Originally Posted by deweyinthehall (Post 2141557)

This is insanely amazing! Was there something particularly haywire on the Topps presses in 1975? 1978 is my pet year and I will occasionally look for some miscuts but I've never found more than a small handful.

Originally Posted by midmo (Post 2141706)

No idea. Maybe the drugs were good in '75? It probably comes down to one dude working in production not paying attention. Reminds me of when I was in college I took a night job working in an auto parts production plant. The guy giving me the orientation tour pointed out a machine while walking passed it and said a kid working that machine a couple years before caused a major Ford recall.

Originally Posted by brob28 (Post 2125613)

I started a '71 OPC set (I like the backs), I've fizzled out on it and have no desire to pick it back up.

Originally Posted by frankhardy (Post 2126233)

For me, I guess the thing that fits the original topic is....I am actually considering spending several hundred dollars on a 1956 Topps.....wait for it...wrapper! I have completed my Topps set run project from 1953 to present. I have a pack for each set down to my birth year of 1975. I have settled for a wrapper from each year to finish the rest. I still need 1953 and 1956. I think it is a neat addition to each set....but....really? It's a wrapper for crying out loud!

Having said all of that, this topic makes me think of my reasoning for participating in this hobby in the first place. I have often thought....why in the world do I collect cardboard pictures of baseball players? I have come to one conclusion. I love baseball....and I love history. I was not good enough to play professionally. To me, this is my personal attachment to the history of baseball. It is my personal historical archive. That is the way I look at it. As far as the financial aspect goes....generally speaking, these little artifacts hold their value. To me, I can be another form of money. If I needed the money, I could just turn around and sell them. Hopefully that doesn't ever happen.

So, with all of that in mind....why would anyone EVER spend ANY amount of money on a 1988 Topps set? Because if you want the complete run of sets, you have to have it. I am just OCD enough for it to drive me crazy if I had a hole like that in my run. As I have said before....I'm just glad they didn't make a Topps set in 1952! ;) :eek:

Originally Posted by Exhibitman (Post 2127733)

i am wasting album space on multiple Laughlin, TCMA, SSPC, Jim Rowe and Broder collections...because I enjoy them.

Originally Posted by midmo (Post 2141706)

No idea. Maybe the drugs were good in '75? It probably comes down to one dude working in production not paying attention. Reminds me of when I was in college I took a night job working in an auto parts production plant. The guy giving me the orientation tour pointed out a machine while walking passed it and said a kid working that machine a couple years before caused a major Ford recall.

Originally Posted by butchie_t (Post 2143833)

It was only later in years after I bought both them that I found out that the jack wagon Olbermann wrote the backs.

Originally Posted by homerunderby (Post 2143829)

"Wasting?" Nah, seems like a great use of albums and sheets. That stuff has a lot of hobby history. The best part is that you can't just go on ebay and build a collection when you want. It takes persistence and a lot of hobby knowledge.



I've got a lot of TCMA in my Yankees collection. Just picked up some TCMA "The War Years" Yankees (1977). Guys that had their time in the sun while filling in for superstars at war. TCMA is a big part of the early history of this hobby, very much ahead of their time. First to create cards of vintage players, first to create minor league cards on any kind of scale.



Jim Rowe kept the George Brace postcards alive for decades. People forget all these little niches in the hobby in the 1970's and 1980's.

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass (Post 2143839)

I'd just like to note, that jackwagon has done more for the hobby while he slept, that you could ever hope to do in your lifetime. Political bias aside!

Originally Posted by Mbjerry (Post 2143958)

New here. What is TCMA?

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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop (Post 2143982)

I always read his articles on variations, proofs and odd ball sets, and have lost out to him on several hobby rarities, but had no idea he did some of that while asleep. Even more impressive ��

TCMA

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KL...2LrAm079XM8NM-

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=A2KL...3c8PMmmA4QE2s-

Originally Posted by homerunderby (Post 2144005)

Here's a good place to start.

https://sportscollectorsdigest.com/c...ein-tcma-cards

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass (Post 2143839)

I'd just like to note, that jackwagon has done more for the hobby while he slept, that you could ever hope to do in your lifetime. Political bias aside!

Originally Posted by jchcollins (Post 2169581)

I'm embarrassed to say how much I just paid for a Don Demeter high number SP.

Originally Posted by bobsbbcards (Post 2169801)

Was it $40? A bargain if it made you happy. :)

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop (Post 2169803)

A non drinking, non smoking, non cursing pastor of a church in his post baseball life. He has to be an enhancement to any set in which he appears at any cost