100 Days of Barry Larkin

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5

The Larkin market is strong, but we are a small group.

Do you collect cards of any other great Cincinnati Reds, e.g. Frank Robinson, Wally Post, Vada Pinson, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, etc?

[OhioLawyerF5]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Do you collect cards of any other great Cincinnati Reds, e.g. Frank Robinson, Wally Post, Vada Pinson, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Jim O'Toole, Joey Jay, etc?

Sure do! My Reds collection is threefold. I dabble in picking up first Bowmans and Topps Chrome rookies of my favorite Reds players and prospects. But that is mostly just a tiny part of my collection. Just a way to connect to current players. I enjoy following prospects through the minors and watchinig them develop into major leaguers. And having their cards adds to that enjoyment. I tend to have the Reds games on the TV while minor league games play on my phone or tablet every evening.

Then, of course, I have my Barry Larkin collection. This is my primary focus as I really enjoy the search for the extremely rare inserts/parallels of the late 90s. It takes a lot of time and money to collect rare 90s, so that consumes a lot of my hobby life.

Finally, I collect all hall of famers and superstars who have played for the Reds. For post war players, I put together the entire Topps run from their careers (Klu, Rose, Morgan, Perez, Robinson, Seaver, Parker, Griffey, Votto, Bench, Rolen). Then for pre-war, I mostly focus on picking up cards depicting hall of famers in a Reds uniform. I have finished my post war sets, so I'm currently snagging the pre war cards whenever I see them. Just picked up a 35 Diamond Stars of Ernie Lombardi at the National this year.