What do you collect?

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Posted By: Cat

What I say I collect and what I collect are two different things. My standard answer is: I collect rookies or the most siginificant card of all players voted in to the BB HOF by the baseball writers. This being said I have four Joe Jackson cards, Pete Rose's rookie, Roger Maris' rookie, and a whole host of players that were actually elected into the HOF by the veterans committee, including: Cap Anson, Monte Ward, Tim Keefe, and Charles Comiskey. I wanted an Allen & Ginter card and an Old Judge card, hence the players elected via the veterans committee. So in the end I have mostly rookie cards and significant cards of players elected to the HOF by the baseball writers, but stretch this definition so that I have different variations of cards as well as players that perhaps "should be" in the HOF as well as a few players that were important to me in my childhood following of the game (I have been asked before: What the heck is a Dave Kingman rookie card doing in your collection?).

What I collect makes sense to me, but probably no one else.