Cy, I understand your point about team collecting... If I was collecting a specific team I'd probably want to buy every example that came up.
Proposing to break up the set by year is not going to make anything easier. 1889 OJs probably pop up the most frequent, but cal leagues OJs are 1889,,,, so it's impossible to complete an 1889 set without an incredible find.
Most of the other extremely rare cards are 1888 so good luck with that.
You'll need a Hahm card to complete an 1887 set, as well as full pose runs of some pretty tough cards.
People already collect the 1886 "dotted ties" subset. Everyone knows they're scarce.
I have the "hodge podge" of years you describe. I can't imaging taking what I've acquired so far and breaking it up into 7 sets, honestly it seems silly to me. I'm really happy it's catalogued the way it is.
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