What player or team do you PC and why?

[Exhibitman]

In baseball:






basketball:



Football:



Boxing:



H815 Adam Hats premiums:



A 1904 cabinet issue from the West Coast:



I am also fond of cabinets and mounted photos of HOF boxers from major photographers, like this Ad Wolgast from Dingman:



Or these Sarony portraits of heavyweight champs Paddy Ryan, Jim Corbett and Jim Jeffries:





Nice thing about the H815s and cabinets and photos is that they are so rare that I maybe add 1 every year or so.

Racing:



Soccer:



Nonsports:




I am also working on a period-issued postcard and publicity card collection of the cast of Casablanca:

[DHogan]

I collect players in any sport who's first or last name is Hogan.

1932 NY Giants Schedule post card Frank Hogan by Dave H, on Flickr

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by DHogan

I collect players in any sport who's first or last name is Hogan.

Please tell us you store your collection in a binder labeled “Hogan’s Heroes.”

[DHogan]

Originally Posted by ASF123

Please tell us you store your collection in a binder labeled “Hogan’s Heroes.”

No, but that sounds like an idea for me to think about.

[cubman1941]

Another Cub collector except I collect all things Cubs related. My player is Hank Sauer (only as a Cub). I had the opportunity to meet him at a signing one year. I told him the my story of sending him a letter in 1952 asking for an autograph and never getting a reply. He then proceeded tell me he must have not received it as he always replied to requests for autographs. He asked me to sit next to him while he was signing and we talked baseball for a long time. My wife didn't understand but she hung in there. I also have branched off into Bears and some Blackhawks.

[Brent G.]

I got back into collecting in 2023 after nearly three decades (I sold my junk wax collection to buy a nice car stereo at 16), and last year, got into pre-war Indianapolis (where I grew up) baseball. It’s been great to learn about the different eras and players. I’ve been fortunate to get these items from fellow members.

[fkm_bky]

As a youth, it was all about Dale Murphy. Nowadays, the only one I latched onto was Buck Herzog. We share the same birthday, and I thought a backrun would be fun.

Love these threads!

Bill

[JLange]

I have quite a few different collections within my PC, but I’ve been collecting Bob Feller and all things Cleveland Baseball as long as I can remember.

[Writehooks]

Baseball: Catfish Hunter. Loved watching him with the A's, and then becoming the linchpin that resuscitated the Yankees franchise. I mailed a fan letter to his home in North Carolina in the winter of 1976, along with a ball to be autographed and a $20 money order to cover return postage to Canada. Three months later, the autographed ball, a gorgeous signed 8x10 photo and the UNCASHED money order arrived in my mailbox, along with a brief signed handwritten note thanking me for taking an interest in his career.

Hockey: Cards and ephemera from the debut season of the World Hockey Association (1972-73). Bobby Hull's defection from the NHL 's Chicago Black Hawks to the WHA's Winnipeg Jets gave the rebel league instant credibility and resulted in a historic court ruling that declared the "reserve clause" in NHL contracts illegal, thus changing the landscape for every major North American sport.

Boxing: Cards of the lineal world heavyweight champions from John L. Sullivan to the second coming of George Foreman.

Misc: Cards, photos, programs and tickets of Evel Knievel. Along with Muhammad Ali, one of the true cultural icons of the 1970s.