New Years Resolutions

[donmuth]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

1) T206: Finish the 'A's and get a good start on the 'B's.

How's working on T206 alphabetically going? I thought about doing that, but then realized I'd quickly get into the B's and C's which are loaded with HOF'ers and my progress would slow to a crawl. On the upside, if I had the card budget to do it, I'd be knocking off a ton of nice cards in the set by going alphabetically. With my actually modest budget though the best I could do alphabetically would be to focus on the commons with perhaps an occassional HOF'er, SL'er, or whatever.

Instead, I've taken the approach to go after some subsets (Cubs/Tigers/Giants, 150 only series, horizontals, etc.) and some of the more challenging commons and SL'ers as were described in another thread (Burch batting, Ganley, Shag, Foster, etc.). This still leaves some tough HOF'ers to acquire but leaves me plenty of other cards that I can get at more affordable prices and still feel a sense of accomplishment.

Oh then there is the backs subset of course too which is almost more fun to me than the fronts!


Anyways, good luck getting into the B's in 2010!

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by donmuth

How's working on T206 alphabetically going? I thought about doing that, but then realized I'd quickly get into the B's and C's which are loaded with HOF'ers and my progress would slow to a crawl. On the upside, if I had the card budget to do it, I'd be knocking off a ton of nice cards in the set by going alphabetically. With my actually modest budget though the best I could do alphabetically would be to focus on the commons with perhaps an occassional HOF'er, SL'er, or whatever.

Instead, I've taken the approach to go after some subsets (Cubs/Tigers/Giants, 150 only series, horizontals, etc.) and some of the more challenging commons and SL'ers as were described in another thread (Burch batting, Ganley, Shag, Foster, etc.). This still leaves some tough HOF'ers to acquire but leaves me plenty of other cards that I can get at more affordable prices and still feel a sense of accomplishment.

Oh then there is the backs subset of course too which is almost more fun to me than the fronts!


Anyways, good luck getting into the B's in 2010!

Thanks Donny. You are definitely taking the more scientific approach. I'm sure that when I hit an expensive HOF'er, it will take a good bit of patience to stick to my plan, and not just skip to the next cheaper one.

Good luck to everyone on their 2010 collecting endeavours.

I want to obtain the following cards in SGC 4's and higher.

1. American Beauty backed T205 Cobb
2. American Beauty/Cycle backed T205 Joss
3. Cycle Backed T205 Mathewson
4. Another large group of Pied 42 commons (NO HOF'ERS or Stars), Cycles, and American Beauty backed T205's in any shape.
5. Drum, Blank backed, or Hindu beater T205.
6. I would realy love and autographed T205 in about grade 4 condition graded by SGC/Spence so I can add it to my registry.

Nothing big just a few bank breakers.

[triwak]

I'm gonna fn score a George Wright or an Oscar Charleston! Word...

[Jewish-collector]

To save up money for the Baltimore National. Oh hell yeah.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Jewish-collector

To save up money for the Baltimore National. Oh hell yeah.

You forgot to mention "free parking".