I am in the midst of trying to focus. I am working on the monster (about half way through, largely low grade), a 1941 Double Play set (2 cards to go) and a 1961 Topps set (just getting started). I have always tried to pick up a different card of a hall of famer every chance I got, but have backed off that...too expensive for the negro leaguers and the 19th century guys. I futz around with foreign cards, but mainly just when I trip across them. I always try to find at least one card of even the most obscure player from Marshall University. I have had a major shift in my collecting over the last couple of years. At one point, I just tried to collect pretty much everything. We had a bouncing 79 year old move in with us for a few years and the space just wasn't there. At one point i got into serial numbered cards, first or last serial number which I still think is kind of neat...but I no longer obsess on them. Crazy as it sounds, I probably amassed 2000 of such cards. Now I am down to the above mentioned obsession. I am considering narrowing my focus to cards that were made in years ending with "1" (I was born in 1961) and working with the rest. Having to liquidate my friend's collection has made me understand that someday it will happen to mine.
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