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nbrazil"If I was trying to focus on just a few sets, why chose the same ones that everyone else does?"
1.) Because they are aesthetically beautiful
2.) Contain a wide breadth of players (HOF'ers, semi stars, etc)
3.) Affordable, relative to scarcer sets in those eras
I would love to collect scarcer sets (and I have tried in the past), but when 1.) I'm simply collecting them because they are scarce and/or 2.) I have to drop down a second mortgage to get a simple common...then, I would rather give up scarcity for aesthetic enjoyment and the knowledge that i have enough money to pay my bills.