General Forum

Back in the early 1980s, when I expanded my collection from simply sets to include Phillies, my initial plan was to get cards of then current Phillies with their teams before they were Phillies. Then I realized about a year after planning that out that it wasn't going to work well for me as there would be too many cards goig in and out of the collection (of I stuck to just current Phillies) and just WAY too many cards if it was all Phillies before and after. It was then that I decided to stick to JUST cards that show them with the Phillies. Now, with the explosion of number of cards per year, there's plenty to chase and add without looking for cards of former or future Phils.

I'm a Detroit Tiger collector.  I still collect Verlander cards in the Astros uniform.  Have also added some early Miguel Cabrera cards from his time with the Marlins.  I don't do with with with all players, but definitely with my favorites. 

Generally, no I keep to my team collection.  But I do have a few Adam Wainwright rookie cards with an honorary place in my St. Louis Cardinals card binders :).  

I think over the years we all have changed our collecting goals.   I went from set collector (over 1000 of them) to only My Nebraska football players.  (any and all  in college or pro uniforms,  odd bal, schedules, coke caps you name it.  I'm interested if the price is right)  I even have some cards with a Husker player in the background.

I am truely a Set collector, But IPC Jays and BO's "Jackson and BIchette" . MY oldest son is starting to PC Expos. So I usualy try to get 2 cars for any of them players but also try to finish the sets.