[egri]

Blunder: Getting so excited at the prospect of finding a few tough cards for my project that I lost my objectivity, and bought a couple hundred dollars of forgeries. Also, when I was getting in to autograph collecting about 10 years ago, I didn't write to more of the old timers who were still alive. At the time, there were still a few guys left from the Goudey and Play Ball sets (now it's just Bobby Doerr) and even more from the late 1940s Leaf and Bowman sets, and most of them signed for free or for low fees.

Wonder: When I got back in to collecting (around the summer of 2014) I focused almost exclusively on old timers. I've found that much more rewarding than when I collected modern players, especially because a lot of them are just happy to be remembered.