Your 2013 Baseball Card Resolution

[jimivintage]

Just started the e98 set from scratch in November, and I'm already down to 6. So, my #1 goal is completing that set.

All goals:
1) complete e98 set (down to 6 more needed)

2) start a new caramel set (maybe e93 or e95)?

3) keep working through the monster alphabetically (make it through the letter "B" by the end of the year...currently own the first 5)

4) obtain half of the 1952 Topps set in any condition (currently at about 50 total cards)

5) get to the 1/4 point with t205 set...currently own just 17 cards

6) get to 60 1955 Topps PSA 8 cards. Currently at 43 cards.

OTHER GOALS:
1) write a baseball card related article
2) finally start writing a book. Been wanting to do that for a few years
3) remember what it was like to be under 200 pounds???

It'll be fun for us to revisit this in December! What are your goals? Perhaps we can even help each other out a little just by listing these goals. Who knows?!

Jimi

[tbob]

1) Get closer to completion of the E94 Master Set in 2013.
2) Complete the D311 Pacific Coast Biscuit Set.
3) Make it to Chicago for National and have a great time with fellow Net54ers.

[wazoo]

1. To reach 100+ t206 cards
2. To have at least 22 Hall of Famers
3. To obtain at least one more missing ink card
4. To acquire 3 more backs which I need for my back run.

Best of luck everyone!

[sdkammeyer]

260 T206's in PSA 4.

1/2 this year and 1/2 next year ..... to reach my goal of completion by Dec. 31, 2014.

[jimivintage]

Originally Posted by tbob

1) Get closer to completion of the E94 Master Set in 2013.
2) Complete the D311 Pacific Coast Biscuit Set.
3) Make it to Chicago for National and have a great time with fellow Net54ers.

I'm hoping to go this year again, Bob. I haven't been to one since the 2007 show in Cleveland. We will need to try and go to a game again! Since our teams suck so bad, I suppose we could watch a better team play in Chicago (not the Cubs, of course!)

[atx840]

Trim down the collection and focus on acquiring the specific cards on my want list.

[kmac32]

Continue my E121 Yankees and Giants world series set and make progress on my raw W572 strip card set.

[stewbacca]

1. Add to my low quality/low cost t206 set(have 28 in the last 2 months)

2. Work on my signed 1976 topps set. Have over 210 signed so far.

3. Possibly continue/possibly sell my 1969 topps set with about 180 of them signed.

4. Get more autographs in my "Topps 40 Years of Baseball" book. Sitting at 613 signatures in the book with 50 HOF.
That seems like more than enough to keep me busy this year.

[conor912]

Finish my '33 Goudey set minus the big 7 (29 to go)
Finish my '50 Bowman set (9 to go)
Sell off my 50's Topps sets and start a tobacco set

[freakhappy]

1) Complete my T201 set...currently 23/50

2) Build my T206 set to 200 or more...currently at 147

3) Pick up a T206 Piedmont 42 and Brown Hindu back....and maybe more backs I don't already have

3) Pick up a few more T9's...currently at 9/25

4) The National (as of now it's a go!)

[Jlighter]

Originally Posted by sdkammeyer

260 T206's in PSA 4.

1/2 this year and 1/2 next year ..... to reach my goal of completion by Dec. 31, 2014.

260, that's a pretty lofty goal.

Good luck!

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by atx840

Trim down the collection and focus on acquiring the specific cards on my want list.

Buy some of the cards that Chris is trimming from his collection.

[Sean]

To pick up a T206 Drum back to replace the one that I just traded.

[wolf441]

1.Get my T206 count up to 175 (currently at 123)
2. T206 Hall of Fame count up to 40 (currently at 19)
3. T206 Southern Leaguer count up to 25 (currently at 10)
4. Pick up a T206 Carolina Bright and a Piedmont 350-460 Factory 42 back (currently at 29/39 in the back run)
5. Start on the 1909 T212 Obak set
6. Pick up a few more T201's

[Exhibitman]

Focus...

[bcbgcbrcb]

Sticking to good deals rather than paying "whatever it takes" to pick up an item I want. ("Whatever it takes" does not have quite the same meaning to me as others since my funds are somewhat limited)

[g_vezina_c55]

Continue to buy more T206 cards.
Continue to buy more lionel carter ' s t206 cards
Perhaps buy a T206 Magie or Demmitt ( st louis ) or O'hara (st louis)
If it is possible buy a couple more differents t206 back

[e107collector]

Here are the cards I am currenly looking for:

1. E107 Type 2 of Nap Lajoie and Ed Delahanty

2. E107 Type 1 of Jack Chesbro and Addie Joss

3. Boston Store Joe Jackson - SGC/PSA 2-3

4. Low Grade Babe Ruth Rookie card - ad back preferred.

Hopefully, I can knock 1 or 2 of these off my wantlist in 2013!!

Tony

[iwantitiwinit]

Buy as many T206's as is humanly possible without my wife finding out.

[BengoughingForAwhile]

Trim all my beater cards so they look like PSA 8s. Then sell them all and sail away on my new yacht.

[Bestdj777]

My 2013 card resolutions:

1. Add some great cards to my B18 blanket set. It is my first pre-war set, and I am currently at 7/90. Hope to get halfway through by the end of the year.

2. Pick up an F. Scott Fitzgerald T206.

3. Pick up the last 23 cards I need for my current Mantle Master Set project. I am currently at 153/176 and hope to check of the remaining cards this year (most affordable but difficult to find, so this will likely be a challenge). If I can get through this, and am still interested, I might go after a couple dozen other Mantle oddball cards.

[conor912]

Originally Posted by iwantitiwinit

Buy as many T206's as is humanly possible without my wife finding out.

Haha. So true.

[tonyo]

My resolution is: Don't add anything new to my current "want list"

[DixieBaseball]

Your 2013 Baseball Card Resolution :

Build a website / imagevent for my collection. I have been procrastinating this for years and the odd thing is I actually look forward to it.

Happy New Year All -

[Harford20]

My 2013 Card Resolutions (or collecting goals)

1. For my Ted Williams Master set, obtain the last two 1947 Menko cards I need, as well as a R303A/V351 Williams Rookie card.
2. T206--Obtain 10 more HOF's (currently at 52) including at least 1 Cobb and 1 rare back version of Chance Yellow
3. T205--Complete my Mordecai Brown back run (minus the Drum)
4. Buy my first Old Judge card (preferably a HOF player)

Also would like to publish my data on the Red Sox team photo packs of the 40's and 50's (as the data currently out there is erroneous)

Dave

[paul]

Finding an Old Judge or Scrapps card of Deacon White.

[Jason Carota]

1. Launch one site containing all of my collections. Technically launched, but not 100% complete yet.

2. PACE myself with the T210 set.

3. Enjoy the cards I already have.

[t206hound]

1. Add another 60 SGC 40 T206s to the collection to get to 75% while keeping my average cost per card under $20 (currently at $11.48, but need some big ones).
2. Add another 20 EPDGs to my low grade all EPDG set.
3. Add 4 E91-As to the collection

[CharleyBrown]

Hit 75% of the Jackie Robinson Master Set - Have to add 5 more cards to hit 33/44.

Put enough money away for a big Pre-war purchase in 2014.

[markf31]

So I'm coming at this from more of a traditional "resolution" angle for my collection as opposed to goals of what I want to obtain over the next 362 days.

1- Nail down my collecting goals

2- Become more organized. Everything from keeping better track my purchases, scanning my collection, to being more proactive in plotting out my targets in auctions when the previews become available.

Number 1 proved quite ellusive to me in 2012. I started then dropped a number of sets as other sets and topics caught my interest. Any goals I set in 2012 were constantly changing and morphing as the year went on. I'm slowly coming to the realization that I might not be a set collector but more a HOF type collector.

[CW]

1. Spend less than $1000 on cards this year (bought too much in '12).

2. Enjoy the cards I do have, rather than looking to add more that I don't really need.

3. Live vicariously through others' pickups posted here and on other forums.

[Howe’s Hunter]

Get what I can.

Be content in knowing I'll never get all I want.

[Zach Wheat]

Finish my T200 set. I have the difficult cards; I just need to add Cleveland (AL) and the sort-of-difficult card for NY (AL).

[Bocabirdman]

1. Move up out of the 50's on the Monster Number List. (I started at #51 six months ago, added 136 cards and now sit at #55)
2. Balance collecting and staying married.
3. Enjoy the scraps of cardboard that I cherish and most folks don't understand.
3a. Accept the fact that they never will.

[Piratedogcardshows]

I'm looking to complete Series 2 of T210 and keep working towards the rest of the set.Also to be a little more focused on and patient with those goals.

[joeadcock]

Tony

What a goal. E107'S, BOSTON STORE JACKSON, RUTH ROOKIE. Good luck in your quest.

Bestd;777:quite a Mantle Collection you got. Would be nice to see a scan of it some times.

[joeadcock]

My Goal:
1)Ruth or Gehrig Goudey
2)Rid my self of part of my collection to make room
3)Feel incentive from what others have said:appreciate what I got
4)Old Judge Cabinet

[jimivintage]

How is everyone doing on this? Two months in now.....I'm only close on my '52 Topps goal. The rest....well, some of those projects are already gone. Lol oh well.

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by tonyo

My resolution is: Don't add anything new to my current "want list"

I'm hanging in there. Haven't bought anything that wasn't on my want list January 1.

I have started a list already titled projects to start in 2014.

[conor912]

Originally Posted by conor912

Finish my '33 Goudey set minus the big 7 (29 to go)
Finish my '50 Bowman set (9 to go)
Sell off my 50's Topps sets and start a tobacco set

'33 Goudeys...16 to go
'50 Bowmans...6 to go
The last of my 50's sets ships tomorrow and I have started working on T3's

....i actually forgot about this January post, but thanks Jimi for rehashing it....looks like I'm doing pretty good!!

[CW]

Originally Posted by CW

1. Spend less than $1000 on cards this year (bought too much in '12).

2. Enjoy the cards I do have, rather than looking to add more that I don't really need.

3. Live vicariously through others' pickups posted here and on other forums.

LOL let's just say I'm failing miserably on bullets 1 and 2....

[atx840]

Originally Posted by atx840

Trim down the collection and focus on acquiring the specific cards on my want list.

So far I've let go of several extra items, picked up one on the list and waiting for the spring auctions. Not to shabby.

[AMBST95]

So it's March and I've about maxed out my card budget for the year. Time to list more shiny stuff on eBay to fund my vintage fix.

[jimivintage]

Originally Posted by AMBST95

So it's March and I've about maxed out my card budget for the year. Time to list more shiny stuff on eBay to fund my vintage fix.

Amen, brotha!

[triwak]

Acquire period cards of:

1. Oscar Charleston
2. Andy Cooper
3. Deacon White
4. Pete Hill (very unlikely)

[t206hound]

Originally Posted by jimivintage

How is everyone doing on this? Two months in now.....I'm only close on my '52 Topps goal. The rest....well, some of those projects are already gone. Lol oh well.

Already exceeded my EPDG expectations, on track for T206 SHC 40s and abandoned the E91-As... So all over the place

[g_vezina_c55]

Already exceed too my 2013 goals
I got my magie and a demmitt st louis and we are only in march

My next goal :
O hara st louis and buy couple rare back..

[wolf441]

Originally Posted by wolf441

1.Get my T206 count up to 175 (currently at 123)
2. T206 Hall of Fame count up to 40 (currently at 19)
3. T206 Southern Leaguer count up to 25 (currently at 10)
4. Pick up a T206 Carolina Bright and a Piedmont 350-460 Factory 42 back (currently at 29/39 in the back run)
5. Start on the 1909 T212 Obak set
6. Pick up a few more T201's

1. T206 count at 156
2. T206 HOF count at 27
3. T206 Southern Leaguer count at 21

No luck yet on #4-6!

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

My resolution is to be more patient- willing to walk away from a deal. I am not going after rare cards so more will be available.

[Leon]

My resolution is to not have one. I will continue to acquire things I enjoy collecting with no real parameters. It's the way I like it. . This one is circa 1927....8 x 10 theater lobby card...