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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Geoff Litwack
Hello all, |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Al Crisafulli
Hi Geoff: |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: V117Collector
Geoff, |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: jay behrens
Although I don't collect sets anymore, I could never give up the common players. This is where the true character of baseball lies. I also couldn't give up the commons becuase almost all the cards that I think are the best looking feature players you've hardly if ever heard of. Most HOFers tend to have very bland, run of the mill cards. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: James Feagin
With the amount it costs to build a set nowadays, I think set collecting will become A LOT less prevalent among those of us on a very fixed income. The more wealthy on this board will have the flexibility to collect sets, and that's fine. Myself, I have recently discovered within myself that set collecting is very boring. I enjoy getting oddball cards, types, and other weird stuff. If you sink your attention toward building a set, you're missing out on many great cards in the hobby. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Josh K.
I generally do not like purchasing commons. As a result, I have primarily focused my attention on HOFers. My original goal was at least one of each player (no mgrs and umpires) who played in one of the major leagues (eliminates primarily Negro League players who frankly cost way too much money). That is still my long term goal. However, in the process, I have decided to pursue a couple of small 30 card caramel sets. Despite hating having to shell out money on the commons, I like the challenge of going after the set. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Frank Ceresi
For me, I am almost complete with my T-205's. I would not have had the enjoyment of being a collector (as opposed to a pure investor) had I not compiled the set, commons and all. In fact, I have had more fun (with my late Dad) collecting the commons because you can still buy a nice conditioned T-205 common without mortaging your house. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: identify7
Make up your own sets. By that I mean: collect all of the players who hit 4 hrs in a game, Federal Leaguers with their F.L. insigna on the uniform, and lots more. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: cmoking
there is no Lajoie in the 33 World Wide Gum set. the set only has 94 cards compared to the 240 in the american version |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: cmoking
Geoff - congrats on the completion of the 33 WWG set! |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: warshawlaw
is whether I would rather have a rare common (oxymoron, I know) or a common HOFer. I go with quality of player every time. Demand for Ty Cobb is constant; demand for Joe Shlabotnick isn't. When the few guys making top tier sets get finished or get bored, the high priced commons are going to drop precipitously, and I don't want to be left holding the bag on a card I really don't care about. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Chris Counts
Like most collectors, I started out collecting sets. But over the past 36 years, my priorities have changed as I have discovered the wonders of vintage cards and the limitations of my budget. Today, my collection is smaller than it ever has been and collecting is more rewarding than ever. I basically collect the players I like in the sets I like, but with an emphasis on collecting the most interesting and attractive vintage cards, and also, keeping the collection as small but as diverse as possible. Collecting sets makes little sense to me now because most of the sets I like are out of my budget. And collecting HOFers makes even less sense to me because the selection process is so flawed and I can't see why I should buy a card of George "Highpockets" Kelly and not a card of Cecil Travis ... |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Scot
I enjoy the challange of completing vintage sets. Most HOFer cards are readily available and very expensive. Most nice commons were discarded or overlooked. Making the real challange, of finding the cheaper commons in a set. The T206 collectors are catching on and paying huge money for some of these commons for example. I have to admit though Hal Lewis' HOF set is awesome. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: James Feagin
Chris Counts post is right on the money and exactly how I feel. I am a non-focused collector and I'm lovin' it! To me appearance and how interested I am in a player or shot or pose means everything. I'm not going to shell out $$$ just because I need a card for some set which has more value broken up anyway. However, for those who enjoy set collecting, more power to you. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Geoff Litwack
Thanks to everyone for their perspectives. I definitely want to have my cake and eat it, so I'm going to have to figure out how best to do that. Right now I'm leaning toward selling many commons but keeping the ones in the T207 set I've been working on (94/200, sheesh) and going after some of those marquee cards I've always wanted. I don't own a single caramel card, for example, and I'd like to perhaps get my first Old Judge or George C. Miller. I don't think I'm going to go after EVERY HOF (although what an awsome undertaking!), nor am I too concerned about players on the bubble who should or shouldn't be in. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: RP60
No..Set collectors are the foot soldiers of collecting!! The HOFers will come... |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: leon
Ya'll could collect type cards and collect subsets of sets. I know that I recently completed the T205 backs and the 1910 Obak slogans sets.....quite a while ago I finished the M101-4 "back" set....and also the ultra difficult complete run of E94 overprints (known ones)......In addition to that if I like a series I will collect some of them too....like D303 Mothers Bread cards and General Baking....I like them so when they come up I try to nab 'em....while not ever thinking about going for a whole set. I just like the cards. Overall I am a type card collector and it has been a lot of fun. For those of you who don't think you can know the joy of completion doing type cards I can assure you I will be very happy when I complete my Pre-1950 type card set..Ya'll will know.....best regards |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: warshawlaw
And it can work as a nice type card set to boot. I've picked up cards from sets I'd never have bothered with because Lefty O'Doul was in them. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Bruce Babcock
Sets can be very satisfying to complete. I like the challenge of completing a set that is tough but not impossible, and relatively small. Like E95, for example. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: nbrazil
collect what you like and what is within your budget. that's my philosophy. right now, im working on essentially three projects...all of which will probably take me a lifetime to complete (unless i win the lottery): hall of famers in t206 and 1951 bowman...and hall of fame rookie cards. all three projects take time to build...and will cost a pretty penny. i thought about collecting the entire t206 set...but, i felt like i wanted to collect players who made a difference in the game (that doesnt mean all non HOF'ers didnt...e.g. joe jackson, pete rose). but, buying a card of some unknown player doesnt tickle my fancy. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Bill Todd
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: pete
they can also be very frustrating. especially if you depend on ebay or other auction sites and are not a recent lottery winner or smart enough to have a high dollar profession...i envy the cash flow! i've had hundreds of modern sets and sold them off to switch to the vintage stuff when a pack of cards started running $3.99 for a bunch of crap. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: pete ullman
I'm feeling the frustration too! I'm trying to be a type collector but I feel my lack of assertiveness over the years has rendered this dream impossible for me. After losing a voskamps and 2 lechners tonight on ebay I got to thinking...why try to collect 1 of every type of card when some of them are so freakin' ugly...like the lechners! Who cares if they're rare...they're butt ugly! There are way too many $500-$5000 types I'm in need of...i'm afraid it'll never happen. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)
Pete, good thinking. If it's butt ugly and you don't like it then don't get it. I suppose if it were a deal of deals then what the heck but why purchase something you're not going to appreciate. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: pete
that price for a card that you really want should be thrown out the window too! if you're going to keep it in your collection and not just use it to re-sell down the road, then you should spend what you are willing to spend and not worry about paying "way too much"...mainly because later down the road when it comes up again, its going to be the price you would've paid anyway. i thought i overpaid when i bought my matty portrait for $250 a few years ago and now i'd be lucky to find one in the same grade for less than $600...i really enjoy checking out my "collection" of cards and eventually, i'll be able to put them on some photobucket site or something for everyone to see. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: warshawlaw
I just don't enjoy the non-photographic ones. I gave up on sets a long time ago when I realized that I could not afford to complete most of them. Even my among my favorites I have very few complete sets. |
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Should I stop making sets and become a HOF collector?
Posted By: James Feagin
For me "set collecting" feels like a trap. I hate going to a show like Chantilly and feeling limited to one type of card, I love the freedom of scouring dollar boxes for oddities. I actually like having a limited budget (usually $300-400 every 6 months including grading fees), because it helps me plan and get variety for my collection. Even though I only spend $800-1000 a year on cards, I still think I have a nice collection going (plug for my vintage link). If a set or card doesn't have color/appearance then it won't be purchased by me. My collection has no rhyme or reason, and I am having as much fun collecting as ever. |
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