Narrow-minded Collectors

[Goudey77]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Some "obscure" players have reached legendary status on this board.

Paging Mr. Large-Ass Herzog

What's paging?

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by Goudey77

What's paging?

Its an ancient and archaic communication system devised by long deceased individuals who, without the availability of the modern technology that has now cured the world's ills, implemented a primitive electronic devise - known contemporaneously as an "intercom" - to amplify and broadcast sound. While remnants of the long-forgotten communication system can still be found in situ within prehistoric dwellings, countless daft millennials and those without a cognizant grasp of anything before 2007 remain shocked and baffled by it's existence and former use.

[Bridwell]

Getting back to the original post, I'd rather buy a card of every one of these top 100 players instead of just 3 or 4 high-dollar cards. You can do that for $200,000. I agree that a lot of great players can be found for very low prices. To me, that seems a better investment than risking it all on 3 or 4 cards. And it's more fun, remembering all these amazing stars!

[skelly423]

Originally Posted by Bridwell

Getting back to the original post, I'd rather buy a card of every one of these top 100 players instead of just 3 or 4 high-dollar cards. You can do that for $200,000. I agree that a lot of great players can be found for very low prices. To me, that seems a better investment than risking it all on 3 or 4 cards. And it's more fun, remembering all these amazing stars!

Interesting comment, which may help explain why some people concentrate on a select few, and some branch out. My personal investment preference is to focus on high achievers. Others see safety in diversification. I think there's a pretty direct parallel with collecting habits.

[Bridwell]

My collection spans all eras of baseball, and includes at least one card of each of those 100 best players. Here's one of my PSA Registry sets that I'm working on. It's been a really fun project: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregist...gallery/367589

[Vegas Cards]

Based a recent posting to b/s/t listing a decent Mantle here is like throwing red meat to the wolves. I'm sure that's true for any of the big names - there are more buyers than sellers right now for certain players.

I don't look at my collection just as an investment, but like a lot of us who collected new cards during the 1980s and 90s, it's incredibly frustrating to find that most of what you had bought over 10-20 years is basically worthless now.

Learning from that experience is what lead me to refocus on the vintage part of my collection. I may be narrow minded, but I won't touch any of the cards being put out now.

[oldeboo]

Originally Posted by Vegas Cards

Based a recent posting to b/s/t listing a decent Mantle here is like throwing red meat to the wolves.

Next time drop a few clues before feeding time, that Mantle was gorgeous

[todeen]

Originally Posted by Vegas Cards

I may be narrow minded, but I won't touch any of the cards being put out now.

I focus on vintage now, for myself. But I'm trying to get my son involved, and so I've begun to go modern again. I want him to purchase cards of players he is seeing every day on TV. I bought a Mike Trout RC, and in a few years I'll probably give it to him. He is interested in the Astros, and he likes my memorabilia I have in my case, so I bought him some Funko Pop Astros. Picked up a couple Astros RC from my LCS. And then I splurged on two Kyle Lewis RC, which I'll probably give to him in a couple years as well. I decided to buy him Topps complete sets rather than introduce him to packs because I can't afford packs now - like another contributor pointed out. I wanted to get him a couple jumbo packs of Topps for his Christmas Stocking and the hobby packs were $30! I couldn't believe it. I could buy a complete set for the same amount as two jumbo packs which would probably yield an auto or relic card of a minor star.

It was fun to watch him go through the first Topps complete set. He organized them by team and was learning team names. He is into building reptile habitats in his room from stuffed animals, and when he came across the Arizona Diamonbacks, they instantly became one of his top favorite teams. I wish I could find every game from the 2001 WS, so he could see one of the best WS of my lifetime.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by Huysmans

Its an ancient and archaic communication system devised by long deceased individuals who, without the availability of the modern technology that has now cured the world's ills, implemented a primitive electronic devise - known contemporaneously as an "intercom" - to amplify and broadcast sound. While remnants of the long-forgotten communication system can still be found in situ within prehistoric dwellings, countless daft millennials and those without a cognizant grasp of anything before 2007 remain shocked and baffled by it's existence and former use.

The eloquent manner in which you stated that was a display of sheer perfection.

[mrmopar]

I figure if I had $200K and was clueless about the venture i was about to jump into with both feet, I'd do a bit more research than 1 baseball card themed forum. However, if you read multiple forums, you see that each has it's own little specialty segment of the market.

It would be nice of the conversation was more varied, but it seems in general if you don't want to talk about Mantle, Trout, Graded or unopened product, you are doomed to be bored.