Question for Player Collectors

[Bram99]

I am a collector of a player (Allie Reynolds) whose career ended the year before the start of Topps team checklists in 1956 and all of those league leaders cards of the 60’s and forward, so maybe my input isn’t terribly indicative of what collectors for newer players may do.

A free tool you can use is the PSA player registry set checklists. For star or semi-star players, there are typically basic sets with the major issues, and master sets of all known issues. You don’t need to like PSA or buy PSA cards to find these checklists.

I use the PSA set registry master list of the players cards to figure out if I have considered all of the cards. If I can get them in PSA then great, but I have gotten close to having the full master list either raw or graded by some company.

As a way to focus, I ignore the cards issued after his career, even items like 60 or 61 Fleer.

Secondarily I do look at things like team photo packs, magazines, etc. and eventually I hope to find (or win in an auction) a player contract, some actual game used relics like a mitt or uniform or something like that.

In the meantime since I can’t find the hard to find relics lately, I have ended up buying multiples of the cards in the master set. So I am always kind of looking for a few more of the ones I really like singed cards, variations, upgrades of some of the most beautiful ones such as the 53B, 49B, and oddball ones like 47 Tip-top bread.

Im working on getting signed examples of the ones in the PSA base set.

So for me, though I have most of the cards that were issued during his career, I’ve created new ways to ensure I’m never really done.