T206 Journey & Introduction
 

Hey friends,

Wanted to introduce myself to the forum as I have been sitting quietly on the sidelines for the most part as I learn vintage cards.

I grew up as a kid in Texas with a family indoctrinated with baseball- with them originally being from St. Louis, most of them were Cards fans, but I stuck with the Texas Rangers. A few uncles actually played college and minor league ball. Watching baseball was our families way to connect and spend time together. Pudge Rodriguez was my favorite player and I loved going out to the ballpark when I could to watch my Rangers.

Along with following the sport, my favorite thing as a kid was to collect baseball cards. I would save up $5-10 to go to a target or walmart and get the latest box of topps. Classic junk Wax 1990-2005 era stuff! Still have every card I've ever owned with me.

Fast forward to a year or so ago, I was sitting in bed late one night and my old baseball cards came to mind. I raced to the attic and pulled out my old set, looking through each card well through the night. So much nostalgia... My love was back!

I didn't want to collect the modern stuff as there was too much going on to keep up with... so I followed the industry trying to figure out how to enjoy baseball cards again. It was there I saw a T206 card and fell in love with the history, artwork, and aesthetics of the set. I've got around 25 commons now at this point, and have loved getting into it. I want to pass the collection down to my sons one day, and it's been a great project!

The T206 Mathewson White cap is the dream card... after reading his biography and story I've got a newfound love for Matty, and sharing a similar name helps!

One of the net54 guys recommended getting a raw set together in a binder with tobacco sheets, which is my current gameplan to slowly build up over time.

Being a former track & cross country athlete, I just recently found the T218 collection... that will be a fun and smaller project to complete as there are only 43 track athletes to collect.

Anyways, thanks for reading thus far. Net54 has been a great resource and everyone I have interacted or bought from all have been helpful and great to work with. So thank you everyone!

Looking forward to connecting with more folks as I continue on this T206 journey. If you have any tips, ideas, or thoughts, let me know. I've got no pride in this hobby yet, so I am all ears!

Matt

Welcome, Matt. No shortage of T206 knowledge or enthusiasm in this group!

My own goals for the set are much more modest, just the 27 Brooklyn cards, and I may stop one short at 26/27 barring a heckuva deal or a change in financial circumstance.

I do agree that a binder is the way to go for maximum enjoyment of your collection. One note is that tobacco sheets come in two sizes: 15 or 20 to the page. I am a big fan of how much nicer the cards like with 20/page. Even if you’ve already loaded up on the 15s I’d make the switch!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...a59b1fd1e1.jpg

Welcome Matt, and good luck on your journey!

Good luck on the T206 journey, as well as the potential T218 track and field subset...it is a great set of cards too, possessing some interesting images and great color. Here are six from the set to inspire you, four of them track and field athletes, with a golfer and pedestrian pretending to belong to the track and field club thrown in the scan mix.

Brian

Welcome Matt. Thanks for sharing. Good luck in your journey. You have come to the right place.

Chad

Welcome Matt. T206s are all the rage nowadays... I need to update this with a few new additions.... (and deletions)

My tip is to take it slow and easy. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
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Welcome Matt: I completed my set (518) seven years ago raw in a binder. I bought a T-206 "The Monster" reprint set on ebay (around $100) and filled the pages with reprints. When I got an original I replaced the reprint. I saved the reprints and the box they came in and resold the reprint set for about what I bought it for. Here are a couple pictures before I completed my set as there are still couple reprints in there. Good Luck
Larry

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T206 Introduction
 

Thank you Larry, Leon, Chad, Brian, Casey, and Jason! Appreciate it!