 Step 4: Make a dream-card list
14:13 Step 5: Buy singles to build, rip wax for fun
17:16 Step 6: Sample a product before diving in
21:08 Step 7: Find trustworthy collecting help
23:30 Welcome back -- your cards have been waiting!
What was the first card, player or set you wanted to collect when you returned to the hobby? Tell us in the comments!
Happy Hobby!
I wrote a deeper breakdown of Returning to the Hobby on my website, here: https://davidgonos.com/returning-for-...
👍 If you enjoyed this video, please Like, Subscribe, and share it with another collector who might appreciate a different way of thinking about the hobby.
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✅ Build a better sports card collection with a real-world budget!
🌎 Our Free Happy Hobby Sports Cards Universe 🌎
👉 Website: https://davidgonos.com/
📰 Newsletter: https://gonos.substack.com/
🎧 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/pg/podcast...
From YouTube videos to podcasts to newsletters and our website, we share tips, history and humor with fellow card collectors, hoping to help improve their collections with less money!
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✅Thank you for supporting our channel! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases! Here's a link to the Sports Card supplies that I love: https://www.amazon.com/shop/davidgonos
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👉Ways to Contact David Gonos👈
Connect with me on:
-Twitter/X @DavidGonos / davidgonos
-Instagram @DavidGonos / davidgonos
-Facebook / davidgonoswriter
-TikTok / davidgonos.cards
-Link Tree https://linktr.ee/gonos
Email me: GonosCards@gmail.com
Mail me:
DavidGonos.com
P.O. Box 36
Georgetown, TX 78627
#HappyHobby
20 Comments
As a comeback collector myself I love all these tips!
But I found it had a big credit card bill after awhile it took away the fun of collecting
Buy and rip a high end blaster box
Buy 1 younger vintage card, late 70s
Buy 1-2 older (modern cards) of HOF candidates
If comfortable, figure what card to flip, using eBay, COMC or HiBid or similar, keeping in mind fees.
what do you think about collectors buying players on these teams
Colorado Rockies
Florida Marlins
Arizona Diamondbacks?
which do you think is more interesting collecting
players from a favorite team say Boston , Chicago or players that played before there famous team?
what about say a 1961 set any year I use 1961 as an example or players that left town?
⚾Getting Back Into Sports Cards? Do These 7 Things First🙂
David Gonos
6,657 views
✅Our Lists of the Best Rookie Cards From Every Year in Each Sport!✅
⚾ Baseball: https://davidgonos.com/who-are-the-be...
🏀 Basketball: https://davidgonos.com/who-are-the-be...
🏈 Football: https://davidgonos.com/best-football-...
🏒 Hockey: https://davidgonos.com/best-hockey-ro...
Getting back into sports cards after years away? Before you start buying hobby boxes, entering breaks or chasing every hot rookie card, follow these seven steps for returning collectors.
A 45-year-old buddy recently asked me how he could recapture the fun of collecting cards as a kid while also buying cards that might hold or increase their value. That combination of childhood nostalgia and adult money can build an incredible collection—but it can also lead to some expensive mistakes!
In this Comeback Collector guide, we’ll talk about how to:
⚾ Decide what you really want from the hobby
💵 Create a realistic monthly card budget
🛣️ Choose your collecting lanes
📝 Build a dream-card list before spending
📦 Balance buying singles with ripping wax
🔍 Sample unfamiliar products without overspending
🤝 Find trustworthy collecting advice and enjoy the process
The central rule is simple:
*Buy singles to build your collection. Rip wax for fun.*
You don’t need to collect every player, rookie, parallel, team or product. You have the rest of your life to build a great sports card collection, so choose a few meaningful targets and take your time.
If you’re a returning sports card collector trying to build a better collection with a real-world budget, subscribe to the channel and join our Comeback Collector community!
Get the free Happy Hobby Sports Cards newsletter and podcast:
https://gonos.substack.com
*TIMESTAMPS*
0:00 Getting back into sports cards
1:22 Welcome to the Comeback Collector community
2:10 Step 1: Decide what you want from the hobby
3:35 Step 2: Set a monthly sports card budget
6:42 Step 3: Choose your collecting lanes
10:35 Building an ’80s quarterback rookie-card collection
12:08 Step 4: Make a dream-card list
14:13 Step 5: Buy singles to build, rip wax for fun
17:16 Step 6: Sample a product before diving in
21:08 Step 7: Find trustworthy collecting help
23:30 Welcome back -- your cards have been waiting!
What was the first card, player or set you wanted to collect when you returned to the hobby? Tell us in the comments!
Happy Hobby!
I wrote a deeper breakdown of Returning to the Hobby on my website, here: https://davidgonos.com/returning-for-...
👍 If you enjoyed this video, please Like, Subscribe, and share it with another collector who might appreciate a different way of thinking about the hobby.
==============================================
✅ Build a better sports card collection with a real-world budget!
🌎 Our Free Happy Hobby Sports Cards Universe 🌎
👉 Website: https://davidgonos.com/
📰 Newsletter: https://gonos.substack.com/
🎧 Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/pg/podcast...
From YouTube videos to podcasts to newsletters and our website, we share tips, history and humor with fellow card collectors, hoping to help improve their collections with less money!
==============================================
✅Thank you for supporting our channel! As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases! Here's a link to the Sports Card supplies that I love: https://www.amazon.com/shop/davidgonos
==============================================
👉Ways to Contact David Gonos👈
Connect with me on:
-Twitter/X @DavidGonos / davidgonos
-Instagram @DavidGonos / davidgonos
-Facebook / davidgonoswriter
-TikTok / davidgonos.cards
-Link Tree https://linktr.ee/gonos
Email me: GonosCards@gmail.com
Mail me:
DavidGonos.com
P.O. Box 36
Georgetown, TX 78627
#HappyHobby