[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ The focus of your auto collection, who and what do you collect?

[stlramman]

OK I am bored this morning sitting here surfing the net drinkin my coffee and thought i would start a post about everyones auto collection. Who do you collect? teams? players by position? Just what is the focus of your collection. Here is mine.

The #1 priority of my collection is football, I collect the St.Louis Rams, Green Bay Packers, the Lions on a smaller scale and various HOF'ers or players i grew up watching or those i just enjoy watching compete. After football is The Detroit Red Wings,Detroit Tigers & Los Angeles Dodgers I also collect some celebrities & such like i have Desert Storm cards signed by Stormin Norman and Colin Powell and soon am going to try and add George H Bush to them, and i have gotten Katee Sackhoff & Edward James Olmos from the Sci-Fi show Battlestar Galactica. That sums it up for me pretty much,so what is the focus of your collection?

[JasonS]

I focus on mainly hockey and some baseball. I have started to collect signed comic books too. I also love getting older players that I like or have hear of, guys who made the sports what they are today. I have a bunch of 1957 Topps baseball cards signed by ex-players and a bunch of reprinted Parkhurst hockey cards signed by ex-hockey players.

I also sent out request to players who played for the SF Giants or other Bay Area teams I follow.

It amazes me how well the old hockey + baseball guys love the fans. Hall of Famers, guys who were/are the best ever, sign freely and will often add cards too. Not like todays players who want money for an autograph (what? making $100k a game isn't enogh to live on? Gotta charge fans for your signature too?) or won't take the time to sign for fans at all.

I actually am into this just for the enjoyment of getting players I like. I usually send only one card, so as to not seem greedy, and if a player signs for me once I almost never ask again. (I did with a few like Matt Cain and Jeremy Roenick because the first ones came back smudged)
On a rare ocasion I get back notes of thanks and even start a correspondence back and forth, like with Matt Carle or Virgil Trucks.
For me it is quality, not quantity, that I enjoy.