Team collecting means building your collection around a single team — every player, every card, every year. If you bleed Dodger blue or pinstripe pride, this is the collecting style that lets you channel your fandom into cardboard.
Team collectors chase base cards, parallels, inserts, autos, and relics of anyone who wore their team's uniform. Current roster? Absolutely. Retired legends? Even better. Obscure utility player from 2004? If he wore the jersey, he's part of the collection.
One of the best parts of team collecting is the trading community — there's always another team collector willing to swap their pulls of your team for pulls of theirs. Team collecting makes the hobby deeply personal and ties your collection directly to the thing that got most of us into sports in the first place: loving a team.