1) What drives your collecting habits? What principles define your collection?
Let's separate collecting from investing. With the latter, all I care about is making money. I will buy just about anything at the right price.
As for my collection, it is a combo of aesthetics, rarity, player and back story. I am not one for collecting ugly cards, even valuable ones. Just doesn't do it for me. My preference is for truly rare cards, the stuff you don't see except once in a blue moon.
2) What is it about baseball that makes it easier for us to care about players that we've never seen play?
Lots and lots of literature. Very good literature. It makes the players come alive.
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