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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

The OJ set lends itself to many different collecting approaches. I am only familiar with those which I use, and those whom I know or have typed to employ, or those which we have heard of. Of these, I remember the following techniques to collecting Old Judges.

What Bobby said, and
Collect by year of issuance
Various Leagues such as:
- ex National Assoc players,
- Calif. League,
- Players Lg.
- Minor Leagues
Unusual Players such as:
- switch pitchers
- lefty catchers
- lefty infielders
Unusual Cards, such as
- different colors
- horizontals
- outdoors
- two player
- mascot
- grade
- condition
- non-players
Special Player Accomplishments:
- > 400 Ks/season
- > 40 wins/season
- > 100 errors/season
- HOF
- Those who should be in, but aren’t
Special interest players
- deaf
- ex-Civil War
- race, religion, nationality
Special Interest Teams
- dominant teams
- teams with fewer than 50 games total history
- favorites