Set Collectors - Report in your progress!

[Big Six]

T205 - 66/215 30.7% (SGC 40/PSA 3 on average)
Diamond Stars - 43/108 39.81% (SGC 80/PSA 6 on average)
1951 Bowman - 123/324 38% (Raw Ex/Ex-MT)
1954 Topps - 208/250 83.2% (PSA 7)
1956 Topps - 204/340 60% (Raw Ex-Mt)
1973 Topps -652/660 98.8% Raw NrMt)


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[PowderedH2O]

I am a collector that cannot focus on a single set. I never have. So, three years ago I decided on a ten year plan. I would make a list of all of the sets I wanted to collect and then make sure that each year I was 10% further into it. This also included 10% of star cards as well. I decided this would include:

1953-present Topps baseball
1952-55 Bowman baseball
1948-55 Bowman football
1956-present Topps football (which now Topps is out of the game)
1969-82 Topps basketball

I've been good about this. If I am really not into a set, I can just pick up a few cards here and there over the course of a year, and yet it is being built. I have completed 1973-present Topps baseball, plus completed 1966 and 1971. 1958 is over 90% done. I should finish 1970 and 1972 this year.
I am on target to finish the Bowman baseball sets, with the 1954 almost 85% complete. With football, I have 1968-present done for Topps with the exception of a few 1972 high numbers. I also completed 1954 Bowman, 1956, 1958, and 1960 Topps, and 1960 Fleer.

For any players prior that time, I just get the cards I like. If the card looks cool and I can afford it, so be it.

[clydepepper]

Conceding that I'll never get a Mantle, I decided to avoid the SPs altogether,at least for a while, and concentrate on the first 280 cards of the 1952 Topps set.

After completing my 1953 Topps set earlier this year, I have concentrated on those 280. I picked up 5 more today off Ebay and am down to 37 cards.

[Jwkeen]

I am continuing to chip away at my Topps run. 51 Blue Backs is down to nine cards and 52 is down to 22 cards. Still having trouble finding the 332 Bartirome at a decent price.

[geosluggo]

I’ve whittled my 1959 need list down to 9 cards.

[bobsbbcards]

Before anyone else ruins their eyes trying to read George's needs list, here's what's left:

8 Phillies Team
461 Mantle Hits 42nd Homer for Crown
510 Yankees Team
526 Bob Speake
530 Wally Moon
551 Fred Haney AS
552 Casey Stengel AS
555 Bill Mazeroski AS
556 Nellie Fox AS

Good luck finishing off your set!

[ALR-bishop]

George--graded or ungraded ? Condition ? I have a couple of the cards on your list that you can have but they are ungraded and not mint or near mint