My impossible dream.

Wite3 · #1 07-28-2011, 03:19 PM

Around 1990 a collecting friend said I should try to get a type card collection of Phillies. I took it one step further and spent nearly a year putting together a comprehensive list of every Phillie card produced between 1880-1989. The original list was nearly 30 pages with a very small 8 font. Since then I have trimmed it down to about 15 pages with a 10 font. I have spent the last thirty years collecting Phillies from this list. I have some truly rare examples but my list still contains some disgustingly expensive or seriously rare Phillies. But every now and then, I find something to cross off that list or find something new.

That is my impossible dream...to complete that run...

Joshua

Leon · #2 07-28-2011, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Wite3

Around 1990 a collecting friend said I should try to get a type card collection of Phillies. I took it one step further and spent nearly a year putting together a comprehensive list of every Phillie card produced between 1880-1989. The original list was nearly 30 pages with a very small 8 font. Since then I have trimmed it down to about 15 pages with a 10 font. I have spent the last thirty years collecting Phillies from this list. I have some truly rare examples but my list still contains some disgustingly expensive or seriously rare Phillies. But every now and then, I find something to cross off that list or find something new.

That is my impossible dream...to complete that run...

Joshua

Joshua - cool project. If you ever get within spitting distance let me know and I am sure I can help with a few....somehow.

DixieBaseball · #3 08-01-2011, 01:25 PM

Clint - Great Collection! Thank you for sharing the pics. My collecting interest are similar to yours as I focus on a city (Nashville) primarily, but do bleed over into the State as well as other Southern League memorabilia. Typically if I collect other players, they had a cup of coffee in Nashville or are some how connected. My types range from 1895-2011.

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