Building a baseball card collection is not about randomly grabbing every good offer that comes your way. It should be meaningful, organized and a focused hobby. You could start with picking up a theme or a team around which you could build the whole set of cards to keep. The key is to avoid getting too tempted by attractive options that are available in bulk, unless it serves the purpose of making a substantial contribution to your collection.

Big names like Topps Chrome do help with staying more focused, but you should also include variety to keep the collection more interesting. Make use of creative thinking and interesting details that motivate you and keep you excited about maintaining the collection in a good way. Baseball card cases can be a good catalyst to do so as they would help keep your cards very well organized and things all in order.

Another important thing to improve the collection would be to get social with it, trade the cards for better ones and maintain a wish list from which you can keep striking off the options as your collection nears the mark of perfection with time. It is all about how dedicated you want to be towards it.