Here's Where Card Hemorrhage Currently Sits

Hey everyone - certainly been a while since I made much of an appearance in this space. I'm still collecting the cards, you know, but I had a bit of a reckoning in late 2021 that's sort of shaped how I'm collecting going forward. This hobby, as I'm sure many of you've figured out, can be a bit addicting. One set that needs to be completed begets another set that needs to be completed. One admired player turns into a need to collect that player's entire history of cards. One favored team means that any card from that team needs to be collected. And so on.

Thus, I took stock of it all and pretty much decided to jettison that way of thinking. Here's what I don't collect and accumulate any longer:

• Player collections from guys not named Pablo Sandoval or Tim Lincecum
• Any old vintage card not from the years 1965, 1971, 1972, 1975 and 1976
• SSPC cards
• Cards from the San Francisco Giants baseball team
• Random prospect cards
• Modern cards from dudes I like but that don't serve any greater collecting aim

The focus for me is on those Topps baseball sets from 1965, 1971, 1972, 1975 and 1976. Yes, 1976! I actually added that one, to help make up for all the stuff I subtracted. And I've got a long way to go for all of them. As mentioned in previous posts, I've been inexpensively selling off most everything else in these $5/each packs on eBay - you're welcome to order one or ten here. 

The mania hasn't gone away, though, and I'm okay with that. I recently went to Average Joe's Sports Cards in Buena Park, CA on a trip to Southern California and burned a deep hole in my wallet filling in some 1972 and 1965 wants. So, so fun. I then dialed them up and had them make me a paid care package of 1975 and 1976 commons to get those collections up and running. And I've been sniping Pablo Sandoval rarities off of eBay, COMC and Sportlots at will.

So I'm still very much in the proverbial game, it's just a different game than it used to be. "Sort of like baseball itself".