Current state of the hobby-Vintage Cards

[Balticfox]

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Originally Posted by hcv123

Mantle and Ruth in particular seem to be pretty hot.

Good thing then that I have only passing interest in the first and absolutely no interest in the second!

Granted I'm a set builder, and I've been working on adding critical mass to my collections of Topps 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1965 Baseball cards in the last few months. These sets though are huge! Fortunately therefore large lots of the commons are often available at semi affordable prices. With the higher priced star cards though, I've been taking a rifle shot approach. Would I pay that much for that player in that pose (I find head shots boring) from that year? I have of course certain favourite players (e.g. Stan Musial, Warren Spahn, Rocky Colavito, Ernie Banks, Roger Maris, Roberto Clemente, Orlando Cepeda, Hoyt Wilhelm, Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson, Lou Brock, Phil Niekro, Bobby Richardson, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, Jim Bunning, Red Schoendienst, Earl Battey, Elston Howard, Bill Mazeroski, Ed Mathews, Willie McCovey, Jim Kaat) but pose is a very important factor to me and I'm very price sensitive.