July Pickups

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by brob28

Bill nice looking Feller! I also love the '56 Topps set, completed mine about 2 years ago. In my opinion, it's one of Topps best sets. Are you working on a set, or just picking up specific cards?

Hi Bill, and thank you.

You know, I'm not sure quite yet what I'm going to do. There are 5 or 6 sets I really like right now, and have dabbled a little in all of them: T206 and T202, the '33 and '34 Goudey, the '53 Bowman Color, and '56 Topps. I think for a while, I'm going to work on a checklist I've come up with of cards I want to get pretty soon. Some of them are also from the '56 Topps set, some aren't from any of the six sets I listed. And some are going to be really expensive, so they will slow me down. Two cards I plan on getting within the next year to two years are the '34 Goudey Lou Gehrig #37, and a '33 Goudey Babe Ruth, either card #53, #144 or #149. #181, of the four, is really the only one that doesn't excite me. It's a nice card, but I really like the design of the other three. The Ruth card might be a reality around tax refund time. Once I've got that list whittled down a little bit, then I might start focusing on set building. I'm guessing I'll be happy with my individual card collection, and ready to start looking seriously at 1 or 2 sets, in about 4 years.

One of the best things about our hobby is that we can do what we want, collect who we want when we want. I'm still relatively young (43 end of September), so I should have plenty of time to get a lot of what I want, God willing.