How do you collect Old Judges?

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

Ok, I will admit that Im afraid that if I tell you, you will buy into my wisdom and compete with me for my favorites. But Im realistic enuff to know that there are more ways to collect these cards that are of interest to me. And if I find too much competition in one area, I will shift my focus.

Of course I collect niche sets. As I indicated on another thread, one subniche (how do you like that term?) is the 1884 White Stocking team HR record holders.

It is a subniche because the bigger picture is 1884. And let me tell you just a little about the niche entitled 1884. First off there are all the players from the Union Association:

- Lotsa rookies got their start there. Some were quite succesful in the endeavor of baseball.

- Some of the teams in the UA were very (actually: very, very) short lived, which makes for an assembly of cards interesting to me.

- This is the starting point for the set of players who played in four different leagues. No one has played in 5.

- the Maroons won it in '84, and you can get their cards, well almost!

But that is just the UA (and a simplification of it at that). In addition to the White Stockings socking the ball over the short wall, the pitchers had a totally outstanding year. Just investigate how many won over 40 games that year. Don't miss the strike out totals achieved that year.

Can you collect all of this? Do you want specifics? Rest assured that there is more.

This is one of my niches. How do you collect them?


Edited to add an extra "very"