Collecting just one card or one player times infinity

While surfing baseball card blogs, I came across a collector devoted to cards of Tim Wallach. Like really devoted. The collector, nicknamed Stack22, wants to collect every Tim Wallach card, times infinity. Got fifty 1991 Topps Tim Wallachs? Send them to this guy.

I admire his fervor. So do other collectors. He has received packages and envelopes stuffed with Tim Wallach cards from fellow collectors. He personally thanks each sender on his blog, along with scans or snapshots of the cards. He even maps where each package of cards came from on a Google Map.

Stack22's devotion to Tim Wallach cards created a following on his blog. It's a unique way of collecting, and other collectors love it so much that they send up to 500 cards to him. This is collecting at it's best when other collectors come together for another's collecting goal, no matter how incredible and daunting the goal may be.

I've heard of other card collectors collecting one card over and over again. There was, and may still be, a collector who collected one common from the T206 set over and over again, noting the different lithographic printing variations, colors and errors.

I collect certain Mets players like Lee Mazzilli, Darryl Strawberry, and Bud Harrelson, but I don't collect every one ever made. I haven't really thought about collecting one player or one card for infinity.

However, there is one card that I might try collecting forever, at least until I am committed to a white, pillowy room. It's a card that is a bit obvious, and that I'm sure others are hoarding:

Mark Fidrych, 1977 Topps
A card I would hoard 

The 1977 Topps rookie of Mark Fidrych. Yeah, it is an obvious choice. But, it's such a great card, representing a spectacular season. Not only that, but the design is great: the Pitcher flag, the AL All-Star banner, the Topps Rookie All-Star cup, the signature, the colors sync.

Then there is Fidrych.  The photo has a slightly crooked background, but it works. Not sure if he ever smiled on another card. The smile is happy and hopeful. It's not as Mona Lisa as the T205 Addie Joss (another card I would collect multiples of, if I had a million bucks), but the smile and Fidrych's features have a strange, hypnotic quality.

I have three copies (two Topps and one O-Pee-Chee), and I swear each one is different. It's weird. Or I'm just crazy.