What baseball 'stuff' do you collect?

autographed cards......i have thousands literally....mostly Rays lightning bucs and bulls....i also have tons of autos from retired players......they are all authentic issued cards...i dont collect cards that were distributed unsigned.....i have tons of rays rookie autos...josh hamilton Scott Kazmir Rocco Baldelli carl crawfors Delmon Young B.J. Upton David Price Jeff Niemann....needless to say i also have the jason standridge's Dewon Brazelton's jared sandburg's and Bobby Seay's too......if your familiar with the site baseball almanac i avtually have an autographed card of my own on there....i actually got 2 bobby smiths in an auction on ebay and gave the guy who runs the site the extra......if its rays lightning or bucs ill buy it....same goes for any ex bulls players...like Ross Gload ......

my most prized in my collection are yaz, walter payton, joe montana , frank gifford, raymond berry, kirk gibson , and al lopez.......when i bought the lopez i thought my wife was going to shoot me.....but she got over it....

I collect just about everything baseball... it all started because my dad owns a ton of baseball collectables... baseball being my favorite sport, I wanted to get some too. My collection is tiny comparably, (I will only list autographs, everything I own somehow relates to Baseball) I have Dennis Eckersley, Rollie Fingers, Reggie Jackson, Rickie Henderson, and Just about every other (long term) Athletic from the last 2 decades. I also have a Nolan Ryan (personalized to me), and Catfish Hunter.... and my prize posession, an autographed copy of Bill James' Baseball Abstract (the Encyclopedia version)

my dad's crap is unbelievable... but I don't get that for a while... I will only give a couple highlights as he has so much I can't list (If he does give it to me I plan to open a museum, he has so much stuff he can only display a fraction of it)

Babe Ruth (on the back of a business card)

All the 500 Club members except Babe Ruth on both baseballs AND a photo (photo is older and has only 12, 500 HR members)

Signed Photo of Bill Buckner's costly Error

Several Autographed Pete Rose Scandal Sports Illustrated's

Cal Ripken Jr (on a "RIP" rally towell, a giveaway at the Ironman record-tying and breaking games)

A George Brett signed bat (sorry, no pine tar)

He has so much stuff, it's truly amazing... anyway, those are some of my favorites, I can't remember all the really cool ones offhand.

I have collected baseball cards..at one time had over 200,000

also baseball books..pennants..just about anything I can find..(LOL)

I am a baseball nut..love the game and its history..I used to be able to quote players stats off the top of my head...(somehow as you get older..work and life interfere with fun stuff..so I am not up on baseball as much as i used to be..

Sadly..the BIG $$$$ and strikes..and free agency have changed the game greatly..and not for the better IMO..along with the steroids..the showboating(give me a Gibson high and tight fastball at some of these clowns today who are hittin .201 and charge the mound..as if there was some point a pitcher would have by throwing at them..

Sorry..I believe I went off topic