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Mike D's 1977 Topps Binder Project
As my 1976 Topps Binder Project is approaching completion (set complete, 20 upgrade candidates as of this posting), I'm ready to take on another set.
My 1976 thread has surpassed 10,000 views, so hopefully you all are enjoying following along in my quest! To review: What is a binder set? It's got non-high end, non-graded cards, perfect for flipping through without risking any major investments. To add to the fun, I'll likely pick up graded copies of some of the more interesting stars from the set. If I get a graded copy of a card, I'll still get a non-graded for the binder, but may allow for lower grade there to help keep costs in check. Depending on what I get for duplicates, I may even dabble in some TTM autograph chasing. From a condition perspective, I aimed for EX for my '76 set, but quickly realized I'm a bit of a stickler for condition, so I expect this one will be more like EXMT+. Centering isn't going to be perfect by any means, but I'll try to avoid badly dinged corners and the like. The 1977 Topps set consists of 660 cards. Here is the checklist. The key rookies are are Andre Dawson (#473), Dale Murphy (#476) and Bruce Sutter (#144). The set also includes cards of roughly 20 other Hall of Famers of the era. Great to have another project ahead of me! |
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The Binder & Pages
The first rule of building a binder set is that you're gonna need a binder.
1 BCW 3" Black Baseball Card Storage D-Ring Album Binder & 50 Pages 9 Pocket - $23.28 delivered 25 Ultra PRO Platinum 9-Pocket Hologram Card Album Pages/Binder Sheets - $7.92 delivered Total spent on binder set: $31.20 |
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1977 Topps Graded
1977 Topps PSA Graded Cards
Going into the project, I have the following PSA graded cards: I'll target PSA graded cards only, PSA 7 and above, with no qualifiers. For most, I'll probably target PSA 8, with the exception being for those that 8's get a big pricey. |
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Starting to Acquire Cards - eBay
Starting to pick up cards: 1977 Topps Baseball Starter Set (410 Different) BV $294 Avg Ex/Mt to Nm Palmer - $57.01 delivered LOT OF 50: 1977 TOPPS COMMON CARDS - $5.91 delivered 1977 TOPPS BASEBALL - 100 CARD LOT - ALL DIFFERENT SEE LIST - EX-NM - $15.94 delivered Total spent on binder set: $110.06 |
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Starting to Acquire Cards - Net54
I made some deals with a couple of Net54 users to help get the project kick-started. 300 card lot EX-EXMT - all different - $45 delivered 600 card lot - VG-NM - some lower grade than I'm targeting, and some dups, but great start and good fun - $30 delivered Total spent on binder set: $185.06 |
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Cards 1-9
Let's get started!
Cards 1-9 include the "Leaders" subset. 1 Batting Leaders 2 Home Run Leaders 3 RBI Leaders 4 Stolen Base Leaders 5 Victory Leaders 6 Strikeout Leaders 7 ERA Leaders 8 Leading Firemen 9 Doug Rader Missing: #2 Home Run Leaders, #6 Strikeout Leaders, and #8 Leading Firemen. The dups: Last edited by Mike D.; 12-26-2019 at 06:07 PM. |
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BTW, for page 1, cards #1 and #3 are upgrade candidates.
Not the best start, but with 1,460 cards to draw from, I'm hopeful most pages are a lot more complete and upgrade-free than this one! |
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Cards #10-18
The next lot:
10 Reggie Jackson 11 Rob Dressler 12 Larry Haney 13 Luis Gomez 14 Tommy Smith 15 Don Gullett 16 Bob Jones RC 17 Steve Stone 18 Frank Robinson Missing are card #15, Don Gullett, and card #18, Frank Robinson. No obvious upgrade candidates in this lot. The dups: |
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1977 Topps Cards #19-27
Batch #3:
19 John D'Acquisto 20 Graig Nettles 21 Ken Forsch 22 Bill Freehan 23 Dan Driessen 24 Carl Morton 25 Dwight Evans 26 Ray Sadecki 27 Bill Buckner All 9 are here, and no obvious upgrade candidates! I like it! The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps #28-36
The next batch:
28 Woodie Fryman 29 Bucky Dent 30 Greg Luzinski 31 Jim Todd 32 Checklist 1-132 33 Wayne Garland 34 Norm Sherry 35 Rennie Stennett 36 John Ellis Card #32, the checklist, is missing. I think back in those days, an awful lot of checklists actually got used as checklists! And look....Bucky Dent, before he got his colorful middle name (at least here in Red Sox country)! The rest of the lot looks good...no obvious upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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Up next:
37 Steve Hargan 38 Craig Kusick 39 Tom Griffin 40 Bobby Murcer 41 Jim Kern 42 Jose Cruz 43 Ray Bare 44 Bud Harrelson 45 Rawly Eastwick #45, Rawly Eastwick, is an upgrade candidate. Other than that, all here and no other upgrade candidates. The dups: |
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1977 Topps Cards 46-54
The next 9:
46 Buck Martinez 47 Lynn McGlothen 48 Tom Paciorek 49 Grant Jackson 50 Ron Cey 51 Alex Grammas 52 Ellis Valentine 53 Paul Mitchell 54 Sandy Alomar All the cards are here. #50, Ron Cey, is an upgrade candidate. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps Cards 55-63
Up next:
55 Jeff Burroughs 56 Rudy May 57 Marc Hill 58 Chet Lemon 59 Larry Christenson 60 Jim Rice 61 Manny Sanguillen 62 Eric Raich 63 Tito Fuentes All cards are here. The Rice (#60) could use an upgrade. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps Cards 64-72
The next nine:
64 Larry Biittner 65 Skip Lockwood 66 Roy Smalley 67 Joaquin Andujar RC 68 Bruce Bochte 69 Jim Crawford 70 Johnny Bench 71 Dock Ellis 72 Mike Anderson The cards are all here. The Johnny Bench (#70) is an upgrade candidate. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 73-81
The next group:
73 Charlie Williams 74 Oakland Athletics CL 75 Dennis Leonar 76 Tim Foli 77 Dyar Miller 78 Bob Davis 79 Don Money 80 Andy Messersmith 81 Juan Beniquez All 9 are here and no major upgrade candidates! The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 82-90
9 to get us to 90:
82 Jim Rooker 83 Kevin Bell RC 84 Ollie Brown 85 Duane Kuiper 86 Pat Zachry 87 Glenn Borgmann 88 Stan Wall 89 Butch Hobson RC 90 Cesar Cedeno 9 more that are all present and accounted for, and no obvious upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 91-99
The next batch:
91 John Verhoeven 92 Dave Rosello 93 Tom Poquette 94 Craig Swan 95 Keith Hernandez 96 Lou Piniella 97 Dave Heaverlo 98 Milt May 99 Tom Hausman The lot is all here. Keith Hernandez (#95) is an upgrade candidate. The cards: The dups: Last edited by Mike D.; 12-27-2019 at 07:30 PM. |
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1977 Topps 100-108
Passing 100:
100 Joe Morgan 101 Dick Bosman 102 Jose Morales 103 Mike Bacsik 104 Omar Moreno RC 105 Steve Yeager 106 Mike Flanagan 107 Bill Melton 108 Alan Foster All here, and no upgrade candidates. The Morgan is real nice! The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 109-117
Up next:
109 Jorge Orta 110 Steve Carlton 111 Rico Petrocelli 112 Bill Greif 113 Toronto Blue Jays CL 114 Bruce Dal Canton 115 Rich Manning 116 Joe Niekro 117 Frank White This batch is all here. 111 Rico Petrocelli and 113 Toronto Blue Jays CL are both upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps #118-126
Next:
118 Rick Jones RC 119 John Stearns 120 Rod Carew 121 Gary Nolan 122 Ben Oglivie 123 Fred Stanley 124 George Mitterwald 125 Bill Travers 126 Rod Gilbreath All here! 119 John Stearns and 123 Fred Stanley are upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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Good luck with the set. I was 11 in 1977 and these are the first wax packs that I can remember opening. Always excited to find an 'All-Star' logo on a card when opening up a pack.
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Working Sets: Baseball- T206 SLers - Virginia League (-1) 1952 Topps - low numbers (-1) 1954 Bowman (-3) 1964 Topps Giants auto'd (-2) |
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My 8 year old son, "inspired" by my binder projects, has started a 1987 Topps binder project of his own. Pretty funny watching him bust packs of the first set I ever bought! |
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1977
Man, you picked up a pretty good amount up front. Really like the look of this set and looking forward to viewing it all. While I’m not really a set collector I really like viewing all the different cards and this is one of the last years I really was picking up a ton of cards. I did get some ‘78’s, but that was it for quite a number of years.
Love that your son is getting into it as well. Be cool to see some pics with his cards! Last edited by Mark70Z; 12-29-2019 at 02:18 AM. |
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I blame two factors for this: 1) the relative affordability of lots from this year and 2) the Net54 community, who provided some great lots that I couldn't say "no" to. I wasn't a set collector until I started my 1976 project, but it's fun. Glad folks are enjoying the posts...it makes it a lot more fun and interesting to share the journey. I think I may hit '78 Topps next. It's funny, but being a young collector in the late 80's and early 90's, that set seemed like an unattainable big money "vintage" set. Molitor/Trammel RC?! Eddie Murray RC?! Might as well have been Ruth and Gehrig to a kid scratching together $16 to buy a box of 1990 Donruss. My son made ME sort the cards down into 100's, and he then sorted cards 1-100 down by 10's. He's got up to number 20 in the binder...so he's taking the slow approach. Ah, to be 8... |
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1977 Topps 127-135
The next few:
127 Ron Fairly 128 Tommy John Dodgers 129 Mike Sadek 130 Al Oliver 131 Orlando Ramirez RC 132 Chip Lang 133 Ralph Garr 134 San Diego Padres CL 135 Mark Belanger All are here and no upgrade candidates! The cards; The dups: |
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1977 Topps 136-144
Two Hall of Famers:
136 Jerry Mumphrey RC 137 Jeff Terpko RC 138 Bob Stinson 139 Fred Norman 140 Mike Schmidt 141 Mark Littell 142 Steve Dillard RC 143 Ed Herrmann 144 Bruce Sutter RC All here and the Sutter is pretty nice. But a number of upgrade candidates: 139,140, and 142. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 145-153
Passing 150:
145 Tom Veryzer 146 Dusty Baker 147 Jackie Brown 148 Fran Healy 149 Mike Cubbage 150 Tom Seaver 151 Johnnie LeMaster 152 Gaylord Perry 153 Ron Jackson RC #146 Dusty Baker is missing. #149 Mike Cubbage could use an upgrade. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 154-162
The next batch:
154 Dave Giusti 155 Joe Rudi 156 Pete Mackanin 157 Ken Brett 158 Ted Kubiak 159 Bernie Carbo 160 Will McEnaney 161 Garry Templeton RC 162 Mike Cuellar #160 Wil McEnaney is missing. No upgrade candidates. I know Topps usually put a "star" on the 0's...what happened here? The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 163-171
Up next:
163 Dave Hilton 164 Tug McGraw 165 Jim Wynn 166 Bill Campbell 167 Rich Hebner 168 Charlie Spikes 169 Darold Knowles 170 Thurman Munson 171 Ken Sanders All here and no obvious upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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"Working" on it since 76..... still something like 9 cards short..... |
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The good news is that it's a LOT easier these days to find the last few cards you need than it was back then!
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1977 Topps 172-180
Up next:
172 John Milner 173 Chuck Scrivener RC 174 Nelson Briles 175 Butch Wynegar RC 176 Bob Robertson 177 Bart Johnson 178 Bombo Rivera RC 179 Paul Hartzell RC 180 Dave Lopes All here and no obvious upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 181-189
The next batch:
181 Ken McMullen 182 Dan Spillner 183 St. Louis Cardinals CL 184 Bo McLaughlin RC 185 Sixto Lezcano 186 Doug Flynn 187 Dick Pole 188 Bob Tolan 189 Rick Dempsey 183 St. Louis Cardinals CL is missing. Everything else looks good. The cards: |
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1977 Topps 190-198
The next group:
190 Ray Burris 191 Doug Griffin 192 Clarence Gaston 193 Larry Gura 194 Gary Matthews 195 Ed Figueroa 196 Len Randle 197 Ed Ott 198 Wilbur Wood All here and no obvious upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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That’s a good question, I knew McEnaney had one very good year and thought maybe it was 1976 but when I looked him up on Baseball Reference I saw that it was 1975 and that 1976 was a bad year, even though he got a ring both years. He was out of the major leagues two years after his 1977 card came out. ETA, he did have an excellent World Series in 1976 pitching 4 2/3 scoreless innings with two saves, and for the second straight year he threw the last pitch to win the World Series.
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Still, interesting when you get to a "0" and you're like "who?!" |
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1977 Topps 199-207
Passing 200:
199 Pepe Frias 200 Frank Tanana 201 Ed Kranepool 202 Tom Johnson 203 Ed Armbrister 204 Jeff Newman RC 205 Pete Falcone 206 Boog Powell 207 Glenn Abbott All are here and accounted for, with no upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 208-216
Up next:
208 Checklist 133-264 209 Rob Andrews 210 Fred Lynn 211 San Francisco Giants CL 212 Jim Mason 213 Maximino Leon 214 Darrell Porter 215 Butch Metzger 216 Doug DeCinces Card #208 (Checklist 133-264) is missing. 215 Butch Metzger could use an upgrade. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 217-225
The next batch:
217 Tom Underwood 218 John Wathan RC 219 Joe Coleman 220 Chris Chambliss 221 Bob Bailey 222 Francisco Barrios 223 Earl Williams 224 Rusty Torres 225 Bob Apodaca All 9 are here. 220 Chris Chambliss could use an upgrade. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 226-234
Next up:
226 Leroy Stanton 227 Joe Sambito RC 228 Minnesota Twins CL 229 Don Kessinger 230 Vida Blue 231 George Brett RB 232 Minnie Minoso RB 233 Jose Morales RB 234 Nolan Ryan RB Missing are 228 Minnesota Twins CL and 234 Nolan Ryan RB (darn). No obvious upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 235-243
The next group:
235 Cecil Cooper 236 Tom Buskey 237 Gene Clines 238 Tippy Martinez 239 Bill Plummer 240 Ron LeFlore 241 Dave Tomlin 242 Ken Henderson 243 Ron Reed All here and no obvious upgrade candidates! The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 244-252
The cards:
244 John Mayberry 245 Rick Rhoden 246 Mike Vail 247 Chris Knapp 248 Wilbur Howard 249 Pete Redfern 250 Bill Madlock 251 Tony Muser 252 Dale Murray All cards are here. 248 Wilbur Howard is an upgrade candidate. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 253-261
Next batch:
253 John Hale 254 Doyle Alexander 255 George Scott 256 Joe Hoerner 257 Mike Miley 258 Luis Tiant 259 New York Mets CL 260 J.R. Richard 261 Phil Garner All 9 are present. 260 J.R. Richard is an upgrade candidate. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 262-270
The next group:
262 Al Cowens 263 Mike Marshall 264 Tom Hutton 265 Mark Fidrych RC 266 Derrel Thomas 267 Ray Fosse 268 Rick Sawyer RC 269 Joe Lis 270 Dave Parker 265 Mark Fidrych RC is missing. 264 Tom Hutton could use an upgrade. The cards: The dups: |
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I'm happy to see that you finally have a print error/variation in one of your sets . The 1977 Topps Dave Heaverlo can be found with a square green area in his glove at the bottom of the card that I'm guessing was caused by a piece of clear tape on the printing sheet. The print error is less common than the corrected card but is by no means rare.
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Sorry to hear mine isn't super rare and isn't going to make me rich (otherwise we could go straight from '77 Topps to '52 Topps). |
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Nice progress! Lots of nice clean cards!
Ricky Y |
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Thank you! The card stock on the 77's is pretty thin...these are tougher than I expected.
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1977 Topps 271-279
The next batch:
271 Terry Forster 272 Lee Lacy 273 Eric Soderholm 274 Don Stanhouse 275 Mike Hargrove 276 A.L. Championship 277 N.L. Championship 278 Danny Frisella 279 Joe Wallis 276 A.L. Championship & 277 N.L. Championship are missing. 278 Danny Frisella could use an upgrade. The cards: The dups: |
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1977 Topps 280-288
The next few:
280 Jim Hunter 281 Roy Staiger 282 Sid Monge 283 Jerry DaVanon 284 Mike Norris 285 Brooks Robinson 286 Johnny Grubb 287 Cincinnati Reds CL 288 Bob Montgomery 280 Jim Hunter and 287 Cincinnati Reds CL are missing. No upgrade candidates. The cards: The dups: |
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