Ah, thank you!

I keep a Numbers (Apple's Excel) spreadsheet with a tab for every year from 1952-1973 (and a separate sheet for Bowman's, football cards, and tobacco sets I collect) with the complete checklist, notating which ones I have and don't have, the condition of my copy, and a line entry for every variation and card I consider to be a RPD (all our definitions are slightly different). The variations I have listed are gathered from the Standard Catalog, what I have noticed, and what people have shared with me here and elsewhere. Some years are pretty detailed and probably 'close to somewhat complete' (like 1956) and others are not very good. Some years I've gotten lazy and not yet included a separate line for every stock variation (Like 68/69/70), but I think most of you guys don't do cream vs. white stock. My 73 list is probably one of the worst as I've only recently included it in my run and I certainly have significantly less than some of you guys.


I don't think I can take an export of my sheet to an Excel file format and attach here on the board, but anyone interested, DM me your email and what year(s) you collect. It's an inventory tracker/personal annotation list and also a checklist so my Notes and Grade columns and color coding are garbage to anyone else, but maybe some of the lists can help.

Went through some 75's and found a few interesting
 

Note Messersmith 'beard' and Niekro dot pairs appear to be just a few sheets apart as the defect gets lighter.
The color shifts are interesting, but I wonder if the missing ink at the 't' for Maris is a one-off? You can also see the distinct purple v blue on Brooks. Campy hard to tell, but missing yellow along top and rh edge.

Holt comes with or without this black vertical slash below the cartoon. Both copies are easy.

Bob Lemke initially started including border breaks in the Standard Catalog 73 checklist. And PSA picked those up. But Bob stopped listing them when he realized how many there were, not only in 73 but in many sets. It was about that time he narrowed his definition of a variation he would include in the Catalog to cards intentionally changed by the manufacturer. But he found that was it was often hard to determine if a card met that definition as well.

Butch--Cliff helped me put together my list of border break cards in the 73 set. It is a very long one. If he does not have his handy I can put together a list for you of what I have

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Thanks for the info Al.

I just picked this up on ebay. Seller has others and took a 50% off offer. Search “missing most black ink”

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"missing most black ink" has no charm. Fred's Blacklessing or Gray Ghosts had more pizzas. Transition cards in first row below

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Thoughts 1969 Don Wilson - saw this one recently that wasn't fully air brushed...any thoughts on what on the cap?https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...20e34bd4c8.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...87a9894e99.jpg

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Haha, perhaps the lack of charm is what destined the card to still find its home with me! I agree though, not many guy more charming than Fred!


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No one has ever had a higher regard for his cards than Fred