General Forum

Just read your forum signature about changing the way you collect.  I’ve also gotten to the point where when I go to the card shop I will buy just a pack or two of cards.  I actually just got 2 packs of early 2000s Opening Day today.  Everything has gotten too expensive.  Blaster boxes and even hanger packs are too much now retail.  I mainly like to collect by opening packs, and this lets me still do that occasionally. 

I collect one contemporaneous card within their career for HOF'ers that played between 1901 and 2001. Fun journey. I also pick up a GU and auto per player.

egreenwo

I have 3 HOF collections

For football and basketball, I get one card from playing years for each player. When  a regular card is too expensive, such as BIll Russell, I get a post career card until a regular one come along

For baseball, I collect HOFers that are one time cardinals.  For that collection I do a page of 9 for career cards, and 9 post career as well 

mark

I have a few HOF collections but mainly just two. I only collect football HOFers and I have a collection of 1st Topps Cards (for those that have a Topps card) and for those that don't have a Topps card, I do try to get their RC but that can be expensive. So I just do the best I can. I have another HOF collection and that is of all their other cards, regardless of when it was produced. I enjoy getting some of the new releases of old-time players like Jim Thorpe and Red Grange. I like the old pictures and reading the info on the cards. For those that have traded with me, they know that I prefer defensive players and linemen but will trade for any HOFer. Most of my cards are worth 20 cents each, but I'm fine with that. 

To add another twist to my collecting is researching players and stats to anticipate who will ultimately make it into the HOF so I can start accumulating their cards. For example, for last years class I already had the Topps RCs for all the inductees and Art McNally's 1991 ProSet the day the class was announced. I was only missing Dick Vermeil. Its fun to work on that in the offseason.

" To add another twist to my collecting is researching players and stats to anticipate who will ultimately make it into the HOF so I can start accumulating their cards. For example, for last years class I already had the Topps RCs for all the inductees and Art McNally's 1991 ProSet the day the class was announced. I was only missing Dick Vermeil. Its fun to work on that in the offseason. "

I do the same for MLB guys, though I get a bit touchy when someone says they don't think so-and-so will make it into the HOF. I'll look at my 15+ cards of said player and root for them a little harder during discussions. :)