Too many extras lol…….I can’t wait to start……61 or 66 next :)

Speaking of 1975s, just completed my 75 O Pee Chee set over the weekend.....that completion gives me the 1975 trifecta: I have completed the regular 75 Topps (all PSA graded), the 75 mini set, and now the 75 OPC set. The mini set is mostly raw and the OPC set is all raw.

How was the opc set? Cards easier to find/hard? 75 was a birth year set for me, so did 2 each reg and mini

If that is your birth year, by all means you need to build this set. I like to build my sets using lots/near sets, so there are not typically many of these out there with the 75s OPCs. However, there appear to be around 6000+ singles alone on ebay, so in that regard, not too tough to find.

The most challenging part of this set, as with most all OPC sets, is to find centered cards. I still have 60-70 cards from this set that I will look to replace due to centering concerns.

I love the Canadian cousins of Topps, one day they should be recognized for being so short printed, I have 78-87 opc sets….so centering sucks but I think they’re so cool…….75 would be fun to do…..so maybe 🤔

Just finished my 1961 Post Cereal set w/ all 19 variations (welcome home, Jim Lemon from Minneapolis). :)

Note: I didn't do "hand cut" and "perforated." I'm not cray cray. :eek:

While I don't have an exact count at the moment, I am well over halfway complete on my '50 Bowman set in about VG overall, my Jackie is lower grade than that. Last weekend I picked up the second year Campanella and the Newcombe rookie. Those should arrive tomorrow. Just yesterday I found a decent deal on some low numbers and picked up 11 at once. That will help things along. I'm pursuing copyright/no copyright variations as I build this set.

I’m sure this may have been covered in a separate thread, but what are the principals to follow when starting out building a set.

Buy the best condition cards you can one/two at a time?

Buy partial sets in varying condition?

I’m working on both the 1960 and 1972 topps set so any specific advice related to these collections would be much appreciated.

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Bob- congrats on the Post Cereal set.

Are you sure there are only 19 variation

I hope so. Let me stay deluded……please. :o



Okay, how about 22?

Just finished my 77 Topps set in NMMT. Now onto 76 to finish my run of 74-present day.

Anyone have a NMMT 1976 starter set?

Not sure why, but I decided to go back and fill in some of my mid-grade 52T set. I am a little over half way in number of cards, but only 1 of the big 4.

Finishing up a 69 set. Down to about 40 cards but lack Reggie and Mantle. Also got into Salada coins (62). Topps coins never really interested me nor do the 63 Saladas but really like the portraits on the 62's. Probably gonna put together a 1970 Supers set and then figure out if I'm up to another regular Topps issue or not. Been trying to assemble sets since 1955 and down to a few.

Richard— why 70 versus 71 on Supers ? I like to have a pack with each set but not sure how to tell the difference between 70 and 71 unless you can see a player in the pack.

With the arrival of #6, AL HR Leaders, 1968 is complete. Bob Gibson gets the binder spine slot. 10 favorite cards in the set: Ryan / Koos rookie an obvious choice despite it being a duel player rookie card, which I hate. Seaver and Carew rookie cups are classic. Love that Yaz pose. Gibson looking Gibson-esque. McCarver looking like the epitome of the wholesome 60s ballplayer. Ricketts looking like the epitome of the 60s in those glasses. Etch looking like I don’t know what - maybe someone grandfather playing catcher? Love the blacked out hats on the A’s to block out KC. And B Rob and F Rob on the same card is classic - these duel player cards I do like.

Now to focus on 67 - which I’ve been making great progress on in no small part to many people on Net54.

Congrats on 68 Chris!


I like how you have different players in the binder cover. Mine all have Harmon Killebrew, my favorite player...then after 75 I went with Reggie Jackson. I think mixing it up may be more fun...I may rip you off on that...:)

I think you should go the other way. Find some pictures of Killebrew after he retired, as a batting instructor or what-not, and let Jolly Elm create some of his Cards That Never Were for you. You could even get a picture of Harmon from his 1952 high school team. It would be awesome!

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I have complete sets of 53 & 54 Topps, and a partial set of 52. But I'm upgrading all of them to only have centered copies of each card, which as you can imagine, is no small task. I'm almost done upgrading my 54s. Maybe a dozen or so left to finish that one. I have about 120 of the 52s dead centered, and about halfway done with upgrading my 53s.

I also have complete sets of 61 & 86 Fleer basketball. The 86 Fleer is all mint or better and all dead centered. My 61 Fleer is complete, with about 5 cards left to upgrade, but that's a super tough set. Some cards effectively never surface dead centered for 61 Fleer basketball.

Also working on a dead centered 52 Topps Look N See set. About 60% complete with that one.

I have several other complete sets and partial sets, but I don't have the bandwidth to work on those until I finish upgrading the ones above, which I'm focusing on first.

That's actually a great idea...I may have to bug ol' Jolly...:) I do have a few Killebrews that are newer cards that emulate certain years. Like I have the 81 and 82 Topps looking Killebrews...those should be on my binders!

I did grab a "card that never was" and printed one up that was posted here on net54 for the 1957's...as they didn't make a Killer card that year (ROBBED of a classic!!)


Nice work Travis...will you move north to the 55s and 56s when your upgrades are complete?

Interesting note on the 1968 Oakland A's with KC blacked out, the Gosger card shows the helmet being blacked out, but not the reflection on the bill of the helmet: https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/...Gosger/1829350

Phil Roof too:https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/...4/Graded/PSA/9

Just paid for my last 1952 Topps low # card!!!!

1947-1966 Exhibits Stan Musial "batting" arrived today and it looks like I'm 91% complete with 306 of the 336 cards (according to the Standard Catalog)
Larry

https://i.imgur.com/VdXp1qLl.jpg

Congrats, Sean.
Now onto those pesky 52 highs. :)

Congrats Larry and Sean

Randy- had not noticed that. I wonder if there are other examples. Will have to look back through my set

Wow, that was quick! Didn't you just get started on that? Congratulations!

On the subject, here is one of the 52Ts that, according to our expert panel, is rumored to be difficult to find not O/C. A nicely centered PSA 7 (better than my newly acquired one below) just sold for $3100!!

So be careful, Sean, about what you are getting into!

I just finished my multi-decades long white whale with a complete run of all Hostess panels from 1975-1979. I also have the albums that came out each year as well.

The 1978 Eddie Murray panel was the last one. The prices were totally crazy, but I got one for a good price finally.

Now I just need to finish my master set of Twinkies singles cards. I have all 60 from 1975 and 1976, but there are almost 250 different 1977 cards. I'm looking to get them all on their original size of panel. I just need 14 more to complete that one. Guess that will take another several decades.

1955 Topps Doubleheaders: I always liked this set, but never got serious about collecting it until last years National Convention in Atlantic City. I picked up 19 cards for $150 or $8 each, and I've been adding cards since then. Todays mail brought three more cards (9/10 Porter Kipper) (33/34 Pendleton Conley) (53/54 Herman Amoros) in beautiful condition $20 each but tax $4.78 and aggressive shipping of $9.87 (ouch) pushed up the total. I'm 75% complete with 49 of the 66 cards (and needing most of the stars).
Larry

https://i.imgur.com/NhTNe6bl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/SSaJ9rLl.jpg

Good lucky Larry. When done check out the panoramic stadium pics when the backs are placed side by side in reverse numerical order

THX Al, I'd like to see that panoramic stadium picture if you or someone else has one available.
Larry

I said backs, I should have said fronts in reverse order. I did it once with my set but it is now all in a binder in numerical order. Someone, maybe Bob, once posted the panorama in a thread in here. Will try to find that

Edited---From the great Dave Hornish Topps and more blog

http://www.thetoppsarchives.com/2009...-pleasure.html

Very cool. Thanks for posting the link, Al.

Very nice, Larry. One of the great things about this site, we get a chance to see some neat cards.

Recently picked up the last two commons I needed for a '54 Bowman set. Now just needing five more - some guys named Mantle, Williams, Mays, Doby and Feller.

Congrats Sean/Larry....nice accomplishment

…..and my third 1967 Topps set is complete…..mr Seaver was the last card needed. ***Currently working on 1966 topps (yes only 1 set :))***

Wow 3 sets! Congrats. Good luck with your search for your 66 set.

But you will need at least 2 :)

I was wondering if anybody actually put two sets together of 1966 with the white and cream backs…..I can live with the set being mixed. My next question was which is harder to find?

1 Card Away
 

I only need 1 card for my mostly-trimmed '33 Goudey set: the green Mel Ott. (If anyone out there has one, preferably with the borders trimmed off, then I'm the man who wants it!)

That's a great question...haha. I have two 66 Topps sets and after reading this went to look at how many were opposite to see if I was even close. Nope...it was pretty consistent...I'll stick with mixed! haha....





Good luck with the trimmed Mell Ott! What a cool set...

Looking to start a '76 set in NMMT. Anyone have a good sized starter set?
Brian

This may be a dumb question, but are those custom binders? And the pocket on the spine? Do you put a real card in there? If so, is it a duplicate with one in its appropriate slot in the set? Or some kind of copy?

I am not a set collector per se, but have 1975 and 1980 sets. Am constantly upgrading my 1975 to NMMT. And have about 3500 1980's that includes 2 full sets and most of a 3rd. Occasionally, I'll get them all out and go through to make sure I have best of all options in set 1, next best in set 2, etc. I'm around #150-175 on that project, so a long way to go. When done, I'll have legit, centered NM - NMMT 1st set with a solid EXMT or better 2nd. None are in binders yet.

I finished a couple of sets last week.

The long search for the last 1977 Hostess panel ended on eBay

And the final two 1955 Topps Doubleheaders were bought at the Strongsville show with this Jackie Robinson being the last

For mine, I have an original card in the spine with a different Hall of Famer for each set. They're duplicate cards so they're not taken from the set. For 1952-1956 I use actual Topps cards but from standard size products

That binder bookshelf just looks amazing! Great collection!
RayB

Edited to add that I just made 25% complete on my PSA 9 or better 1977 OPC Baseball set.
The sledding gets a lot tougher from here.

Great display and idea Mark

Love the display. It looks great, but unfortunately your 1980 Topps binder doesn’t have a Hall of Famer in the spine. I don’t blame you for using Rose though. I would probably use his card many times for a run like that, but preferably in a Reds uniform.

There's a second bookshelf that has the sets from 2000-2023. Obviously there aren't Hall Of Famers in many of those either, but there are Hall of Fame worthy players there.

1968 Topps BB -- Complete
 

Ordered a 1968 Topps Clemente #150 today which completes my 1968 set. Moving onto 1962 Topps with the goal of completing Topps BB sets back to 1961. Have completed the 1961 set and have a start on the 63-67 sets. All the stories of the 66 and 67 high numbers scare me sometimes but the challenge is what makes the hobby fun.

After several years of hunting, this card showed up at REA and I was fortunate to be able to add it to the collection. Currently at 58/60 signed cards for the 1968 Topps Giants set. Doubting that I'll ever finish it off, so this will probably be it.