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A Healthy Reminder
Experienced card collectors know that there isn't a "right" way to collect. Each of us collect in our own way... fine tuned to our areas of interests and budgets. I know that I have personally gone through numerous collecting phases since entering the hobby in the early80's.
Right now my main focus in on nicer singles for my player and team collections, on-card autographs of hall of famers, specific graded vintage cards, and PSAslabbed rookie cards that have been signed.
In fact one glance at my recent eBay purchases will confirm that almost my entire hobby budget focuses on those four things.
But that doesn't mean those four things are the only things I collect. I'm still picking up inserts and parallels for my binder collections. And I'll always looking to add stars to my vintage binders.
Recently two fellow collectors reminded me that I'm still building sets too.
Commishbob over at Five Tool Collector sent me a care package that included this 2016 Topps Archives Aaron Nolarookie card.
At first, I thought that maybe The Commishconfused me with a Philliesblogger, but the rest of his package targeted my interests.
Yoda is one of my all-time favorite Star Wars characters.
1954 Topps World On Wheels #68
I'm also a fan of any non-sport vintage cards... but I'm guessing he put this card into the package because it's has "Oakland" on it.
Then it hit me... the Nola is a set need. With him out of the way... I'm down to needing only one more card: Mr. Brandon Crawford.
Within days of receiving The Commish'scare package, I ran into Mr. Haverkamp at the Serramonte Mall Sports Card, Toys, and Collectibles Show, where we exchanged some cardboard.
He helped me get four steps closer to completing my 2013 Allen and Ginter Across the Yearsset with these:
Plus... he helped me cross off three more cards on my 1986 Donrusssetwantlist:
Thank youCommish and Mr. Haverkamp for the cards. It was a healthy reminder that I collect more than just Rickey Henderson and Jose Altuveautographs. I'm a set builder too.
Happy Sunday and sayonara!
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Right now my main focus in on nicer singles for my player and team collections, on-card autographs of hall of famers, specific graded vintage cards, and PSAslabbed rookie cards that have been signed.
In fact one glance at my recent eBay purchases will confirm that almost my entire hobby budget focuses on those four things.
But that doesn't mean those four things are the only things I collect. I'm still picking up inserts and parallels for my binder collections. And I'll always looking to add stars to my vintage binders.
Recently two fellow collectors reminded me that I'm still building sets too.
Commishbob over at Five Tool Collector sent me a care package that included this 2016 Topps Archives Aaron Nolarookie card.
At first, I thought that maybe The Commishconfused me with a Philliesblogger, but the rest of his package targeted my interests.
Yoda is one of my all-time favorite Star Wars characters.
1954 Topps World On Wheels #68
I'm also a fan of any non-sport vintage cards... but I'm guessing he put this card into the package because it's has "Oakland" on it.
And this 2017 Archives Jeter Retrospectivecard honors one of my favorite cards from the past decade... the 2015 Topps Derek Jeter, which I've written about before here and here.
Then it hit me... the Nola is a set need. With him out of the way... I'm down to needing only one more card: Mr. Brandon Crawford.
Within days of receiving The Commish'scare package, I ran into Mr. Haverkamp at the Serramonte Mall Sports Card, Toys, and Collectibles Show, where we exchanged some cardboard.
He helped me get four steps closer to completing my 2013 Allen and Ginter Across the Yearsset with these:
Plus... he helped me cross off three more cards on my 1986 Donrusssetwantlist:
Happy Sunday and sayonara!
More...