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06-17-2018, 02:16 PM
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1973 Topps Baseball
I collected pack by pack and put the whole set together before going into my senior year of high school, class of '74. Also, the year before my mom wrote out a check for the 1972 Topps baseball through The Sport Hobbyist, and if i remember, that year that came in series by series, also with that set i received my first Sport Hobbyist and Frank Nagy was on the cover. Unbelievable, i still have both sets.
John 
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06-17-2018, 02:31 PM
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Well I’m not a set collector by any means. When I was young around 1996. ( I know I’m beat already) I got my first Dan Marino rookie card in a trade for some McGwire insert. Then a week later I got the Elway. At this point I realized I had the best cards in the set. So I went after the rest of the rookies in the set. I was about 14 or 15 in 1996. There was a guy at the local show that sold plastics and commons. He had a 5000 count box of 1984 Topps and they were 10 cents each but if you bought a lot they were 5 cents each. So I just bought chunks of what I needed ever show. I don’t remember the last card but I think it was Howie long. So I guess 22 years ago. It was all by accident in the sense that I just wanted the Marino and Elway but then something got a hold of me. ( I know it’s not baseball or pre war but hey that’s the honest answer.
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06-17-2018, 02:24 PM
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Excellent thread.
Ted, I assume you still have that set? That is amazing to have it that long! I dont qualify as mine was 1988 donruss. Lol. No I think it might have been 1987 opeechee.
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06-17-2018, 02:37 PM
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Hi Jasonc I still have my entire collection which started in 1947. TED Z .
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06-17-2018, 03:00 PM
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My apologies to Leon for posting on the main board. I thought Ted would be prewar.
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06-17-2018, 04:08 PM
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My story is sadly one of near completion
I have never been super fanatical in completing sets. In my collecting from pack years 1975-81, I never did finish a set, but came relatively close.
After switching to PreWW2 collecting, the first set I finished (Frank can not disqualify me as he only mentioned T206 sets needing to be 524 and did not mention any other sets) was the numbers 1 through 96 'short set' of Diamond Stars cards, which I accomplished sometime in the early 1990's and still have. We all know that the repeated Diamond Stars cards #97-108 are just pointless, and you shall all rally to my defense if Frank decides to place the DQ/banned banner across my sorry chest. 25 years later and I am still half a dozen cards shy of a complete 108 card set, and not sure if I will ever get them all. Brian Last edited by brianp-beme; 06-17-2018 at 04:09 PM.
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06-17-2018, 05:59 PM
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My brother and I bought a complete 1971 set through The Sporting News in 1971. And indeed it eventually fell victim along with 1000s of other cards to my Mom's basement cleanup to make room on the shelves for her Good Housekeeping magazines.
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06-17-2018, 07:18 PM
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1979 Topps Baseball
The first complete set I ever finished was the 1979 Topps baseball set.
I had just purchased 10 packs and got quite a few of the cards I needed. I was down to only 2 cards to complete the set, Mike Krukow of the Cubs and Clint Hurdle of the Royals. I went to our local card shop (yes-I had one within walking distance in 1979) only to find out that there were several other folks ahead of me who had already turned in their need lists with these cards on them. A couple weeks later I was visiting my grandparents house. I was sorting the cards in the living room when my grandfather told me we had to go shopping. We walked to the grocery store and he bought me 5 packs. I got back to the house, opened them up, but did not find the cards I needed. About 2 hours later my grandmother came into the room with a bag for me. She had gone back to the store and bought me every pack they had. And yes...I got the last 2 cards I needed for the set. Completed in 1979 - 39 years ago
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06-20-2018, 12:20 AM
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06-17-2018, 07:50 PM
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Hey Frank.
Aren't you proud of me....for once this time I followed your rules to a tee  Actually, I have an older set than the 1950 BOWMAN which I posted in post #13. Do non-baseball cards qualify ? If so, here is my...... 1948 LEAF Boxing.....49-card set Started collecting these cards in 1948....completed his set in 1948. I still have my original collection. 2018 - 1948 = 70 years  TED Z T206 Reference .
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06-17-2018, 08:29 PM
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Signed 1953 Topps set: 264/274 (96.35 %)
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06-17-2018, 08:33 PM
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06-17-2018, 10:52 PM
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Still have my ‘75 full Topps baseball set that I collected one pack at a time from the corner Utotem store. Still have lots of dupes from that quest. Best part for me is that I’m a KC guy and that was the year of George Brett’s rookie card.
Rob M
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06-17-2018, 02:29 PM
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Oh well; I guess my 1975 set, {my first} started & finished in 1975 by trading off doubles to friends, is out the running. And I still have it. But those days were fun. I couldn't wait for dad to get home on Friday Night and I'd go to bank with him to cash his check. Right next door was a little deli that sold baseball cards; and we would always get a few packs. I have to pull the Richie Allen out; he was traded to Phillies I guess after the cards came out and I crossed off White Sox and wrote in Phillies. I still remember that.
PS. Happy dad's day to all the dad's out there.
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