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All cards pictured are cards that I personnally own and pictures are scanned from that collection. I hope you enjoy
New Updates
New Blog...My Top Ten George Brett Cards Released From 1980-1982 4/20/17
New Blog...Random & Reflection #9 4/20/17
New Blog...Random & Reflection #9 4/20/17
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Newly Added to the Collection
About me
Who am I? good question. I am a husband, father, employee & when there is time and money left, finally a card collector. Collecting cards for me is strictly a hobby, no matter what my wife thinks. ;-) Collecting cards started for me in the 4th grade. Every year in school we did a gift exchange at Christmas. That year I got four packs of Fleer basketball cards. After that I was hooked. I had chosen one player from each of the 3 major sports(baseball, basketball, and football; sorry hockey) to be my favorite. Football was Randall Cunningham, basketball was Magic Johnson, and baseball was George Brett. When I was in the fifth grade I wrote each of these players a letter saying how they were my favorite player in their sport, and I only got one response. I bet you can guess who it was. Looking back, I know now that it was probably some standard letter that was sent out and the autograph picture probably wasn't signed directly by George Brett, but to a fifth grade boy it was huge! George Brett had secured himself as my all-time favorite player in any sport. I started doing all I could to collect his cards. It wasn't much since I was 10, had no money, and only had access to packs that our grocery store sold, but over the next year I had a small collection. Maybe 15 to 20 cards. Then something happened. They disappeared. I have no clue what happened to them. I was devastated and that stopped might collecting of cards.
Fast forward twenty years, I had a little extra money that I could spend on myself and I decided to buy a George Brett Rookie card and that started the fire all over again. Now five year later, I feel that I have a very good George Brett collection. Not by any means complete, but still good. I also collect other KC Royals players from the mid-to-late 80s and early 90s. As of right now I only collect ungraded cards.
Fast forward twenty years, I had a little extra money that I could spend on myself and I decided to buy a George Brett Rookie card and that started the fire all over again. Now five year later, I feel that I have a very good George Brett collection. Not by any means complete, but still good. I also collect other KC Royals players from the mid-to-late 80s and early 90s. As of right now I only collect ungraded cards.
about this site
When I started to collect again I tried to search out a site that had a complete picture database of George Brett card and couldn't find one at first. About a year and a half ago I found tradingcarddb.com and added a new aspect of my collection, which is scanning my cards and uploading them to the internet. I have contributed quite a few card scan to tradingcarddb, and i am currently in the top 100 contributors. I decided that I wanted to make a site that was just dedicated to George Brett and make the site that I was looking for when I first decided to start collecting again. This site is not a complete database and probably never will be. I only picture cards that I own, and the pictures are form my collection. As i get new cards I will update.
One thing that I will have on this site that most sites don't display is variation cards. A variation card is generally a card that has a visible difference from one run of printing to another. For example, the 1977 Topps clothe sticker card has 2 variations. One has a one small * in the bottom left corner and the other has two small ** in the bottom left hand corner. Most people never notice these subtle differences.
I focus mainly on cards that were produced while George Brett was playing. I have several his post retirement cards, but most are basic common cards. I seems like most of them are either signature, game material, or serialized cards. Most of these cards i feel that I need to be a serious collector and have to turn what is a hobby into an investment portfolio. It is the same reason that I don't collect graded cards. I do this for fun and as a hobby and i would like to keep it that way. Saying that, if there is any George Brett card collectors that are wanting to make a free donation to me, I won't say no.
One thing that I will have on this site that most sites don't display is variation cards. A variation card is generally a card that has a visible difference from one run of printing to another. For example, the 1977 Topps clothe sticker card has 2 variations. One has a one small * in the bottom left corner and the other has two small ** in the bottom left hand corner. Most people never notice these subtle differences.
I focus mainly on cards that were produced while George Brett was playing. I have several his post retirement cards, but most are basic common cards. I seems like most of them are either signature, game material, or serialized cards. Most of these cards i feel that I need to be a serious collector and have to turn what is a hobby into an investment portfolio. It is the same reason that I don't collect graded cards. I do this for fun and as a hobby and i would like to keep it that way. Saying that, if there is any George Brett card collectors that are wanting to make a free donation to me, I won't say no.