What player or team do you PC and why?

[TUM301]

A little bit scattered but always on the lookout for Black Sox team cards/items particularly Joe Jackson. Drawn to this team because of the ongoing history and intrigue, can’t ask for more than that !

[CobbSpikedMe]

Prewar Jersey City Skeeters.



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[ValKehl]

Having lived my entire life in the No. Va. suburbs of DC and always rooted for the Washington teams pretty much explains what I collect and why, as follows:
Post-War:
- Pete Runnels & Mickey Vernon, because they were my favorite Senators when I was a kid.
Pre-War:
- Sam Rice - I'm striving for a master set of his cards.
- Cards of WaJo and all of the other players who were on the Senators 1924 World Series Championship Team.
- N172 Old Judge & N284 Buchner Gold Coin cards of Washington players.
- Cards of Virginia League players from the E222, T206, T209-2, T210-2 sets.
- Type cards - mostly those cards with cool advertising.
- A back run of Hugh Jennings cards with the orange background (because my favorite color is orange).

[carlsonjok]

I PC two players:

Paul Blair - because I had a Paul Blair glove growing up and I have always favored defensive standouts regardless of the sport. I got the chicken bucket lid from a member here. The 1976 Topps is only there for scale.

Johnny Antonelli - I grew up in Rochester and he had a bunch of Firestone Tire Centers there. I knew him first as the tire guy. This is a promotional card for his autobiography, which was published by the RIT Press. RIT is my undergraduate alma mater.

[conor912]

I was always into “old baseball” as a kid and by the time I in high school I was collecting exclusively vintage. When I was a senior I was taking the commuter rail into Boston and someone had left a copy of SI with Al Simmons on the cover. I picked it up and read about the late 20’s A’s teams that were as good as the Yankees during the same time. For the first time, I was read about Foxx, Grove, Simmons, and Mickey Cochrane, who I took a particular interest in since he grew up not far from me, and attended Boston University, where I was headed the next fall. I’m a set collector, so to this day he’s the only singular player I collect.

[vintagesportscollector]

In the 70’s I got my first cards - a huge box of thousands of cards from the ’60s and very early ‘70s that a neighboring kid was giving away. My dad didn’t seem to really care, nor take an interest in much of what I was into, but he asked "do you have any Jim Palmers?”. Apparently he was his favorite player. I pulled out about a dozen cards from 67 to 72, but no RC. My dad was pretty excited and we bonded. He wasn’t a very affectionate dad, but I remember that very fondly. He got me a 1974 the following year -still my favorite card.

[Carter08]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

In the 70’s I got my first cards - a huge box of thousands of cards from the ’60s and very early ‘70s that a neighboring kid was giving away. My dad didn’t seem to really care, nor take an interest in much of what I was into, but he asked "do you have any Jim Palmers?”. Apparently he was his favorite player. I pulled out about a dozen cards from 67 to 72, but no RC. My dad was pretty excited and we bonded. He wasn’t a very affectionate dad, but I remember that very fondly. He got me a 1974 the following year -still my favorite card.

Great story.