January 2012 pickups

[Vegas-guy]

Wow! Just won these on the bay for way less than I thought? Makes me wonder what I'm missing???? An HOF in 60 for less than 200.. And added another one to my N.Y. Amer. for less than 90.. Maybe just a little OC?

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by Vegas-guy

Wow! Just won these on the bay for way less than I thought? Makes me wonder what I'm missing???? An HOF in 60 for less than 200.. And added another one to my N.Y. Amer. for less than 90.. Maybe just a little OC?

Great deals for sure.


I will add to the compliments on that '33 Gehrig - that's about as good as you could want for that card.

[Brian Van Horn]

Thank You, Scott and Thank You Historic Images (O/T) for the reunion picture of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame plus one of their tackles, James Boland.

[Big Six]

This is card #12 on my long road to completing a T205 set in VGish condition...not sure if this qualifies as the black signature or the blue signature or maybe a little bit of both...

[Piratedogcardshows]

Picked up a couple more T210-2's off Ebay last week.

[ScottFandango]

for those of you that collect T210, i want to know why..

since they are all minor leaguers, you cant be player collectors..is it for the thrill of the chase? have you completed sets of real Major leaguers already?
is it the belief that they are undervalued?

thanks for the response...

[glchen]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

for those of you that collect T210, i want to know why..

since they are all minor leaguers, you cant be player collectors..is it for the thrill of the chase? have you completed sets of real Major leaguers already?
is it the belief that they are undervalued?

thanks for the response...

I don't collect this set, but I think it's because many people like how the set looks and that the cards are reasonably affordable. Also, there is an iconic card in the set, i.e., the T210 Shoeless Joe Jackson, which is arguably his most valuable card.

[Piratedogcardshows]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

for those of you that collect T210, i want to know why..

since they are all minor leaguers, you cant be player collectors..is it for the thrill of the chase? have you completed sets of real Major leaguers already?
is it the belief that they are undervalued?

thanks for the response...

I collect -2's because they are all Virginia Based teams and the set has 15+ Hometown Richmond Colt Cards to collect.And its alot more challenging than my other collections by far.

[rdixon1208]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

for those of you that collect T210, i want to know why..

since they are all minor leaguers, you cant be player collectors..is it for the thrill of the chase? have you completed sets of real Major leaguers already?
is it the belief that they are undervalued?

thanks for the response...

Lots of minor league issues are highly collected. Obaks and Zeenuts come to mind. I collect T210's because they offer cards of teams that you can't find with any other set. If it weren't for the T210 set, the T206 Foley White card would be the only pre-war card made of a Houston Buffalo player. On top of that I think they're gorgeous cards.

[Section103]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

for those of you that collect T210, i want to know why..

since they are all minor leaguers, you cant be player collectors..is it for the thrill of the chase? have you completed sets of real Major leaguers already?
is it the belief that they are undervalued?

thanks for the response...

Maybe Im the one guy who bought a T210 minor leaguer based on the player and not on the set. Or maybe not. Collecting interests can be extremely diverse.

[DixieBaseball]

Originally Posted by ScottFandango

for those of you that collect T210, i want to know why..

since they are all minor leaguers, you cant be player collectors..is it for the thrill of the chase? have you completed sets of real Major leaguers already?
is it the belief that they are undervalued?

thanks for the response...

Scott - I love T210's for many reasons including (in no particular order) :

- Massive set with many scarce cards which presents a bit of a challenge and also a solid number of rare cards that you may only see once in your lifetime.
- The set contains many Major Leaguer's with a story to tell... (Fun research set)
- The set can be collected by portrait, batters, fielders, catchers with gear, or by town or city, state, team, league, or even by series. (8 series - 51 teams)

A collector can collect this set in such a variety of ways. I have enjoyed collecting the set over the last decade + and it still excites me.