The Old Goals

A quick run down my collecting goals from 2020.  

Here were my goals from 2020:

1. No new sets from packs. 

2. More Durham Bulls and Cardinals single cards. 

3. More Posts About Sorting 

I will do a few new goals for 2021 this weekend.  

1. No New Set From Packs - Complete Success 

So, for starters I did not complete a single 2020 calendar year set.  None.  In fact, I barely even opened any packs of 2020 cards.  I bought a few packs of Topps Heritage from Target when it was first released, same with Series 1 and Series 2 of the Topps base set.  I was not chasing down packs of cards by driving around in between all the Targets and Wal-Mart stores within an hour of my house.  

The majority of the time and money I spent on 2020 calendar year cards went towards buying a few select Project 2020 cards from Topps.  I think there were probably my three favorite cards out of the product:

I bought some of those Super 1970s cards and posted what came in my pack last week.  

That's it.  I think all of my 2020 cards might fit into a 300 count box save for the Topps Project 2020 cards because of the packaging.  

2. More Durham Bulls and Cardinals single cards - Success 

I feel like this is where most of my time and money went in terms of cards coming into my collection.  I feel like the two biggest successes were working on finding the 1975 Topps Mini cards of the former Durham Bulls players in the set, along with finding a copy of the 1959 Topps Bob Gibson rookie card.  

The Gibson rookie was by far the highlight of my collecting during 2020.  

I picked up this card at the height of the Topps Project 2020 craze.  I was able to flip around a Bob Gibson card from that set for this card.  It's not perfect, but I was just blown away to even land this card.  

The 1975 Topps Mini set was something different.  I have plenty of modern Durham Bulls cards, but not nearly as many from the 1970s and earlier.  There were plenty of good Bulls players who appear in card sets from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.  Really fun to learn about these players and find their cards.  

3. More Posts About Sorting - Not So Great 

I started out the year posting about sorting cards.  

By the middle of the year, I was not posting about sorting cards.  

My card closet is not in an organized state at the moment.  

New goals for 2021 later this weekend.