I've always loved the Goudeys - especially the 1933 set. Unfortunately I only have one card from that set currently. It's the last card in the set the Harold Schumacher. It's in very good condition and I bought it for a few bucks probably 20 years ago. Great looking set in my opinion.
I also like the T-206 and other cards of that era. Sadly, unless you literally have unlimited funds it's not really reasonable to think you could collect a full set of any of those. For the average person it would be a lifetime project to get most of them in decent condition. And, as you...
I built a huge collection in the late 70's and early 80's through trading. The rookie craze was just starting then and I accumulated a lot of rookies from the current sets at the time. After a few years the values skyrocketed and I traded a lot of them for rarer 50's and 60's cards. Not to...
I started collecting back in the day when Fleer and Donruss were just starting to produce sets again (early 80's). They had just won a court case against Topps and began producing sets as quickly as possible to get them on to the market. Sadly both companies made errors on numerous cards. At the...
He is definitely going to have difficulty getting into the HOF. Some years back I had hoped he was clean and would break Bonds HR record since that is tainted. But, now it doesn't look like there will ever be anyone to break those records. It's amazing how hard some people have to work to make a...