{"id":35739,"date":"2021-12-16T09:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/?p=35739"},"modified":"2021-12-16T09:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:38:42","slug":"max-arterburn-thehobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/staff\/max-arterburn-thehobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Arterburn (#TheHobby)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! My name is Max Arterburn and I&#8217;m very excited to be joining the Prospects1500 to write about the baseball card hobby (aka #TheHobby). Spending my formative years in Michigan, I graduated from WMU with a degree in Industrial Design, which I use in my career as a structural designer of retail displays. I now live in the Milwaukee suburbs with my wife &amp; three children. I\u2019ll be coaching my son\u2019s U10 baseball team for the second year in 2022, and also enjoy film &amp; karaoke league.<\/p>\n<p>I view The Hobby as whatever you want to make of it. Not everyone is into prospects like readers of this site and I am, and that\u2019s great. But, since I was a kid I\u2019ve always been most attracted to two things \u2013 prospect cards &amp; great designs. My favorite design from my younger years is 1998 UD3. For most collectors, I know it\u2019s a bit of a hot take \u2013 but the set construction coupled with some great integrated die-cut parallels separates it from any other release.<\/p>\n<p>I was 9 when the first truly popular prospect-centric set, 1992 Bowman, came out, so this is something that I&#8217;ve been &#8216;in on&#8217; for pretty much my whole life. What I love most in the modern sense of The Hobby is diving through an entire newly-released checklist to see what great, and not-so-great, prospects are in it for the first time. I don\u2019t really hold back in collecting information on everyone. My neurosis of having an insatiable thirst for knowledge won\u2019t allow it (thanks mom &amp; dad).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m always willing to talk about prospects &amp; baseball cards <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxArterburn\">@maxarterburn<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Hi! My name is Max Arterburn and I&#8217;m very excited to be joining the Prospects1500 to write about the baseball card hobby (aka #TheHobby). 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