What do you collect?

[EvilKing00]

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.

[nat]

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.

[Mdmtx]

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.

[Jason]

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.

[DHogan]

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.

[Mdmtx]

Originally Posted by DHogan

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

[ruth_rookie]

Originally Posted by rats60

Roberto Clemente, t206, t205 and 1933 Goudey.

Originally Posted by DHogan

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 last sentence gave me quite the chuckle. All “professional” wrestlers fall into that category as far as i’m concerned.

Collecting T-206 in PSA 4 — 285 / 520 (no, I don’t know my Monster number)
All things Ruth and Gehrig
Basic Mantle run in PSA/SGC 6 or better (lacking ‘51 Bowman, ‘52 topps, ‘59 topps, and ‘65 topps)
Planning on starting a Nolan Ryan set in PSA/SGC 7 or better (Already own the ‘68 rookie in SGC 7.5 so off to a solid start)

[rats60]

Roberto Clemente, t206, t205 and 1933 Goudey.

[Thecafewha]

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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[garymc]

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

Sharing my Yankee’s
https://www.flickr.com/photos/151843924@N04/albums

[drmondobueno]

Clemente. R312.

Ask tomorrow, will probably offer a different answer.

[Section103]

My goal is to collect every vintage card featuring a player from my alma mater. Im 221/227ths of the way there.

[Topnotchsy]

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...

[Rich Falvo]

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.

[Mark]

1. Pirates (and some Giants) pre-war bats

2. E135

[g_vezina_c55]

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.

[71buc]

I meander around a bit. However my primary focus is any and all things related to these guys.

[Arazi4442]

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.

[Luke]

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.

[brewing]

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.

[VoodooChild]

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.

[Bocabirdman]

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.

[rdixon1208]

Currently collecting these sets:
T205
T206
T210-3
V100
1933 Goudey

Planning on collecting these sets in the future:
E90-1
1941 Play Ball

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

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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[Bliggity]

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.

[ValKehl]

- 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.

[pokerplyr80]

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.

[tothrk]

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.

[Writehooks]

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.

[Stampsfan]

Originally Posted by Bliggity

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.

[tjb1952tjb]

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.

[vintagerookies51]

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

[pbspelly]

see below

[Leon]

Originally Posted by EvilKing00

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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[cgriffith]

Serious Collector:
Mickey Charles Mantle

Semi Serious:

1933 Goudey Babe Ruth (any Ruth really)
T206 Ty Cobb
Any Pre-War

[tombocombo]

Signed 1952 Topps

Graded, and raw 1952 Topps

T206 HOF, rare backs, commons 4/5 range

[quitcrab]

I collect Brooks Robinson and odd ball issues.. I love Bazooka boxes and panels.

[aljurgela]

1. Negro League / Latin American baseball cards
2. Soccer cards
3. Boxing card sets

I have been "mostly done" with 1 & 3 in my quests, so my main focus over the last couple of years has been #2. Honestly, it might have been the most fun as well given that the prices are low and the global diversity of players and cards / stickers is amazing. Plus, getting odd packages in the mail with crazy packaging / stamps has been a joy.

[Madi$on18joshua]

I do realize this is a very old stream but I wasn’t on net54 when it began, thought I’d try to reignite it for others who haven’t contributed their efforts. It was interesting to read all the various items people collect. I had no idea people collected certain items mentioned.

My main focus is a low grade psa slabbed 1915 Cracker Jack set. I am at 111 of the 176.

I also collect a lot of hof rookie cards from all sports and key cards.

A distant goal is to get a signed check from each of the 5 initial HOF inductees. Right now I just have a Cobb.


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