George Brett

 A year or so ago I had a fair number of cards in 9-pocket pages that I found in my parents house and most of them were commons, though for a few seconds in whatever season, they were hot cards. Or, they were hot and I got the cards and then suddenly I was not interested in cards any longer. I do not remember when or why I stepped away from the hobby, but it was probably pretty late into high school. Anyway, I had all these commons and wanted to get rid of them. TCDb to the rescue! Not only can you get rid of commons, you can a) get cards you do want in return and b) also get rid of nasty (dirty, tape-residuey, etc.) card savers and top loaders. 

As I was trying to find cards I wanted in exchange, I settled on Brett. Mostly because of the interesting and excellent MLB Network program about him. 

When I settled on Brett, I started with his rookie card. 

Not the prettiest but I am happy with it even though it is from the heinously atrocious 1975 Topps set.

 I had his second card from 1976 already; it was one of the cards I got in the mid-1980s. My focus on the Brett Quest was going to be 1980s and 1990s non-Topps cards. I have a copy of his Topps cards in sets and really saw no reason to duplicate those even though they are not stored with the others. 

These are the most recent Brett cards I have received in TCDb trades.

Including cards that are in sets, I have 64 unique Brett cards. I might try to get to 100 but it is not a major goal.

Along with Brett, I went after some Nolan Ryan cards. And more recently Carew and Yount. These are all players that I was fortunate to grow up watching and following. So the cards mean something more. Mostly it is the players that are in the Hall of Fame rather than guys that had careers of less, um, significance---says the man who also PCs Strawberry and Kruk.

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