New Member...Mintonlyplz

[mintonlyplz]

Hi!

Having not posted in awhile...so I would like to introduce myself and share my interests.

I began collecting baseball cards in 1964 until the late 1960s. I sold that collection in the early 1980s at my first baseball card show. Then...I started collecting raw cards some of which some unknowingly were altered. After being "burned" a few times...I was happy to see the introduction of graded/slabbed cards in the early 1990s. I became serious about high end cards around 2000 collecting baseball cards of HOFs from 1953-80. Having recently retired...I am nearing the end of my collection which had no particular end point in sight when I started...just collected cards I found to have eye appeal or to be works of art.
My favorite years are:

1953 Bowman Color (first all color photographic sports card set produced)
1955 Topps (year I was born)
1957 (Topps first attempt at an all color photographic sports card set)
1962 (beautiful if high end, ugly otherwise)
1963 (my all-time favorite set)
1965 (like the design with pennants)
1967 (like 1957, a very clean design)

Here is a link to my collection:

https://www.collectorfocus.com/collection/mintonlypls

[MBMiller25]

Welcome Monte! Nice to see you over here sir.

[Casey2296]

Welcome back.

[rugbymarine]

Welcome, Monte!

If you've never seen Monte's collection before, stop whatever you're doing and spend 10 minutes on his website. Just gorgeous card after gorgeous card. Happy to see you on net54!

[stutor]

Wow. You have some exceptional cards! Thank you for sharing.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Welcome and happy collecting!

[philliesfan]

Welcome. Some great cards you have there!
Bob

[The Detroit Collector]

Hey Monte! Incredible collection.

[mrreality68]

Welcome aboard and nice collection

[Jewish-collector]

Welcome back you old geezer you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhzzAUaOzsk

[mintonlyplz]

Thanks to those who replied...it's good to be back!

[doug.goodman]

Welcome!