what is YOUR collecting style? Your 5 favorite sets?

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

For me it is all about color. The w517 and batter ups have a variety of choices that look striking together. But the best is the OJs. Although not as intense, they come in olive, tan, orange, brown, grey, black, blue and even pink, red and combinations of colors. Whew.

And like others, I try to come up with a theme as an excuse to assemble a portion of the above sets, and other sets which have visual appeal to me. This "theme" approach is necessary for cost reasons (but it doesn't always work). For example 1912 was the Year of the Triple. Lots of players hit 20 or more of them. What would be a better excuse to assemble an all red set consisting primarilly of CJs? Except the group of triples hitters include Jackson, Cobb, Wagner and other costly notables.