New and saying hi

[Woundedduck]

I just registered on the site and wanted to pop in and say hello. I'm not a hardcore vintage collector or anything, but I asked around on some other forums and was directed here. I'm more of a born again collector who started to get back into collecting a couple years ago.

Since starting up again, I've mainly focused on star autos of the late 80s to the present, Ohio State alumni autos, and Justin Upton. However, for a while I've wanted to get into vintage and have recently started making more efforts in that direction. Most of my current vintage is stuff I've had for a while, but has kind of taken a back seat in my collection.....nothing major there though. I just love looking at some of what other collectors are picking up and seeing what's out there even if it's out of my range.

To give an idea of where I'm planning to focus, I don't have a huge budget, but I'm hoping to pick up some low grade examples of good or interesting players. I'm not really concerned about condition and raw would even help my wallet more so long as I know I'm getting authentic stuff. I'll probably be looking to spend between $25-$50 per card at most and if I can find the right set/player/condition, maybe a little less or more.

I know I won't have the $$ for the really big prewar HOFers, but I'm hoping for some cool cards of guys with an interesting history. Not really looking for commons that no one knows anything about though. For example, had the Bill Buckner/Mookie Wilson play taken place in the early 1900s, those would be cool cards to own for the history, but probably wouldn't have outrageous prices. I'm sure there are some cool stories of inexpensive guys that have prewar examples (I'm still researching who I want to get :P ). Any less expensive Black Sox (if they exist)? That's the kind of prewar stuff I'm looking for. Suggestions and histories welcomed

For 1950s-1960s or later stuff, I'm hoping to pick up some lower quality, affordable cards of some of the bigger names. I almost got a raw low quality '56 Jackie Robinson, but was afraid of authenticity so I backed off.

Anyway, my knowledge of vintage is small, so I probably won't post much, but I hope to participate and learn a ton here.