[jingram058]

As most of you know, I finished my 1953 Bowman color set, and I have now added the black & white set to go with it. I bought the entire set of b&w all at once due to a ridiculously low price from a friend who had three complete sets! Well, it really was my birthday present. I also have a mixed binder of the cards I really like, which covers everything from an 1887 Gypsy Queen George Gore to a T206 Christy Mathewson to 1933 Goudey Ruth #144 and Gehrig #160, some 1933 DeLong cards, 1934 Goudey Gehrig #37, other 1939-40-41 Play Ball cards, a smattering of Topps cards from 1952, 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, and two 1972 Topps (my two 1972 are Aaron and Clemente). Really, all the cards I would ever want from all of those various sets. All the Mantles and other stars from those sets. Heck, I somehow wound up with three very nice 1960 Mantles. I traded one, and some other duplicates, that got me started on the 1953 Bowman color set, and gave one to my daughter and told her for God's sake hang on to it and keep it safe!

So that leads to my dilemma...what cards to begin collecting now? There really isn't anything I really want, and I have dealt almost all my valuable duplicates away. I have no interest at all after about 1974. What be worth starting cold at this point, feasibly, when everything seems to be priced way high, through the roof? Just be happy with what I have? Feel free to suggest.