Hobby Musings: Hank Aaron got me collecting – I started buying baseball cards when I was about eight or nine. I didn’t start collecting seriously until a few years later. While I don’t remember a lot from my early years of collecting, I do still clearly recall how I became hooked by the sports card world. In the film, The Sandlot, there’s a scene where Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez is visited by the spirit of Babe Ruth. At the end of the scene, Ruth sees a rookie card of Hank Aaron. He tells Benny he’s not sure why, but he asks if he can have it, to which Rodriguez says yes.