Your Thoughts on new player sets

perkdog

I believe I have found the answer to my collecting woes as far as deciding on a set to collect, I enjoy all the sets and figure that player sets will allow me to get examples from each year of players that I like instead of grinding it out with one set and dealing with commons and passing on other great cards. This would work for Me as I dont have the financially deep pockets to buy several hundred graded commons.

I am actually a bit surprised that the following players do not have a set registered yet, Roy Campanella and Duke Snider. I would like to start these player set's and am curious if anyone else has thought of this. Also is anybody interested in these Dodger greats? I would like to get these going in the next several month's but would need time to get the three graded starter cards.

boggs301012

That is why I started a player set I cant see grading 500 card of guys I have never heard of.


James

AISAVDBBALLINPHILLY

I've got two player sets I've been working on - both football. One is modern (Lawrence Taylor) and the other vintage (Chuck Bednarik). That way I get a nice cross section of many of the card designs for different years.

NickM

I've requested a lot of player sets, and on players I like, it can be fun to hunt down oddballs of them with an eye toward eventually submitting to PSA, as well as to cherrypick their cards on ebay (and if the player isn't all that popular, it can be quite cheap).

Go for it on both of them. If you need Snider cards cheaply, he has a '61 Topps subset card and a couple of multiplayer cards that are cheap even in decent condition. For Campanella, unfortunately, there isn't anything cheap (unless you're willing to look at lower grades - I picked my '54 Bowman PSA 5 up for about $25).

Nick

imafishinnut

Perkdog,

I came to the same conclusion as you after getting near the end of my 1971 Topps PSA 7+ set. That 752 card monster has just about burned me out with regard to collecting yearly sets. I am down to 4 cards in it and will be glad when I have finally completed it. Personally, I decided to work on three different player sets -- Wade Boggs, Bo Jackson and Jim Palmer. Boggs, Jackson and Palmer are three of my favorite players and it has really been fun so far. I think you will get more enjoyment out of collecting player sets!

Mike

jimtb

I'm working on a player set (Trammell) but I also started a "Year set" for lack of a better term. I'm trying to collect a high graded Detroit Tiger card from every year that they have been in existence (1901) The fun is picking which players to have represented, and which cool looking cards to include. I mostly need cards from the 30's and earlier now, and it has become a challenge. It gives a great variety and really shakes it up for me.

cardfan07

I started with the 57 topps set a few years back. I've got about 100 or so graded and the rest raw...missing about 20. The fun was there early on when trying to complete this medium sized set. Since, I've jumped onto player sets, some basic, some master.Even more recently, I added to basic player sets because the first few slowed down and were going to really start costing some $$. Plus, the competition for some (Johnny Bench) was starting to get out of hand. I've got my 57's, Mays (basic and master), Clemente, Banks, Bench (basic and master), Schmidt and Brett. Definitely breaks up the monotony of chasing one player.

CoachTom

I started out with a Hank Aaron Basic Set for myself. That quickly turned into what was to become the Master set. I had a great jump on it before it was listed. That got $$$$ very quickly, so I started collecting team cards for the Braves and Brewers for the years he played for the two teams. The Master is still $$$$, so I have added the bazillion tribute cards that have been made since his retirement in 1976. I agree with jimtb that variety in collecting gets us through the locating stage, and then the enjoyment stage once we add them to our collections. I will do a prewar set before they throw me in the clay.