[egri]

My biggest regret is not being born, oh, about 70 years earlier, so I could have collected every major issue from Goudey on forward straight out of the packs and had them signed right away.

Other than that, not writing to more of the old-timers when they were still around, and wasting money on a bunch of modern cards when I could have bought a handful of vintage ones. I probably saw Johnny Pesky half a dozen times over the years in Ft. Myers, or at McCoy or Fenway, and never once took him a card from his playing days. I have plenty of cheap photos and posters signed by him, but what I'd give for a 1948 Leaf.

On the other hand, I'm glad I started my signed 1953 Topps project when I did (July 2014) because there were still over 40 players left then who were answering their mail, and corresponding with them was one of the highlights of this project. I don't think I have ever regretted pulling the trigger on a card I needed, either. About a year and a half ago, the most difficult one, Howie Fox came up, and I paid the sticker price, which almost made me sick and I thought it would be a while before I could look at it without cringing. 'A while' ended up being less than two months, because then the second most difficult card (Vern Bickford) came up, and sold for almost twice what I paid for Fox, and suddenly I didn't feel bad any more.