Any Topps Post War Completionists out there?

[frankhardy]

I guess you would say that I am a completionist. Although my main focus is Cardinals team sets, my secondary focus is on Topps base and traded sets.

Currently I have completed 2013 Topps down to 1969 Topps. At one time I got a pretty good start on a 1952 Topps, but it was getting very expensive very quickly, so that one is on hold indefinitely. I have decided to go in reverse order. Right now, I have the 1968 Topps set about 75% complete. I go at these complete sets a little at a time. I will probably have the 1968 Topps set completed by the summer.

I do exactly what another poster said - I buy large lots and the sell off the duplicates in order to fund the next set. I pretty much got my 1969 for nothing.

On vintage sets, I do not worry about condition. My 1969 Topps set is in VG to VG-EX. As the sets get newer, the condition gets better. My 1970 and 1971 sets average about EX to EXMT...I think you get the picture. Once I have to start getting those expensive Mantle cards, low grade won't bother me at all.

[tedzan]

1947 BOND BREAD
1948 BOWMAN
1949 LEAF
1949 BOWMAN (regular set)
1949 BOWMAN (PCL)
1950 BOWMAN
1951 BOWMAN
1952 BOWMAN
1953 BOWMAN
1954 BOWMAN
1955 BOWMAN

1952 TOPPS
1953 TOPPS
1954 TOPPS
1955 TOPPS
1956 TOPPS
1957 TOPPS

1959 FLEER

1959 TOPPS
1960 TOPPS

1963 TOPPS
1964 TOPPS (large card set)

1966 TOPPS
1967 TOPPS

1970 TOPPS

1972 TOPPS (test set)
1973 TOPPS
1974 TOPPS
1975 TOPPS
1976 TOPPS
1977 TOPPS
1978 TOPPS
1979 TOPPS
1980 TOPPS
1981 TOPPS
1982 TOPPS
1983 TOPPS
1984 TOPPS
1985 TOPPS

"That's All Folks"


TED Z

[Samsdaddy]

Any post war completionists looking to adopt a son???

I promise to take good care of the cards for you.

[doug.goodman]

Hello, my name is Doug, and I am a completionist.

By my count (and do do not claim to be correct, or definitive) there are :

30,610 Topps regular issue baseball cards from 1952 thru 1992. I have 30,506 of them, and 91 of the missing cards are 1982 blackless, which I struggle with because they are arguable just glorified print dots.

12,452 Topps baseball inserts. My number is low, because I do not count sets that are virtually impossible (or crazy expensive), like the Hocus Focus & 1961 Dice, 1968 Plaqs, etc). Of those that I count, I have 12,334.

Some of the inserts I need may not actually exist (1964 Tatoos Mazeroski RED back, Torre YELLOW back) but the chase is better than the catch, right? Even when you're searching for phantoms.

My numbers are forever evolving as new variations are discovered that I consider worthy. I think Al probably has dozens of them that he lets out slowly to torment me.

Hope you all had a great new year, even though it's a stupid holiday (woohoo, it's tomorrow!!".

Take care,
Doug