2017 highlights and collecting goals for 2018

[DeanH3]

A few 2017 highlights. As far as 2018 goals? I plan on not having any since I can't seem to stick with the ones I start out with anyway.

[wdwfan]

I'm embarrassed to post in this thread after the stuff everybody is putting up. But to put my embarrassment into perspective, I just got into vintage cards in August when I picked up my first.

I didn't have any goals coming into 2017. But I did sell out of all of my modern cards, with the exception of my 2 PCs (Tyrell Jenkins and Rickey Dudley) and Rangers collection. The Rangers collection will be going as well as soon as I can figure out the best way to move it.

All that said, I picked up my first vintage card in August and now am up to a 3-row shoebox of vintage cards. They're all sorted by year, priced, sleeved and top loaded.

I was also able to put together my first vintage set - 1974 Topps baseball. Putting in that final card a few months back felt really nice. But now I'm ready to break it up, sell all the cards and upgrade to another year. I realize I love to put sets together, break them down and try to put together a set that's a little older. My ultimate goal is to get up to a 1957 complete set.

So I guess my 2018 goals are just to continue building my vintage collection. I just paid for my biggest card yet - a 1961 Topps Roger Maris. It should be here later this week or early next and will be a good start to my 2018 collecting.

I also want to try and piece together another set as I did the '74 set. I wound up spending a grand total of $80 on it by trading modern for some of the bigger names. Will hopefully sell the cards from the '74 set for a profit and use the money to piece together a set from the earlier 70s, possibly late 1960s.

As I said, I'm just getting going into vintage and love the trading and upgrading aspect of the hobby. I hope I can continue to do that.

[Kenny Cole]

I am still formulating my goals for 2018, but among other things I would like to:

1. Obtain an E107 Delahanty within my budget;

2. Obtain an Old Judge Deacon White;

3. Get a Cracker Jack Matty and Wagner;

4. Upgrade some cards from my Aguilitas Segundas set;

5. Reacquire a couple of Cobb poses I traded away in 2017; and

6. Continue culling my collection and get rid of stuff I'm no longer interested in.

My top acquisitions this year are as follows:

[kailes2872]

2017 Goals:
1959-1963 Fleer Sets - Done
1952 Red Man - Done
1954 Bowman - Done
1955 Bowman - Done
1970-1974 Topps Basketball - Did not do
1970-1977 Topps Football - Did not do

2018 Goals
1953 Topps Complete Set - with Slabbed Mantle, Mays, Paige, and Robinson (or buy all except those and buy those 4 separately)
1952 Bowman Complete Set - with Slabbed Mantle
1953-1955 Red Man Sets
1970-1974 Topps Basketball - Complete preferably in a lot with multiple sets
1970-1977 Topps Football - Complete preferable in a lot with multiple sets

The year is finishing strong at work. How I do on that list will be directly proportional to the bonus payout in late February. Fingers Crossed!

[x2drich2000]

Apparently I didn't make a list of goals for 2017, however, below are my goals for 2018.

1) Finish my e93 set - still looking for a nice lower grade Cobb
2) Add at least 4 more cards to my e92 Nadja set. Currently need 16 to complete the set of known cards. Currently have a lead on 1.
3) Add 1 or 2 more of the harder/more expensive cards to the T222 set such as a Henry, Alexander, Shulte, Magee, etc
4) Add another E92 Red Crofts Candy, Menagerie, or Prizefighter
5) Pick up an M110, T3 top tier HOFer, N566, N142, or similar
6) Add another back to my E/T Young backrun

Key pickups in 2017





Added Crawford, Donovan, and 2 of the Beschers this year.