What a great question.
When I first got into vintage, I was sort of all over the place. It was like a kid in a candy store - so many different things. I thought early on that I'd collect 20's kinds of issues because actual photographs are so cool. But then I realized that I much preferred the colors even if the image was not photographic.
So I just sort of merged into type collecting without having consciously decided to do so. It gave me the ability to indulge in every new cool thing I saw, in a way.
I'm a huge Tigers fan, so I decided to go for a Detroit player from every set. I was able to include the really great-looking minor league sets like Obak and Zeenut by getting a card of any player that had, at some time during his career, played for Detroit. This gave me a good balance between being focused and actually working toward something (Detroit players from pre-war sets) while also being able to get a wide variety of looks - I could by the latest cool thing I saw.
I could never actually get a DTW player from each set - Leon's quest has demonstrated how extremely impossible some of these sets can be. But I have liked trying, even though I've been sitting on my money lately have haven't bought a card in awhile.
Joann
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