What player or team do you PC and why?

[Jstottlemire1]

Always good to share and hear why others collect
who or what team they do.

[BioCRN]

Mark Grace, raw, in a binder I love to flip through.

1800s-current Cubs notables, greats, HOFs...graded (227 cards). I decided to go from raw to graded in the late 90s...graded some of my cards, sold many off to go graded. On whole I wish I would have just kept collecting raw, but the collection is so heavily graded now that it's a bit of a sunk cost thing at this point.

Cubs autos (some graded, a huge majority not).

1950-2011 notables, greats, HOFs (489 cards)...used to be 2001 for Pujols/Ichiro...currently 2011 to include Trout.

These are the active ones and there's a few dozen cards I'm actively looking for.

I have other complete ones like 1986-1988 Mark Grace graded, Junk wax "greats" and 1952-1987 Cubs graded display, etc.

[raulus]

Nothing less than the GOAT!

And a few other Giants players like Ott, McCovey, Marichal, Bonds, Bonds, and Will Clark.

[Carter08]

Warren Spahn and Gary Carter, my two favorite players. Also helps that they aren’t budget busters.

[bk400]

Ozzie Smith, Gary Carter, Keith Hernandez and the 86 Mets.

And also nothing less than the real GOAT: Hank Aaron.

[ClementeFanOh]

Player: Roberto

Team: Brooklyn Dodgers (not LA), Cincinnati Reds

Trent King

[bnorth]

Mainly Wade Boggs and error cards of all types. I like the rare oddball stuff so errors seemed the logical choice. When I started collecting in my mid/late teens Wade was by far the best contact hitter so he was my choice for favorite player. I also collect some Eddie Mathews cards/items. At some point I want to add Tino Martinez and Roger Clemens bats.

I have a little bit of everything but those are my favorites. I no longer collect them but I also enjoy My T210 Ft Worth team set and all the T210s of players with the last name Jackson. My Joe is a fairly good reprint/counterfeit. It has a T206 Old Mill back so not really a counterfeit but it also doesn't say reprint anyplace.

This Wade Boggs/Roger Clemens wrong back pair are by far my favorite cards I own or have ever owned.

[Casey2296]

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Nice idea for a thread.

My preference is Cobb, Crawford, Wood, Lajoie, Johnson, Speaker, Matty, Bender (white cap), Hooper, and West Coast stuff.
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[Lucas00]

Red Schoendienst.

-Nice human, Nobody that met him has ever said a bad word about him. He would talk with fans for hours for free and would sign wherever, whenever. He never turned down a request.
-Hofer.
-Historic franchise, with die hard fans.
-Very fun to collect, he spanned imo the golden years of cards, especially food releases. Mid 40s to early 60s. Tons of oddball releases and memorabilia.
-Unofficial record for longest time in major league baseball ever.
-Affordable (but many times he is the sp in hard to find sets, so sometimes not so much haha)

[commishbob]

Billy Pierce and Charles Bender

Pierce pitched in the first game i saw live (1960 at Yankee Stadium) and I sort of latched on to him from that although, as a Baltimore native, I'm an Orioles fan. I communicated with BP during his later years. He was a prince.



I was given a book about Bender some years back and found his story to be fascinating. A unique guy with many interests and relatively affordable cards for a pre-war HoFer.

[Balticfox]

I don't collect any particular individual team let alone player. If I decide to collect a certain set or a series (the years 1954, 1955, 1957-63 and 1965 for vintage Topps right now), I'll go after all the cards the way I did as a little kid unless there's something about certain cards that offend me, e.g. AL and NL President cards or the Babe Ruth subset from 1962 Topps. As a result, I'm much more inclined to go after the Checklists than any individual player. Here are some samples from my collection:





Unlike the way I collected as a kid though, I enthusiastically go after the wrappers and special insert cards, e.g. "Lucky Penny" and contest cards, these days. The memories are there in the wrappers for me as well. After all, I bought and handled hundreds of those as a kid. Here are a couple from 1961 that I've not posted until now:

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I don't collect any particular individual team let alone player. If I decide to collect a certain set or a series (the years 1954, 1955, 1957-63 and 1965 for vintage Topps right now ), I'll go after all the cards the way I did as a little kid unless there's something about certain cards that offend me, e.g. AL and NL President cards or the Babe Ruth subset from 1962 Topps. As a result, I'm much more inclined to go after the Checklists than any individual player.

Unlike the way I collected as a kid though, I enthusiastically go after the wrappers and special insert cards, e.g. "Lucky Penny" and contest cards, these days. The memories are there in the wrappers for me as well. After all, I bought and handled hundreds of those as a kid.

Oy Vay!

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[OhioLawyerF5]

I collect Cincinnati Reds cards from all eras. Focus is on hall of famers in Reds uniform. I supercollect Barry Larkin with a focus on rare 90s inserts/parallels.

[ASF123]

The ‘53 Bowman Schoendienst is a beautiful card, like so many in that set, and the one above is a particularly beautiful example.

[Lucas00]

Originally Posted by ASF123

The ‘53 Bowman Schoendienst is a beautiful card, like so many in that set, and the one above is a particularly beautiful example.

Thanks Andrew, it's probably my favorite set ever made so I had to find a really nice one to use for my player run. I think it looks better than many 8s.

[Exhibitman]

In baseball:






basketball:



Football:



Boxing:



H815 Adam Hats premiums:



A 1904 cabinet issue from the West Coast:



I am also fond of cabinets and mounted photos of HOF boxers from major photographers, like this Ad Wolgast from Dingman:



Or these Sarony portraits of heavyweight champs Paddy Ryan, Jim Corbett and Jim Jeffries:





Nice thing about the H815s and cabinets and photos is that they are so rare that I maybe add 1 every year or so.

Racing:



Soccer:



Nonsports:




I am also working on a period-issued postcard and publicity card collection of the cast of Casablanca:

[DHogan]

I collect players in any sport who's first or last name is Hogan.

1932 NY Giants Schedule post card Frank Hogan by Dave H, on Flickr

[Writehooks]

Baseball: Catfish Hunter. Loved watching him with the A's, and then becoming the linchpin that resuscitated the Yankees franchise. I mailed a fan letter to his home in North Carolina in the winter of 1976, along with a ball to be autographed and a $20 money order to cover return postage to Canada. Three months later, the autographed ball, a gorgeous signed 8x10 photo and the UNCASHED money order arrived in my mailbox, along with a brief signed handwritten note thanking me for taking an interest in his career.

Hockey: Cards and ephemera from the debut season of the World Hockey Association (1972-73). Bobby Hull's defection from the NHL 's Chicago Black Hawks to the WHA's Winnipeg Jets gave the rebel league instant credibility and resulted in a historic court ruling that declared the "reserve clause" in NHL contracts illegal, thus changing the landscape for every major North American sport.

Boxing: Cards of the lineal world heavyweight champions from John L. Sullivan to the second coming of George Foreman.

Misc: Cards, photos, programs and tickets of Evel Knievel. Along with Muhammad Ali, one of the true cultural icons of the 1970s.

[todeen]

I have collected mostly Reds, but I get bored and redirect.

Right now my wife wants me to cut way way back on collecting since our kids are at that age where they cost a lot of money due to sports, growing out of clothes, etc. So now I'm trying to move to cheaper items. I don't want to collect base cards, boring. I'm thinking I will collect Griffey relic cards. They are still relatively cheap.

Tris Speaker (but sold off many items)
Ernie Lombardi
Lou Gehrig
Stan Musial
Barry Larkin
Joey Votto
Ken Griffey Jr

I really think the 1939 season and it's connection to the HOF is cool.





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[bk400]

The second greatest closer of all time. He'd also be in the Hall were it not for rampant and widespread bias against the 86 Mets.

[glchen]

Like a lot of other people on the board, I collect Babe Ruth and to a lesser extent, Lou Gehrig. I used to be a set collector but I just found that I never looked at the commons, even though the money I spent on them really added up. I just really enjoyed looking at the Ruth and Gehrig cards the most, which was why I settled on collecting them.

[Jstottlemire1]

I collect playing years Jackie Robinson, with a focus on on completing the Bond Bread(tough task) set of his in PSA graded examples. It's the long term project for me. I am hoping to add the Old Golds, New York journal as
well. Unfortunately last night his 1943-48 Parade Sportive got out of range for me.

[Cubanball]

I was born in Cuba. So not surprisingly I collect Cuban baseball cards and cards of Cuban players. Upon arriving in the US as a young boy, I found baseball as the one thing that bridged my prior life in Cuba and my new life in the US. I remember fondly watching the 1975 world series which turned me into a Red Sox fan. My first baseball card collection focus mainly on Red Sox cards. Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski where my heroes. In the 1990s as a baseball card dealer I began to focus on cards of Cuban baseball players. At the end of the decade I discovered cards produced in Cuba. Soon that became the main focus of my collecting. Today I am working on cataloging every single 20th century baseball card issued for a Cuban born baseball player and every single Cuban issued baseball card.

[brewing]

Tigers

Team sets of popular issues (or when I can afford the Cobb )

Also try for type sets of Tigers.

[packs]

I collect the Yankees. I'm a New Yorker and my family has always been a Yankees family. My uncle loved the Mets but I think it was mostly to annoy my dad when they were growing up.

Always on the lookout for esoteric Yankees items:

[LEHR]

My collection is all over the place but I probably have more Pirates, Steelers, and Penguins stuff than anything else.