Why do you collect backs?

[Cooper1927]

A little rabbit trail, but in regards to back runs, what players (with the particular pose) has the most "backs?"

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Cooper1927

A little rabbit trail, but in regards to back runs, what players (with the particular pose) has the most "backs?"

The six super print cards each appear with 24 different backs. Chase blue portrait, Chase black cap, Chance yellow background, Cobb red background, Evers batting Chicago and Mathewson black cap.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by rats60

The six super print cards each appear with 24 different backs. Chase blue portrait, Chase black cap, Chance yellow background, Cobb red background, Evers batting Chicago and Mathewson black cap.

The Cobb red also appears on the Cobb/ Cobb back, so it appears on the most different backs.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by Sean

The Cobb red also appears on the Cobb/ Cobb back, so it appears on the most different backs.

Only if you consider it a t206. That is another can of worms.

[Cooper1927]

What about beyond T206? Where the player from that set also has the same pose on same pose say on the Red Cross back, or on an E95?

[Yoda]

Being a T206 guy, I have always marched to the sound of my own Drummer.

[x2drich2000]

I've always had a desire to collect stuff that you normally don't see. I've also generally consider myself to be a set collector. Combine that with being a bit obsessive and I ended up starting to build an E92 set with the Nadja back. I also always found the e92 red crofts really cool and again, something you hardly ever find. When Leon auctioned his collection, I made sure to pick up 1, then quickly added another and then another, and well, again, I can be a bit obsessive.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by x2drich2000

I've always had a desire to collect stuff that you normally don't see. I've also generally consider myself to be a set collector. Combine that with being a bit obsessive and I ended up starting to build an E92 set with the Nadja back. I also always found the e92 red crofts really cool and again, something you hardly ever find. When Leon auctioned his collection, I made sure to pick up 1, then quickly added another and then another, and well, again, I can be a bit obsessive.

Thats some addiction!!! Great group!!!!! Miller is most common of them all isnt it!!!!

[Jantz]

Why?

Because T206 Sweet Caporal backs from any series are just soooo common!

All joking aside, I collect different backs for my T206 set because it adds variety. I'm not what you would call the average T206 collector though because from day one I never had any desire to own an example of each back.

Do I chase backs? Yes and I care just as much about the backs as I do the fronts. In order to complete a back set (every card/same back), a collector has to chase the player on the front and the advertisement on the back equally.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by rats60

Only if you consider it a t206. That is another can of worms.

I actually don't consider it to be aT206, but Burdick made the list and he gets the last word. And we definitely shouldn't get that argument started again.

[steve B]

When I got my first checklist in 78 I thought "wouldn't it be cool to get at least one of each back" So I'd pick up backs I didn't have when they were in a stack of cards. Didn't think of different factories and series until much later, but when I did check, I found I'd only missed one easy one and maybe two fairly tough ones.

Haven't reduced the wantlist since then, and there's really only one I might be able to afford out of the ones I need.

I think of then as different sets that just happen to be cataloged as one.

Steve B

[PiratesWS1979]

I enjoy the hunt for rarer cards. It's the same as collecting new cards, would you buy just a base card of your favorite player and stop? No, you'd have to "collect" the chrome, refractor, auto, blue, red, black, ect.