[Exhibitman]

The first set I actually built was a vintage one, 1954 Topps. My next door neighbors' father was a college professor and he used to ask his students for old cards for his kids, so they had this insane pipeline. They showed me 1954s for the first time and I was just hooked. First card I got in a trade with them was a Don Mueller. I really didn't start pulling the set together until I got to Los Angeles. Last three were the two Williams cards (one purchased from the consistently nasty Goody Goldfadden at ADCO) and Hank Aaron, which I got at a show. Most of the set I picked up in lots in auctions at the monthly West Coast Card Club meetings. I sold off that set in a fit of existential angst just after college, reassembled it again in my thirties in higher grade, sold it off when prices ran up on graded cards some years ago, then started on it again. Only HOFers I need now are Banks and Lasorda, but I am not a fan of commons so not likely to finish the set unless I stumble across a find.