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BriYo79

Great thread idea.

I've actually gone the other direction and stopped putting together sets for the sake of saving space. Instead, I've been picking up blue chip rookies I couldn't afford when I was younger.

So far this year I've picked up:
'54 Aaron
'63 Rose
'68 Ryan
'86 Fleer Jordan

SpinFadeSplash23

Vintage boxing tickets.

GreenSneakers

• Like you, a topps set every year ripped from packs

• continue my baseball HoF rookie collection, minimum grade per the decade (80s in 8, 70s in 7, etc)

• help my daughter with her Andrew Benintendi and David Ortiz master sets

orioles93

Havn't done to much buying this year due to life (new job, moving out, etc.) But my main collecting focuses have been PSA HOF baseball rookies, all ungraded baseball rookies from 1948-present, and slowly working on my 1963-1975 Topps sets.

rmh111985

• continue my baseball HoF rookie collection, minimum grade per the decade (80s in 8, 70s in 7, etc)

This will be my next endeavor when I focus back on collecting, but will look to stretch that across the 4 major sports.

Currently, I am only collecting Patrick Roy inserts/graded rookies/rarities. I find it very frustrating to have such a centralized focus when I've always bought to expand my collection with no boundaries or direction.

CdnOsfan

Signed Orioles HOF RCs. Got Brooks and Frank Robinson and Jim Palmer so far. Also a run of signed Brooks Robinson Cards from each year of his career. I have his 1st 4 cards and a couple from the 70's, filling in the gaps slowly....

1951WheatiesPremium

Mickey Mantle

The last card I need for the 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos - Jack Krame ‘L’:

Yankees (HOF or retired numbers especially)

ArmyMan

Player sets of my favorite past and present players - Ryan, Rose ,Bench , Brett ,Schmidt , Ripken , Jeter , Rivera , C.Jones , Griffey Jr , Pujols , Cabrera , Kershaw , Trout , Altuve. The modern players I get in Gem Mint 10 , but the old school players as you know gets very pricey once you get to the 1970's. When I run out of those I still got my 1968 Topps Baseball and 1972 Topps Basketball set I'm working on in PSA 8 or better to keep me busy.

Panama Mutiny (Formerly lawyer05)

i collect junk wax ..lol

Stone193

Geez Tim - I forgot to get back to you.

I walked the entire floor at the national and saw zero Wheaties premium photos.

Stone193

Right now I'm doing the 2018 Topps Chrome set.

I'm finding the Ohtani to be harder to find in packs for some reason. Did get a few SPs tho.

And in the game board world? 2 Willie Mays games from the same company.

countdouglas

Uncut sheets, 80s wax boxes, occasional pickups for my various 70s and 80s baseball registry sets, upgrades for my raw 60s and 70s baseball sets, and various stadium giveaways - bobbleheads and replica statues, etc.

I'm looking forward to the release of the Heritage high series next month, also.

LarkinCollector

Barry Larkin Master set, variety of golf player sets, golf HOF RCs, and too many other things to keep up with

Panama Mutiny (Formerly lawyer05)

@LarkinCollector said:
Barry Larkin Master set, variety of golf player sets, golf HOF RCs, and too many other things to keep up with

Larkin i saw the master is at 60 perent complete ......

LarkinCollector

@lawyer05 said:

@LarkinCollector said:
Barry Larkin Master set, variety of golf player sets, golf HOF RCs, and too many other things to keep up with

Larkin i saw the master is at 60 perent complete ......

I'm not quite at 50% yet, but hope to overtake the 60% completion before too long. I've got 3 new adds to the composite that should be up any day, 5 coming in on a sub return this week, and another 36 spread out across various piggybacks right now.

59Horsehide

I am from Iowa and I am starting to collect cards (RC when possible) of every major league baseball player born in Iowa.
Jim

ahopkins

Basic player Topps sets of: Yaz, Koufax, Schmidt, Carlton
PSA 10s of Mattingly (Topps, Donruss, Fleer)
PSA 10s of Greenwell
Unopened wax, cello, rack from 1981-1987 (Topps, Donruss, Fleer)
A few Nicklaus cards from the '70s
Centered, high-grade examples of OPC Gretzky cards (have most)
Centered, high-grade examples of OPC Bobby Clarke (have most)
And a few specific uncut sheets

Panama Mutiny (Formerly lawyer05)

I collect PANAMA BORN PLAYERS ONLY
Signed Baseballs I own 4 signed VIBERT CLARKE signed baseballs of every Panama Born Player
Bats of every Panamanian Hitter
Cards
Modern Players only 1/1
Their rookie cards in high grade
High Grade on Vintage players

1 in Carew , #1 HEctor Lopez,

Game used
i collect their contracts also

LarkinCollector

@ahopkins said:
A few Nicklaus cards from the '70s

Which ones are you looking for? I may have extras or leads on them.

ahopkins

@LarkinCollector said:

@ahopkins said:
A few Nicklaus cards from the '70s

Which ones are you looking for? I may have extras or leads on them.

PM sent

olb31

I like 1993 - 1995 Finest refractors (main 3 sports), 1996 - 1999 Atomic refractors, 87 and back opc hockey and baseball, vintage psa graded mantle, mays, aaron.

Tecmo Boil

1960s-1980s NBA, NFL, NHL Star RC and early cards
Key MLB player early cards (Jackie, Rose)
Non sports (1966 Batman, Horrors of War, some Dutch music cards)
1982-83 Wrestling All Stars
1930 Rubis Mickey Mouse cards.
1970s/early 80s Cellos with stars on top.

Kid4hof03

Anything and everything relating to Roger Staubach and Gary Carter
1960's-80's basketball, especially oddball and regional issues
Bernie Williams & Curtis Martin cards through their playing careers
Dallas Cowboys 1960-1989 ungraded cards & oddball items
Don Meredith & Bob Hayes PSA Master sets
Malcolm Brogdon
Then I have a host of player collections that I go to on and off but am not as committed to as the above.

GreenSneakers

@orioles93 said:
Havn't done to much buying this year due to life (new job, moving out, etc.) But my main collecting focuses have been PSA HOF baseball rookies, all ungraded baseball rookies from 1948-present, and slowly working on my 1963-1975 Topps sets.

This is awesome. I did that years ago - collect all rookie cards, no matter the performance or prospect of the player - for sets in the early to mid 80s. There may have been some idea of striking gold with an unknown rookie down the line, but the bigger reason was I Just thought it was plain cool that someone (me) collected what represented the achievement of someones dream - making the bigs - even if he only played 50 MLB games before washing out. If a major card company made you a card, I was going to have your first. Unfortunately, its a bigger project than you might think and went by the wayside as collecting focus narrowed.

KendallCat

@Stone193 said:
Right now I'm doing the 2018 Topps Chrome set.

I'm finding the Ohtani to be harder to find in packs for some reason. Did get a few SPs tho.

And in the game board world? 2 Willie Mays games from the same company.

Mike - let me know what you are missing on Topps Chrome. We have cracked several boxes from retail and hobby and you can have extras for your set.

KC

JBrules

Current focus for me is Johnny Bench master set, Kareem Abdul Jabbar basic set, Willie Mays basic and Johnny Unitas. Almost finished with the Wille Mays and Unitas runs.

1951WheatiesPremium

@JBrules said:
Current focus for me is Johnny Bench master set, Kareem Abdul Jabbar basic set, Willie Mays basic and Johnny Unitas. Almost finished with the Wille Mays and Unitas runs.

Just Willie cards or all manner of Willie?

Gilbey

Working on the T205 set, 77 yankee game used bats, and Thurman Munson basic set upgrades. Also going to start my Bucky Dent basic set in the upcoming weeks.

markj111

@BriYo79 said:
Great thread idea.

I've actually gone the other direction and stopped putting together sets for the sake of saving space. Instead, I've been picking up blue chip rookies I couldn't afford when I was younger.

So far this year I've picked up:
'54 Aaron
'63 Rose
'68 Ryan
'86 Fleer Jordan

@BriYo79 said:
Great thread idea.

Space can be a real,problem, particularly if you have a lot of graded cards.

JKT

Mostly these guys:

-Alex Bregman
-Mike Trout
-Nolan Arenado
-Greg Maddux
-Eddie Murray

markj111

Main focus:

Complete 62 Post Set, all PSA graded. I’m about 3/4 there.
Finish 58 Braves in PSA 8. Missing only Johnson (78).
Get last three 63s in PSA 8. Missing 2 tough commons and one easy one.

addicted2ebay

@LarkinCollector said:

@ahopkins said:
A few Nicklaus cards from the '70s

Which ones are you looking for? I may have extras or leads on them.

Haha this is great.. I’m trying to pop a 9-10 on the 71 as we speak. Love Jack!

BaltimoreYankee

My current focus is in building a 1954 Topps set in lower-to-mod grade. I purchased a lot of 115 very early this year and I'm down to needing seven cards for the complete set. I do like that some of the earlier Topps sets are small in number (the '54 set is 250 cards in total).
After this set, I'm considering a set near and dear to my childhood collecting days: 1972 Topps.

VoteDizzy

Mark Messier, Patrick Marleau, a handful of pro wrestlers and anything Dizzy Gillespie.

prgsdw

• Graded Dallas Cowboys rookies from the All-time, Ring of Honor and Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboys sets.
• Graded player runs of Doomsday Defense era defensive players - Bob Lilly, Chuck Howley, Mel Renfro, Lee Roy Jordan, Cornell Green, Harvey Martin, Cliff Harris and Randy White.
• Raw football sets: 1963, 1968 and 1969 Topps; 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967 Philadelphia gum.
• Graded Dallas Cowboys team sets: 1968 and 1969 Topps, 1972 Sunoco stamps, 1993 Skybox Impact (with Super Bowl XXVII backdrop), 1992 Fleer Gameday tall boys.

I also collect 1960's and 1970's Dave Campbell's "Dallas Cowboys Season Outlook" magazines.

Stone193

@59Horsehide said:
I am from Iowa and I am starting to collect cards (RC when possible) of every major league baseball player born in Iowa.
Jim

Cool idea Jim.

Stone193

Mike - let me know what you are missing on Topps Chrome. We have cracked several boxes from retail and hobby and you can have extras for your set.

KC

Thanx Keith! Haven't done the final collation yet. As said - I can't believe I only found 1 Ohtani RC!

JBrules

@1951WheatiesPremium said:

@JBrules said:
Current focus for me is Johnny Bench master set, Kareem Abdul Jabbar basic set, Willie Mays basic and Johnny Unitas. Almost finished with the Wille Mays and Unitas runs.

Just Willie cards or all manner of Willie?

Just his basic Topps, Fleer, Bowman cards at this point.

LarkinCollector

@addicted2ebay said:

@LarkinCollector said:

@ahopkins said:
A few Nicklaus cards from the '70s

Which ones are you looking for? I may have extras or leads on them.

Haha this is great.. I’m trying to pop a 9-10 on the 71 as we speak. Love Jack!

Good luck, that's about the best centering I've seen on one! Even a 9 would be sweet.

ReggieCleveland

I'm a complete disgrace. My collecting focus is less sniper and more Uzi. At any given moment, I'm hunting for:

• PSA 10 1990 Donruss errors
• 1969-1979 Topps HOF basketball
• Star basketball
• 1990s Griffey cards
• 2007 Turkey Red refractors
• 1990s current and future basketball HOF rookie cards
• 1990s NFL current and future HOF rookie cards
• 1948 Leaf boxing color variations
• 1936 Dimaggio
• T213
• Morrell Meats
• W502 rare backs
• W575-2
• Topps reprint refractors
• Pinnacle Starburst
And recently I've become enamored with S74 silks and Piedmont Stamps.

I need professional help.

Arthur

Panama Mutiny (Formerly lawyer05)

@ReggieCleveland said:
I'm a complete disgrace. My collecting focus is less sniper and more Uzi. At any given moment, I'm hunting for:

• PSA 10 1990 Donruss errors
• 1969-1979 Topps HOF basketball
• Star basketball
• 1990s Griffey cards
• 2007 Turkey Red refractors
• 1990s current and future basketball HOF rookie cards
• 1990s NFL current and future HOF rookie cards
• 1948 Leaf boxing color variations
• 1936 Dimaggio
• T213
• Morrell Meats
• W502 rare backs
• W575-2
• Topps reprint refractors
• Pinnacle Starburst
And recently I've become enamored with S74 silks and Piedmont Stamps.

I need professional help.

Arthur

lol

dan89

1986 Fleer basketball PSA 9. Two cards left will be done 1-2 weeks.

yoda99

Baseball and Football - late 50s, 60s, and early 70s

ahopkins

@ReggieCleveland said:
I'm a complete disgrace. My collecting focus is less sniper and more Uzi. At any given moment, I'm hunting for:

• PSA 10 1990 Donruss errors
• 1969-1979 Topps HOF basketball
• Star basketball
• 1990s Griffey cards
• 2007 Turkey Red refractors
• 1990s current and future basketball HOF rookie cards
• 1990s NFL current and future HOF rookie cards
• 1948 Leaf boxing color variations
• 1936 Dimaggio
• T213
• Morrell Meats
• W502 rare backs
• W575-2
• Topps reprint refractors
• Pinnacle Starburst
And recently I've become enamored with S74 silks and Piedmont Stamps.

I need professional help.

Arthur

I love the range, Arthur.

BruceinGa

@ReggieCleveland said:
I'm a complete disgrace. My collecting focus is less sniper and more Uzi.

I need professional help.

Arthur

When you find a good psychiatrist send him my way!
I now or have collected M114 player posters, T205's, T206's 5's or better, M116 psa 6 or better,1958 Hires with tabs, 60 and 61 topps, 70 and 73 Kelloggs, assorted 50's Bowman and now prewar hof psa/dna postcards. I've also thrown in some recent hofers graded psa 10.
I hope my wife doesn't read this!

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