Struggle of an Omnivore - and cards from Rod

I've been working hard on my wantlists.  But it is a slow process.  You see...

I am not a team collector.
I'm not really a player collector, with the exception of Mark McGwire.
I'm not really a set collector, with the main exception being Diamond Kings.

And those three ways of collecting, those focused collecting strategies, might make creating wantlists easier.  I say might, because I really don't know the trials that those collectors go through when making their wantlists.  Might be a lot harder, really.  What do I know.

But I do know that making my wantlist is hard.  Making it useful to people who want to trade with me is hard.

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Current progress...

I was able to get a LOT of my Diamond Kings needs put down here.  But since the Diamond Kings needs are basically set collecting, I figure that is why I was able to get that part done.

I used tcdb.com to track the McGwires I currently have.  And that is great and useful!!  But it was a slog to get them all entered.  And I don't know that I'll work up the energy to add in the rest of my collection any time soon.

Then there is my main wantlists page.  It definitely has cards I want on it.  But most of them are big ticket items, or rare at least.  Not the most useful for trading.

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And here is where Rod from Padrographs comes in.  I'm sure you all know about his free card giveaways.  Heck, they inspired my Diamond Nine giveaway series.  Here are a couple of cards that I claimed from him recently.

Thanks Rod!!

Now if you look at my wantlists page, you won't see a single reference to Ozzie Smith or Cal Ripken outside of their RC's.  You definitely won't see any reference to the insert or parallel sets that these 2 cards come from.  But these two cards would definitely be cards I want.

I guess I'm a Baseball Card omnivore.  I want a little of everything.  I'm really a fan of the game and it's history.  There are some players I don't like, but a lot more that I do like.  And even more players that I remember a story about, or remember seeing them do something great, or admire their accomplishments.  And so when I see a card of one of those MANY players, I might just want it. That is the fan aspect of my collecting.

I like em all!

Then there is the racoon aspect of my collecting.  You know, when a racoon see's something shiny or something that catches it's eye, it just has to go grab it?  Yeah, cool looking cards are definitely on my radar too.  And I am really jonesing for some great photography!  I've seen pics of the recent Stadium Clum photography (the last couple of years especially), and I would love to get a ton of that, just for the pics!

Gotta have that DoubleFractorDieCut!

And then there's the rookie card thing.  Growing up, the best card of a player was always his rookie card. And being an omnivore, I probably wouldn't turn down a rookie card that I don't already have. Especially from the old days when each player only had one or two rookie cards.

Rookies!  Everywhere!

So I hope this helps anyone who would want to trade with me.  At least a little.

Questions, I'd love to hear anyone's opinion on:
1. What could I do to my current wantlists page to make it more useful?
2. What are some examples of wantlists on other blogs that you like?
3. Are you a card omnivore?  What do you do to trade effectively? How do you avoid getting stacks of dupes and junk wax piled high?