Introduction

I will be updating my purchases for sports cards on this blog.  Both new and vintage cards.  I am creating this so that I can keep track of how much some of my cards cost me.  Then I can look back later and decide if I made good or bad purchases.

A little background on my collecting history.  I started collecting cards as a child, at the age of 6 or seven.  I started with baseball and basketball.  I would stick to mostly Topps  and  Hoops for a few years and then collected some Fleer, Upper Deck, and Donruss.  Around '94, I got out of collecting and I was only buying a few packs a year.  Then right about '02-03 I started collecting again, I was making a little money with a 10hr. job.  I was sticking to mostly basketball. During the '03-'04 season (Lebron's rookie year) I really started getting back in, buying multiple boxes.  Around this time I also started a collection of Jason Kidd cards.  He was my favorite NBA player since his rookie year.  Then my buying of boxes and packs went down and I started focusing more on my Kidd collections.

In 2009, I started getting back into collecting baseball again as well, focusing on Topps and Topps Heritage.  I have stopped collecting basketball except for Jason Kidd, and a few packs here and there.

In August of 2010, I purchase about 2000 cards from one of my parents' friend.  I paid $7000 dollars for these.  In the collection were cards from 1952-1971, and then some big Donruss cards from the '80s.  The majority of these cards were in the 1954-1957 years and then 1971.  The majority of the cards are Topps with a decent number of Bowman. 

Since this purchase I have enjoyed adding to this collection including completing the 1954 Topps series.  I am currently working on completing the 1955, 1956, 1957 Topps complete sets.

Here is my current progress on all sets up to 1958:
Topps 1952    48/487   10%
Topps 1953  138/274   50%
Topps 1954  250/250  100%
Topps 1955  196/206   95%
Topps 1956  305/340   90%
Topps 1957  149/407   37%
Topps 1958  108/534   20%
Topps 1959    52/572     9%
Topps 1960      9/572     2%
Topps 1961    13/587     2%
Topps 1962     6/689      1%
Topps 1963     2/576     .3%
Topps 1971 280/752    37%

Bowman Color 1953  128/160   80%
Bowman B/W  1953   35/64      55%
Bowman 1954          223/225    99%     (Two #66, different players)
Bowman 1955          267/320    83%