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Old 08-25-2015, 08:06 PM
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Sorry to add on to an old thread – hope I’m not breaking the forum rules with my first post.

But I was interested in seeing others’ descriptions of their team sets. I’ve been compiling one since the early ‘80s, in a different way than what I’ve seen from other posters. My goal has been to collect just a single card of every Royals player and manager, in chronological order, since the start of the team in ’69.

Beyond needing a card of everyone to play in or manage a game, I set things up so that the card has to both show the player in a Royals uniform and identify him as a Royal if such a card exists. Next best is one of those two. If that isn’t possible, I look for him on a Royals minor league card. Last priority is to get a card of the player on another team. At the moment, it appears that the set is “complete,” but of course I can’t ever know for sure that I have every player at the highest possible category as I’ve defined them.

I’ve actually been very lucky in that every Royal has had a card—and that’s not counting other collectibles like postcards and team-issued photo cards (which I do not include). For one player, it took me 20 years to find the existence of a card for him, but it was a real thrill when I did—the alternative would have been an eternal hole in the set…

Anyone else doing this sort of thing with their favorite team?
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Old 08-26-2015, 06:55 AM
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Welcome to the forum and good luck in your quest. There won't be a lot or Royals talk on the main forum but there are other sections of our board too. It sounds like you have had a very fun journey so far. (and the journey is a lot of the fun for a lot of us)

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Sorry to add on to an old thread – hope I’m not breaking the forum rules with my first post.

But I was interested in seeing others’ descriptions of their team sets. I’ve been compiling one since the early ‘80s, in a different way than what I’ve seen from other posters. My goal has been to collect just a single card of every Royals player and manager, in chronological order, since the start of the team in ’69.

Beyond needing a card of everyone to play in or manage a game, I set things up so that the card has to both show the player in a Royals uniform and identify him as a Royal if such a card exists. Next best is one of those two. If that isn’t possible, I look for him on a Royals minor league card. Last priority is to get a card of the player on another team. At the moment, it appears that the set is “complete,” but of course I can’t ever know for sure that I have every player at the highest possible category as I’ve defined them.

I’ve actually been very lucky in that every Royal has had a card—and that’s not counting other collectibles like postcards and team-issued photo cards (which I do not include). For one player, it took me 20 years to find the existence of a card for him, but it was a real thrill when I did—the alternative would have been an eternal hole in the set…

Anyone else doing this sort of thing with their favorite team?
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Old 08-26-2015, 07:30 AM
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As a Cardinals/Browns collector myself I started out trying to get every different card I possibly could. That task was overwhelming, so I backed off of that and now just collect cards of the HOF's or very good players.
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Old 08-26-2015, 10:16 PM
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Great thread. Another Cardinals collector here. I have always been a set collector at heart, but would go after Cardinals as a second passion. Once I finished completing all the key sets back to '48, I turned up the dial on my Cardinals quest. Finished off most of the post-war cards (still need a few '62 Jello and Hunter Wieners) then went after the pre-war. I'm fairly condition conscious except for certain sets (CJ). I've learned to be patient and not go after my needs if I consider the price too high.

The Redbird Club seating area at Busch Stadium has a large concession area with walls decorated with large renditions of hundreds of vintage Cardinals cards. Very well done and really a cool place. I love walking through that section knowing that I have the real things at home.
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Old 08-27-2015, 12:46 AM
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As someone who attempted this for a little over a year for the Cleveland Indians, it got overwhelming fairly quickly

There are always several chokepoints to contend with (Pepsin Gum, E107, specific zeenuts, Diaz Cigs, AA Worches) The main issues I came up with was the fact that displaying a collection such as that is near impossible since there are so many size variations in cards over the years. I ended up settling on doing everything from 1947(My dad's birth year) to present, still enough annoying little issues to keep things interesting(Shopsy's Frankfurter's Jack Kubiszyn where are you), and I can continue to build the collection with the team

Might want to send a pm over to bwbc917, Chris's Cleveland collection is insane in some of the impossible early players he's gotten
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Old 08-27-2015, 10:36 AM
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Wow, sounds like some major team collectors on here. For those who collect everything or as much as they can from one team, approximately how many cards does it consist of, several thousand?

Also, do you guys keep all of the cards in binders and pages, if so, I imagine that is a lot of binders and pages.

Personally for now, I am sticking to Topps team sets, and maybe getting into other mainstream sets like Bowman, Fleer, Donruss etc., whether I tackle other cards, I don't really know. It looks like it would be fun and quite a journey!
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Old 08-27-2015, 01:45 PM
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Wow, sounds like some major team collectors on here. For those who collect everything or as much as they can from one team, approximately how many cards does it consist of, several thousand?

Also, do you guys keep all of the cards in binders and pages, if so, I imagine that is a lot of binders and pages.

Personally for now, I am sticking to Topps team sets, and maybe getting into other mainstream sets like Bowman, Fleer, Donruss etc., whether I tackle other cards, I don't really know. It looks like it would be fun and quite a journey!
In his case, a Cardinals collection would be 1,990 players (I thought I read that were over 2000 now, might be an old number

It's why we call it the behemoth

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Old 08-28-2015, 07:52 AM
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Wow, sounds like some major team collectors on here. For those who collect everything or as much as they can from one team, approximately how many cards does it consist of, several thousand?

Also, do you guys keep all of the cards in binders and pages, if so, I imagine that is a lot of binders and pages.

Personally for now, I am sticking to Topps team sets, and maybe getting into other mainstream sets like Bowman, Fleer, Donruss etc., whether I tackle other cards, I don't really know. It looks like it would be fun and quite a journey!
It depends on how and what timeframe you collect for the number of cards. If someone is trying to get as many as possible from one team then from the last few decades they could get tens of thousands of cards. For me, from 1981 thru now i only collect each year approx the 72 - 90 cards i like best (including a base Topps team set) all in plastic sheets.

However i DO try to get every Yankee card i can from 1980 back, and i go back to 1904. I do have a ton of old Yankee cards. I put my cards in albums back to back, whereas many people do not put them NOT back to back, so my number of albums is cut in half from many others. I have 10 albums of Yankee cards, and 3 albums of cards from other New York teams. Small albums though so they are easy to handle.
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Old 08-28-2015, 08:24 AM
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Another Cardinal collector checking in.

I have attempted to get every card there is of Lou Brock up to 1981 (with a wide definition of "card").

I then made a list of the top 20 players at C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, and relief pitcher, and top 60 starting pitchers and 60 outfielders and have largely focused on that the last 5 years.

The Lou Brock items can be seen here. I now update it 3-4 times per year.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=174114
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Old 08-28-2015, 09:12 AM
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Another Cardinal collector checking in.

I have attempted to get every card there is of Lou Brock up to 1981 (with a wide definition of "card").

I then made a list of the top 20 players at C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, and relief pitcher, and top 60 starting pitchers and 60 outfielders and have largely focused on that the last 5 years.

The Lou Brock items can be seen here. I now update it 3-4 times per year.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=174114
That's an interesting way to do it. I used Baseball Reference and chose the top 50 in team WAR, with a couple of exceptions (Maris, Cepeda).
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