Unique Cards

[Tim Kindler]

As many of you know, I have spent the last few years pursuing mainly one set, the E98 Master Set. I have always been a set collector at heart, not a type collector, but until the E98s I never ever saw a set through, let alone a Master Set. Now that I have accomplished this set, I was looking into new areas of card collecting. For my next pursuit, I have kicked around the ideas of type collecting, collecting great cards from the hobby- sort of a top 100 card list, tackling the Monster, various sets, etc, but nothing seems to be jumping out at me & collecting things like the Top 100 list would cost me astronomical $ just to land one card at a time.

Last night, I was reading from Lew Lipset's Encyclopedia and an idea sort of started growing in my head. I'm asking for your help in developing it and maybe it might benefit someone else as well.

So let's have a thread about just cards. I'm thinking about collecting all and any cards that just have something special about them. They can, or don't have to, be Hall of Famers. They can, or don't have to, be rare and expensive. They can, or don't have to, from specific sets. I'm just thinking of collecting cards that have a unique story or characteristic to them.

Example: I read in Lew's Encyclopedia in the E106 section that Eddie Collin's E106 is the first card to list him with the Chicago White Sox. I think it would be pretty cool and historically significant to own that card.

Any ideas on cards to collect?
Let's talk cards.
Tim Kindler