Purchase From Fellow Twins Collector

I bought a handful of cards from my friend Randy, who has an amazing Twins collection.  He has a thread in the "Show it Off" section on sportscollectors.net that will blow you away.  He has lots of rare stuff.  He's helped me out a lot with my collection, selling me some of his duplicates, which become the highlight of my collection.

This purchase spans five decades from 1962 to 2016.

The 1962 card is from former-Twin Jose Valdivielso and looks nice with a vintage ballpoint signature.

I also got a couple great cards from 1965.  Both Vic Power and John Roseboro played for the Twins during their careers.  These nice-looking blue sharpie signatures help fill some holes in my 1965 set that I haven't really added to much lately.  I need 142 cards still from this 598 card set.

I added a couple cards to my 1982 set as well.  These two Ken Griffey Sr. cards bring me to 185 cards of the 792 card set, so still a long ways to go at 607 cards left to get.  

I've approached this set a little differently.  In the past, I've sent out mass mailings to the common (free) players to get an early, large number of cards out of the way.  With this set, I've been focusing on the All-Star and Hall of Fame quality players to avoid missing out on some of them while I work on the commons.  It will be easier and cheaper to buy the common cards of deceased players than the higher quality players, where the prices will rise significantly once they are done signing (or pass away).

So, I already have players like Reggie Jackson's three cards from the set, a Pete Rose card, and cards from Gossage, Gary Carter, George Foster, Harold Baines, Bert Blyleven, Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, Rod Carew, etc., etc., etc.

This 2013 Topps Heritage Vance Worley card is tough to come by in decent shape.  Apparently he holds a grudge against the Twins or something, and if he'll sign the card, he scribbles out the Twins name and their logos.

I got one from him ttm in the spring of 2014, which is nice but he personalized it. 

I took this opportunity to upgrade to a nice, blue sharpie signature without a personalization.  I just need a couple cards from Mauer (including one variation) and one from Oswaldo Arcia, to complete this team set.

And I added another Twins Heritage card to my team set with a 2016 Jose Berrios card.  I haven't created a web page to track this set yet, but I think I'm about 9 cards out of 18 or so.

In general, my Twins team sets from the Heritage and Allen & Ginter sets are missing a lot of Mauer, Santana, and Hunter cards.  I have caught up pretty well with Justin Morneau, although it wasn't cheap.