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Hello! I am a newly minted (ha) baseball card collector interested in collecting Twins (and Mariners and Blue Jays) cards from all eras, along with small sets, especially those created by non-traditional publishers like cereal companies.

Players I'm looking to collect cards for:

• Dave Stieb (cards owned: 25)
• Rich Hill (cards owned: 4)
• Lonnie Smith (cards owned: 9)
• Joe Mauer (cards owned: 9, plus duplicates up for trade)
• Joe Ryan (cards owned: 6)
• Jose Miranda (cards owned: 5)
• Kirby Puckett: (cards owned: 37, including one autograph)
• Jhoan Duran (cards owned: 4)
• Ichiro (cards owned: 8)
• Ken Brett (cards owned: 3, including one duplicate)
• Bert Blyleven (cards owned: 13)
• Carlos Correa (cards owned: 7)
• Byron Buxton (cards owned: 9)
• Ken Hrbek (cards owned: 32)
• Steve Jeltz (cards owned: 3)
• Pablo Lopez (cards owned: 2)

Types of cards I'm generally interested in:

• Players featured in "The Baseball 100" by Joe Posnanski.
• Players born in Minnesota.
• Players who attended the University of Minnesota.
• Players who have played for ten or more different teams.
• Players in the Hall of Fame (and Hall of Fame-caliber players who won't get in for PEDs or other reasons).
• Players in the "Hall of Very Good" (players who are nearly good enough to get into the Hall but not quite).
• Cards with artwork and not photographs.
• Cards with creative photography (or bad photography).
• Cards with questionable graphic design or layout.

Not all of my cards have been added to my collection; the ones I haven't added are mostly commons. My wantlist is very big and broad, I will be making a list with my most wanted cards at some point soon. However, I won't be disappointed if I receive any card on my wantlist. I am a college student, so it may take me some time to get through all the steps of a trade, but I try to be communicative on that front and let my trade partners know when something might slow me down.