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[BioCRN]

1800s-current graded Cubs. HOF, stars, notables. 1888 Allen and Ginter Cap Anson...check. 1991 Bowman Rick Wilkins...check. It's almost 250 cards and counting. The focus has expanded for the "notables" over the years and allowed me to make the collection more robust.

1950-2011 graded HOF, stars, notables. Everyone who's 1960+ is a RC. It used to be 2001 based on the Pujols/Ichiro hobby milestone. I expanded it to 2011 a few years ago because I wanted to bring things up to the Trout era.

Those are my main 2 collections. There are others, such as a Mark Grace ungraded collection in a binder and various oversized Cubs vintage/pre-war.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by BioCRN

1800s-current graded Cubs. HOF, stars, notables. 1888 Allen and Ginter Cap Anson...check. 1991 Bowman Rick Wilkins...check. It's almost 250 cards and counting. The focus has expanded for the "notables" over the years and allowed me to make the collection more robust.

1950-2011 graded HOF, stars, notables. Everyone who's 1960+ is a RC. It used to be 2001 based on the Pujols/Ichiro hobby milestone. I expanded it to 2011 a few years ago because I wanted to bring things up to the Trout era.

Those are my main 2 collections. There are others, such as a Mark Grace ungraded collection in a binder and various oversized Cubs vintage/pre-war.

Nice, my younger brother who got me into the hobby was a huge Mark Grace collector.

I started out collecting Wade Boggs cards and then quickly added error cards of any kind to my want list. Over the years I have collected pretty much everything card related. I still collect cards but it is pretty rare I find something I want. A hobby friend and fellow member got me into bats. I have a cool Eddie Mathews Spline bat and then I have around 40 different Wade Boggs bats. I have pretty much everything from a little kids T-Ball model to one of his 1/1 All-Star bats. They have become kinda like cards. Because I have so many different models it is very rare I run across one I don't already have.