Sometimes Yes And Sometimes No

Have you ever skipped picking up a card of a favorite player because there is something or someone else you don’t like also on the card?

 

I have had a couple of players I would prefer to not have in my collection for various reasons; like I dislike the team for whatever reason. You will not find an Oklahoma City Thunder card in my collection because they were the stolen Sonics, I also will not have any Pittsburgh Steelers because I am still sore about Super Bowl XL (I still think the refs stole the game from the Seahawks).

 

Specific athletes will also not be included in my personal collection. Mike Vick and Barry Bonds are two guys I just cannot get behind but the biggest villain of all is Alex Rodriguez. He has so many strikes against him I view him as the human version of the number 13, a number I dislike with a passion. That he wears the #13 is just a coincidence.

 

There are only a few cases that I will include a team or player in my collection and that is a direct cause from my OCD and completest issues. I broke from the norm recently when I ordered the Topps Now #474 card, a card that includes both Alex Rodriguez and Carlos Correa. The reason I ordered the card is because of my need to own every 2016 Topps Now card depicting the Mariners and there he is… A-Rod in a Mariners uniform of course this was before Topps issued an error card and Rodriguez isn’t even on the card front.

It Is Going To Clear The Wall For #630

 

After a number of pickups and trades over the last month I have spent the last few days organizing my additions and I am to the point where I have them mostly scanned in and adding them to my Zistle account and today I hit my 630th unique Griffey cards, which is his career homerun total. Card #630 is nothing special, it isn’t limited, an autograph or a hit, but it is a card that I dig. The card comes from the 1995 Donruss Top Of The Order release which is a collectible card game (CCG).

I have never played any of the collectible card games but I do tend to like the cards because they are very different from most other base card releases, usually because of the stats and other info printed on the card as part of the game, but there are often images that are used specifically for the CCG/TCG and not used in other releases..

The card front shows Griffey in swing, eyes locked on the ball and arms extended as he begins his follow thru. The card back is green with the Top Of The Order logo. The Griffey card, card #150 on the 360-card checklist, is a Rare card which came 1 per 12 card booster pack.

 

 

A Question To Player Collectors

With the way I have been feeling lately I decided to hopefully reboot my love for the hobby by streamlining my collection and pulling aside cards that I do not have a connection to and use them as trade or to sell so I can focus on building my personal player collections. I am thinking that having cards that interest me in my collection I will feel renewed and ready to focus on the hobby and blogging.

So while I have been building a trade list and a wanted list I have been considering which cards I want to add to my various want lists and which cards to prioritize. I have a question for the player collectors out there, how do you go about building the ultimate collection of your favorite athlete?

Do you begin with the players first cards and build up to their most recent?

Do you begin with their most recent and build back to their first cards?

Do you pick up your favorites and build around what you like first and then pick up other cards as they appear?

 

Do you pick up cards based on price?

 

Do you focus on a player's autographs or relics first?