I have 6 or 7 of the aluminum printing plates that don't fit my collection. I bought them not 100% sure if they were legit, but from my research they're somewhat common in '62s. I'm not much of a '60s collector so you'd know way more than I regarding them. Five or six are team cards and one is the Boyer with someone else horizontal card. Since you're going after a master set they might fit well so let me know if interested.

1954 Bowman
 

This is the first baseball set from the fifties I've ever built and decided to go with one that had fewer cards as an entry point. What a great set and honestly, I think, undervalued in regards to the top HOFers. The Mays, Williams and Mantle are all very reasonable, especially considering they are still early releases for Mays and Mantle. The others like Berra, Matthews, Snider, Campy and Hodges were all less than $100 in presentable condition. I'm down to four cards and one of those is Mantle, but I'm being disciplined on picking up the right one for the allocated budge. My Williams is pretty rough but I really just wanted to complete it in binder for viewing and kept my budget to $2500 for the entire set. If I can pick up a Mantle that is not destroyed for ~$500 then I'll have accomplished it within budget.

I picked up 77 more cards towards the completion of my 72 set. Series 1-4 are now completed.

10 more and series 5 will be done. 71 more and the set will be finished. The 71 are all series 6.

That is a neat connection to the set. Great set with great players. A little pricier to finish nowadays as in addition to the Ruth-Gehrig card there's a Jackie Robinson card highlighting his breaking of baseball's color barrier. Like most early Robinson cards, the value of this card has risen greatly recently. But it actually still seems to be a little bit more underappreciated than a lot of his other 1940's card issues. A great little set to go after, highlighting some of baseball's most iconic feats and players. Good luck if you do decide to go after the set.

I'm down to the last 88 cards for my 1974 Topps baseball set in centered NMMT condition.

1967 Topps ……..7 away from the finish line…..choo choo!!!


535 clendenon
540 cash
544 Indians TC
580 colavito
581 RC Seaver
592 RC
604 Boston TC

Good luck, let's see some pictures.

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Need #13 Johnny Bench to finish 1971 Topps Greatest Moments
 

Anyone have an extra?

I started my 1973 Topps Baseball by receiving 100 singles from Kevvg1026 for about the same amount of 1972s that I had as extras. Both lots included mid-grade cards in general with the inclusion of minor stars and lesser demand HOFs.

Picked up 11 more cards for my 55 topps set over the weekend which brings me to 184/206

61 Topps baseball complete
 

I finally completed my mid grade 61 Topps baseball set. The Roger Maris AS card should be waiting for me when I get home from vacation.
Now I have to figure out what is next. I'm leaning towards football.

Working on my 3rd ‘73 set and down to 5 cards. Clemente Kaline Morgan Bench and 471 Cobb.

Getting closer, 1977 set now at 567/660.

Nice work Jeff! That is no easy set. I had to reply as the Maris AS was my last card as well!

Thanks John.

Congrats on finishing the set, show us some pictures please!

I'll try to remember to post some pics when I return home. I'm playing golf in Florida for the next 6 weeks. This retirement thing is a sweet gig.

I know it is not pre 1980 but I need a 1984 Donruss # 493 M Miller. Anyone have one to sell or trade?
Thanks,
Bob

Getting closer on my 65T set, about 75 to go.

Set Collectors - Report in your progress!
 

1971 Topps, Black Beauties: Started Saturday, completed Saturday. Bought a EX-MT or so set that had been hand-collated at my LCS. Oh Lord. What have I done...

Please note in the case of the Ryan & the Clemente, I already had these cards in my PC, and simply paired the existing ones up with their new set buddies because well… I was drunk on 1971 Topps:

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Those 71s look TIGHT!!!! That Dusty/Tom/Baylor was the last card when I completed my 71s...and I need to upgrade it.

You've saved money buying the whole set and I don't even know what you paid...haha. I ROUTINELY go through and buy upgrades for mine hoping to get even close to the corners you've shown. I feel I have basically bought this set card by card TWICE...no joke. I bet if I went back this afternoon I'd buy 50 more!

Nice Drysdale too...I love building the 65s...

Thanks so much. I do feel like I got it at a bargain. Without saying what I paid, I will say it was about what VG-EX sets seem to go for on eBay when you see them. I feel like that Dusty / Baylor card has a shot at a 7 or higher, it's sharp and clean and well centered to boot.

Feel free to send that card my way if you don't want it...:) I agree..can't see much wrong with it, and that's a TOUGH card!

Haha. I am definitely holding on to them all. There are a few which will eventually need to be replaced due to centering issues (Ernie Banks...) and then like I noticed the Steve Carlton is minty, but has a small wrinkle. There aren't many like that though. I looked at all the bigger cards very closely before I bought it.

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Congrats on great looking set.
I kind of wish that my son had completed his set. He was about 50 cards away from completion and decided he no longer wanted to do it. He sold off some of the stars and then sold the rest to buddy.

I just recently completed transactions with a couple net54 members for 24 more 1972 Topps High Number cards. That will get me down to needing 36 more cards to complete the set. I am getting close and I am getting antsy too!

Cheers,

B.T.

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Great work on the 61 set Jeff...I know how tough that one is! Funny, my brother (who is a lurker here) is down to 14 I believe and I know he needs that Maris All Star...he will be happy to know he has one less person to compete with...sneaky tough card! Nicely done...61 is no joke...

12 more 72 Topps High Numbers on their way to me thanks to Mintacular

That will bring me to needing 24 more cards to complete the base set.

I'm starting to get all misty eyed thinking about the finish!

Cheers,

B.T.

Picked up this tuffy……now one more for my 1967 Topps set…..mr Seaver, I’m coming for you lol. I also started a second set with all my extras and I’m 26 cards away from set two

Thanks John. It was fun to put together.
I do have some extra 61's left from building the set. I may be able to help your brother.

I finished up two sets at the Strongsville show. Unpopular cereal box Norm Larker finishes the 1962 Post set and Ted Kluszewski finishes the 1953 Red Man set.

Made a few 1955 Red Man purchases and am now just a 1955 Willie Mays from finishing the four year Red Man run. I have about 20-25 percent with tabs.

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1909-11 T206 (minus big five) - 477/520 (91.7%)
1941 Play Ball - 20/72 (27.8%)
1951 Topps through 1968 Topps - Complete
1969 Topps - 695/696 (99.9%)
1970 Topps through 1972 Topps - Complete
1973 Topps - 677/678 (99.9%)
1973 Topps Team Checklists - 22/24 (91.7%)
1974 Topps through 1978 Topps - Complete
1979 Topps - 724/727 (99.6%)
1980 Topps HOF - 46/49 (93.9%)
1981 Topps HOF - 57/59 (96.6%)
1982 Topps HOF - 39/86 (45.3%)

An All-Star's Cardboard Memories - 315/318 (99.1%)

Super impressive Bob...what percentish are graded? In awe of your posts on the 1953 Thread...



Finished a set today...1970 Topps. My birth year so a special year for me. My goal is to re-do the 60's sets and had no plan on doing a 1970. Got a great deal here on net54 about a year ago on a nice 70 lot, then got lucky at a local find with some really tight cards. Since then, just chipping away with no real focus and before I knew it was like 20 away. It was also a great way to upgrade my original set, it's now exmt+. Super cool to have 2 sets, and I'd call the new set VG/EX+ to EX with some EXMT. A few need upgrading from the inital lot, and that's the fun to fine tune...

Last card...#640 Al Kaline. A little OC, but sharp. First time I completed the set it was Johnny Bench, I got him early this time...


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Oops. I should have specified that those are my graded sets. :o

No...words...WOW. I can't imagine even the storage space, truly incredible!!

I am down to needing one card to finish my 72 Topps set. My intensified search for a nice #700 Bobby Murcer In Action has begun.

He will be my last card for this set.

Woot!

Almost there.

Butch

1933 Goudey - 199/240
1939 playball - Complete 6.09 gpa
1949 bowman - Complete 6.26 gpa
1950 bowman - Complete 6.70 gpa
1951 bowman - Complete 6.96 gpa
1952 topps Master - Complete 5.34 gpa
1952 bowman - Complete 7.10 gpa
1953 topps - Complete 6.87 gpa
1954 bowman - Complete 5.38 gpa
1954 topps - Complete 7.98 gpa
1955 bowman - Complete 6.64 gpa
1955 topps - Complete 7.10 gpa
1956 topps - Complete 7.68 gpa
1957 topps - Complete 7.19 gpa
1958 topps - 480/494 7.09 gpa
1959 topps - Complete 8.00 gpa

That’s my 33-59 set run all on PSA set registry, most stars are 8s besides 52, 51, and 53 and slowly working on upgrading commons to maybe one day reach all 8 sets.

Thanks.

Very impressive Bubbyjoe...there was a lot of work and sweat putting that together.

Finished two sets in one day, and also did something hard to do...get a good deal on a GM auction. Settled a little obviously on the OC again, but for a SP team card, all good to me.

Feels very satisfying building two EX and better 66 Topps sets, and just like the 70 set, used the opportunity to upgrade my original.


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Very nice John. Thankyou nothing better than building sets!

Finished a set today...1970 Topps. My birth year so a special year for me. My goal is to re-do the 60's sets and had no plan on doing a 1970. Got a great deal here on net54 about a year ago on a nice 70 lot, then got lucky at a local find with some really tight cards. Since then, just chipping away with no real focus and before I knew it was like 20 away. It was also a great way to upgrade my original set, it's now exmt+. Super cool to have 2 sets, and I'd call the new set VG/EX+ to EX with some EXMT. A few need upgrading from the inital lot, and that's the fun to fine tune...

Last card...#640 Al Kaline. A little OC, but sharp. First time I completed the set it was Johnny Bench, I got him early this time...


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Nice set John. Good looking Kaline, I have a few of those setting on my desk. Kaline was one of my favorite players when I a youngster.

Picked up 10 more cards for my 55 topps set, including a pretty nice 2nd year Killebrew at the Chantilly show over the weekend. That brings me to 194/206 or 94.1%. Just got a few of the big cards left so hoping to wrap it up in the next few months.

I'm down to the last card i need for my 1974 set. The #263 checklist in NMMT shape. Anyone have one?

I looked, buy my spare one is a bit too OC. Good luck with your search! :)

I lost my patience with ebay and people's pathetic interpretation of what NMMT means. I just picked up a PSA 9(PD) #263 and will be cracked out and used to complete my NMMT 1974 set.

I have the last card for my 1972 Topps set on its way today.

Bobby Murcer IA is the last card and I purchased this specimen today.

It seems like every time that I tell myself I am only going to collect singles I end up trying to build the set. I'm currently at 137/252 with '50 Bowman. I can't make myself stop buying them. It probably only averages VG overall, with some better/worse, but they are attractive cards nonetheless. This coming on the heels of completing '52 Bowman.

Well……1967 Topps set…….done!!!!! Final card has made my set complete. Thank you Ryan for the card and help. 11 more to go for set 2

After my last purchase, I am now at 64/104 of the 1951 Topps Red/Blue Backs set. I was going to go for a gradable set, but now I decided to go raw and do it as cheaply as possible. Creases are fine with me if the price is right. Only thing I care about is now paper loss. Got a few more I will be purchasing on COMC this week, so hopefully I can complete this by the end of the year.

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Nice Seaver. Congrats on completing your 67 set.

With #228 Gene Hermanski, 1954 Topps is complete. 1953, here I come.

Set looks great, love the pic! Congrats! You need the 54 Bowmans in the same binder! Haha...

Look forward to tracking your 53s on the set thread...I'm right there with you, I'm getting close.


Question...did you put in reprints for your graded cards or just left holes? I do reprints and have fun with hit. My Aaron, Kaline, Banks, and Mays are graded as well...

I decided to complete a set of 1968-1972 Fleer Cloth Patches. Something a little different. I did not try to get all the variations, just the 2 types for each team.

My first purchase was for 49 patches. 2 for each of the 24 main teams and a MLB Logo patch. It took me 10 weeks to pick up the last 7 I wanted: 2 patches for the Seattle Pilots and 2 for the Washington Senators. Also picked up the other 3 MLB Logo variations.

Some of these are high priced! My total cost was $338.07. $18.15 of that was shipping. About $6.00 per patch on average. Does not include sales tax.

Have about a dozen duplicates that I hope to sell for a small profit to offset some of the cost.

Mike

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Thanks, John. No plans to do the Bowman sets yet but if I live long enough who knows! I have plans to add reprints to the binders to fill the holes for my graded / cased cards but I haven’t done it yet. It’s on the list lol

With the arrival of Mr. Jackson today (Thanks Doug Goodman) I am now down to needing only 9 to complete my 52 Topps set.

I still need Russ Meyer, Bob Kelly, Bob Cain, John Kucab, Jim Turner, Bob Schultz and the big 3 in Campy, Wilhelm and Mathews.
The last 3 are going to be huge, money wise, but I'll keep looking hoping to get lucky. :)

Getting real close - that’s exciting!

Yeah, it sure is, Chris.
Congrats on finishing your 54 set and good luck with your 53. :)

Dale, that's great. Good luck with the final 9.

Even at this point in the market....since one of them isn't the Mantle, '52 set completion can always be:

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Nice set Chris. Some great looking cards. I just got my Kaline back from SGC for my PC, also a 2.5.

Thank you, sir. 2-2.5 is my sweet spot for the 50s. I don’t need them to be any cleaner and I appreciate the visual representation of these historic pieces of art traversing the last several decades.

Very impressive!

Awesome!

Just completed my 1963 Bazooka All-Time Greats Silver set (6.95 average). Yay, me! :rolleyes:

My '72 Topps midgrade effort is at roughly a little less than half, I think at 330 some cards. I will admit to having lost focus big time thus far in '22 with shiny objects like the vintage $5 and $10 boxes down at the LCS. I need to hunker down and work on both '72 and '67 commons for the rest of the year, but it hasn't happened so far...

Congrats on the Bazooka set Bob

Impressive collections!!! Spent the last half hour going through the thread. In the past, I thought about collecting complete sets, but would never have the funds to cover as many years as with collecting just one team.

I've been a team set collector for about 10 years, but 5 years seriously with vintage. I've essentially held off on buying ultra modern with the SP/SSPs, waiting for prices to settle and the hype to subside so still missing most over the past 5-7 years. Happy to share my progress/stats thus far:

Topps NY Yankees Team Sets

Decade Total Have Need %
Fifties 170/203 = 83.74%
Sixties 317/369 = 85.91%
Seventies 330/331 = 99.70%
Eighties 426/426 = 100.00%
Nineties 333/334 = 99.70%
Naughts 487/489 = 99.59%
Tens 510/566 = 90.11%
Twenties 41/144 = 28.47%

The Fifties
1952 - 15/29
1953 - 16/21
1954 - 14/16
1955 - 13/14
1956 - 20/24
1957 - 26/28
1958 - 30/33
1959 - 36/38

The Sixties
1960 - 34/36
1961 - 33/48
1962 - 52/59
1963 - 36/43
1964 - 25/29
1965 - 30/37
1966 - 26/28
1967 - 26/28
1968 - 26/28
1969 - 28/28

Thanks, Al! I was seriously beginning to doubt that I would finish it. :o

Getting closer to my second 67 Topps set…….only 3 more away…..

544 Indians TC
Carew RC
and damn you again MR Seaver RC…….

I did buy a almost complete 1964 set…..only need 6 more and 1 upgrade…..

Saved the best for last! :) Congrats on 2 67 sets...I've got a decent start on a 2nd set myself but need what you need and more...not sure if I have the energy after doing a 2nd 66 set! Two 67 sets is money in the bank...

Finished the 57 Topps set on Thursday (minus checklist) and 56 Topps on Friday. I wanted to finish them on the same day but missed the 56 Pirates team card by less than $1 on eBay. Here are the final two from the sets.

I aim for VGEX without creases or better on my set builds. I’d say a good 80% of my vintage set builds are in that range. I need less than 1000 cards to finish 1953-2022 and 265 to finish 1952 including all the high numbers.

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Congrats on finishing the 56 and 57 sets. Good luck on some day completing the Topps run.

Nicely done Jay on completing the 56 & 57 sets.

I just completed the 61 Golden Press set.
I need a few more cards to complete the 69 Topps Deckle set.
Just thought a couple of small sets would do the trick after the last few sets.

Not sure when I last posted in this thread but in the past six months or so I finished dealing with the '67 baseball set with a few upgrades of early series cards. I had thought it would be fun to have some of my original '67s as part of the set but with a few heavily creased cards they really stuck out even with my relaxed standards in set completion.

Also completed four football sets. the '65, '66, and '67 Philly Gum sets to go along with the '64 I had. And I started and completed the '59 Topps set. That was an easy one.

At the moment, outside of my slow and not very inspired chase of the '75T mini set, I'm more or less on the sidelines. I've got a stack of '64T baseball on my desk at the moment and I've thought about doing that set for a long time but I'm just not up for another set adventure at the moment.

With the addition of Cloyd Boyer, I'm now two away from a '52 low number set - Pafko and Mays. Not sure exactly how to tackle the Willie with two kids in college at the moment.

On the '64T front, I'm also two cards away. Just needing #482 Phillies RC (Briggs and Cater) and 491 Rakow. Hoping to close this one out shortly.

As with all my vintage sets, looking to keep them in the VG-Ex range and no MC.

Thanks I appreciate that. I will have no problem finishing out 53 and on - there are a couple of 4 figure cards I still need from 53 on but not many - 53 Mantle, 54 Aaron (only 54 I have left), 55 Clemente - that might be it. I guess 53 Paige is close to that number but I have the 53 Jackie and Mays and every Mantle from 56 on.

52 is a different story - I put $25 per check away for the mantle - got around $2500 in there. I told my wife when I retire I'll work an extra 6 months past normal retirement age to buy it. Was hoping to finish out the run by then. That gives me just under 20 years. But I still need every other high number. So we will see but it could be doable.

Down to 6 remaining with these 3 latest acquisitions.

3 Bob's in Cain, Kelly and Schultz plus Campy, Wilhelm and Mathews.

Good work Dale! Been fun watching your journey...SO CLOSE...