Pete, I am glad you sell dupes, otherwise I would have my Blue Bird!
Pete, like many others here, focus on one/several players or all the poses of a single player (i.e., a back run). In many regards it’s an easier way to collect. It’s always satisfying adding a new version to a player collection. Aside from Plank, I pick my players bc I feel as blue chips they are solid places to put some money. However, I have heard a zillion reasons to collect singular players, including they are related, they respect they guy, they were a childhood (or parent’s childhood hero), they liked a pose and then learned about the player and decided to collect more. It’s very interesting what drives someone to choose a specific player to collect.
As an aside, What I cannot get behind, however, is non-playing-days or manager versions of cards. Aside from the 33 Lajoie or Tolteros Gibson, I just have no interest in post-career versions - 1948 leaf Ruth, 33 sport Kings Cobbs, 1940 play ball Jackson. In fact, I generally shy away from late-career versions of players too. I remember looking at the 72 Topps Mays and 1975 Topps Aaron and thinking they looked so old. I don’t have any M101-4/5 Wagners or Cobbs.
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