2016 Post-War Goals

[albrshbr]

Most of my collecting goals for 2016 are football related, so I'll start a thread over there. My modest goals for post-war baseball are as follows:

- Complete my 1958 Topps set (need only 9 cards, mostly commons)
- Pickup and/or upgrade 5 Baseball HOF Rookie cards
- Pickup 2 additional Mickey Mantle cards
- Attend either the Strongsville or Pittsburgh shows since I will not make it to the National

Let's see if I can keep focused this year.

[paulcarek]

—Finish the 1956 Topps set. I'm up to 278 out of 342, with Mantle being the only big HOFer I need.

—Pick up nice examples of '50 Bowman Feller, '53 Bowman Hodges, '57 Topps F. Robinson and '66 Topps NL Batting Leaders.

[arexcrooke]

I'm looking to
-finish my 1956 Toops Hall of Fame set. Well over halfway done with the only big card left being the Ted Williams. I'm looking for PSA 4-6 with centering and presentation being big for me. Been working on it for about 4 months or so now.
-get to 75% done with 1953 Bowman Color Hall of Fame set. Have 6 now with one being my favorite card I own: Yogi Berra PSA 5 that is very well centered. This is a tough set to find centered.
-Start working on a 1957 Topps Hall of Fame set. Have some of them already but haven't really started as I want to finish the 1956s first
-Buy a PSA 3-4 1953 Bowman Color Mickey Mantle

[albrshbr]

Originally Posted by albrshbr

Most of my collecting goals for 2016 are football related, so I'll start a thread over there. My modest goals for post-war baseball are as follows:

- Complete my 1958 Topps set (need only 9 cards, mostly commons)
- Pickup and/or upgrade 5 Baseball HOF Rookie cards
- Pickup 2 additional Mickey Mantle cards
- Attend either the Strongsville or Pittsburgh shows since I will not make it to the National

Let's see if I can keep focused this year.

I see they are already starting a 2017 thread in pre-war, I thought it would be nice to see how we did over the past year.

My results are mixed, but I'm happy.
- 1958 set, no progress
- Picked up 6 new Baseball HOF Rookie cards
- Only picked up 1 additional Mickey Mantle card
- Did not make it to either of the shows, maybe this year

However, much of my hobby $ this year went into my son's collection. He is now 8 and really getting into collecting, mostly football, basketball, and Pokémon. I can see large portions of my collecting $ going towards collecting with him, and I couldn't be happier.