I haven't made much progress lately on my wantlist as it relates to my Reds team sets. I'm still sitting at needing two more 1951 Bowman cards and one more 1941 Play Ball to wrap those two up. I had hopes of getting those three cards before the end of the year but I got a little sidetracked. I started two new projects, one being mentioned here. Since I started collecting back in 1986 I was always enamored with certain rookie cards. Rickey Henderson, Wade Boggs, Mark McGwire, Eddie Murray, Dave Winfield and Cal Ripken Jr were just a few that caught my eye. I had always wanted to own a copy of each but as a teen I never had the income to make that dream a reality. Fast forward thirty years later and I decided to start tracking down those cards that I could never afford. This 1974 Topps Dave Winfield is one of twenty three rookie cards I've managed to acquire out of my fifty card Non-Red Rookie project. I've included quite a few modern cards in addition to junk wax and vintage. I'm sure I'll add more vintage cards to the list eventually like a 1969 Topps Reggie Jackson and 1960 Topps Carl Yastrzemski. But for now I'm content with trying to grab fifty. If your curious as to what I've picked up so far you can view the
Non-Reds Rookie Album in the Pages section.
4 comments:
Fun project. Best of luck tracking down all of those rookie cards.
I like this project, and Winfield is one of many excellent choices to make the list. I noticed you have some very specific parallels of certain cards (e.g. 1988 Fleer Glossy Update John Smoltz) but the base version of others (2001 Topps Ichiro). Any particular rationale for how those choices came about?
Thanks Fuji! It's been fun so far!
It all comes down to money. The modern cards I like the chrome, but refractors are just too expensive for me so that's the reason behind that. I'd love to have a Topps Chrome Ichiro but I don't want to ante up the cash for that. As for the glossy cards, those are still reasonable and I think they'll hold their value. They'll a little more rare than their standard issue counterpart and that's why I decided to pursue those. I didn't go after the Tiffany's because, again, they're too expensive for the guys I would be chasing.
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