I'm Back

[Davalillo]

Hello everyone,

It seems like about 18 months since I last posted here...actually it would be easy to figure out since I stopped posting when the board went to the new format. It took me about 18 months to figure out how to register but I did and I'm back. I don't recognize a lot of the names that are posting now--could there really be that much turnover in posters?

To reintroduce myself, I am a collector of vintage graded cards--defining vintage as 1887-1969. My collection is not just baseball cards but football, basketball, hockey, golf, boxing, bowling and non-sports cards. I have approximately 27,000 psa 8 or better cards and I am a graded set collector. For those who read the cu boards, you may know I have 105 graded sets with each card psa 8 or better. For baseball, football and basketball, I try to collect every set made 1948-1969 where in hockey, golf and non-sports I am more selective. In prewar baseball cards I am actively trying to finish 8 sets in psa 8 or better(2 are done) and have a number partially done. I have most 1970-91 sets raw.

I love prewar baseball. I am passionate about prewar baseball cards but I would not collect them if they were not graded and I collect pretty much only in psa 8 or better. I agree with Leon that any kind of collecting is okay--this is how I like to do it.

As many of you know I was vocal about my concern of the alteration of vintage cards and tried to drum up interest in an organization among collectors who would set standards for auction houses and dealers among other things. It never really got off the ground and one can fault me for lack of follow through, but I never got a tremendous amount of support and if nothing else I think I raised awareness of the issues.

I don't plan on getting in any political debates and I don't plan on getting in any hobby board skirmishes but I am who I am.

While I have been off the Net54 board, I started a blog.

http://musicandsportscard.blogspot.com

I would urge everyone to check it out. In it, I display pictures of many of my graded sportscards and sometimes comment on issues of interest regarding graded sportscards or on my collection. I also am a music lover and on the blog I am counting down my top 1230 songs of all time. Now it is in groups of 25. I just posted 1075-1100 so the fun has just begun.

Best wishes and happy new year to all.

Jim