Do you collect players you don't like?

[scmavl]

While I'm sure most of us have never met most of the players we collect, we all have opinions formed by the media or otherwise. Will you collect players you don't like? As in spending big bucks on high graded or rookie cards, especially.

From Cobb to DiMaggio to Rose to Bonds, we've always been given reasons to dislike players. What say you?

And since Leon always says every thread needs a card, here is my favorite nice guy to collect.

[ALR-bishop]

As a set collector I take everybody in the set. I even wish I had the 58 Ed Bouche card

[scmavl]

That's true Al, I guess this doesn't apply to set collectors. More geared towards the unfocused collectors like myself.

But I just read up on Ed Bouchee. Yikes.

[Kutcher55]

Well I wouldn't want to own an OJ simpson card, but I wouldn't judge a person who feels differently.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Kutcher55

Well I wouldn't want to own an OJ simpson card, but I wouldn't judge a person who feels differently.

I'm the same. Nor will I ever care to own any Hitler cards, ever, but each to their own.

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

As a set collector I take everybody in the set. I even wish I had the 58 Ed Bouche card

I'm well aware of that situation having read about Mr Ed before...and his missing card in my 58 set really threatened to mess up the binder. I simply put a double there so I could keep everything straight. I figured if there was a 58 Bouchee out there Al you would have it!

Also a set collector here...I have more bias towards spending big money on a checklist or a team card rather an unpopular player. I gotta have em all...

[ALR-bishop]

Closest I came

[commishbob]

The black version above is one of two Bouchee cards done by the late Bob Lemke. I have that one in my binder, the open slot would have buuged me. Bob did a yeallow one as well. I don't like it as much, maybe because there are already so many yellow cards in the '58 set.

58 bouchee f yellow.jpg

To answer the OP...no, I don't collect cards of players I dislike although over the years I've mellowed on stuff like that. I'm not a passionate in my rooting interests as I was when I was younger.

As mentioned, I will add every card to a set I'm collecting. I have football sets with OJ in them, etc.

[Seven]

Since I mostly collect vintage, and the era's I'm primarily focused in are from years before I was born, I thankfully don't encounter this problem very often, if ever.

I will say though, I'd have a tough time spending significant money on something like a Cap Anson card. I do think his Goodwin Champions card is a beautiful card, but considering how deplorable of a person he was, mainly do to his refusal to play with or against black baseball players, I can't see myself ever owning it.

[Harliduck]

Thanks Al and Bob...I went on Ebay to see if either of those are available and did find the yellow example and just bought it...can take out the double. I also prefer the black one but didn't see any. I also found this one and purchased it as well, see what one looks better in hand -






I can tell you I'm glad I have been done with my late 70's sets long ago...and re-bought them whole as my childhood sets were a bit...loved. I say that because I would never, and will never buy an Eddie Murray card as a single. As a 9 year old kid attending a Ms vs Orioles game I had an encounter with him...he was a total prick to me and others. No thanks. Glad most of his rookie cards are OC! haha...

[ASF123]

Originally Posted by scmavl

While I'm sure most of us have never met most of the players we collect, we all have opinions formed by the media or otherwise. Will you collect players you don't like? As in spending big bucks on high graded or rookie cards, especially.

From Cobb to DiMaggio to Rose to Bonds, we've always been given reasons to dislike players. What say you?

And since Leon always says every thread needs a card, here is my favorite nice guy to collect.

It’s been well documented that Kevin Pasley kicks puppies.

[scmavl]

Originally Posted by ASF123

It’s been well documented that Kevin Pasley kicks puppies.

It's true. Look at those dead eyes.

[jchcollins]

Not a topic I’ve given a huge amount of consideration to, but a few recent examples related to it and how things went down:

One, I think Dick Allen belongs in the HOF, but apparently I thought a lot more of Dick before I read a bio on him back last fall. I had been working on his base card run, but suddenly it no longer seemed super important for me to keep all of his cards, so I sold the RC and his ‘65 semi-high SP to fund other projects. I kept his ‘71 Topps SP because I’ve always just thought that was a bad@ss card...

Two, Reggie Jackson. I had never had his RC, and in my mind at least that was an iconic card from my childhood that had never happened. So at some point last summer, before prices really exploded - I bought a PSA 6 copy. It was a nice card and neat to own for a while, but you know what? I just couldn’t make myself care that much about Reggie Jackson. A few months ago, I sold the card at $100+ profit and put the proceeds into a ‘67 Mantle for my set efforts there.


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[ALBB]

Wow, that 72 T Simpson card...is razor sharp

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by ALBB

Wow, that 72 T Simpson card...is razor sharp

Killer centering

[butchie_t]

Only when completing a set.

[cardsagain74]

This subject doesn't have a big effect on any of my collecting decisions, but it can occasionally apply.

The two biggest missing RCs from my '51 - '85 vintage collection are Pete Rose and Nolan Ryan, and that didn't happen by accident (as I consider Rose to be the most overrated player in not just baseball, but sports history, and Ryan's cards to be the most overhyped).

And if/when I do fill out my complete set run, I'll try to spend as little as possible on those years.

On the flipside, I've picked up every base Yogi Berra card (and hope to eventually get really high grade RCs of guys like Seaver, McCovey, and Gwynn).

So it works both ways for me

[bobsbbcards]

Originally Posted by cardsagain74

On the flipside, I've picked up every base Yogi Berra card (and hope to eventually get really high grade RCs of guys like Seaver, McCovey, and Gwynn).

[jchcollins]

Yep. There is an ‘86 Topps Traded Bonds with my complete ‘86 regular and Traded set. ‘86 Topps was the first set I bought packs of from the grocery store, several drug stores, and the 7-11 when I was 9, so it holds a special place in my heart and nostalgic subconscious. I couldn’t have told you who Barry Bonds even was in 1986, but of course a decade later that would have been a different proposition. For me with sets, you have to take the good with the bad.


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