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Posted By: Cat

If I was starting today, and did not want to spend a lot of money and wanted to be able to complete a set within a reasonable timeframe, I would collect Fan Craze cards. They are not very popular because they are game cards, but they are all portraits and they look like the players. Personally, I think they are real good looking cards. They are cheap, but my guess is that they won't be for long. The HOFers (in VG condition) cost about $200 a piece and the non HOfers are anywhere from $30 to $75.

This is one of 51 in the American League set:






Nearly all Tobacco sets are expensive projects. You may be able to put together an e card collection, but understand that many e cards do not look like the player. I own (shown below) just one non-Cracker Jack e card and it only vaguely looks like the player. The card below is about ten to twelve times more expensive than the one above. In the end, you need to decide what is important to YOU.