Type Cards, is there an appetite?

[BobC]

Originally Posted by biggies

1863-1980 (I include the Jordan set) 2359 sets right now

It changes daily. I started with Dave Hornish's list years ago, about 3500. But it needed massive filtering and I said before everyone's list is specific to them.

I insist on: must have listed players, at least 10 players, MLB only, etc
I have comprimised on all of these. I have over 250 TCMA sets, includes a lot of minors. How do you NOT include Zeenuts, Popcorns, etc. And if I happen to get a card in a set of less than 10 players, in it goes.

Really, only MLB players, AND at least 10 players in the set? So, you don't actively collect and search for type cards from sets like the S74 silks, Kellogg's Pep Sports Stamps, W.S. Kimball Champions, 1937 and 1938 Dixie Lids and their premiums, W511s, W512s, W513s, W565s, W590s, among other sets then?

Or what about a situation like with the various Michael Schecter Associates discs put out in the 1970s-80s, where they put out a sample, test set of only 6 discs in 1975. Do you collect type cards from all the other sets, but not from their original, very first set itself, because it contained fewer than 10 MLB players?

I fully understand and respect the need to set and follow certain rules and parameters when collecting. Just seems to me you may be missing out on collecting examples of some truly great cards/sets though. Or was that statement you made about sometimes compromising on your type card collecting happening a little more often than not? LOL