What's Your Sports Card Holy Grail?

Have a baseball card that's been sitting on your want list forever?  Everyone does--unless you happen to be independently wealthy or easily pleased.

Many years ago, I came across a nice little stash of 1954 Dixie Lids and decided to build the set.  It was never a huge priority, but about a year ago, I got out my long-neglected list and saw I still needed Enos Slaughter and Richie Ashburn to fill out the set. 

I found Slaughter pretty quickly online and that left only one to get before I could cross the set off my list for good.  Usually that's when I really get serious. 

I can now report that a year's worth of searching later and I still haven't found one at a reasonable price.  What's the deal with this card?  Anyone?

There are a lot of vintage oddball sets that have some really tough cards.  The 1960 Post Cereal "woodgrain" cards are tough, too--I still need Mantle and Killebrew-- but even they're easier to find for me that a '54 Dixie Lid Slaughter. 

What's the card that seems permanently etched into your list?  Let me know and we'll post them here.  Maybe someone can help.

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One other note...Chris Nerat, former writer for Sports Collectors Digest (no relation), has started his own sports memorabilia blog (http://www.collectgreenbay.com).  Chris has a business buying and selling Packers memorabilia and he's going to write about that--and the hobby as a whole. 

Sorry..make that two other notes:  Steve Hart, who runs Baseball Card Exchange, is blogging about his travels in search of unopened sports card packs and collections of cards.  It's always fun to read about a dealer's constant quest to find inventory and some of the obstacles he runs into.  Steve logs thousands of miles a year by land and air and there are few in the hobby who put as much into customer service (http://www.baseballcardexchange.com).

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