[Bram99]

Of course, as Conan the Barbarian said: "to crush your enemies..."

But seriously for me it started out as a way to connect with my father who was a minor league pitcher in the Sally league in the 1950's and so he played with some of the players I began to collect from the 1950's/1960's. Now it has become a way to keep those great memories of our discussions about baseball and his love of baseball alive in my memory.

So I have gone from mostly a set collector for a good part of my collecting life, to now being more of a player collector - collecting the players he thought were great, even if they are not regarded as having HOF careers.