A collection of my 👴 tweets which I’ve been generating on Twitter as I come to grips about how much the baseball card hobby has changed since I was a kid.
👴 "When I was your age we had one card release and we liked it so much they released new ones seven different times over the summer"
— nick (@vossbrink) February 1, 2018
👴 "What is this a fuckin' lottery ticket? When I was your age we bought gum and it came with baseball cards."
— nick (@vossbrink) January 31, 2018
👴 When I was your age at least the shiny shit made our cards look like chocolate bars.
— nick (@vossbrink) January 24, 2018
👴 "When I was your age cards were numbered to 10,000 and we chased that shit uphills both ways in the snow"
— nick (@vossbrink) December 12, 2017
👴 "When I was your age we didn't have no ee bay. We had to hunt for cards by packsearching like ANIMALS"
— nick (@vossbrink) December 7, 2017
👴 "What is this a fuckin' magnet? When I was your age we used four phillips-head screws."
— nick (@vossbrink) November 22, 2017
👴 "When I was your age we looked at the stats on the back to determine whether or not it was a rookie card" https://t.co/nBXwKo7CCu
— nick (@vossbrink) November 21, 2017
👴: When I was your age chewing gum was brittle and crunchy because it needed the blood from your mouth to become soft.
— nick (@vossbrink) October 13, 2017
👴 "When I was your age our pack hits looked like Max Headroom and we LIKED it that way"
— nick (@vossbrink) July 3, 2017
👴: When I was a kid we had to figure out whether to get autographs on NL or AL baseballs. This MLB ball business makes everything too easy. https://t.co/W2TM2Dpn3R
— nick (@vossbrink) May 30, 2017
👴 "When I was your age my Ultra Pro pages said 'patent pending.'"
— nick (@vossbrink) March 27, 2018
👴 "When I was your age we didn't have any of those newfangled statisticajimmes and only 15 teams failed to win the World Series each season."
— nick (@vossbrink) September 3, 2018
👴 "When I was your age our rainbows looked like this and we liked it that way." pic.twitter.com/u4Lw4Pi1rw
— nick (@vossbrink) October 16, 2018
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Blogging about Photography, Museums, Printing, and Baseball Cards from both Princeton New Jersey and the San Francisco Bay Area. On Twitter as @vossbrink, WordPress at njwv.wordpress.com, and the web at vossbrink.net View all posts by Nick Vossbrink
F’n hilarious!