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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

Those Fleer sets really don't cut it. I have always equated them to being the forefathers of such sets as Pacific's "Baseball Legends" or any of the nauseating TCMA issues of the 1970's-'80's. Why spend $50 on a 1960 Fleer Cobb when somebody would practically pay YOU to take a 1980's counterpart of said? Just my opinion.

EDITED TO ADD: I figure that somebody might go on to mention the Topps "Connie Mack All-Stars". These are the true grandaddies of the genre, but I do like them, for some reason. Perhaps it's the odd sizing/condition sensitive issues. I suppose the appearances of old-timers in the one Play Ball set also count to some degree.