After advice on new PC

[Klattsy]

Hi All.

I am thinking about starting a New York Yankees PC with a catch. Being a Yankees fan, and a history buff, I was thinking about compiling 1 card for each player on the roster for each year.

For example, get a hold of the 2010 roster, and try and obtain 1 base card from 2010 issue, for each player on the roster. That way when I want to remenis about say the 1996 Championship team, I can flip open to 1996 and see all the players that where involved.

My concerns with doing this are:
1. If I flip open to 96 for example and look at the players, I won't actually see their 96 stats until 97...
2. Not every player on the roster would have a card made of them in that year, so it could be deemed as "incomplete"
3. I will only be able to go back to maybe the mid 70's as cards before that are pretty rare and expensive.
4. Cost obviously. Only after base, but its cheaper to buy in bulk, but then shipping comes into play Plus we're talking around 40-50 rostered players a year. Times that by 40 years and we're getting up to 2000 cards...

Benifits are:
1. Great history lesson. Well, up to the past 40 years at least.
2. Get to look at my favorite players all the time.

Not sure what to do. I think it'll be cool, but maybe the concerns could lead to it becoming unrewarding and incomplete. How do other people juggle multiple PC's? I already have an Aussie Born player PC and Auto PC...

Any ideas, improvements ect?

Mark.

 

[juddcollector]

sets like that take up a lot of time, space and money what I would do is collect the team yearbooks- it would have all the roster and up to date stats for that year and maybe get a nice card of each year if you want some cards as well

 

[Klattsy]

Time and space i'm not worried about...money I am Although the US boards have Team Sets for sale for cheap, but postage could hurt. Plus i'd end up with heaps and heaps of cards I didn't need. Although that could be trade bait...

I had the idea yesterday, then gave up about it, but am thinking about it again.

Then I thought of one card of every Yankee player but the idea was a timeline so if you get a card of a player in his rookie year, how can you reflect on his states 15 years later?

 

[dickyKnee]

It would certainly be a great PC chase. However, its not going to be quick. But i do like the sound of it.

 

[GiRDS-]

it would be excellent if you could complete it mate. but completing it is the achievement you don't want to get stuck halfway and not be able to finish it all if you do decide to do it best of luck

 

[Klattsy]

Thinking about a different route, just chasing BASE cards of Yankees. Not after a set amount or anything, but try and get at least 1 card of each player in Yankee uniform. That way I can buy in bulk, if I get more of stars then all the better. Then I do not have to worry about what year ect. Then I can file them alphabetically. That way I will have a variety of different brands, years, players ect. That variety makes it better to look at

The plan is to hunt on ebay for lots with cheap shipping to Australia. Most lots tend to go for .99c...its just finding one's without $20 postage Then if I end up with dups or inserts in the lot I can trade them for other base cards.

I want Base only because of the stats and trivia/info on the backs. Plus they are the cheapest option. I saw a dude in the states looking for an AU of every Mets player ever! What a chase that would be!

Thanks for the advise!
Mark.

 

[hawksforever]

Also you can look up checkoutmycards.com that is a pretty good source for baseball cards and they post in bulk, although for lots of base postage does add up.

 

[chriso_10]

I collect the Topps team sets for both my teams - the Mets and the Rays (obviously the latter is far easier since they've only been around 12 years and were terrible for most of that time). Base team sets like these are very plentiful on ebay, and more importantly there are many that ship to Australia at decent rates. You also get most of the players on the roster for that year since the sets are so large they can include lots of guys, and the Updates/Traded sets tend to catch everyone they missed the first time around, with the only guys missing out usually being no-name bench players or back-of-the-bullpen guys. You're not going to get every single player to ever put on the uniform this way, but its far easier to keep track of and I think it looks nicer than having a mix of all different sets next to each other in pages in the binder.

I only wish the whole "team set" thing was as popular in basketball, because doing the same thing for the Magic means I just have to buy singles instead of buying proper team sets of ebay.

 

[Klattsy]

Ben - Yes COMC is a great website and I have found cards there for 25c for superstars, but at the end of the day I think eBay is my best bet for bulk purchases.

Yeah I saw the team sets Chris but believe it or not I like having all the different types of cards!

Thanks everyone,

Mark.