What I am trying to accomplish

[jasonc]

Ok, thought I'd share this.
Basically what I am shooting for now is one pose of each major league player in the T206 set. I do not know if I am 100% accurate on this, but from the research I am doing I get 259 cards, 257 not including Wagner and Plank. Maybe somebody can confirm.

Now, that is my goal for now, after this I might go for the 390 Major league set or the gusto (the big 5-2-0) I really see myself at this point going after a 257 card low grade set however (The 1955 topps project is on the back burner for now)

One thing I've noticed about acquiring more and more cards, is not only are you adding to your monster number, which of course, is the point when set collecting. But, man I love how this is coming together when you sort the players by teams, with the team colors etc. Just amazing stuff. I know there is a handful of you folks that put your set together like that (in pages sorted by team) and for those who don't want their cards slabbed and people that go low grade, I really recommend having the cards all displayed like this.

Here is a pic from my non-hall of famers, two pages displayed here from my collection.
Certainly looks a lot better now that I am getting more cards.
and I know there is some low grade cards here, trimmed and what not, but the way I look at it, who cares?, I firmly believe it comes down to the saying "collect what you like"

[steve B]

Very nice!

I took mine out of pages a long time ago. The pages were pretty bad, and the nice cards needed to be in better holders. And I wanted to keep them together as much as I could.

If the Nichols is as nice as it looks you might want to move it away from the binder ring and put one of the not so nice ones there. I've seen too many cards dented or creased from the page not quite sliding right as the binder closed.

Steve B

[Luke]

They sure do look great in a binder by team. It looks like you've got a nice start. I, like Steve, am also worried about these 100 year old cards in 15 pocket pages. I think they look coolest in a 15 or 20 card page, but it's so easy to damage a card in those pages. This pic shows how I do it. My binders are smaller than a normal binder, and you could easily put 9 cards in top-loaders in a normal 9-pocket page. Just an idea, in case you worry about damaging your cards.

[jasonc]

Thanks for the compliments. Since I am sorting by team and it doesn't really matter to me what order they are in, once they are by team, I may move the decent condition ones to the right. I really do like the 15 pocket pages though, and how it's coming together.

[ethicsprof]

great plan and great work!
congrats.
all the best,
barry