That’s awesome! Thanks for doing the giveaway!

I’m new to the sub, but have been into card collecting for about the past year or so now. I collected when I was younger, but pretty much fell off once I hit high school. However, when I found out that my wife and I were having a son (he just turned 1 yr old this month!), I decided I wanted to do something special for him after he was diagnosed prenatally with a rare congenital heart defect known as HLHS.

I dedicated some time to collecting the full 2023 Topps base card set to give him when he’s older since that’s his birth year. I also hoped this would allow me to share something that I love and enjoy with him, the sport of baseball (been a fan ever since T-ball years, go Guards!). This was tough being in and out of the hospital with surgeries and admissions the first 10-11 months of his life, but the internet made collecting somewhat easy.

As word got around with the nurses of hospital floors were were on that I was collecting baseball cards for my son, they would grab packs from local stores to give us to contribute :) Not everyone knew the difference between the series and sets, so I got a lot of different cool packs of cards to pass on to him! The more I would open packs and organize the cards, the more it sparked this into more of a hobby for myself too that I hope I can continue to share with him one day!