Like Brian and Patrick suggested, I think I will eventually buy selected cards from the set. Dealing with the entire 52 set is more than I want to deal with. Brian, after finishing the few sets I am working on...41, 57, and 59, I am going to shift to collecting players and cards I like. I may even shift back to player collecting before I am all the way done with the sets. I have only been a "set guy" for about 3 or 4 years. Prior to that I was a 50s and 60s star card collector. Honestly, I seriously love collecting sets and singles...I am addicted anyway you slice it. I am a history buff and a huge baseball fan. Put the two together and you have baseball history, which I love. Take any period of American history from the 1840s on and you can find baseball as an integral part of it. The cards from the 40s and 50s are beautiful works of art that bring history and baseball alive. I absolutely cannot get enough. People who don't collect just don't understand.
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