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12-04-2008, 12:42 PM #11
All I have to say is, that is true dedication right there. Your collection must almost be at a point where it feels impossible to find some of the other cards out there.
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01-09-2009, 12:31 AM #12
Sweet cards indeed. I have had the pleasure to deal with pgrossma and what a great guy he is ! Congrats on the impressive list !!!
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03-02-2009, 12:27 AM #13
*drools*
I'm a longtime Trammell fan, too! Love your collection....very impressed by your sheer dedication. Congrats on your accomplishments.
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03-02-2009, 09:08 PM #14
Congrats...your SC status is well deserved. Does anyone have a better Trammel card collection than yours? I'm thinking that there's no way.
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03-02-2009, 11:05 PM #15
Thanks again for the latest round of praise.
With regard to other superlative Trammell collections, I'm aware of the following:
*There is a gentleman who has assembled a fairly comprehensive PSA Master set of Trammell, containing roughly 500 stickers and cards from 1978-1997 in mostly PSA 9 or better. Except for some of the very low print run parallels of the mid-late '90s, he's gotten just about everything graded. Very impressive--it's on the Set Registry for all to see.
*There are two other collectors who as of ~2005 were demonstrably ahead of me in terms of ultra-short print cards (< 25)--an area which I only really started emphasizing in the last couple of years as I ran out of easier stuff to chase and found myself more able to afford the highest-end material. At this point it's clear that the other collectors' interest in post-retirement cards has waned, and so I don't know whether I've caught up with them or not. Regardless, I have always considered their collections to be my equals--it's hard for me to feel that a collection has truly meaningful edge over another on the basis of a few short prints when the other 90+% of the collections' contents overlap.
*There is one area in which I am confident that I have no peer, and that's in error/variation cards. I doubt anyone else is even close--it's not exactly a big part of the collecting landscape, and I don't get much competition bidding for them.
I think the key to player collecting is staying in it for the long haul--I started getting serious about it back in 1997, and while I've taken breaks here and there where I don't really work on it for a couple months at a time, I keep coming back. This is also true of the other big-time Trammell collectors I mentioned above--I've been bidding against them in auctions for over 10 years.
Peter G.Last edited by pgrossma; 03-02-2009 at 11:05 PM. Reason: grammar fix
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03-21-2009, 02:50 PM #16
Always fun to see PC's of players that were stars of my childhood (the 70's and 80's). Thanks for the look and congrats on the honor!
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04-25-2009, 06:49 PM #17
very nice PC!
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04-25-2009, 06:58 PM #18
Maybe I'll become another Trammell supercollector....in 10 years.
Just bought my first-ever Tram on-card auto (from '04 Donruss Recollection) and will post it in that Show-n-Tell section. It's a start...
Again, I applaud your diligence in putting together such a great Tram collection.
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08-19-2010, 05:59 AM #19
Awesome collection! He will be a manager again one day! That means more cards!
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01-27-2011, 02:54 AM #20
Sweet Colection!!
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