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[Cmvorce]

With the arrival of #6, AL HR Leaders, 1968 is complete. Bob Gibson gets the binder spine slot. 10 favorite cards in the set: Ryan / Koos rookie an obvious choice despite it being a duel player rookie card, which I hate. Seaver and Carew rookie cups are classic. Love that Yaz pose. Gibson looking Gibson-esque. McCarver looking like the epitome of the wholesome 60s ballplayer. Ricketts looking like the epitome of the 60s in those glasses. Etch looking like I don’t know what - maybe someone grandfather playing catcher? Love the blacked out hats on the A’s to block out KC. And B Rob and F Rob on the same card is classic - these duel player cards I do like.

Now to focus on 67 - which I’ve been making great progress on in no small part to many people on Net54.

[Harliduck]

Congrats on 68 Chris!


I like how you have different players in the binder cover. Mine all have Harmon Killebrew, my favorite player...then after 75 I went with Reggie Jackson. I think mixing it up may be more fun...I may rip you off on that...

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by Harliduck

Congrats on 68 Chris!





I like how you have different players in the binder cover. Mine all have Harmon Killebrew, my favorite player...then after 75 I went with Reggie Jackson. I think mixing it up may be more fun...I may rip you off on that...

I think you should go the other way. Find some pictures of Killebrew after he retired, as a batting instructor or what-not, and let Jolly Elm create some of his Cards That Never Were for you. You could even get a picture of Harmon from his 1952 high school team. It would be awesome!

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[Snowman]

I have complete sets of 53 & 54 Topps, and a partial set of 52. But I'm upgrading all of them to only have centered copies of each card, which as you can imagine, is no small task. I'm almost done upgrading my 54s. Maybe a dozen or so left to finish that one. I have about 120 of the 52s dead centered, and about halfway done with upgrading my 53s.

I also have complete sets of 61 & 86 Fleer basketball. The 86 Fleer is all mint or better and all dead centered. My 61 Fleer is complete, with about 5 cards left to upgrade, but that's a super tough set. Some cards effectively never surface dead centered for 61 Fleer basketball.

Also working on a dead centered 52 Topps Look N See set. About 60% complete with that one.

I have several other complete sets and partial sets, but I don't have the bandwidth to work on those until I finish upgrading the ones above, which I'm focusing on first.

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

I think you should go the other way. Find some pictures of Killebrew after he retired, as a batting instructor or what-not, and let Jolly Elm create some of his Cards That Never Were for you. You could even get a picture of Harmon from his 1952 high school team. It would be awesome!

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That's actually a great idea...I may have to bug ol' Jolly... I do have a few Killebrews that are newer cards that emulate certain years. Like I have the 81 and 82 Topps looking Killebrews...those should be on my binders!

I did grab a "card that never was" and printed one up that was posted here on net54 for the 1957's...as they didn't make a Killer card that year (ROBBED of a classic!!)


Nice work Travis...will you move north to the 55s and 56s when your upgrades are complete?

[cardinalcollector]

Interesting note on the 1968 Oakland A's with KC blacked out, the Gosger card shows the helmet being blacked out, but not the reflection on the bill of the helmet: https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/...Gosger/1829350

Phil Roof too:https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/...4/Graded/PSA/9

[skelly423]

Just paid for my last 1952 Topps low # card!!!!

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by skelly423

Just paid for my last 1952 Topps low # card!!!!

Wow, that was quick! Didn't you just get started on that? Congratulations!

On the subject, here is one of the 52Ts that, according to our expert panel, is rumored to be difficult to find not O/C. A nicely centered PSA 7 (better than my newly acquired one below) just sold for $3100!!

So be careful, Sean, about what you are getting into!

[darkhorse9]

I just finished my multi-decades long white whale with a complete run of all Hostess panels from 1975-1979. I also have the albums that came out each year as well.

The 1978 Eddie Murray panel was the last one. The prices were totally crazy, but I got one for a good price finally.

Now I just need to finish my master set of Twinkies singles cards. I have all 60 from 1975 and 1976, but there are almost 250 different 1977 cards. I'm looking to get them all on their original size of panel. I just need 14 more to complete that one. Guess that will take another several decades.

[Jenx34]

Originally Posted by Cmvorce

With the arrival of #6, AL HR Leaders, 1968 is complete. Bob Gibson gets the binder spine slot. 10 favorite cards in the set: Ryan / Koos rookie an obvious choice despite it being a duel player rookie card, which I hate. Seaver and Carew rookie cups are classic. Love that Yaz pose. Gibson looking Gibson-esque. McCarver looking like the epitome of the wholesome 60s ballplayer. Ricketts looking like the epitome of the 60s in those glasses. Etch looking like I don’t know what - maybe someone grandfather playing catcher? Love the blacked out hats on the A’s to block out KC. And B Rob and F Rob on the same card is classic - these duel player cards I do like.

Now to focus on 67 - which I’ve been making great progress on in no small part to many people on Net54.

This may be a dumb question, but are those custom binders? And the pocket on the spine? Do you put a real card in there? If so, is it a duplicate with one in its appropriate slot in the set? Or some kind of copy?

I am not a set collector per se, but have 1975 and 1980 sets. Am constantly upgrading my 1975 to NMMT. And have about 3500 1980's that includes 2 full sets and most of a 3rd. Occasionally, I'll get them all out and go through to make sure I have best of all options in set 1, next best in set 2, etc. I'm around #150-175 on that project, so a long way to go. When done, I'll have legit, centered NM - NMMT 1st set with a solid EXMT or better 2nd. None are in binders yet.

[IndyDave]

I finished a couple of sets last week.

The long search for the last 1977 Hostess panel ended on eBay

And the final two 1955 Topps Doubleheaders were bought at the Strongsville show with this Jackie Robinson being the last

[darkhorse9]

Originally Posted by Jenx34

This may be a dumb question, but are those custom binders? And the pocket on the spine? Do you put a real card in there? If so, is it a duplicate with one in its appropriate slot in the set? Or some kind of copy?

For mine, I have an original card in the spine with a different Hall of Famer for each set. They're duplicate cards so they're not taken from the set. For 1952-1956 I use actual Topps cards but from standard size products

[RayBShotz]

That binder bookshelf just looks amazing! Great collection!
RayB

Edited to add that I just made 25% complete on my PSA 9 or better 1977 OPC Baseball set.
The sledding gets a lot tougher from here.

[ALR-bishop]

Great display and idea Mark

[Jwkeen]

Originally Posted by darkhorse9

For mine, I have an original card in the spine with a different Hall of Famer for each set. They're duplicate cards so they're not taken from the set. For 1952-1956 I use actual Topps cards but from standard size products

Love the display. It looks great, but unfortunately your 1980 Topps binder doesn’t have a Hall of Famer in the spine. I don’t blame you for using Rose though. I would probably use his card many times for a run like that, but preferably in a Reds uniform.

[darkhorse9]

Originally Posted by Jwkeen

Love the display. It looks great, but unfortunately your 1980 Topps binder doesn’t have a Hall of Famer in the spine. I don’t blame you for using Rose though. I would probably use his card many times for a run like that, but preferably in a Reds uniform.

There's a second bookshelf that has the sets from 2000-2023. Obviously there aren't Hall Of Famers in many of those either, but there are Hall of Fame worthy players there.

[stkuhl]

Ordered a 1968 Topps Clemente #150 today which completes my 1968 set. Moving onto 1962 Topps with the goal of completing Topps BB sets back to 1961. Have completed the 1961 set and have a start on the 63-67 sets. All the stories of the 66 and 67 high numbers scare me sometimes but the challenge is what makes the hobby fun.

[Bigdaddy]

After several years of hunting, this card showed up at REA and I was fortunate to be able to add it to the collection. Currently at 58/60 signed cards for the 1968 Topps Giants set. Doubting that I'll ever finish it off, so this will probably be it.