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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: dd
Revitalizing a past theme, I'd consider the completion of the Old Judge, T206, 1933 Goudey, and 1952 Topps sets as the Hobby's greatest potential accomplishment. |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: Al Crisafulli
Wow, that's a HUGE accomplishment! One set from every decade of the 20th century - amazing. |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: leon
I am quite sure that a true baseball card ACC type set has never been completed. I am working on the pre-'41 one. I think Glen V might be ahead of me but not by far. I still need about 3-4 ACC cards and I will be complete...minus cabinets, which I haven't collected....yet ..... |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: E, Daniel
Your concept of a sportscard grand-slam is the kind of metaphor I use when building my collection. In trying to keep costs and card numbers down, I spent a lot of time trying to work out exactly what my collection represents and how to create specific limits to think within. |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: JimB
Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think anybody has ever completed an N172 Old Judge set. Some of the cards, like the California Leaguers are exceedingly rare. Does anybody know what the greatest accumulation of different cards has been in one collection? |
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Posted By: Joe_G.
To follow up on Jim's comment, even if you simplify a complete OJ set from it's ~2,427 unique N172 poses to just the 520 different baseball players represented, no one person has completed it (to my knowledge). And as Jim stated, it comes down to the 19 California League cards (18 of which can only be found as such, all single pose examples) and a handful of other key players that are also exceedingly difficult. Despite this, there are a couple amazingly complete collections out there. |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
Pardon my contrariness.....but, let's be practical in our choice for the "1st |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: Erland Stevens
You've defined the Ted Slam of card collecting. |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: ockday
Nice topic.... I've also thought about this and my personal favorites are.. |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: ockday
19th century...N162 because it has the Beecher FB card |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: Chad
Say, the Billikens from Cuba, the V100's from Canada, a Japanese set (hundreds to choose from), and a Toleteros set from Puerto Rico. Or, if you want to make it exceptionally tough, the Dobles set from Venezuela. Or, you could make it easier and go for a Topps Venezuelan set or maybe the Ovenca set. Actually, now that I think of it, a grand slam like this could be done under a budget relatively easy: |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: JimB
I would say N28 or N162 for 19th century. |
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Card Collecting Grand Slam
Posted By: Richard Masson
Mayos are the best choice for 19th century. |
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