Steve's cards

This is the 5th iteration of card collecting for me. As a kid growing up in Philly in the 50's I collected baseball, football and basketball cards. Unfortunately, the rule in my house was if you want to collect the next year's cards, you had to get rid of the last year's cards. Ah, what those shoe boxes full of cards would be worth today. Then as I had sons growing up in the 90's, we started collecting those bright shiny u/v basketball insert sets, however as my kids grew up they and I lost interest. Then, probably 6 or 7 years ago I got a bug up my butt to collect something, so I tried to get one card of every NFL HOFer and then would move on to other sports. However, I found it to be much easier and more efficient to stick with one sport, so I started collecting all cards of those players. That is still my highest priority and is the first tab below. In the last few years, thanks to trades with members of OBC and VCT and the hyper-activity generated in VSP plus buys at card shows and ebay, I probably reduced my want list by about 30%, so I needed something else, so I started want lists of players of the Philly sports teams that I have enjoyed watching over the years so that I could make my excess cards meaningful to me and help improve the collections of others as I helped mine. The nice thing about all of the mediocrity in Philly over the years is that there are lots and lots of commons. I would like to thank all of those who I have already traded with and am looking forward to doing many more trades in the future. Now, I am on to my 5th iteration and I am trying to complete some football sets since I already had most of the key cards from my HOF player collections.

Cards that I would be looking for would be at least fair for cards from 40's and early 50's, good after that. Please no trimmed cards and no more than minimal paper loss, writing, tears or stains/gum/glue. After 1980, would want cards to be vg or better

I love to trade, my want lists and trade bait are all on this site and I hope that we can work out trades that will be helpful to both of us.

Thanks for visiting and please contact me with any trade opportunities

Steve Lipsky