Showing posts with label PCs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PCs. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Oddball Elmers
Continuing the COMC splurge, here are some Elmer Valo cards I added to my collection recently.
GOLD.
Classic Pacific.
Most recent card, a Topps insert commemorating Valo's time in the U.S. Army during WWII.
This one is the essence of simplicity. 1979 Diamond Greats - it has a blank back.
Valo has this card, a 1960 Leaf, and a 1960 Topps card depicting him as a Yankee, but he played in a grand total of 8 games for the Bronx Bombers in his 1800+ game career. Fantastic.
Friday, January 30, 2015
How to Choose?
I've been back in the game of cardboard accumulation for about 7 months now, and one of the things that has really held my interest is the variety and depth of just how specific a collection can get.
It took me some time to decide on what kinds of things I would collect, and then building those sets started to get a bit easier.
I have to thank the blogging community for being so vibrant and having so many unique voices. I can't remember how I found it, but it was this post from GCRL that convinced me to take a closer look at what I wanted to collect. I had been poking around online (mostly just checking listings on eBay) for several weeks before finding out that there were several places in the Twin Cities where I could find cards and buy them in person. Aimlessly looking online was not really cutting it.
The 1957 Topps Elmer Valo from the GCRL post was a key to unlocking several things in my collecting: I realized that the story of the player, and the composition of the card's photo was often more important to me than how valuable the card might be.
The first show I went to in the Twin Cities I got the opportunity to look up close at and hold a 1963 Pete Rose rookie. I didn't have the money to purchase the card (even though the card had some serious paper loss on the back and was highly discounted). I found after spending some time looking at the various table's offerings, that the Pete Rose Rookie was not really for me - it's iconic, yes, and has a an interesting history (the scandal of the fakes in the 1980s), but the card itself didn't really do it for me.
I did end up getting the 57 Valo, and now I am building a small PC of Elmer Valo cards.
I also got a chance to look at Rose's 2nd year card, which was more in my price range (on the higher end), and really liked the trophy associated with it. So, I ended up starting a collection of all the Topps All-Star Rookie cards, which has been a ton of fun to chase.
What are some of the more specific collections you've developed, and how did it occur to you to start it?
It took me some time to decide on what kinds of things I would collect, and then building those sets started to get a bit easier.
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I have to thank the blogging community for being so vibrant and having so many unique voices. I can't remember how I found it, but it was this post from GCRL that convinced me to take a closer look at what I wanted to collect. I had been poking around online (mostly just checking listings on eBay) for several weeks before finding out that there were several places in the Twin Cities where I could find cards and buy them in person. Aimlessly looking online was not really cutting it.
The 1957 Topps Elmer Valo from the GCRL post was a key to unlocking several things in my collecting: I realized that the story of the player, and the composition of the card's photo was often more important to me than how valuable the card might be.
The first show I went to in the Twin Cities I got the opportunity to look up close at and hold a 1963 Pete Rose rookie. I didn't have the money to purchase the card (even though the card had some serious paper loss on the back and was highly discounted). I found after spending some time looking at the various table's offerings, that the Pete Rose Rookie was not really for me - it's iconic, yes, and has a an interesting history (the scandal of the fakes in the 1980s), but the card itself didn't really do it for me.
I did end up getting the 57 Valo, and now I am building a small PC of Elmer Valo cards.
I also got a chance to look at Rose's 2nd year card, which was more in my price range (on the higher end), and really liked the trophy associated with it. So, I ended up starting a collection of all the Topps All-Star Rookie cards, which has been a ton of fun to chase.
What are some of the more specific collections you've developed, and how did it occur to you to start it?
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