Card Collecting 101: What Should You Collect?

The answer to this is simple: whatever you want! The idea of collecting sportscards and sports memorabilia in general is to enjoy it and perhaps bring back memories from your childhood watching a start athlete. I enjoy collecting Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Rickey Henderson, Lawrence Taylor and Reggie Jackson cards. Some other suggestions for collecting beyond that of an individual player are:

1. The year you were born or the year your children were born.
2. Significant sets for the hobby such as 1952 Topps baseball, 1986 Topps football, 1989 Upper Deck baseball, 1986 Fleer basketball, etc…
3. Members of exclusive statistical clubs: players with 500 homeruns, 3000 hits, 300 wins in pitching, 30000 point club (basketball), etc…
4. Hall of Famers.
5. Team sets.
6. You simply like how that card looks aesthetically.
7. Award winners (MVP, Gold Glove, Cy Young, Triple Crown).
8. Rookie cards exclusively.
9. Game-used sportscards.
10. Autographed sportscards.

The name of the game is to have fun!

Happy Collecting

Joe (joe@joeknowscards)