Your Collecting Focus

[Volod]

Originally Posted by brob28

As many of us are joking about our lack of focus, it just remindes me how much variety this hobby offers. There is always something to "work" on as our interests waiver or change. Just pick up a Standard Catalog of baseball cards and flip throught it, an incredible variety of cards to choose from!

Just reading this post amazes me at the different approaches and interests within our hobby. The best thing about it is it does help keep me young and forget about work and my life responsibilities for a short period of time everyday.

Happy collecting!

You're in good company there, Bill. During his lengthy presidency, Franklin Roosevelt spent many evenings alone poring over his extensive stamp collection. Imagine the work responsibilities he was able to put aside thanks to tiny scraps of paper that most people just discarded as waste.

[Tim Fritz]

Like others my problem is I have to many things to focus on. I guess it keeps my wallet thin at least.

1.) 1952-1973 Topps basball sets. A few are complete (53 and 65) and most are 85-95% complete in VG-EX condition. I hate high numbers.

2.) pre-war sets that I collect T205, T206 (50% complete), T207, 33/34 Goudey, playball sets, E90s, E93 and 1915 Cracker jack all in low grade.

3.) 1970s Topps basketball sets. Only need a few dozen more for the whole run.

4.) 1950s and 1960s football.

5.) Anything else that catches my eye.

[MacDice]

Back in high school I started working on a signed 1957 set. Have 305 cards signed minus a bad Clemente that I thought was good when I got it.

[cubsfn01]

I have two main collections. In baseball I am working on getting complete regular Topps runs of Hall of Famers and trying to get 1 card of Hofers who did not have Topps cards. The only one of the ladder I have is a Carl Hubbell. Condition is not a issue for me at all goodness knows. In Football I am working on finding one card of each Hofer. I have 167 different football Hall of Famers, from Deion Sanders back to Jack Christenson. When my finances get better, I want to do a baseball collection where I make a list of the 300 most important most WW2 players and get 1 card of each player with the trick of each card must be a different set and none of the sets are Topps brand. Won't that be fun?