What's the "easiest" and best pre-war set to complete?

[irishdenny]

When evar this question Arises...

The T200 Set Always Comes ta MiND! :/
If my OCD Will evar let me complete the E90-1 Set,
THiS iS the One Fir me!

[Ronnie73]

I'm with Leon on the R333 Delongs. If I ever run out of T206's to buy, that would be my next set. I've always liked the design.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Not even a little love for Play Balls, sigh.

[jthorst75]

1935 Rice-Stix. Pretty easy to complete

[Baseballcrazy62]

I really like the 1936 S & S set as well. If you can find the box for the game it's even better. Just my 2 cents.

[ronniehatesjazz]

All the ones mentioned are great in regards to cost. Also the 41 play balls should get some love as mentioned above (the 40 issue isn't attractive though IMO). I think one that's overlooked though are T205's. Second best t card set I think and you can piece together a low grade set for ~$10k if you're patient. I'm working slowly on it right now and have snagged some of the key cards for very reasonable prices. I think it's the perfect set in regards to iconic affordability and relatively easy to put together yet still challenging.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by ronniehatesjazz

All the ones mentioned are great in regards to cost. Also the 41 play balls should get some love as mentioned above (the 40 issue isn't attractive though IMO). I think one that's overlooked though are T205's. Second best t card set I think and you can piece together a low grade set for ~$10k if you're patient. I'm working slowly on it right now and have snagged some of the key cards for very reasonable prices. I think it's the perfect set in regards to iconic affordability and relatively easy to put together yet still challenging.

Defintely not t205 if you want an easy set. I decided to try to complete the set 3 years ago when I realized that I already had over half the set. I am still trying to finish it. The short prints are a nightmare, toughest set that I have tried to complete. I would suggest t206 set of 518 before attempting t205. I wonder how many of these sets suggested are easy or are you going to be spending years trying to finish them unless you want to hit BIN at double or triple VCP.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by rats60

I wonder how many of these sets suggested are easy or are you going to be spending years trying to finish them unless you want to hit BIN at double or triple VCP.

I think the list sterlingfox provided is a good one for sets that are relatively easy to complete and would not kill the budget, with just a dozen or so high dollar cards among them all. I would add to his list the 1941 Play Ball set, since many consider it to be attractive color set, it is only 72 cards with no rarities, and just the Dimaggio, Williams, and Reese being the cards with biggest price tags.

Brian

[ronniehatesjazz]

Originally Posted by rats60

Defintely not t205 if you want an easy set. I decided to try to complete the set 3 years ago when I realized that I already had over half the set. I am still trying to finish it. The short prints are a nightmare, toughest set that I have tried to complete. I would suggest t206 set of 518 before attempting t205. I wonder how many of these sets suggested are easy or are you going to be spending years trying to finish them unless you want to hit BIN at double or triple VCP.

That's odd I've had little difficulty finding the SP's with the exception of Hobby (which I'm not going for anyways). Maybe I've just been lucky.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by rats60

Defintely not t205 if you want an easy set. I decided to try to complete the set 3 years ago when I realized that I already had over half the set. I am still trying to finish it. The short prints are a nightmare, toughest set that I have tried to complete. I would suggest t206 set of 518 before attempting t205. I wonder how many of these sets suggested are easy or are you going to be spending years trying to finish them unless you want to hit BIN at double or triple VCP.

T205s are being really fun to collect especially trying to find just the right ones. However, with the SP's and HOF'ers I don't think it will be cheap to complete...

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by ronniehatesjazz

All the ones mentioned are great in regards to cost. Also the 41 play balls should get some love as mentioned above (the 40 issue isn't attractive though IMO). I think one that's overlooked though are T205's.

I was coming here to post the same sets. On my T205 set, if only worried about getting a full set of fronts. Nothing wrong with the guys who like tougher backs, they jsut didn't engage me.