Is anyone else changing their collecting habits?

[GoBigRed]

After several decades of being out of the Hobby I jumped back in two years ago.

I got caught up in the Prospect/Serialized/Auto craze and got frustrated after about a year with all of the wild price gyrations, volume of options and the whole speculation game.

I got out completely (with some losses along the way) and started to pursue 50s & early 60s HOFers and Rookies, concentrating on Mantle. This brought me back to my childhood and lasted for another year. The recent wild rise in the Rose RC allowed me to totally get out of this focus and switch to Early 20th Century examples of the first Hall of Fame Class members (Cobb / Johnson / Mathewson / Ruth / Wagner).

It has been a fun and rewarding ride, here are the key cards from my changing focus over the past two years:

2013 Bowman Chrome Puig Blue Refractor RC PSA-9; then

1963 Topps Rose RC PSA-7; and now

1909 T206 Cobb Off-Bat SGC 80/6.

I think I am most comfortable with the early 20th Century issues, no more worries about a prospect getting Tommy John surgery just after I just acquired 20 copies of his Pink Ice Auto Refractors #d/50 RCs !!!!!

Steve