If you could only have 10 cards in your collection...

[CraigsCards1]

From my collection:

1978 Topps Eddie Murray RC
1978 O-Pee-Chee Eddie Murray RC
1982 Donruss Cal Ripken Jr. RC
1989 Fleer Bill Ripken "Rick Face"
1995 Bowman Vladimir Guerrero RC
1997 Donruss Signature Series Vladimir Guerrero AU
2003 Bowman Chrome Draft Picks Nick Markakis AU (BGS 9)
2003 Flair Greats Bat Rack Classics Quads Eddie Murray/Eddie Mathews/Reggie Jackson/Willie McCovey
2003 Flair Greats Bat Rack Classics Trios Eddie Murray/Cal Ripken/Brooks Robinson
2010 Topps Triple Threads Relic Combos Adam Jones/Brian Roberts/Nick Markakis

Typing out this list made me realize how badly I need to get the '82 Topps Traded Ripken.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

For Baseball, from what i already own...

1985 Topps Dwight Gooden is, and will always be my favorite card of all time:

the other nine have no particular order:

 

[Big Mac McGwire]

im going to list the cards i currently own as i will never complete a dream list

Purchased from a collector who was selling off his collection for 2k$ and cards for a combined value of 3300$. He had 2 and saved the nicer one for me as he remembered how much I wanted the card. This is my whale and the head board of my McGwire card collection. I can not convey the desire I had to own this card from the moment i realized he would be added to the APOH 500 Auto set. 

Here is the article from Beckett that began the 4.5 year wait. When it first came out I was freshman in college and could not afford it. The last one that was up for sale was 3 years prior to be landing it. 

The Beckett article from early 2002 - while reading I realized my whale would be produced

Reasons why I had to 4.5 years. 
Check out the sale prices. 
Imagine me seeing the auctions and knowing I could not go after one....

#20/25 

This would be #2 - signed by The Boss in front of my own 2 eyes. 

#3 

#4 - at the time i purchased it in 2001, it was McGwire's only GU card produced. I used all my money from my summer job.
It also has sentimental value as i got it around the time i graduated highschool. Later had it signed at private signing

#5 - a board member had this signed at a signing Pujols did- Vintage look, the biggest and boldest Pujols sig you will ever
see on a card

#6

#7 - the only GU McGwire card that has a piece of the ACTUAL HR ball and not some random ball from the game
signed in front of me in spring training 2010

#8 - Mom bought this for me after the 98 season. it was graded a PSA 9. I broke it out and had it signed at a private signing.

#9 - signed IP in 95 at yankee stadium. Features the ultra rare olympic jersey number inscription

10. First big rookie card i ever got, 50$ at a card store while on vacation in florida after 4th grade in 92'
81 Topps Joe Montana 



those are the 10 for the current moment.