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Why not branch out and give TSOG (The Stuff of Greatness) a try? We try to keep it 50% informative and 50% entertaining. Have a few more favorites, but believe you’re already subscribed to all of them. Great topic (just getting caught up on earlier episodes). Thanks!

Nothing focuses a collection like a limited monthly budget. As a kid in the junk wax years I bought everything I could with no discernment. If I had $ I bought something. Now, as a guy hoping to retire in the very near future, I budget a hard monthly limit and it really eliminates impulse purchases. If I want that Johnston Cookies Aaron I can't be buying every card that intrigues me. I find it pretty rewarding when I have to wait for the budget to accumulate and for the right card to present itself.

I just want some good money for my collection

Well I have a lot of junk wax cards would you like to buy my whole set for 100,000

My two grail cards are the 1915 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson and the 1933 Goudey Lajoie. My reason is that they are very key cards in two of the hobby's key sets. I would prefer them in an SGC holder.

Nice video and cool Topps artwork. You framed it well. Grail Card - first of all, thanks for not saying grail cards, plural. The grail card should be singular. Now my grail card for the last 30 years has not changed. It is the 1888 N162 King Kelly. I think this is the most beautiful card ever made. Whenever Orlando shows his in a video, my eyes bulge out of my sockets like a cartoon. He has a fantastic copy with bright colors that I would love to own a similar one but I’d have to win the lottery first. Now if I won a small lottery or sold cards from my collection, a more reasonable card I would get is a lower condition but nice looking Bobby Orr rookie. But the Grail card would be King Kelly.

Those cards are cheap because a lot of people aren’t looking for a 15th year Hank Aaron card and some of those Hall of Famer are kind of low tier Hall of Famers i’ve been collecting vintage more. All I want is the rookie cards and definitely if they’re not centered I don’t want them.

My ultimate grail card is the 1941 Play Ball Ted Williams. This card has it all for me. The first thing I notice on this card is the shadow behind him. As a son of a veteran, I see the shadow as Ted Williams the soldier. Standing tall with honor and ready to embark on the struggles of war in the upcoming seasons. This is a big reason why Ted Williams is my favorite player. Next, you have the portrait of a young "Splendid Splinter" and his big smile. All I hear about Williams is that he hated the media so this to me is the Ted I choose to focus on. Lastly, you have all of the different color schemes that stick out to me. It's a beautiful card that gains your attention in many different ways. I currently have this one on my wishlist but waiting for the right copy that has the color pop out at you when staring at it.

This is the third phase of my hobby life. I opened packs as a kid 1971-75. When we moved, my uncle made me throw them out. I got back into it in 1978 as a high school freshman and continued through the mid-1990s, opening packs, buying some singles, but mostly putting together sets and Tigers team sets. I returned after about 25 years off in 2020. I hyper-focused on Tigers team sets (my third time building them after selling off mine twice before). I added Lions team sets because vintage football is cool and very affordable. In 2021, I made a 1971 Topps baseball set a five-year project. With two years left, I'm about 40-some cards from completion. Through all of my hobby lifetimes, team sets and regular sets have been my focus. With my budget, I can't really afford to bounce back and forth between focuses. Almost every card I buy fits into one of the few projects on which I'm focused. Edit: In the 1980s, I chased rookie cards. I hit on some, missed on plenty. That's not a game I want to play anymore.

Great episode gentlemen!

I am blown away how those N19 can have such low grades. I mean sure you can see the crease but those things pop! 100+ years old, just wild!

Hey Graig! With a ai…. What a great piece of artwork to have! Congrats! I need to send you a long winded collection Journey soon my friend. Easy answer would be the 52’ Mantle you’ve seen my keychain I almost had your dad on…. The 1953 Mantle has been on my radar for decades now and can’t seem to find the right one at that right price. The background along with the amazing Mantle picture gets me every time I search. The light post in the background when there wasn’t too many lights at the time… geez the cubs just got lights when I was 13 years old! Ha

Graig and Matt, great job! See you both at the Big Show! 😊👊

I loved the topic today of your viewers changes in collecting. As for the new question of Grail Card. I have a Grail card and a Grail Set. My Grail card is the 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady Championship Ticket Auto. I may never get it, but I can dream. I have six other Mint Rookie Cards of Tom Brady, but that one is out of my current reach. My Grail set is the 1952 Topps Look N See. I really want the whole set graded and slabbed in PSA or SGC. I love the look of those cards of the most influential people throughout history. I am a History buff so it is a must have for me.

Great vid. It took me a bit to think about a holy grail card. A Holy Grail player i would like to collect is Ted Williams. I have been a Redsox fan since i was 6. I began to look at his cards and i came across the one card i would love to have if i had the money. Its the 1954 Topps Ted Williams. It just looks awesome and to have that side by side my 1961 Topps Yaz Rookie All Star would look Spectacular in my eyes.

Great question for this week. It's an easy answer for me as a Red Sox fan and a Red Sox collector: My grail card is the 1939 Play Ball Ted Williams.

We also beat the crap out of those cards when we traded.

I started in 88 as a kid ripping packs. I haven’t collected actively in 21 years, but now that I’m collecting again, I find myself drawn to the 50’s and 60’s.

It's interesting that someone might say that after older collectors die that no one will collect the cards that they did. Jefferson Burdick, Charles Bray and John D. Wagner all saw players of the 2nd Dead Ball Era and when the 1918 Generation passed on, collectors like the Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers and Gen X and Millennials all collect tobacco cards. I started collecting vintage and tobacco cards when I was 14, but things were a lot cheaper in the 1990's, and I can't help but to think that the steep prices paid today for pre-war vintage might scare many collectors away? Anyway, that artwork is fantastic! Did Woody Gelman, Len Brown or Ben Soloman do that?

Answer for this weeks question. 1979 O-Pee-Chee #18 Wayne Gretzky Rookie card. I am going to the National this year with a pocket full of money to come home with a nice version of this Grail card of mine. I really hope to run into there to meet you and tell you in person how much I enjoy your show.

If I had a pocket full of cash (that someone else would have to give me) my grail card would be the 1933 Goudey Nap Lajoie. As a 1933 Goudey Set collector there’s nothing I’d love to do more than extend my tracking list to 240 instead of 239 as it currently sits.

Recently after returning to collecting, I bought my childhood collecting grail card. ( 1964 Rose RC I shared) As I classify it, a new grail card is expensive for me to own, but not impossible. If I manage to buy a new big project card I can revel in it. Mine is a lew alcindor rookie nicely centered atm. Love the channel!

Pronounced “Hour Bock”. Great piece. You’ve inspired me to frame mine in similar fashion… beautiful framing!

I think I just about have all my "grail" cards. That being said, I have a "list" I still need to check off somehow. Red-Ruth, Green Cobb, Gold Cobb, 1915 crackerjacks Wagner, Jackson and Cobb. 48 & 49 Jackie's still left to check off too. I'm in love with the ice cream and caramel cards as well so as opportunity strikes for those guys I like, so will I. Dear Santa, I also would like a nice copy of the Mantle & Mays Stahl-Meyers as well as the HR Derby's for each. Also high on my list is the 1933 Delongie Gehrig which has eluded me for a couple years as has the 1912 T227 Breakfast of Champions Ty Cobb. Nice low eye appeal copies of all these are at the top of my current "whale" list. I've always liked them and I've just gotsta have em! Then I'm done. Just like Steve Martin in the Jerk, "that's ALL I need". Let's see how long "Eddie Impatient" can hold out.

I started collecting in 63, through 75, sold cards from 1980 to 98, started again in 2001 till 2006. Then started again in 2015, and still collecting. Over the past year and a half collecting seventy and backwards.

What an awesome treasure to add to your collection Craig!! I grew up following Nettle’s as he started his career with the Twins and I am from Minnesota. Small world that your Mom went to high school with one of the players on that same uncut sheet.

My ultimate grail card… is too rare to advertise to people. I can’t afford any new competition with only 44 graded ever. 😇 That said it’s not a 5 figure card or anything, just rarely shows up.

The question for next week is an easy one for me; 1939 Play Ball Ted Williams. I've wanted that card since the 90's!

My grail card is the '63 Pete Rose RC having grown up in SW Ohio in the '70s as the The Big RED Machine was huge on the scene and all my friends and I had to collect our favorite team and if for some reason I couldn't locate a Rose rook at the Cleve Natl' then I would be on the hunt to acquire a Nolan Ryan Rc.

Grail cards are a tough question. The cards I’d be willing to fork out the most cash for right now are the Banks rookie and Starr rookie. I look at these cards as equally important to my collection. There are definitely more valuable cards I’d like to own but non I’d rather have.

The Topps Artwork display came out GREAT!

There was a video on another channel where the poster was asking skeptically “It’s only 55 year old boomers collecting vintage cards, but will the next generation?” I had to laugh, “Those 55 year olds are Gen Xers now, not boomers. The next generation is there already and you didn’t even notice.”

I wonder how many (relatively) younger collectors of vintage cards consider themselves to be an "old soul." I think that way of myself. when I was younger, i would have loved to buy vintage cards but for me, even a Rickey Henderson rookie card valued at about $75 or so at the time was a bridge too far. spending the required amount of cash on Mays and Ernie Banks cards was just not possible. now that I can afford vintage, I can see myself going further and further back (like I have w/ my love of cinema!)

that artwork is special! I love the work that the framer did for you, too. looks wonderful. your contribution to the sports card collecting community is certainly valued (I enjoy your videos!) and was acknowledged by you receiving that as a gift. way to go, Graig!

Grail card would be Koufax RC, been close a couple times.

If i went to the national with a wad of cash, id target the 1935 national chicle Bronco Nagurski. If the wad was big enough id look for a complete set

Great interview! Matt is a stand-up guy, been a fan of his channel and collection since the early days. Way to go knocking this out in 4:45! Keep this up and you might even be able to average out our 4-5 minute overage time. You answered correctly with Nintendo over Sega, also. Very enjoyable listen and watch, gents!

Graig, I enjoyed hearing about community member's direction changes and seeing your stunning 1 of 1 display piece! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Grail: 1996 Select Certified Mirror Gold Frank Thomas!

Since I just bought my previous grail card (56 Mantle) my new grail card, which I doubt I will get, is the 53 Mickey Mantle. I've always loved that card. Since its unlikely to happen I will probably get a 56 Jackie Robinson, 57 Sandy Koufax, 57 Willie Mays or a 57 Mantle. Hopefully more than one of those.😀

Great video Graig! Enjoyed your take and the community's take on changes to their collecting strategy. For next week, I have a two part answer. My ultimate grail card (that may have some feasibility, at some point) is the 1936 WW Gum Joe DiMaggio. Its the true rookie of one of my favorite players, plus it has a super cool image. My true ultimate grail card (that is a dream really, as its so far out of my price range) is the 1916 M101-4 Ruth. I absolutely love the look of the card, plus being Ruth's rookie, its just awesome!!

Gave a video like. Enjoyed the video. Looking forward to the National

Hi Graig, I hope to meet you at the National next week. My single ultimate grail card is the T210 Old Mill Moxie Manuel. It’s a series 8 which makes it virtually non existent. PS Pop = 3. He was rumoured to be a switch pitcher. He played for the Senators and White Sox briefly in the early 1900s. This could be the exception to every card being somewhere in the room.

Hi Graig - What a great topic, thanks for doing this and all of your videos. I totally enjoyed hearing about all the changes other collectors have made and are making on their cards. I have always loved the Mantles, Mays, Aarons cards, but decided when covid came to buy a great deal of the Shiny new cards. But, now I'm more interested in 1950's, 1960's and some 1970's cards. My favorite subset is the multi player Baseball cards. Thanks again for the Video. And, I don't know if I should thank you for getting me set up properly on Whatnot where I have spent too much #. Have a good day. Barry

Awesome piece. Can’t wait for the National

To answer your question about what holy Grail card that I want, I'm going to one up you. I also want the '49 Jackie Robinson but I want it autographed and slabbed by PSA DNA. While I'm at it give it a grade gem 10/10 on the card and the graph.

Really enjoyed the episode with Matt! His collection is so cool, and I was pleasantly surprised to know he agrees with me on milestone numbers in terms of HOF-worthiness!! LOVE IT Cracking Cooperstown even got a shout-out, almost! :)

My ultimate grail card is easily the 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig. When I was a 5th grade student I wrote a history report about the legend. I even memorized his Luckiest Man Alive Speech for extra credit! Now that I’m a history teacher I feel as if it’s my mission to add it to my PC! Gotta love the 33 Goudey!

Grail? 1997 Michael Jordan raw green PMG from a value box for $1 at the national. Get it graded to a BGS black Label. Sell it. Buy a home in Hawaii. One can dream :)

Good question. Looking forward to the different responses, too. I agree that once we have added a 'grail' to our collection. There could and most likely will be, another grail... worth pursuing. All part of the thrill of the hunt, I think.