What is it that many people find amusing or fascinating about Hockey Cards?

Answer 1

prior to 1989, there were only 2 companies making 'hockey cards' -- O-Pee-Chee in Canada and Topps in the US.

Growing up, hockey cards were collected to get your favourite players, amass the complete set, trade with friends, etc. but mostly to 'play hockey cards'. Most people today do not know how to do this. There were 4 main games -- Tops, Can't Top-it, Knock-Downs, and Farsies.

2 kids would line up 10 feet from the wall and 'play hockey cards'. Each would bring his stack of cards. One kid called the game, if it was Tops, each kid took turns throwing a card close to the wall, the object was to land your card "on top" of another -- as soon as one kid 'topped' a card, the game was over and he won all the cards in play. If Can't Top-it was called for each kid would take his turn, trying very hard NOT to top another card, as this would lose the game and all cards in play.
A 3rd game was knock downs -- each kid placed 4 or 5 cards 'standing up' against the wall. The object was to knock down these cards by hitting them with your thrown cards. Whoever's card knocked down the last card won.
When one kid was down to few cards left, he invariably called 'farsies', which is simply the throwing of one card and whoever got closest to the wall won. This was a way to build up a stockpile in order to be able to get enough cards to get back to Tops etc.

But 1989 came, and Pro Set, Score, Upper Deck, etc etc etc etc etc etc followed. There were soon a dozen or more different companies all producing cards of NHL players.
Now they were bought (by adults more than kids) to immediately put away in books or even left unopened as investments. What crap !!!

Oh by the way, only that 1990 Pro Set series produced referee cards, the only complete set of cards with all the referees and linesmen ever made. Licencing or something I don't know. But if you can ever get a hold of these, they might be worth keeping !!

Answer 2

Most people like to collect something or other. If a young guy hangs out with people that collect hockey cards he will collect them us well. Some guys get off on Star Trek, some like old cars,some like trains, some like hockey cards. I kick myself these days because I was in awe as a young kid watching Gretzky at the World Juniors. I wish I had foreseen then how valuable his rookie card would become. I probably put them in the spokes of my bike. They were expensive noise makers.

Answer 3

My hubby and I usually look for our favourite players first (Cheechoo, Simon, Tootoo, etc.). Then, we look for good quality photos and current or old cards. We were lucky to scoop up some hockey cards of Cheechoo last year (the year he won the Rocket Richard trophy). You can go to games and get them autographed. If you have multiple copies of cards, you can trade them. Or, you can save them for years & years and then sell them for big bucks.

Answer 4

the a number of distinctive accents fascinate me fairly the Cornish and Somerset accents. it extremely is a snigger while they tell jokes by way of fact they are able to offer them greater effective by way of their accessory. Examples are Jethro from Cornwall and Peter Kay from Bolton and it extremely is their accents that in part lead them to humorous.

Answer 5

the player
the scarcity
the prices
the look of the card

Answer 6

I collect them as investment

Answer 7

cause its a hobby that most kids grow up doing.


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