Question for Player Collectors

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by JLange

Question for Player Collectors:

For those of you who collect a specific player, do you also pursue team cards, multi-player cards, team photos, etc. if they depict your favorite player?

If so, are these items just "nice-to-haves" to supplement your specific player collection, or are they "needed" to complete your wantlist/checklist?

It has evolved over time for me. At first I only collected cards from during playing career. Then I added oddball items.

Then I added some of the modern shiny reprints to that want list. WOW you would be amazed at how many new shiny cards they make of someone who has not played for a long time.

Then about a couple years ago I added bats to that list.

So now I collect pretty much anything associated with the player that is in my budget.

[commishbob]

My response is almost identical to Ben's. I 'collect' a lot of players but my primary PC is Billy Pierce. I consider the 'heart' of my Pierce collection to be his career-era cards. I include any card that identifies him..base, All Star, multi-player, etc from Topps and Bowman. Also included are cards from Post/Jello, Bazooka, Red Man, Exhibit and so on. It's more or less stuff that can be found on checklists.

To those I add career era team Picture Pak photos, promo and endorsement photos, post cards, display items, magazine covers, wire service photos, and so on.

And finally there are post-career items like modern stadium giveaways and, as Ben mentioned, the numerous modern reprints and such. I have a list of my Pierce stuff on my blog.

https://5toolcollector.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_9.html

[ejharrington]

Originally Posted by bnorth

It has evolved over time for me. At first I only collected cards from during playing career. Then I added oddball items.

Then I added some of the modern shiny reprints to that want list. WOW you would be amazed at how many new shiny cards they make of someone who has not played for a long time.

Then about a couple years ago I added bats to that list.

So now I collect pretty much anything associated with the player that is in my budget.

Sounds exactly identical to my collection.

[calvindog]

These are part of my Cobb collection, so yeah, the net tends to widen: