5 Different Ways To Collect Baseball Cards 

I just got a binder, divided into all teams and started from there. Each team now has an average of 6 binders. I try and place card for each player together. Get cards from Walmart when available but buy most cards off of eBay, factory sets, team sets, patch and autograph cards, inserts and alike. Since I’m now taking care of 90 year old father with dementia, card collecting really is a great STRESS reliever for me 👍

I just started collecting for the first time and my focus is buying, opening, and collecting baseball cards from the years 1990-2011, regradless of the brand. Just to make the experience enjoyable.

Nice video, Scott! Thanks again for asking me to be a part of it 🤝

I’m a player completist collector. I’m also a rookie card collector, all time greats collector, team collector, 90’s insert collector, I like to dabble in vintage, I’m a set collector as a matter of fact I was able to complete the 1959 Topps baseball set. I also enjoy pre war vintage. I would say overall I’m a baseball card junkie collector.

Literally sat down with my coffee thinking - man I'd love a Scottie B video - and this was just uploaded ✌😁☕⚾

love your collection i started when i was in the 5th grade it took me til this year to fully review my baseball card collection and liquidate doing so I am now focusing on collecting hits like relics and sigs , Serial number cards, vintage(1970-1986), rookies and base that I want to hold onto now and maybe sell them in the future

Just got back into it in 2017. Collected from 87 really to 91. Loved Canseco. Today I love collecting rookies raw, and random players. Love the Topps heritage product. Excellent channel here. Great topic.

I am in my early 50s. I started back in the late 70s through the early 90s along with my Dad. I ended up pretty much stopping at that point. We have cards going all the way back to the 40s. We focused on Yankees as that was our team. I just recently started to dabble again. Learning about the grading process and deciding to what I want to keep in my own personal collection and what I want to start selling to fund the hobby and add cards to my personal collection

My goal with collecting is to get 4-5 major cards for each player I enjoy watching or have been a fan of in the past. These players are the ones on a HOF path and/or are already in. I feel like this spreads the wealth around and doesn't behold too much of my finances to one player. The player I have the most invested in is Juan Soto, but I've primarily focused on Pujols, Ichiro, Trout, Betts, Harper, Arenado, Machado, Kershaw, Jose Ramirez, and others from that era. I also love buying Devers and Yordan as I think they are criminally undervalued. Biggest bust for me? Bo Bichette. Went all in after last season and got burned pretty badly. Won't ever invest that much in an unproven player ever again. Great video Scottie!

I collect players who are first ballot true HOF, all time greats. That includes rookie cards, patch autos, vintage. If you aren’t all time great, I don’t collect the player. Possible future all time greats playing right now include Verlander, Pujols, Kershaw, Trout ,Cabrera, Betts, and Judge.

I'm a team collector, mostly. Detroit teams. I've primarily focused my attention on base RC, mostly because my budget isn't anywhere near high enough for big parallels or numbered or auto/patch cards or whatever. I want to get RC of the best, most memorable, Detroit players ever as well as young potential Detroit stars (Cade, Seider, Tork, etc). While RC of guys like Ty Cobb and Gordie Howe may forever be out of my financial reach, a collection of RC among the other ~95% of the best Detroit players is extremely doable. I've made a lot of progress toward that, according to my spreadsheet haha. I also have a mini-PC of what I call "Cursed Detroit" or "Detroit Legends." Great, if not Hall of Fame, players who made a brief stop in Detroit, likely toward the end of their careers. Pistons legend Allen Iverson is the best known example. I'm working on getting base cards of them in their Detroit uniforms. It's really fun and comical! I'll absolutely look into buying product or picking up non-Detroit cards. Detroit is just a priority.

I've been collecting for 30 years (on and off). My collection today is Utah Jazz relics & autos, Im trying to get 1 of every Donovan Mitchell rookie cards (base and parallels), and I have a master collection of Karl Malone, & John Stockton cards from their playing days. I collect RCs & Autos from Pitt Steelers greats/HOFers. I collect game used jersey cards from NY Yankees greats. Additionally I collect "collector grade" PSA HOF MLB RCs. raw HOF MLB game used jersey cards (I prefer Upper Deck and Donruss cards), and HOF MLB autos. I still do some prospecting and collect at least 1 Bowman 1st Chrome of all top prospects and Topps flagship, Chrome, and Finest MLB RCs for the top rookies every year. I like collecting full lineup for specific MLB rookies getting all base and reasonable parallels/refractors. Those players are Bryce Harper, Juan Soto, Trevor Story, and Wander Franco. Finally my main collection is golf. I collect all pre war I can find. I have a large golf HOF RC collection include the obscure hand cut or non-pack pulled cards. I have expanded that collection into RCs for every former Major winner and Autos from Major Champions. Man I've never sat down and typed all that out... my collection is more expansive than I thought.

I collected baseball cards during the early to mid 90s and football cards throughout the 90's. My goal is to own a Topps set in baseball going back to when I was born. I also want to collect as many other junk wax era sets as possible. But also enjoy buying new stuff whenever I'm in the mood. I prefer sticking with base sets because of the cost.

I keep all of my PC in binders. Rickey Henderson is my player focus, Reds are my team focus, and stolen base leaders are my category focus.

Funny he mentions Kruk. In 2021 I picked up a few of his auto cards because I always enjoyed watching him play and love his personality. Not worth much but still enjoy having them in the collection. I collect just Mattingly predominately, but have been trying to snatch up some rookies of my other past fav players, some HOF rookies psa graded, and recently started doing a Schmidt base Topps card PSA collection. Every once in awhile I will pick up something 100 or so years old just because I think it is cool to own something that old that could have easily been tossed.

Braves team set collector off and on buying my first pack of cards in 1958. Have 99% of all Topps Braves cards from 1955 to present day. Also collect all the Allen & Ginter, Heritage and Gypsy Queen sets. My thing is using colored card stock in my binders for framing tobacco cards as well as backgrounds for regular size cards. I have never obtained a card with the idea of an investment . It's all about the art and design of the cards that makes it all a pleasure for me.

I love collecting cards even though I don't watch professional sports. I did as a kid but I still love collecting.

Thanks for having me on Scottie B!

Awesome to see Tanner - had him do a couple of custom 1of1's - a couple gypsy queen cards of my family with the Phillies Phanatic and a custom Aaron Nola auto (with mlb authentic sticker) baseball a "stiches" card. Again 1/1 - and yes Tanner, I still have it. Cool stuff. I'm a team collector - but I'm cheap so nothing expensive. Have never paid more than $100 for a card.

I’m a player collector. I’m only 12 so I can’t afford a lot of cards. I have maybe 200 Xander Bogaerts cards though. I have one graded card and one autograph, and maybe 10 rookie cards. The rest are random base cards from throughout Xanders career.

I collect Nick Madrigal cards. I grew up loving the Chicago Cubs and Ryne Sandberg was always my favorite. So I decided to collect the Cubs new second baseman and I love the fact he is a throwback player who is a high contact hitter

Thats my team. I'm a team collector as well. Go Phillies. I also collect Jose Mark and Ricky. Good lineup.

Just got back into cards a couple months ago since 92. I’ve used your videos to make my blueprint to modern players card collecting. Thanks Scottie, keep up with the great work.

Currently working on Larry Walker. Just picked up an Auto of his. In 1993 I really started collecting the Rockies. Closest MLB team to go see. The Blake street bombers such as Castilla, Galarraga, Burks, Walker and Bichette. Looking to pick up a nice Todd Helton rookie also. Before the Rockies and even now it has also been Cal Ripken. Those my main cards I am collecting now.

I have been collecting for nearly 50 years. My goal is to have complete Topps baseball set from 1961 (the year I was born to Present day. Still working on some of the sets from the 60's. I have completed 1961,1968 and have nearly completed 1963. I have complete sets from 1972 to 2010. All in NRMT or better.

Great freaking video! One of my favorite videos of all time on RU-vid. Love all those guys. Great job on this awesome video. Because of all you guys i got back in to collecting. Thanks and happy hunting.

I like very much the concept of this video and you know getting a bunch of different perspectives as to why people collect certain cards. Nice work.

Love this video and thanks for sharing. Love seeing all theres responses. My approach definitely has changed. I used to be a team collector but for the past 5 years my main pc has been Mike Piazza and then collecting vintage I think look cool

I'm a complete set collector. I particularly like shiny, foily, bold and/or colorful stuff from the mid to late 90s.

IPC the Red Sox however I also love individual players. Like Carl Yastrzemski and Devers. I don't have every card of Yaz, or Devers, Being on a limited budget but also I collect Ozzy Smith

Cool to see a few different perspectives on this.

I'm a player collector who, looking at my past purchasing history, tends to gravitate towards players who are quietly on the rise. I like buying their cards because they aren't overhyped (like a Wander Franco or Bobby Witt type) and thus still very cheap to pick up. My past success includes picking up DeGrom cards early on (like around 2018). Currently, Andres Gimenez seems to be another one of those players today who appears to fall along those same lines (blossoming potential superstar with currently no hype). Which is why I've been picking several of his key cards for super cheap. Dude's the real deal!

I collect vintage HOF'ers and Cal Ripken serial# die-cuts and rare inserts. Cal Ripken was my favorite player as a kid and now as a adult with money I love buying cards that a dreamed of pulling as a kid.

I collect for fun, and I trade with my friends. I take good care of my cards but I don't care about value

Ive got 2... trying to complete the 2008 SPX #725 Griffey set ( and atleast one HoFers auto on card

I was around 10 in the junk wax era. I did some collecting then and a few years ago I got back into collecting. Since then I’ve bought a lot of vintage through ultra modern prospecting. My favorite is vintage however I have bought a lot of modern to ultra modern. I collect all the major sports plus some non sports cards/stickers. I’m all over the place.

Stadium Club autographs it’s my jam baby

I only have 75 cards and keep upgrading psa only mostly before 1980 so I can have rookies with only one card such as Pete Rose, hank Aaron, Nolan Ryan, Frank Robinson

I like buying and building sets so I have an archive of every player. I also collect any Detroit Tigers cards I can get my hands on.

Such a great video. Job well done.

Awesome Video, Awesome Topic!!!

Awesome collection

I was a player collector at one point. From my youth to my mid 20's I was a Bonds collector. That backfired and I lost so much investment. Don't put all my eggs in one basketball anymore. (see Tatis now). On a side note, that 3rd guy made cards sound soooo boring.

I collect baseball cards by years and sets. Everytime I get cards I add them to my PC. If I dont have that card I add it. I got about 50,000 all different right now. I also save my duplicates that are atleast worth a $1 for another collection. My 3rd collection is my duplicates of Ken Griffey Jr get added to my Jr collection right now I'm at 4 because I'm restarting it. I had over 2000 different jrs 8 years ago and had to sell them. This time my jr collection will be bigger than before.

I love the history of baseball so even commons have value to me.i will look at baseball sites to see how their careers panned out

My first memories of card collecting was 1992 as I was born in 1985. My collecting scope for the most part are as follows: Super Collect Ozzie Smith (78-96) First topps card or 1 platings days card for pre topps of players/managers in the Cardinals team Hall of Fame Yadier Molina base topps player run Isaac Bruce base fleer ultra player run Travis Kelce base score player run Willie McGee base fleer player run Nolan Arenado base topps all star card run Graded topps base rookie card and/or First cardinals base topps card of my favorite players (Ozzie Smith, Willie McGee, Yadier Molina, Nolan Arenado) Graded topps base rookie of Pujols and bowman rookie of Musial Graded rookie cards of my all time favorite non-baseball players (Isaac Bruce, Kurt Warner, Travis Kelce, Al MacInnis) Graded rookie card of Patrick Mahomes. League Leader, All Star and World Series cards of Ken Boyer Playing days cards of Bob Feller.

Scott change name of video to , “not sure what to do with my hands?” Lol nice video tho bud I enjoyed it !

I collect 3 different ways. Number 1, I collect sets. If I get one card that I really like, I now have a new set to collect. So it can get pretty pricey there. But if I have a full set of cards, I really enjoy showing it off to my few buddies who actually enjoy the hobby. I am currently really in love with the panini prizm UFC cards and the Topps chrome baseball cards. Those are the sets I've been after the most. 2. Certain players. There are a variety of different players from different sports that I really really like. I just picked up an Earl Campbell rookie auto. I also really love going after guys like Craig biggio, Jose altuve, Hakeem olajuwon... Houston team guys. I also collect certain mma fighters that I really like. I love auto hunting. 3. I recently started hunting team championship autos. I am almost done with the 2017 astros. Looking for the 94 and 95 championship rockets cards. The difficult part of this is finding certain players autographs. Especially ones where the player on the card is wearing the team uniform that I'm collecting. Right now, a josh reddick autograph ASTROS card is impossible to find anywhere. I can find a million of his autos with Boston and Oakland, but none of him on the Astros. I still love hunting for it. That's part of the fun. As far as the era of cards I collect, they're mostly modern baseball and all modern ufc. That being said, I love the history of the vintage stuff too. My all time favorite card is a very old Hank Aaron auto that my dad gave me. You couldn't offer me enough money to sell it. Long winded post. Sorry y'all lol

Great video lots of insight! Can you make an updated video on best rookies & young players to collect?

Great video! I primarily collect Marián Gáborík and Slovak hockey player sports cards.

I am hyper focused on pete alonso rookie logo cards from topps and bowman. 99 percent of my hobby money is spent on that with zero concern about resale value. Mets are my favorite team and pete is my favorite player.

To me, Jose Canseco 1989 Topps #500. Greatest card of all time.

im also a phillies collector, prospects, a player collector, i like early 2000 baseball n football because of the products, recently getting into vintage basketball n baseball I try to avoid hype n get different things that I like but im a sucker for goats

Great video..

Could you do a video specifically on non sports or Pokémon cards. I want to start a collection but not where to get started

Great Video

As a kid I collected my favorite player Stephon Marbury,I would trade anything for Marbury cards lol. Other kids knew if they came to with a Marbury card I would give them any player they wanted including MJ. As a adult I mainly collect marbury and rookies of any player i like and any card from the Tennessee titans.

Good stuff

I PC orioles ravens and Baltimore legends. But lately orioles prospects have really went up can’t afford a lot of them these days lol

If it looks cool. I buy it! Can't be damaged tho!

I collect Vlad & Bo rookie cards

I just started collecting griffey jrs

Imo upper deck doesn't get the love it should. UD changed the game! Tobad they can't do baseball anymore. ... Me personally I like odd ball cards and the good old flag ship.

Is it wrong if you collect a little bit of all 5 ways lol? I'm obviously just a junkie. Love the channel.

My collection is bowman Topps Topps chrome ec year a complete set including all sub sets no autos

No set builders huh?

My mom gave my cards away so I went back and tried to replace them and somehow ended up with 30k cards! 🙄 I did win a mike trout 2011 topps update graded PSA 9 for 28 bucks 😂

I personally like to collect complete sets, however with newer cards makes this a little difficult. I have been collecting since 1985

I almost forgot Wander Franco is still playing. Dude vanished

I collect only ZION because I'm a goose

no love for TTM?

Can you list Insta names for each guy?

Topps stole so many innovations from Fleer, UD and Donruss.