Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?

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Posted By: Chris Counts

Like most collectors, I started out collecting sets. But over the past 36 years, my priorities have changed as I have discovered the wonders of vintage cards and the limitations of my budget. Today, my collection is smaller than it ever has been and collecting is more rewarding than ever. I basically collect the players I like in the sets I like, but with an emphasis on collecting the most interesting and attractive vintage cards, and also, keeping the collection as small but as diverse as possible. Collecting sets makes little sense to me now because most of the sets I like are out of my budget. And collecting HOFers makes even less sense to me because the selection process is so flawed and I can't see why I should buy a card of George "Highpockets" Kelly and not a card of Cecil Travis ...