Why the Rockies? Fashion Obviously!!!

One of my biggest problems in my youth was a clear (or even a fuzzy) focus to my collection.  I had no direction other than set building.  I didn't have a favorite team, only teams I knew I didn't like...I'm looking at you Dodgers.  I knew I preferred the National League style of play and I occasionally liked the Cardinals, Reds, Pirates, Braves.  Basically, as long as you were a National Leaguer and not wearing the uniform of the Giants, Mets, or Dodgers...I sorta liked you.

Then came 1993 and the new Marlins and Rockies franchises.  While they weren't the first new baseball teams in my lifetime, they were the first that I really knew of.  I was around six months old when the Mariners and Blue Jays got their starts.  I liked both teams mostly because of colors, teal and purple.  Not that I particularly liked either of those colors, they were different than everyone else.  My favorite cards in my first set 1986 Topps were Oakland A's because they were the only team with green team letters. 

After a couple of years, it seemed liked every team had a teal uniform.

What was Bud Selig thinking?

So I backed off the Marlins and suddenly the Rockies were my new favorite team.  Now regarding the headline, I am about the least fashion conscious person on Earth.

I like these uniforms.

Rainbow Goodness

How can you not love the striped stovepipe cap?

Well maybe not these, seriously their colors are the same as various human waste products.

I do like being different.  Purple team colors were different than everything else in baseball at the time, so I gravitated toward it.  Of course, once I started regularly watching the team the Blake Street Bombers won me over.  But it all started with The Color Purple.

Opening Day

Well maybe I am jumping the gun a bit, but it is opening day for Cards from the Quarry.  This blog will be dedicated to sharing my knowledge of the Rockies and baseball in general.  Who knows, I might even gain some knowledge in the process.  I have exchanged email and conducted trades with several members of the blogging community and I hope that number will grow as this blog grows.

I always hate this part in any writings, but here goes.  Here is little bit about me.  I am a child of the 1980s that caught the card bug early on.  I remember vaguely my first pack.  I was six years old and the pack was 1982 Donruss.  Honestly, I couldn't tell you what was in the pack and those cards were more than likely destroyed by my early rambunctious nature.   However, I did discover that I liked pictures of baseball players on cardboard.  I started collecting quite a bit by 1986 and the Topps set that year was my first set building experience.

Over the next few years I lived for cards.  Then around 1992, I sort of just stopped.  The main reason was high school of course.  So my hobby went into what turned out to be hibernation mode.  I tried many hobbies over the next 15 years, but none of them gave me the joy of baseball cards.  I got back in by discovering the great blog Wax Heaven in 2007 and started buying boxes on eBay.  I love opening packs.  Sure it's cheaper buying complete sets, but where is the fun in that?

That is the key word for me...FUN! This is my first attempt at blogging and web publishing in general.  Hopefully, this blog will turn out to be fun as well for the readers as well as myself.  I have a couple of feature ideas that I haven't seen covered by the wonderful writers in Blogland.  I will try to post at least three times a week in the beginning, at least until I figure some of the intricacies of the system.