AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS THIS DILEMMA EXPERIENCE

 

                            13 Cards thats right just 13 cards is causing me to experience this dilemma that I am having. I guess I should explain well last week I was rummaging through 18 5000ct boxes of basketball that I have. I came across 13 cards out of 300 cards from a complete set that whenever I am at a show or shop I just happen to come across these cards from this set & not a set I am working on cause they are a different year making me wonder maybe I should just try to do that set since I am always coming across them & not the one I am needing. I know its not even a dent but something tells me to try it & then there's something telling me to finish off at least a couple more of the basketball sets before starting something new.

                               I have been at this crossroad once before & just say the choice I made then didn't turn out to be great cause I thought I could completed it only to have to try to find the missing singles which I eventually did but it was very costly for me to get. That was the 1994 Cuban Serie Selectia set cause not many people have these cards. I was skeptical when I bought the boxes cause I bought them at a National Sports Card Convention in Baltimore back in 2012. The dealer said I could get 2 complete sets in 3 boxes since theres only 132 cards in the whole set. I figured those odds yeah I might as well try it after all its not everyday ya come across Cuban Cards plus the dealer said if I didn't complete the set to email him & he send me what was missing. So I took his business card just in case. Well I ended up missing about 30 cards to complete it so I reached out to the dealer via email well......turns out he never got my email nor anyone I knew didn't have any & I was stuck with trying to find them a year passed I walked by another  dealer at the 2013 National who happened to have some vintage 1940s Cuban cards so I struck up a conversation with the dealer asking if he might had any of the 1994s he said he might but send him SASE(Self Addressed Stamp Envelope) with a list with contact information should he have any questions he could contact me about them.  After the National I reached out to him to see if he remembered having a chat with a collector doing an enquiry about these cards I even sent him a triplicate of a card to show what I was looking for about 2 weeks after mailing out my letter I get a call it was dealer saying he got my letter & he remembered me & that he could send me all that I needed. I was excited about 4 weeks later there was a small package in the mail that was my missing singles. Whenever I look at the set now I remember the risk I took in making the set. 

These are pre-Rookie Cards of Livan Hernandez & his Half-Brother Orlando "El Duque' Hernandez that are in my Cuban Set from 1994. 

                                      Now I know some of you readers aren't set builders like me your either a 1 team collector or have certain players. So I pose this question for you if ya happened to come across a small batch of cards like I mentioned above would & ya happened to see a bunch of cards of that particular player or team pending on however ya collect at shows or shops & those that ya found would ya try & do it or would just wait it out cause its just a fluke ya of you finding that small stack let me know in the comments below & let me know am I the only one thats experience this problem or not if I am the only one please explain what you did. Until next time again I normally do my Rogers Hornsby quote but I think Ill end this post by quoting author David Halberstam who wrote a book about the 1949 season called "The Summer of '49" he once said "By & large its the sport that a foreigner is least likely to take to. You have to grow up playing it, you have to accept the lore of the bubble-gum card, & believe that if the answer to the Mays-Snider-Mantle question is found,then the universe will be a simpler & more ordered place."