Your Collecting Focus

[jdthakid36cf]

I'm new here, but i've been collecting cards since I was 7, roughly 22 years ago. I started out thinking I could collect every card made...and as I got older, I slowly realized that it was literally impossible! So, I narrowed it down to players in each sport that I admired...or played for my favorite team. It started out as Nolan Ryan, Derek Jeter, Juan Gonzalez, Art Monk, any Duke graduates, Jim Carey (Hockey), Mario Lemiuex, and Jaromir Jagr. I then decided that was too much! I finally grew up a little more...and dumped everyone except my childhood idol...NOLAN RYAN!!! One regret...I traded away my Derek Jeter 1993 SP RC...before it peaked! It's worked out though...I've built a huge Nolan Ryan collection, working on 2500 different cards. I completely stopped collecting the other major sports, but recently decided to collect J.J. Redick and Art Monk, for various reasons (i'm a die hard Duke basketball fan and one of those unfortunate naive Washington Redskins fans...born and raised...lol).

So, to break it down....I collect:

NOLAN RYAN
J.J. Redick
Art Monk
and dabble in Chris Cooley

I joined this forum to hopefully do some damage to the older oddball Ryan's I need...and i've always wanted to start "yard sale hunting" in search of the rare finds (someone looking to dump their kids old cards from the attic)....I've yet to go yard sale'n in search of this, but hopefully will this spring. Plus, I do enjoy just browsing posts and reading comments from those of you who have been in this hobby much longer than me! It's like chatting with my grandpa (PaPa) and listening to his stories of seeing Roberto Clemente throwing rockets from right field to third base on a dime, among other great sports stories!

Glad I could share! Thanks!

Josh