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Posted By: Matt

James - about 6 months ago, I decided to change my collection over to a (approximately) 25 card collection. I targeted cards of star pre-1950 players based on my set of arbitrary rules and have only 5 cards left on my want list at this point. Each card I have acquired has a bit of a story with it, whether it be a trade, a BST purchase or something more elaborate such as winning a large lot of cards, only to keep 1 and sell off the rest. My arbitrary set of rules:
1) 1 Card per player
2) 1 Card per issue (e.g. only 1 card from T206 (a Johnson portrait))
3) The card has to be (subjectively) attractive
4) If the player played any significant stretch with Cleveland, his card should depict him on the Cleveland team.

I have found it to be a challenging and fun process and highly recommend it. I've got a few that still need to be crossed over to SGC, and a few more to pickup, but once I get closer, I'll upload everything to the SGC registry.