Why do you collect T206's as opposed to other cards/sets?

[t206fix]

1-We've all read that article from the teens describing kid's obsession with these cards. I was obsessed with similar little pieces of cardboard in 1983...(Donruss...yuck!) I could be one of those kids on the corner begging for the little scrap of cardboard from these men coming out of the smoking shops in 1910.

2-They are 100 years old.

3-The portraits...

4-The fact that no matter what I do (except marry someone really rich), I will never be able to afford a Wagner....

5-or Plank

6-or Doyle

7-but maybe... someday, with luck and chance ... I might own a Wagner, or Plank, or Doyle...

8-the Evers Portrait... that card is the best looking card ever, wait

8.1-the Keeler Portrait...that card is the best looking card ever, no...

8.2-the Lajoie Portrait...that card is king...

9-the fact that I, or any of you, have never seen any of these men play the game of baseball... but we know everything about them (#1 draft choice, ever...Ty Cobb)

10-but, I know, for a fact, if A-rod ever faced Walter Johnson, he would strike out...

-three times in a row...

-and then throw his batting helmet on the ground...

-which he didn't really need, because Wajo was such a nice guy, he never needed to throw at someone's head...