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Old 08-14-2017, 06:21 PM
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i know there are a lot of pre war collectors here but im asking specificly, what do you collect.

For example, do you only collect a specific set and nothing else? Or do you collect a few sets or a specific player or team. Do you want to add something to your future hunts?


I collect, T205's, Babe Ruth, and random 1800's baseball items.

One day i would love to add T3's to my check list.
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:43 PM
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MLB hall of famers. The goal is one of each. Must be issued while the player was an active player. And I'm not too worried about managers/executives/umpires. Doesn't necessarily have to be rookie cards or anything. If a player is known for his time with a particular team, I strongly prefer a card of him with that team. There's something weird about Willie Mays in a Mets uniform.

I know that there are people on this board who could complete my project in a weekend, but with a limited baseball card budget it keeps me busy picking up one card here and one card there.
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I mostly buy about anything. Non sports. Baseball. Boxing. Most of my purchases for the past year have been 19th century cards. Needless to say, my baseball component of these only numbers around 20 cards due to cost. About 75 boxing. About 1000 non sports. Also have quite a few t and r cards.
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:52 PM
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Roberto Clemente, t206, t205 and 1933 Goudey.
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:52 PM
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I am collecting the T210 & T209-2 set. I have added a few N172 player runs to help the hunt continue in down times. There is another very small set I want to go after as well. Fun times.
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:54 PM
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I collect players named Hogan. By their first name or last name. In any sport. I started with pre-war cards. Now it's any year. I don't have any Hulk Hogan cards. He's an idiot.
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Old 08-14-2017, 06:57 PM
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I collect players named Hogan. By their first name or last name. In any sport. I started with pre-war cards. Now it's any year. I don't have any Hulk Hogan cards. He's an idiot.
That statement is unfair to idiots. Lol
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I collect Venezuelan Topps (mostly focusing on 1962), 1951 Bowman Red Menace, T113 Types of Nations, then anything else cheap that I like. I have a real hard time staying focused.

I'm 1 card away from completing my Venezuelan Topps 1962 set and have the non sports sets completed a few times over bc they are cheap. I've mostly been upgrading cards this year but will hopefully start really trying to complete either a Venezuelan 60 or 64 set soon.


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Prewar Highlanders / Yankee's...... type & team

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Clemente. R312.

Ask tomorrow, will probably offer a different answer.
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Old 08-14-2017, 07:21 PM
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My goal is to collect every vintage card featuring a player from my alma mater. Im 221/227ths of the way there.
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Detroit Tigers team sets from major national releases.
I'm a big fan of the Detroit laundry.

Finishing up Play Ball sets and will venture to a candy/caramel set from 1920's.

Of course I can't ignore a good deal for T206's & 52 and 53 Topps.
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Old 08-14-2017, 07:32 PM
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Me? In addition to making a run at the Monster, I collect impossible to find none-of-a-kinds. When I find my next one and one more after that I will have two.
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Currently collecting these sets:
T205
T206
T210-3
V100
1933 Goudey

Planning on collecting these sets in the future:
E90-1
1941 Play Ball
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Old 08-14-2017, 07:46 PM
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I have a few different collections and occasionally just pick up items that I think are interesting.

1) Integration-related items (47 Dodgers, 46 Nashua Dodgers and Montreal Royals, early Jackie Robinson items, baseballs, programs etc. Also some Negro League items)

2) WWII-related baseball items (signed baseballs, programs, postcards)

3) Game-Used Lineup cards signed by HOF managers (although I've expanded to managers I've deemed "significant," whether due to their managing or playing careers.)

For some time I was focused on US Tours in Japan and the like although I think I may end up moving those to fund items that better fit my collection. I also collected modern cards for many years, but it seems like pretty much anything I liked from that, I'd rather have something from the list above...
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Old 08-14-2017, 07:59 PM
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Main focus is working on the master set of front/back combos for Providence players from the T206 set. Realistically, there are many I won't get, so I may start working on something else also.
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Old 08-14-2017, 08:01 PM
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1. Anything Pittsburgh related, all sports, all eras (19th Century to Present).

2. PCL - I started with a T212 back slogan run but I finished that. So, now I collect other issues/types of primarily PCL HOFers.

3. All sports from 1974-1986'ish. I like to collect my favorite players from when I was growing up, not just superstars and HOFers. I normally buy these raw in the EX+ range to store in binders.

4. My "side project" is to collect all baseball Topps All-Star Rookies (the ones with the trophy icon on them) from 1960-Present.

5. I'm not really a set collector, but I am slowly building 1956 Topps Baseball (about 50% complete) and 1957 Topps Football (about 75% complete).

This sounds like alot. It took a few years, but I found it's what works for me. It's enough that if I get bored with one, I can jump to another for a while and it's not too much that I feel like I'm not making progress on anything.

Oh yeah, I'll still buy a few shiny cards (Trout, Harper, Kershaw, etc.) from time to time. Yeah, I'm an addict.
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Old 08-14-2017, 08:03 PM
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1. Pirates (and some Giants) pre-war bats

2. E135
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Old 08-14-2017, 08:41 PM
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My collecting has changed this summer. I sold off some of my postwar baseball and dove into prewar, particularly the T212-2 1910 Obaks and even a few D311s. They are both great cards! If I were to buy any other prewar issue right now, it would probably be some E93s or E95s.

But even all of this is on the back burner for now as I have been bitten by the 1960s AFL football bug. I am having a blast with those cards!

It is all enough to keep me occupied without getting overwhelmed.

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Old 08-14-2017, 09:15 PM
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I'm a hopelessly undisciplined set collector, in that I collect too many sets at once that it makes completion of any unrealistic given my budget. Right now I'm working on the following:

N28 (5/10)
N162 (1/8)...I know, does it really count with only one so far?
T209-1 (15/16)
T205 (92/208)
E121 (25/174)
1934 Goudey (35/96)
1953 Bowman (89/160 and 13/64)

I also collect any & all cards from the E92 family...have about 45 cards from about 12 of the 20-or-so related sets there. About halfway done with Dockmans, and making progress on E101/102. This is more of a master set / back run pursuit that will never be completed.

Finally (modern alert!), I collect Topps & Bowman Chrome blue refractors of star prospect and RC cards. Have about 50 of those at the moment. Another ongoing pursuit with no possible end, since there are new cards to chase every year.
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Old 08-14-2017, 09:39 PM
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- Type cards, especially cards with neat advertising.
- All cards of all the players on the 1924 Senators World Series Championship team, with special emphasis on Sam Rice cards (trying for a master set) and Walter Johnson cards.
- N172 Old Judge cards of Washington players.
- A back run of the Hugh Jennings card with the orange background - includes D303, the E92 family, E101, E106, T216, etc.
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Other than the Mantle regular season issue run I put together I don't really go after anything specific. I have pre and post war cars as well as modern in my collection. I tend to focus on bigger name HOFers, and prefer rookie cards for my post war pick ups. Lately I've been interested in vintage autographed cards as well.
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I usually keep an eye out for Joe Medwick stuff since he was a distant relative. Lately, I've been collecting pre 1940 non sports because the artwork is beautiful and if you actually read the back, you can learn something.
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Narrow focus: 1) Cards, posters, programs and tickets of boxing's heavyweight champions and contenders, 1960-80; 2) Cards and photos of my two favorite pitchers: Urban Shocker and Catfish Hunter.
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I'm a hopelessly undisciplined set collector, in that I collect too many sets at once that it makes completion of any unrealistic given my budget.
I can so relate. I purchase anything that seems to be a good deal in any sport and non sport area. Completion of anything seems foreign to me. Whenever I finish a set, I review it and always find something to improve on.

I am primarily a set collector. Nothing modern.

I have started pretty much every regular issue hockey set. Even when I finish one, I have this nasty habit of going over them and then looking to upgrade.

Any Canadian Football regular issue. One of the sets that I'll never complete is the 1962 Master set in panels. Tough, and I'll never finish as nobody is 100% sure of how many actual combinations there are. Right now I have at least one of every number in at least one panel.

Non sports sets from the 60's and the late 50's.

I managed to pick up an Ex-Mt 1952 Topps Mathews $407, and a VG Mays. Now I'm toying with starting that set. Currently looking for a mid grade Robinson and Campanella. If I do that, and decide to go after a Mantle, my guess is I'll take that one on.

Fortunately I am more focussed professionally than I am with my hobby.
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1941 Play Ball (71/72......need a decent Joe D.)

1952 Bowman (251/252......need a decent Mantle).

Always on the lookout for a PSA upgrade for both sets.
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Pretty cool to see all the different ways people can collect. My bio is pretty much all I'm focusing on right now. I almost don't want to complete it because I have no idea what to collect after
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I'd consider myself a somewhat unfocused (mostly) prewar set, type and HOF collector.

Sets I'm actively working on: Diamond Stars (master), '35 Goudey 4 in 1 (master), 41 Play Ball, 48 Exhibits, 50-56 Callahan, 60 Fleer (1 card from completion), 61 Fleer, 61 Golden Press, 63 Bazooka.

Sets I'm collecting all of the HOFers and significants from: T202, T205, T206, 33/34 Goudey, 38 Goudey, and just about any pre 1940 Exhibits set.

As for types, I usually don't go for the crazy rare ones - mostly just sets that either I have less interest in or would be too expensive for my budget to get many, but would still like one as a type example (most strip cards, T201, T213-2, etc).

I'm also collecting T205 and T206 backs, but nothing crazy (no Drum, Uzit, etc).

Starting to dabble in 19th century as well. Currently have 3 N172s and a single N300. On the lookout for others, especially from the more popular sets I don't have an example from (N162, N28, etc). Would like to try for my first 19th century HOFer as well.

Still need 2 more pre-war HOFer cards to have at least 1 of each (Gehrig and Plank).

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Focused on the following:

Sets
1) 1941 Play Ball (70/72)
2) 1914 Cracker Jack (25/144)
HOF Autos on Cards (on card autos of HOFers from Topps, Upper Deck and also like the Legendary Cut Autos)

Players
1) Ty Cobb
2) Honus Wagner
3) Babe Ruth
4) Joe Jackson (not really sure I collect him since I dont have any of his cards, but am focused on getting one)

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1) 1989 Oakland A's Game Used Bats
2) Vintage Magic the Gathering Cards
3) Autos of NBA and NFL players from my alma mater, the University of California - Berkeley
4) Hard to find bourbons
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The First Five
Mantle
Koufax
Ryan
Local teams and players with local ties
Atlanta Braves
Vintage Game Cards

and assorted vintage players whose back-stories I find interesting.

and modern players whose style of play I like.
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Old 08-15-2017, 02:16 PM
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Addie Joss
Nap Lajoie

Bob Feller type 1 photos

Random T3, T205 and T206, mostly HOF's

1933 Goudey HOF's
1959 Topps
1972 Topps

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In order of focus...

1) Hall of Fame PC. 1 card of every HoFer, broken down by the following...
A) Players whose rookie year came during the Pre-War era: Any period card.
B) Players whose rookie year came during the Post-War era: Their last card.
C) Players whose rookie year came during the Modern era: Rookie card.

2) The Monster.

3) Cleveland Indians/Jim Thome PC.

4) Relations with my Grandpa and Uncle PC. Grover Hartley managed both my grandpa and uncle, and has several Pre-War cards. Gene Woodling and a few others played against my Grandpa and Uncle, and have Post-War cards.

5) Type Collection.
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just came back in the hobby in june. Try to build a mickey mantle topps basic card run in psa case.
need only the 1966 to complete my first goal since my return.
After that i don t know where my focus will be
perhaps bowman's mickey mantle cards.

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I meander around a bit. However my primary focus is any and all things related to these guys.
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I just got back into the hobby as well. My main goal was not to get carried away and end up too much clutter so I made a list of the top hundred athletes of all-time ( just by my opinion) and a list of top 30 athletes from my home state of Oklahoma.
I'm collecting RCs from those 130 (so maybe it's already up to 150). I like the mix of affordable cards and iconic ones.
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Old 08-15-2017, 04:55 PM
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I collect t206s almost exclusively. Not because I don't want other things, but because I don't have much of a card budget and every time I buy something else, I end up selling it to pay for a t206 I want more. I also have a couple stacks of tougher t207 backs and a handful of other 1909-1917 cards from other sets.
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I collect mainly 52 Topps cards but swayed early when I joined the site and had purchased other cards along the way.

My main focus now is collecting 52 Topps, but I would also like to add some pre-war, namely a Ruth of some sort, a Gehrig, etc.

I am currently in a dilemma. I have always loved the 56 Topps Mantle and I have the opportunity to purchase one for a fair price (about $600 CDN) but a part of me says spend that money on more 52's.

I need to let the seller know soon, if it's not too late already, but for the life of me, I can't seem to make up my mind?
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Old 08-15-2017, 05:27 PM
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I collect mainly 52 Topps cards but swayed early when I joined the site and had purchased other cards along the way.

My main focus now is collecting 52 Topps, but I would also like to add some pre-war, namely a Ruth of some sort, a Gehrig, etc.

I am currently in a dilemma. I have always loved the 56 Topps Mantle and I have the opportunity to purchase one for a fair price (about $600 CDN) but a part of me says spend that money on more 52's.

I need to let the seller know soon, if it's not too late already, but for the life of me, I can't seem to make up my mind?
Dale, Mantle is over rated and overpriced. Save up a little more and get a beater 52 Topps Eddie Mathews.
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Old 08-16-2017, 06:18 AM
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Always like reading these threads. Thanks everyone

I'm going very slowly this year due to some setbacks , but.............

Here are the sets I'm actively albeit slowly working to complete :
  • 51 bowman football: need 1 card
  • t205 : need 17 commons , 11 sp, 1 ML not going for any variations on this set.
  • two mid-1990's autographed set; about 60% on both
Also have the following on hold: these are more or less in limbo and not sure which direction they'll take in the coming months:
  • t206 set: upgrade with more interesting backs
  • early candy cards (e90-1, e92, etc and their image-sharing brethren) unique poses, varying backs
  • topps/bowman HOFer run 1948-1980
  • pre-war hofer type card set - going for 100 types, at least one card of all hall of famers, to fill out an antique apothecary type cabinet I bought a couple years ago.
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Old 08-16-2017, 07:42 AM
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My habits are:

Serious Collector of
1. Ted Williams (cards, postcards, photos, memorabilia, everything)

Currently Collecting
1. T205 HoF players (maybe a Master Set-type); missing rare HoF variations [have 66 cards]
2. T206 HoF players excluding Plank/Wagner (missing Cobb x2) [have 121 cards]
3. E98 HoF players Master set [have 37/68]
4. 1939 Playball complete set [have 135/161, missing high# commons]

Will Collect when available/worth the price
1. Christy Mathewson
2. 19th Century baseball trade cards
3. T-cards from T200, T213
4. N28 A&G baseball players
5. Johnny Bench

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Thanks for all the replies. Its very interesting to see what everyone is into
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Old 08-17-2017, 11:21 AM
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I collect Yankees mainly, from 1904 up thru current cards, but the older the better.

Also have smaller amount of cards from New York City teams in all sports, mainly older stuff, tobacco up thru early 70's.

Also collect all years cards of Jewish athletes in all sports.

Also started collecting pitchers who Mickey Mantle hit a home run off, got about half of them, but made the mistake of going after all the pitchers I really knew and liked, so after that I kinda lost interest in this and dont get any more.

Plus living in Miami area now, I have a small collection of Miami cards in all sports.

But the Yankees are about 80% of my collection and they are my true love.
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I'm collecting the 1915 Cracker Jack Set in high grade. I also collect the 1915 Cracker Jack Players Autographs in GPC or Index cards.

Lastly, I also collect the same 1915 Cracker Jack Players in Charles M. Conlon large Type 1 Photos. Everything in PSA or PSA/DNA.
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HOFers from Alabama

Joe Sewell
Heinie Manush
Satchel Paige
Willie Mays (main focus)
Hank Aaron
Willie McCovey
Mule Suttles (grrr)
Early Wynn
Don Sutton
Ozzie Smith

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Primary focus is on 1956 - 1960 Topps.
Newest focus: Baseball cards of players born in Iowa.

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Old 08-23-2017, 08:28 AM
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Top priority
- #5 type collection of all numbered sets, 1880-1980 (~700 total)
- Have all the "easy" MLB/MiLB #5s (~600), so have moved into more esoteric sets & discoveries
- Latest #5 hit was 1951 Packard Sports Library, a 4"x6" sports pamphlet series printed as promo material for Packard dealerships. #5 profiled the 1924 Giants/Senators World Series, won by Muddy Ruel's dash from second in game 7 extras.

Next level
- Baseball & non-sport 1930s sets by Goudey and its competitors. Some of the best art, players, and non-sport subjects in card history. In parallel, I'm researching the history of Boston-area gum and card production.
- Master sets: 1935 Goudey (for the puzzle backs) and 1936 Goudey (for the flipping game)

Third level
- 1950s sets
- 1960s Post
- 1970s Laughlin/Fleer
- Oddballs with distinctive design or fun vintage baseball info
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Common fronts with rare backs

Louisiana type cards (T213, T216, etc.) and New Orleans Pelicans (T210, T211, etc.)

D cards

Rookie cards of the top 50 players in each of the big 4 sports

Rookie cards of the first MLB player born in each state

Specific subsets of T210 Old Mill, 1933 Goudey, and 1946 Propagandas
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- N172
- Ellis Burks (Red Sox cards only)
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i know there are a lot of pre war collectors here but im asking specificly, what do you collect.

For example, do you only collect a specific set and nothing else? Or do you collect a few sets or a specific player or team. Do you want to add something to your future hunts?


I collect, T205's, Babe Ruth, and random 1800's baseball items.

One day i would love to add T3's to my check list.
Currently doing a Delong set (*still need 4) and a T205 set (have approx 72) and then the odd type card or photo or rppc or whatever I like. Not necessarily in that order. I like to have options!! My newest T205...I want them all to look like this (small stain on back is awesome for lower value)....

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