Today is question day:
Are you a prospector in the sports you collect?
I have a horrible track record
prospecting so I do not chase those cards. Baseball is probably the
biggest prospecting sport because it can be months or years before the player
makes it to the big leagues so you have to be ready to make decisions and sit
on those cards.
My first attempt at prospecting
was in 1993 when everyone in the LCS was picking up cards of a kid named Derek
Jeter I was instead interested in Tim Salmon cards because he went to college locally at Grand Canyon University. Salmon did go on to be AL ROY in 1993 and he was
part of the 2002 Angels team that won the World Series but apparently, that
Jeter kid went on to something special… yes, my choice of Salmon over Jeter
still burns me 24 years later.
Now I just pick up what I like
but only for Seattle teams and don’t worry about future value.
I love cards of prospects, but don't consider myself a prospector. I don't do it to make $$ and strike it rich. I just like following the minor leagues, and getting a jump start on future Yankees.
ReplyDeleteProspecting is too hard when every decent prospect is hyped these days and their best first-year autograph cards and especially parallels are gobbled up by prospectors looking to cash in at some point.
ReplyDeleteMy team is the Angels and I figure to get cards of any players who may play for the big league team at some point - though in a more casual way, where I have an idea of the guys coming up, but not go too crazy in buying up their cards.
Guys like Sam Horn, Mike Greenwell, and Gregg Jeffries taught me to hang up my prospecting cleats decades ago.
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