New to Net54- Introduction

[Leon]

Welcome to the board Andrew. As Tony mentioned, If you get Lipset's 3 volume encyclopedia, the Krause Big Book of Baseball (SCD) and maybe a run of OldCardboard magazines you will be off and running and have enough to read for the next many months to a year or more....The Net54baseball BST, auction houses and ebay are the normal venues to acquire stuff. If you ever need to check a reference on the board you can always PM me and I will try to help.....happy collecting.

[CW]

Welcome to the board, Andrew.

Feel free to post some pictures of your display cabinet -- that sounds pretty cool. Did any stars or HOFers come up through Portland's AAA team? (to post pictures you can either upload them here when replying to a message, or you can use the links from a photobucket-type site).

If I could offer some advice it would be collect what you like. Some people can afford and prefer high grade cards, some collectors search for mid-grade cards with nice eye appeal, while others collect well-loved beaters and could care less about grading, condition, etc. It's all good.

Regardless of the grade, you will find cards with really good centering selling for premiums. If you are bidding on a card or item and you lose out, be patient -- most likely another one will show up down the road and you will get it for a lower price. Good luck and have fun!

Some helpful links:

http://www.auctionreport.com/

http://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/

http://www.cardtarget.com/ (great free price tracking site)

http://www.vintagecardprices.com/ (subscription site, but they offer a cheap, one day membership that can help out in a pinch)

And finally, nice choice on the Diamond Stars set. I feel it is somewhat underrated, and I love the art deco style of the artwork. I only have one in my collection, but it was one of the first vintage cards I bought when I got back into collecting in '99 (also my only Hornsby card).

[mrvster]

Welcome Aboard.....YOU'll Love it here

I suggest you collect "The Monster"....The T206 set....

there are so many ways to collect them.....check out T206resource.com


Peace

Johnny

[pencil1974]

Welcome aboard. There is a wealth of knowledge and good people on here.

[EvilKing00]

welcome to the board - good place to buy, is right here, the forum has an area called (BST) members buy and sell there, ebay is also good, as well as many auction houses.