The Overview

• Sports memorabilia collectors are offered many different avenues to assemble their collection. Some will focus on team items, while others focus on collecting items from individual star players. Wherever your interests may lie, there are some popular themes to focus on as a sports memorabilia collector.
  
  

Exclusive Club Members

• Memorabilia from holders of exclusive milestones in sports history has always been popular among collectors. And one of the most popular milestone is the 500-home run club from baseball, as the home run has always captivated the fans. You would love to be in attandance when a player is trying to gain admittance into this club. Acquiring a game-used bat or a signed baseball could be worth a large sum of money on the open market. Obtaining autographs from retired members of this exclusive club can also be worth money.
  
  

Hall of Famers

• If a player is elected to the Hall of Fame, they're enshrined forever as one of the best to play the game. And as time moves on, the value of their memorabilia items will increase as well. A player's accomplishments will begin to fade from the public scene once they have retired from the sport. Their image as a player will not change if they're elected to the Hall of Fame. And the list is constantly growing and the public's interest in obtaining memorabilia from Hall of Famers is as popular as ever.
  
  

Individual Players

• Many sports memorabilia collectors focus on one player, and solely acquire items that include everything from trading cards to 7-Eleven cups with the player's image on them. You need to be creative in your collecting process, keep your eyes open for any oddball piece with the player's face on the object. From an "investment" side, you could be limiting your market to solicit from by being exclusive to one athlete. Most who go about collecting in this matter have no intention of selling the memorabilia. And do not buy multiple items of one product, as you should diverse your collection portfolio.