The baseball card hobby in Mexico

[DaClyde]

Having semi-tackled Venezuela, with a little inspiration from member r2d2 (who has already helped out with several corrections), I took a stab at broadening the world's knowledge of baseball cards and stickers in Mexico.

http://clydes-stalecards.blogspot.com/2011/12/mexican-baseball-cards-and-stickers.html

Comments welcome!

 

[JamesNevans]

I live in Guadalajara, Mexico with my retiree grandparents from the summer of 1972 to the end of the school year in 1973. Sure wished they had sold the 1972 Topps Venezuela cards there, I'd have made a fortune. The cards the kids bought back then were the "Amour Es" (Love Is) cartoon of the little cherubic naked kids with sappy sayings. I traded and sold a lot of my 1971 cards to my mexican friends.

 

[DaClyde]

It amazes me that with all the non-sports, soccer and wrestling (almost always WWE, not even AAA or EMLL) stickers available in Mexico that Mexican baseball isn't more represented in mass market junk. With the exception of soccer, it seems like most Mexican collectors would rather import American mass market, pop culture properties than collect anything native to their country.

 

[David K.]

Know r2d2 from the Beckett message board and then he moved to the freedomcard board site. Happy Holidays, David