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O/T ..Do You Collect Cards From 2000 to Present?
I am curious how many of our members collect cards, or have some, from 2000 to present.
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I rip some packs most years for fun...and I dabble a little in modern.
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I do collect cards from some of the modern players that I really like. Joe Burrow and Mike Trout are two examples.
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I have a few Wade Boggs, maybe 40-50.
I have most new Topps versions of the 1952 Eddie Mathews cards. I have the slabbed Cobb Cobb from the National. I also have a few SGC slabbed Ted Williams cards from his estate. Not baseball but I have a Leaf Jay North Rainbow. I think they look really cool with all the different shiny colors. I just don't buy many. |
I have nothing newer than 1992 after a wise dealer got me interested in the old stuff and I been very happy since.
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In my glacial speed of picking up cards for my collection since getting back in, I do aim to pick up a RC of any modern players that get in, or definitely will be getting in, the HoF.
I'll also occasionally go to the local card shop and pick up a few packs of whatever is cheapest, usually Topps flagship, just for the sake of opening packs. I then just send whatever was in the packs to my nephews along with a few unopened packs for them. |
I buy the Topps flagship factory set and a hand collated Topps Update set every year. Glad I do - that practice got me my 2011 Trout.
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Ive got several LeBron James and Luca Doncic cards. Bought David Ortiz rookie year cards from the late 90's. I try to pick up the occasional generational talent's cards. I don't "collect" the modern stuff though in the true sense of the term.
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NOPE! I would struggle to even identify most cards after 1992...
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I collect Topps Heritage Mets.
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Yes, Topps Heritage...Full Master runs including refractors and all HOF autos.
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I voted yes but wouldn’t say I actively collect it. I buy occasional packs to open with kids and buy the occasional key rookies of modern players I like but on a very limited basis. 99% of hobby $ goes to vintage/pre war.
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I occasionally add some modern Cubs for a diversion, but 95% of what I do is vintage. I also like the Topps Archives type things, and "cards that never were" creations. They don't scratch the itch like real vintage cards, but can be a nice and super cheap alternative when you are bored and sick of spending real money.
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I really enjoy the Heritage product. Current players on vintage board and designs!
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I'd say the vast majority of my collection is Post 2000 as I started collecting when i was like 9/10/11 or so when my uncle gave me a lot of cards and my parents started buying me packs. Since I re started collecting in 2020, Ive bought a hobby box or 2 of each series(1,2 and update) of flagship and then a couple of blasters of Topps gypsy queen.
I don't have any fancy modern cards but like to buy them just to stay connected to the players I get to watch every day. I plan to keep in this way, opening a few boxes of flagship and Topps gypsy queen to have something cheap and fun to open and then spend most of my money of vinatge. |
A little. I'd guess it's no more than 5% of my collection.
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Like a couple others have posted I do have a small Mike Trout collection. I collect 500HR items and some are post 2000. But most of my real money purchases are pre world war 2 cards and Memorabilia. As a sports fan I have Colts 76ers and Devils items and some are post 2000 as well. But Baseball my collecting passion is pre 1910.
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Only a complete set of Yopps to keep my run from 1951 on complete
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I buy post 2000 all the time. There is a financial component to it. I have been flipping modern guys for a few years now. I'm in no way a big timer. Only making maybe a few hundred bucks a year, I swim in the low end of the financial pool. But it is fun to speculate on guys and follow them throughout the year and see how it turns out. Keeps me connected to the game in a way.
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I have a couple High end cut auto's from Flawless and Sterling,a few very nice jersey/patches for various products, but to say I still collect modern is a bit of a stretch. That being said , I do bust a Walmart box every few weeks, just for the fun of it.
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With price of cards going sky high, I decided in the spring of 2020 to pick up a few modern cards. Ohtani, Guerrero, Tatis, and Acuna. Have bought some auto cards of these also. Fun to open some packs again, but I still like the vintage cards better.
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The Hall of Fame project requires modern Hall of Famers' RCs. I also have a huge Jim Thome PC, and collect Cleveland Indians occasionally.
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I collect several current players, including the great YORDAN
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I buy the basic Topps set and the Topps Heritage set every year.
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I voted yes.
I mostly just stash a few unopened boxes every year and occasionally rip a few as I still enjoy opened packs. I definitely stash more boxes than I open though. |
i do it all of the nookie (ripping).
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I have a few post 2000 baseball cards that were purchased, and have only ripped an occasional hockey pack here and there when I can find them. |
I will pick up some rookies opportunistically. It sometimes pays off (Trout) and sometimes doesn't (Cano). I also bust packs and boxes occasionally if I like the set. Besides the 2020 Heritage (1971 Topps, which I love) the only one I've really done much with is 2019 Topps, which I think is a really nice design. I bought and busted a lot of Walgreens retail boxes for the yellow bordered inserts. Base modern cards are basically a waste of money compared to the box break costs but are very attractive cards:
2020 Heritage Trout cards (L-R: action variation, purple bordered refractor, base card) https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ize/img324.jpg 2020 Heritage Greatest Moments (hobby box topper) Bryce Harper: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...20-%20Copy.jpg 2020 Topps Heritage Super (hobby box topper) Ohtani: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...r%20Ohtani.jpg 2019 Topps Kershaw Holiday variation: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...%20holiday.jpg 2002 Donruss DK Originals Jeter: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...DK%20Jeter.jpg 2016 Topps Now Ichiro: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...9%20Ichiro.jpg 2014 Panini Golden Age Bad News Bears: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...0Stambaugh.jpg Topps Project 2020 cards: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...20%20Vides.jpg |
I used to collect Topps & Bowman & their side issues, up to 2000. Looking back, I wished I had spent that $$ on T206 HOF or rare backs.
I'm very surprised how close this Poll is, considering it's a Vintage page. |
I collect the newer Rangers, and also have a few Astros as far as collecting. But I have lots and lots of modern stuff simply because I buy collections and most are of modern cards. However, I dont' keep much of the modern stuff outside of Astros and Rangers (I run a booth at an antique store, and I sell Rangers and Astros in there). I bust packs to build a Topps Flagship set every year (Series 1, 2 and Update) then try and trade off any extras for Rangers or Astros I don't have or put them into my piles/boxes of stuff to sale. Pretty much everything modern I pick up (outside of Rangers and a few Astros) in collections will go into my piles of stuff to sale (inserts, colors, SPs sorted by team, and base, no matter if RCs or other, sorted by brand).
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I'll bet some of those said they don't buy modern cards probably secretly still open a pack or two. They just don't want to admit to owning the "shiny stuff" :) |
I buy random Pittsburgh Pirates cards, but almost everything is a throwback design. I have bought all of the Pirates in the Living Set, but I have no other Living Set cards.
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I voted no. I may have a base Altuve that I paid $1 for, but that's about it.
I consider post 1980's card collecting to be a completely different hobby, like concert posters or Welcome Back, Kotter lunch boxes. |
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Yes but only one. Playing the long game with it.
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I’ve got a Mookie Betts rookie and I get Mike Trout’s base Topps flagship, Heritage, Archives, Update, and Bowman cards every year.
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I thought I would complete Topps sets to when they stop producing them. But upon reflection and seeing the ungodly cost for little in return between 2000 and current day sets, I am stopping at 2000.
I am gonna get rid of my Donruss, Fleer, Bowman, Score, and Upper Deck runs and just focus on the Topps run I have now. 69 - 2000. So if anyone is reading this and is looking for the above sets between 88 - 97. We can talk needs if you would like. Cheers, B. T. |
Once I am confident someone is likely to make the HOF, I will buy their RC whatever year it is. There are lots of great modern cards IMO including Heritage and similar issues if you don't like the look.
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Generally speaking, I do not collect anything past 1900. I have a few things, but not anything like current rookie cards and such.
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I stay in my comfort zone which is pre WW2 cards |
You're missing a hell of a game if you don't dabble in modern. The modern sets (some) offer beautiful artwork and designs and great pictures of great players.
I am by no means a fan of modern cards but I'd not consider my collection to be complete without a nice Ichiro or Kershaw card, or other HOFers from the era. i try to get them signed: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ize/Ichiro.jpg https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...%20Kershaw.jpg https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...e/Halladay.jpg I too will pick up RCs of guys I think have chance at the HOF. I picked up a couple of Buster Posey RCs last year because his numbers are better than several HOF catchers and they sell for very little. https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...an%20Posey.jpg I'll even pick up some of the modern art cards if I like the way they look: https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...Munson%201.jpghttps://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...Munson%202.jpg |
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Some post 2000.
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When I returned to collecting after a 20-year hiatus in 2012 I began collecting Topps Heritage, Allen & Ginter, 2007-2009 Goudey, UD 2003 Play Ball, and some other miscellaneous Topps sets. In late 2009 I rediscovered vintage cards and now virtually all of my post-2000 cards are gone. I still have a few Heritage cards and the UD Play Ball sets for sale. I am keeping the Heritage card sets given out at the National Convention and the Heritage 3 card panels, however, because I like them.
Phil aka Tere1071 Working on a 1970 Topps Baseball set Would like to add the 1969 Topps Stamps, 1970 Posters and Scratch-offs, 1971 Coins, 1973, and 1974 Topps Baseball card sets to the collection Upgrade my 1953 Bowman Color, 1971, 72, and 75 sets. |
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I bought a 2000 set since it’s my youngest son’s birth year, but I really have no interest in anything after 1970. |
I don't have anything in my collection past 1986. :)
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I'd buy a box/pack or two every so often in the early '00s to open up, really no complete sets to work on though. Stuff like Topps Allen & Ginter, or SP Legendary. Think the most recent post 2000 card I'd specifically purchased was a raw, 2012 autographed Bowman Sterling rookie/prospect card of Frankie Lindor. Wish he would have stayed with Cleveland.
I do have a collection going of all the autographed and game used cards from the 2002 Topps 206, and the 2003 Topps 205 sets. In fact, I'm only shy a single game used card from the 206 set, and I'll have that one complete. Been looking for that last card since 2002, but only seen one for sale in all that time, but asking a ridiculous BIN price no one in their right mind would ever pay. And the Topps 206 and Topps 205 set buyback cards are pretty cool as well. |
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I voted NO even tho I did buy some packs & boxes in the early 2000's, but I certainly don't go looking for them to complete or make sets!!
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I'm happy to stay in my pre-War lane... Just saying... |
I collect modern cards of vintage players
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I collect a lot of different modern cards. I don't buy packs or boxes anymore though. I pretty much just collect Pirates focusing on 1st Bowman autographed prospects, complete Topps runs of series 1, 2, and updates all #'d gold parallels, and any vintage design like Heritage, Archives, Gypsy Queen, Allen&Ginger, etc.
I also collect all the Topps All-Star Rookie cards with the trophy icon on them. Yes, they still produce them. I pretty much have a complete run going back to 1960. I'll also pick up rookie cards of the players I really like. I normally get their first Topps card with the RC logo and again they will normally be #'d gold parallels. However, I have an addiction so I buy way more than just that. I pretty much buy anything I think looks cool. Even though I consider myself to be primarily a Pre-War Pirates Type Collector, my collection is probably 75% modern considering I collect Steelers and Penguins too as well as modern football RCs. |
The new high cost of vintage has driven me to some modern - where I can still actually buy and collect cards. I haven't sold any vintage except for a token few. I just keep 'em, cherish 'em, and be glad I acquired what I did when I did. I also have collected some Star Wars cards and some Pokemon cards when my kid was big into them.
Speaking of "vintage" - my sister claims vintage is up to 50 years old, and beyond that they are antiques. I now see people talk of vintage with 1980-2000 cards, kinda blows my mind. I considered vintage to be thru the 1970's. When we talk pre-war, are they vintage or are they now antiques ? |
Yes vote for me.
Collecting modern Topps sets and then working my way backwards is what has brought me to vintage collecting as well. |
Pretty much my entire collection is post-2000. I quit collecting for a long time and got rid of everything. I then picked it up again in 2002/2003 - but switched from baseball to football. Collected for a couple years at that time and then dropped it again. Those cards I still have. I've dipped my toe into the waters again this year. Am a little dismayed by the extreme cost of unopened product but am still able to find things I want here and there.
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I collect some modern because I still love to open packs, but it's probably the biggest "waste of money" part of my collecting habit. I do like to pick up auto cards of some favorite current players. Buying Tom Brady stuff in the early 2000's has certainly helped mitigate any modern losses.
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If there is a box of cards at the register, I will pop for a few packs, but that is a rare day. I do collect the 2000 Fleer Greats of the Game Autograph cards subset. I am down to 2-3 cards to complete the set. For the sheer volume of hall of fame players that set is tough to beat. Just his past year, while looking for a certain player, I came across the Upper Deck SP Legendary Cuts subset. I just like the look of the card and have picked up some of the cards.
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To my way of thinking the question is too black and white.
I answered no to the poll because I do not specifically collect anything post 2000, but I do HAVE things from post 2000. I buy a box of packs every spring to reenact my youth (sans the gum, of course). |
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I collect specific sets I like; usually those featuring old-timers because I've tuned out from the modern game entirely the last couple years. There are some really cool looking base that are basically worthless (a sweet spot if one is a collector and not an investor), and some of the specific sets I collect the inserts and auto's too. 2001 Fleer Greats of the Game is one of my favorite card sets of all time.
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Yes for me, but for post-80s I just collect cards of players I like, not type cards, sets, etc. I don't tend to spend very much on modern either.
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I started out in modern because it was the players I was watching. As my interests changed, I ended up getting rid of most of the modern stuff. I have a small minor league set from 2007 that I'm working on getting signed, and a handful of other TTM autographs that I obtained around 2006-2010, but on the whole very little post-2000. If I expand it to include the junk wax era, then there are a few more TTM autographs, but still a very small percentage of my collection overall.
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Collect them, I'd deny that if accused. I occasionally buy a signed card of a player I like, or a group of cards of the Cardinals or of a team that's having a great year... I don't get them striving toward completion or monetary gain, I'll get a new card if I like it. Usually paying more than it's worth as I get it on eBay.
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a stamp was 9 cents
I am a little surprised, I didn't think as many members would collect the new cards. It is a little over half at the moment.
I think this is just about the newest card I have and it's a postcard. https://luckeycards.com/dobbinspc.jpg . |
I have been hoarding the new stuff within reason although I never sell or flip..
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Some more modern and none of it shiny.
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I’m definitely not interested in collecting anything from 2000 to present.
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Some shiny cards aren't too shabby:
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Out of thousands of cards, I have 14 cards from after 2000. I didn't set out to buy them...they were just stray cards in lots. So technically I have them, but I don't really want them.
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To Answer The OP......
.........No....I am completely disinterested in the "New " stuff. However display a 1978 "Trey Pack" unopened because it is wax and gum just because I have it! So...who is this A-Rod? I am certain that he is/was not a Cub or White Sox.
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I agree with Exhibitman, if you don't want to rip packs or buy sets, go online to Topps and pick up some of the individual cards online. The Topps Living Set has some great artwork, and you only have to buy players you're interested in. Topps Now has cars commemorating achievements, some auto'd. Occasionally the set Throwback Thursday has some nice designs too. I never feel like I've wasted money on Topps online product like when I buy modern packs. And like other collectors, since I'm a Reds team collector, my collection wouldn't be complete without modern stars. I buy Larkin and Votto primarily, but I must admit I got caught up with Jonathan India when it appeared he had a real chance to win ROY. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk |
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Only because I collect RC's of no-no pitchers. But I'm about done with it....
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I am shocked it is not much higher than around 50/50 for Yes. I would think most collectors would either still collect topps factory sets, update sets, their team, a favorite player or local minor league team sets.
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Collecting modern seems to be like going to the beach to fill up a small fish bowl as a tidal wave comes crashing in.
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I only collect modern Japanese baseball cards, but I assumed the poll meant American branded cards, so the answer is a definite no (collecting only vintage American cards).
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The Modern Monster
2002 2003 topps 206
Topps released this set with a cardboard back and used colored ink that looked a little strange on the cardboard. However, with the constant tobacco styled re-releases from Topps with white backs the original cardboard backed card set has its unique place amongst Topps sets. The only complete set over the three series releases is the polar bear backs with approximately 1450 potential set. Bazooka was also released over the three series and is a skip numbered set with 45 subjects and a potential for 30 complete sets. Unique at the time was the use of game used material in the tobacco styled cards. They used different colored jersey swatches for the same image of some players. This created in my opinion some rare cards. The ebay data can be seen on net54 “2002 Topps 206 Odds and Oddities - Joey Votto". There are some real gems in the set with 3 Wagner bat cards from each release. Also Votto Uzit, Mauer Drum, and Cobb bat card. Throw in some unintentional blank backs and the set mirrors elements of the original. I have collected this set on and off for the last 20 years. However, I remember when I opened a pack with a Needham buyback that started my meager T206 collection. Happy Buying, Selling and Trading, Aaron |
Off the top of my head, very few. But, I certainly respect others who feel differently.
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The T206 and T205 buyback cards they included in both those releases are fantastic IMO. You can always find a few for sale on Ebay. Are there people that specifically collect these buybacks? The holder Topps came up with to put the original T206 and T205 cards in I always thought was ingenious. Nobody seems to ever remove the original buyback T-cards from those special holders either, at least not to my knowledge. And whenever you do see the buybacks up for sale via auction on Ebay, they always seem to go for more than the cards would sell for without the Topps holder. |
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Nothing in my collection after 1971 that I can recall.
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