Too many sweets spoil our appetite

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Here's another recent TCC article that will likely hit home with some or most of you. Team and player collectors definitely seem to be the biggest casualties of today's hobby trends.

Who's your Dwight Evans that you've thrown in the collecting towel on?

-Bob

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There’s no question that there are some very sweet sports cards being made these days. But as many of us know, while sweets can be a nice treat when enjoyed sparingly, too much can be a very bad thing -- and when it comes to trading cards, collectors are being served up a diet that focuses way too heavily on the sweets.

The increasing proliferation of game-used and autographed insert cards in literally dozens of different varieties has recently caused me to become extremely discouraged in one of my own collecting pursuits -- to the point that I’m feeling the need to give up on that part of my collection.

Since the late 1980s, I’ve been trying to get a copy of every Dwight Evans card ever made. I started the collection in part because he was one of my favorite players and seemed at the time to be a potential future Hall-of-Famer, but also because I thought focusing on a single player would be a fun and relatively inexpensive way to obtain at least one sample card from each of the dozens of different sets being issued even back then.

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denwd1

i came to the same realization in 1992,you just can not keep up with all that's offered. this is why i only buy cards from the 1950's and earlier. i see some nice new stuff out there that is tempting,but with the little money i have to spend, i'll stick with vintage.

RipublicaninMass

<< <i>i came to the same realization in 1992,you just can not keep up with all that's offered. this is why i only buy cards from the 1950's and earlier. i see some nice new stuff out there that is tempting,but with the little money i have to spend, i'll stick with vintage. >>



I agree, new stuff once and a while (is heritage new???) but focus on vintage. As far as Dwight Evans cool guy lived here in Lynnfield. I was in the same grade as his daughter, and caused neighborhood terror with his 2 sons. The guy just looked like a ball player with the mustache and all. Always very nice, never had the courage to ask for his auto though.

WinPitcher

maybe someone should suggest to the writer that he need not collect Evans stuff that is produced after his playing days were over.

mcholke

I can completely relate to the Dwight Evans plight. My Dewey is Tony Perez. The quantities of new issues is accurate. I just did a quick count of Perez cards issued for each of the years from 2000 through 2005. These are issues by the major card companies. By my count
2000 - 3 cards issued
2001 - 55 cards issued
2002 - 82 cards issued
2003 - 99 cards issued
2004 - 138 cards issued
2005 - 67 cards issued to date and its only March

I hung in good through 2003 but after that it was not possible to grab them all. I try to grab what I like now and others more reasonable in price. However, there are so many 1 of 1 cards now the attempt to get them all is long gone.

Axtell

I couldn't agree more. For years I had been working on acquiring every Tampa Bay Buccaneer card...I got up through 1994 and it's gotten exponetially more expensive and difficult.

ajmoeller81

I guess I should be thankful that I'm not crazy over any one player out there and want to acquire all of his cards.

My passion is instead focused on sets. I think a set is a cool thing to own because it encompasses everyone in baseball for a particular year. Plus you get 1 of everbody, instead of 500 of one body.

But to each their own, it's just going to be a whole lot easier to build a set, even PSA graded, then it will to collect every player card in existence.

TCC

<< <i>maybe someone should suggest to the writer that he need not collect Evans stuff that is produced after his playing days were over. >>



I imagine he knows that, but it still doesn't take away from the fact that someone who started collecting a player many years ago reaches a point of disappointment when they realize that their collecting goal can't be reached because cards are still being produced for the player long after they retire.

-Bob

TCC

<< <i>I just did a quick count of Perez cards issued for each of the years from 2000 through 2005. These are issues by the major card companies. By my count
2000 - 3 cards issued
2001 - 55 cards issued
2002 - 82 cards issued
2003 - 99 cards issued
2004 - 138 cards issued
2005 - 67 cards issued to date and its only March
>>



Amazing... In general, I think an avid player collector probably thought they still had a good chance through the late 90s. The last 3-5 years have completely removed the possibility.

-Bob

joestalin

If you must keep up with this then just wait, buying modern cards right after they hit can become very expensive. If he is spending
too much money on Dwight Evans, then something is wrong. I can't imagine that even his 1/1's sell for more than 50 bucks.....now
finding them might be a different story!

Kevin