For you vintage collectors

Wasy

What 2004 packs are you buying and what are you looking forward to in 2005. Personally I'm excited about Upper Decks Yankee Classics coming out in December. I'm curious to see what you guys are buying as I've been away from collecting for many years.

Stone193

Alan
For me, the 2005 Topps Heritage set is a fun challenge. They should be doing the 56T design and every year I look to make the auto pull of the century but it never happens... but I still look forward. This is one of the only sets that will get the interest of some fo the vintage collectors.



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Mike

helionaut

Yankee Classics could be interesting if it's done as well as the 2000 set. If it's like the Yankee Signature set, yawn. The pennants will be cool, though. And the Mitchell & Ness jersey redemption cards will be worth something. M&N jerseys retail for $150 minimum.

I have a concern about 2005 Heritage. I'm wondering if they'll do something to change the look of the images, especially the backgrounds. Looking at the 2002 (1953) variety, it looks like they just ran the photos through a Photoshop brushstroke filter to make them look like paintings. The results are mixed but really never good.

Fleer is trying again with GOTG, "Cut Signature" edition. Looks like they've got a Jim Thorpe auto in there. That might be interesting, but I'm not buying any.

Bowman Sterling will probably be overpriced junk. No names on the preliminary checklist are too exciting.

The new set I'm looking at is UD SP Prospects. 440 cards, with about 250 RCs, autos should be 5 per box. How the checklist will stack up against Bowman, I don't know, but it looks like they're putting the new rookie plan into action in a big way. Hopefully it won't be overpriced (which I say with just a tinge of sarcasm), but presells are going for $60-65. Gotta see the checklist, though.

A761506

I won't be buying any 2005 packs, as I think it's all worthless garbage, and there's way too much of it.

Wasy

Agreed A761506 that there is way to much new stuff on the market however, as a vintage collector you are not intriqued by the prospect of getting an autograph from a HOFer or better yet a dead HOFer? The game used stuff doesn't interest me in the least but those cut autos get me attention real quick.

AkbarClone

As a vinatge collector, I too like the autos and even game used of Hall of Famers--but instead of spending hundreds of dollars (if not more) and "maybe" getting one or two decent cards and a lot of junk--I bypass the wax and just buy the singles I want for sometimes as cheap as $10-$20 each and only get "exactly" what I want. Thanks eBay! It saves me a lot of money and frustration.

Busting wax is fun--but too expensive these days--especially for what you get most of the time.

tnfan67

I love Topps Heritage, and I enjoyed Cracker Jack this year. I think that these type brands will hold interest over the years to come. However, most of today's brands are forgotten very quickly.

Wasy

Well I just pre ordered a three box set of UD Yankee Classics, the wife is going to love my renewed interest in the hobby

MRyanF

<< <i>As a vinatge collector, I too like the autos and even game used of Hall of Famers--but instead of spending hundreds of dollars (if not more) and "maybe" getting one or two decent cards and a lot of junk--I bypass the wax and just buy the singles I want for sometimes as cheap as $10-$20 each and only get "exactly" what I want. Thanks eBay! It saves me a lot of money and frustration.

Busting wax is fun--but too expensive these days--especially for what you get most of the time. >>



I could not agree more, most packs now are full of crap. Do I really think that a BC Pujols will be worth $20k 20 yrs from now no. I think what is happening is that the values are immediately topping out. There are modern cards selling for more than a 1956 PSA 8 Mantle which I find incredible.

The gimic of inserts and autographs disgusts me. I have a nearly complete collection of HOF'ers autographs, minus a few of the ones that died way before my birth, but they are not on a mutilated piece of modern crap. They are on a ball, or bat or jersey, and its not a "cut" or a "swatch" either. I think that it is a disgrace to the hobby and to the history of sport in our country what is being done to these historic items.

I dont want my son to come back from Cooperstown and ask why certain things are missing or heaven forbid, "Why is there a square hole in Cal Ripkins pants?" "Where are the other Babe Ruth jerseys?" What am I to say, oh, we thought it would be cool if everyone could have a little piece of it?

No one is advocating taking the Mona Lisa or Declaration of Independence and choping them up so that everyone can have a bit of something special. Instead, they are put on display for all to enjoy. That is the opposite of what we are doing and years from now we will pay dearly for it.

Ok, so now that my rant is done, I will probably get some topps heritage this year because of the 1956 design and the fact that I have long been a 1956 Topps collector. I will buy a couple of factory sets when they come out and then I will continue to collect the vintage cards that I enjoy and that were produced at a time when both the game and the hobby were more pure.

tnfan67

Wasy, I hope your boxes are good ones. The bottom line is if you collect what you enjoy then you will always be satisfied. Good luck and happy collecting!