Your Hobby Dream. What is it?

[alywa]

Stumbling upon a stack of tobacco cards in an old dusty box and finding a a T210 Jackson.

[Snapolit1]

A signed Gehrig payroll check.
I'd give a kidney for one.
Kidding. Sort of.

[GrayGhost]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

A signed Gehrig payroll check.
I'd give a kidney for one.
Kidding. Sort of.

I already lost a kidney, so I couldn't. lol

[brianp-beme]

Here is a version of my hobby dream, but another lucky collector already got to live it (pasted from the 'Good Ole Days' thread).

Brian


I got back into the hobby in 1967....so many great finds back then,,,,

T3 FIND

THE YEAR WAS 1971 AND SOME FRIENDS AND I WERE GOING TO THE ANNUAL GETTYSBURG STREET FLEA MARKET ON A SATURDAY…..WE LEFT AROUND 2:00 IN THE MORNING SO WE WOULD GET THERE ABOUT DAYBREAK….IT HAD BEEN RAINING OUR WHOLE TRIP AND WE WERE WORRIED THAT THE FLEA MARKET WOULD NOT GO ON……WHEN WE ARRIVED WE WERE TOLD THAT THE FORECAST WAS RAIN ALL DAY SO THE FLEA MARKET WAS CANCELED UNTIL THE NEXT DAY….NOW WE HAVE TO KILL A WHOLE DAY IN GETTYSBURG…..WE STARTED HITTING ANTIQUE SHOPS IN THE AREA BUT FOUND NOTHING…..THEN WE STARTED BRANCHING OUT TO THE COUNTRYSIDE…..ABOUT 1:00 IN THE AFTERNOON AFTER RIDING AROUND FOR WHAT SEEMED TO BE 50 TO 75 MILES WE SEE A SIGN THAT SAID ANTIQUES BUT ALL IT WAS, WAS A FARMHOUSE AND A GREENHOUSE…..MY FRIEND GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND WENT UP TO THE GREENHOUSE AND CAME BACK AND SAID THERE WERE OLD BASEBALL PICTURES LINING THE WALLS OF THE GREENHOUSE….I JUMPED OUT OF THE CAR AND SEE WHAT WAS THERE…..IT WAS NOTHING BUT T3’S LINING THE WALLS…..I COULDN’T BELIEVE MY EYES….AT THAT TIME I OWNED ONE T3….JUST MY LUCK THE PLACE WAS CLOSED….WE WENT TO THE FARM HOUSE AND KNOCKED FOR ABOUT TEN MINUTES…..

FINALLY AN OLDER GENTLEMAN ANSWERS THE DOOR AND LET US IN TO THE GREENHOUSE……THE GENTLEMAN SAID HE WANTED $5.00 EACH FOR THE PICTURES….NOW I ONLY HAD $300.00 SO I STARTED PICKING CARDS FROM THE WALL….THE FIRST ONE I PICKED WAS TY COBB FROM THERE JUST NAMES I KNEW….I GOT UP TO 25 OF THEM AND THOUGHT I’D BETTER SAVE SOME MONEY FOR THE FLEA MARKET TOMORROW….SO WE LEFT AT LEAST ANOTHER 25 OF THEM ON THE WALLS…..

HEADED BACK TO GETTYSBURG FOR A MOTEL AND REST….THE NEXT DAY AT THE FLEA MARKET WHICH LINED THE STREETS OF GETTYSBURG….. SEARCHED HALF OF THE DAY AND ONLY FOUND ONE OLD JUDGE CABINET CARD OF HARRY STOVEY FOR A DOLLAR…..NOW WE ARE GOING TO HEAD BACK TO THE GREENHOUSE TO BUY THE REST OF THE T3’S……WE RODE AROUND FOR HOURS AND NEVER FOUND THE PLACE AGAIN…..WELL AT LEAST I GOT 25 OF THEM…..WISHED THEY HAD GPS’S BACK THEN..

[Seven]

Realistically speaking: To complete my Mantle run. Be able to purchase one playing days card of Ruth and Gehrig. Eventually be able to buy a single card for each one of the Hall of Fames inaugural class.

Unrealistically speaking: Have our hobby turn back into a hobby, for people to stop looking at this as a means of investment and for autographs by star players to be reasonably priced again.

[Vintagedeputy]

I want the SGC registry to return.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by alywa

Stumbling upon a stack of tobacco cards in an old dusty box and finding a a T210 Jackson.

Ditto, except T206 Wagner.

[ValKehl]

To complete a master set of Sam Rice's cards.

[ullmandds]

completing my dots miller run was my ultimate hobby goal. I honestly was prepared for this hunt to last into my middle ages...but luckily with the help of friends in the hobby...it has been completed. I can die happy now!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

completing my dots miller run was my ultimate hobby goal. I honestly was prepared for this hunt to last into my middle ages...but luckily with the help of friends in the hobby...it has been completed. I can die happy now!

One of the best runs I have ever seen. Congrats on this huge accomplishment.

For me, I want world peace first, and some unknown, great type card I don't have, after that.
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[ValKehl]

Wonderful Dots Miller back run, Pete - congrats! Another one of my hobby dreams (I have several!) is to complete my Hugh Jennings back run, which is lacking a Croft's Candy w/red back, T216 Kotton Cigarettes w/"NGO" back, and a blank back:

[ullmandds]

thx leon...val. I wish I had a jennings for ya!

[commishbob]

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[fkm_bky]

Congratulations Pete! What an amazing run!

Bill

Originally Posted by ullmandds

completing my dots miller run was my ultimate hobby goal. I honestly was prepared for this hunt to last into my middle ages...but luckily with the help of friends in the hobby...it has been completed. I can die happy now!

[bnorth]

To reduce my collection from filling an entire room to only filling a closet. Been working on this one for years. With some pretty good success.

For cards I wouldn't mind getting another 1952 Topps Eddie Mathews rookie. It is one of the few cards I regret parting with. A T206 Red Cobb with Old Mill back. Had the Cobb before but Piedmont back. The expensive one is the T210 Joe Jackson so I have all the players with the last name Jackson from the set.

In memorabilia I would love a Wade Boggs minor league or rookie bat to add to my meager Boggs bat collection. I only collect Boggs bats but wouldn't mind adding a Roger Clemens and a Tino Martinez bat to my lone Eddie Mathews Spline bat so Eddie stops feeling lonely and outnumbered 39 to 1.

[MVSNYC]

Originally Posted by alywa

Stumbling upon a stack of tobacco cards in an old dusty box and finding a a T210 Jackson.

I'm with Adam...same dream, but finding a T206 Wagner.

[The Detroit Collector]

There are a ton of holy grail cards I wish I could get. I won't do the list, but I will say my #1 would be Ty Cobb 1907 W600 Sporting Life

More realistic goals would be converting my basement into a sports card/memorabilia museum of some sort.

Later in life I would like to retire and own a card store.

[Yoda]

Completing my T206 John McGraw glove showing back run. I am shy only the Cycle and EPDG. If anybody has one they could part with, love to hear from you. Perhaps the National might bear fruit.

[Centauri]

I am going to be unoriginal and go with the Wagner T206 and/or the complete T206 525 set.

For more modern, my choice is quite easy - finding the 2021 Topps Jose Ramirez superfractor. I have 78 variants of the card including several /5, but have seen neither hide nor hair of the super. Ah, someday.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Centauri

I am going to be unoriginal and go with the Wagner T206 and/or the complete T206 525 set.

For more modern, my choice is quite easy - finding the 2021 Topps Jose Ramirez superfractor. I have 78 variants of the card including several /5, but have seen neither hide nor hair of the super. Ah, someday.

Wow, 78 different is a cool rainbow. I have several 1/1’s I’m looking for, they are so difficult because of the odds that they haven’t even been pulled, the pack they were in got bought by a kid or collector who keeps to themself and doesn’t sell what they pull, or even that may not have been packed out (Topps usually withholds a few of everything for replacements for pack out, and then there are some they seem to have pulled shenanigans with). I expect to never see the ones I want, but it will be all the lore exciting if they do eventually surface just to see that they are out there at minimum.