Meandering
I recently meandered through my collection assembling my t206s for an assault on what I call the Minimonster...I'm simply trying to get one of each major leaguer in the set (may fill out other variations and minor leaguers later).
I am a very good collector, but not a very good organizer. I had a handful of t206s that had gotten into another box somewhere and spent the last couple of days digging. At this point, I am only missing Kelley, who I know I have somewhere. I also think I have a Speaker with a punch hole in it somewhere, but I am probably going to upgrade it. I am starting with better than half a set including the Cobb, Young, Mathewson and Johnson...it's all low grade so I should be able to knock it out eventually.
The upside is I found a lot of interesting stuff I had forgotten I had. One thing that was kind of interesting was a "set" of promotional/educational cards Frank Nagy had put together featuring fairily obscure cards. He evidently did this prior to the advent of the zip code.
I have always collected and see the merit to all eras of ballplayer, but the residue of that is that I sure had to dig through a lot of Todd Heltons.
Do any of you other guys have these problems:
1) a lack of organization that sometimes hampers your collecting goals
2) an occasional moment of "I know I have that card" and an inability to rest until you have found it in your hands. The thing that set me off was I KNEW I had a McGinnity and turns out I did...it just took a lot of digging to find it.
It was fun digging through the stuff I had accumualted...I simply must get more organized.
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