What's your Monster number?

[drmondobueno]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

This thread is exactly 2 years old. It would be fun to go back and see exactly where everybody was at this time 2 years ago...

Two years ago I held three T206 a Bastian, Crandall and Rhoads ( or was it Rhodes or Rhoades) and still have them. Hit 518 with numerous dupes, some of dubious heritage, this fall. Have not decided to expand to 520 but have not ruled it out. Upgrade is the word, it never stops!

MERRY XMAS, HAPPY HOLIDAYS From the (semi) high Sierras

[bigtrain]

417 T206s, same number as wins by Walter Johnson. Maybe time to take a break.

[Bocabirdman]

I did well over the Christmas Holiday...Come On,,,,a Hooker AND a Shag?

All in all, I picked up 7. My new MN is 453.9

The septet....

483. Rube Waddell (Throwing) SC150
373. Barney Pelty (Horizontal) SGC150
213. Bock Hooker OM
261. James Lafitte OM
429. Shag Shaughnessy P350
473. Woodie Thornton OM
332. Carlton Molesworth P350

[wazoo]

101 please

[jasonc]

Just thought I'd update my monster #.

It is now 15.

Thanks

[Lgarza99]

I will close out the year at 64.
I hope to keep focused in 2014.
Thanks.

[drmondobueno]

but here goes.

Was looking through my set, cataloging cards for potential upgrade. I must admit the number was larger than I'd hoped. So it looks like I have several decisions to make, other than do I go for Demmit and O'Hara...so I have a second set growing. Guess I should track it...

Set one remains at 518, set two is at 68. Write me up, Frank!

[JohnBrownsElbow]

Hello everyone. My name is Casey White. I've been a very longtime lurker at Net54, meaning as far back as Leon not being in charge, but have just in the past week finally decided to take the plunge into collecting baseball cards again and finally joining in the conversation on this wonderful forum.

I first started collecting baseball cards as a seven year old in 1981 chasing Fernando Valenzuela rookie cards before reading "The Glory of Their Times" in 1983 or so and being drawn more toward the historical side of baseball. Spent most of the last half of the 1980s collecting higher grade 1950s-1960s star players with my dad but sold my collection when I entered high school. I've been following baseball closely for most of the last 20+ years, collected vintage baseball photos and books from 1997 to around 2000, but resisted the urge to start collecting cards again until now.

I've decided to try conquering "The Monster" myself. I'm on a limited budget but my plan for now is to buy one "common" a week and one Hall of Famer or Southern Leaguer a month. I'm sure there'll be some weeks/months I buy more and some I buy less but I'm guessing I'll stick close to that average. I've been collecting modern literature in signed first editions (mainly Charles Bukowski) and vinyl records for the last few years but have lost interest in both collections for a while now. I've stuck both collections in the closet for now but in a few months I'll probably start liquidating those once I'm sure that this collecting of baseball cards is going to stick with me. Funds from those should help me get my first Cobb, Mathewson, Johnson, and/or Young when the time comes.

I'll try to stick to cards with decent eye appeal--no big missing pieces, no major creases especially through the player's face. Rounded corners are fine. I'm OK with a little paper loss or writing on the reverse. I want cards that I am comfortable with taking out of the holder and touching with my bare hands. In fact, I'm semi-tempted to just store my collection raw in an old cigar box. Not going to do that for now though.

I'm not going to specifically look for graded cards but for now I'm not going to bust out any cards I get that are already in slabs. (As a matter of fact, I'm waiting on my first graded card, an SGC 20 Sam Crawford batting that I bought on the BST boards here, to come in now.) I have a feeling I'll eventually bust any graded cards out though, just going to give myself some time to make sure I want to stick with this before costing myself any extra money by losing the slabs.

Not going to focus on different back types for now, though I'm betting that'll change somewhat as I move forward with this collection. My eventual goal is to get to 518 fronts. No Wagner, Plank, Magie, Demmitt St. Louis, Doyle NY, or O'Hara St. Louis for me. But to start with, I'm going to focus on getting one front pose of each player. If I counted right there are 389 different players in the set, minus Wagner and Plank, that's 387 different players I'm aiming toward.

Anyways, I got my first two T206s in the mail this morning:

Mike Donlin (with bat) -- Sweet Caporal 350 Factory 30
Jimmy Lavender -- Piedmont 350 Factory 25

I'm in love with these two little pieces of history, haven't been able to keep my hands off them all morning. I look forward to adding to my collection and talking about it with all of you!

Current Monster number: 2

[wolf441]

Hi Frank,

Can you please bump me up to 357 when you have a moment? Thanks!, Steve

[Piratedogcardshows]

Ill put my name on the list.I got 5 SL'ers.

[SushiX37]

It's been a slow couple of months. Bump me up to 78. I'm hoping to hit 100 in 2014.

Rich

[VoodooChild]

Can you please update me to 88.

December was good for me, added 13:

Pat Moran Tolstoi PSA 3
John Titus SC350 PSA 3
George Gibson SC350 PSA 2.5
Gabby Street (Catching) PB PSA 2.5
Bill Bernhard SL OM PSA 2
Sid Smith SL OM PSA 1.5
Larry Doyle (with Bat) AB 350 NF Raw
Hal Chase (Holding Trophy) P350-460 Raw
Kaiser Wilhelm (Ready to Pitch) P150 Raw
Germany Schaefer (Fielding) P150 Raw
Claude Ritchey P150 Raw
Jim Delahanty P150 Raw
Jap Barbeau P350 Raw

[JohnBrownsElbow]

Added 7 more to my new set bringing me to 10 total. Thanks Frank for the update and for keeping this thread going!

Added:

Sam Crawford (throwing) -- My first HOFer and first Net54 BST purchase! Extremely happy with this beautiful card.
Frank Delahanty
George Merritt
Mike Mitchell
Pat Moran
Mike Mowrey
Deacon Phillipe
Harry Steinfeldt (with bat)

All are common Piedmont or Sweet Caporal backs so far.

Going to try and save some money now and buy my first Mathewson sometime in February before I buy anymore commons. Absolutely love these cards so far, I feel so peaceful just sorting through them, soaking in all the details of these little works of art.

[bigtrain]

Now plugging away at the Southern Leaguers. I am at 420.