How many team set collectors are out there?

[frankhardy]

Jason,

I agree with Brent. Some of the more modern sets you can find the entire Orioles team set. If you are doing just Topps, you should finish that fairly quickly. But be warned, the bug might just bite and you will start expanding. I recommend going for all of the mainstream issues. I would start with Topps, then go with vintage Bowman. Then, you can go modern Bowman, Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck, Score. All of those will be fairly easy. Then, you can branch out and start doing some of the harder stuff to find. Just a suggestion.

A great resource is the SCD catalog and teamsets4u.com.

A few great places to buy besides Ebay are sportlots.com and comc.com. Those are great places to buy commons and minor stars.

[Cliff Bowman]

Since no other Cubs collector has had the courage yet to admit to it in this thread, I will be the first. I wonder if there is a "Cubs Anonymous" help program?

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Since no other Cubs collector has had the courage yet to admit to it in this thread, I will be the first. I wonder if there is a "Cubs Anonymous" help program?

Cliff, Ron Santo and Billy Williams are my two all time favorite players. I try to get all Topps cards (regular, league leaders, all star, inserts) of both players.

Not to stray from the thread here but I would have had Santo in the Hall of Fame before Billy Williams. It is a shame Santo was not alive to see his enshrinement.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Samsdaddy

Cliff, Ron Santo and Billy Williams are my two all time favorite players. I try to get all Topps cards (regular, league leaders, all star, inserts) of both players.

Not to stray from the thread here but I would have had Santo in the Hall of Fame before Billy Williams. It is a shame Santo was not alive to see his enshrinement.

I knew another one of us would show up .

[Samsdaddy]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I knew another one of us would show up .

The Transogram is neat. Great stuff Cliff.

[ALR-bishop]

Cliff---as a Cardinals fan I always tracked all the Cubs players, trying to be sure the Cardinals never violated the Ex Cub Factor

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Cliff---as a Cardinals fan I always tracked all the Cubs players, trying to be sure the Cardinals never violated the Ex Cub Factor

If I was a Cardinals fan, after a while I would just feel pity for Cubs fans. How could an organization that always spends more money than their archrival always be so pathetic in comparison?

[jasonc]

Originally Posted by frankhardy

Jason,

I agree with Brent. Some of the more modern sets you can find the entire Orioles team set. If you are doing just Topps, you should finish that fairly quickly. But be warned, the bug might just bite and you will start expanding. I recommend going for all of the mainstream issues. I would start with Topps, then go with vintage Bowman. Then, you can go modern Bowman, Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck, Score. All of those will be fairly easy. Then, you can branch out and start doing some of the harder stuff to find. Just a suggestion.

A great resource is the SCD catalog and teamsets4u.com.

A few great places to buy besides Ebay are sportlots.com and comc.com. Those are great places to buy commons and minor stars.

Thanks for the advice, starting out with Topps first. (I might even just stick with topps) BTW, I am aware of the teamsets4u.com site, excellent site for finding out the players from each set.

Also, from 2001 onward, I am thinking of going with Topps Heritage, I really like the look of those sets, those would go good in a binder with all of the O's by year, plus the challenge of the short prints. I am going to try and tackle the regular Topps first though.

[Jayworld]

Being a huge Padres fan (since 1974), I collect the Padres team sets, with a caveat:
I only collect years in which I don't have complete sets, and I stop at 1985. For me, that was the year that I started following MLB less and less, and once the Padres switched to navy in 1991, I lost a lot of interest in collecting the cards.

So, I collect team sets from 1969-1974 and 1980-1984. I do collect Donruss and Fleer in addition to Topps from 1981-84. I particularly like the 1981 Donruss Padres, as you have a mix of years uniforms (usually, the cards show the previous year's uniforms), so you get a mix of 1978-79-80 on the 1981 Donruss cards, including the rarely seen (and rarely baseball card depicted) yellow Padres jerseys from 1978 (1981 Donruss Broderick Perkins).

[jasonc]

Originally Posted by frankhardy

Jason,

I agree with Brent. Some of the more modern sets you can find the entire Orioles team set. If you are doing just Topps, you should finish that fairly quickly. But be warned, the bug might just bite and you will start expanding. I recommend going for all of the mainstream issues. I would start with Topps, then go with vintage Bowman. Then, you can go modern Bowman, Fleer, Donruss, Upper Deck, Score. All of those will be fairly easy. Then, you can branch out and start doing some of the harder stuff to find. Just a suggestion.

A great resource is the SCD catalog and teamsets4u.com.

A few great places to buy besides Ebay are sportlots.com and comc.com. Those are great places to buy commons and minor stars.

Thought I'd revive a thread and do an update.
Shifting my collecting focus AGAIN, and now focusing on my Orioles sets.

Like what was discussed here, I did acquire the modern Orioles Topps sets, in fact 1974 to present, and I was really happy with the purchase, thought I got a really good deal. Thanks for the suggestion.

Now to the fun part, building 1954 to 1973, at this point I am going about it slowly and concentrating on regular topps only. I would say I have about 30% of 1954 to 1973, most of Brooks and Frank except only a few, so I think I have an awesome start. Already have the Palmer rookie (mind you, probably a VG, but this project is a collection not investment)

Would like to hear other updates on how everybody's team sets are going, anybody else getting into team set collecting?

[frankhardy]

Jason,

Glad to see that you took the plunge on the Topps team sets. You will enjoy it. Have fun with 54 to 73!

Also glad to see another Cardinals collector go at it! Those 62 Jello's are really tough. I have 61 to 63 Post and the 63 Jello, but I only have one 62 Jello.