Collecting Obscure/Scarce/Under-appreciated sets - Does it affect your enjoyment?

[vintagebaseballcardguy]

Great idea for a thread, Luke. While they are not necessarily obscure (certainly much less discussed), I have fallen in love with prewar minor league issues such as the T212 Obaks as well as the T210s. I also think the T211 Red Suns are amazing. It has only been a year or so since I started down this road, but I really enjoy it. I only have close to 60 T212 -2s thus far. When I do branch out to the T210s, I think Series 3 will be my first target because they are a little closer to home geographically.

The cards of these minor leaguers from long ago really tune me into my love and enjoyment of baseball history. While some of the minor leaguers in these sets did make it to the majors, many of them were just boys and young men from the west coast and south who liked to play ball and represent their towns and perhaps put off settling into less pleasant occupations the other locals and/or family members had to do. And, especially in the case of the Obaks, they are beautiful cards and works of art from a period of time when America was very different.

I dabbled in T206 two or three times but just couldn't get into it.

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[Luke]

Thanks for the replies so far everyone.

I probably should have elaborated a little on collecting T206s. A couple people have mentioned that the only obstacle to completing that set is money. That's true if you just collect by fronts, but that's only one way to collect the set.

I collect rare and mid-tier backs in a manner that's pretty similar to the way other people collect e92 rare backs, rare T-card issues, and the tough front/back combos from the 1916 (m101), 1917 (e135 and family), and 1921/1922 (e121 family) sets.

The biggest difference between adding a Holsum Bread back to my collection, and adding a Cycle 460 to my collection is that a lot more people care about the Cycle. Just because it's a T206 and they are a T206 collector, even though they may not really collect backs themselves.