Originally Posted by wdwfan (Post 1918736)

I'm now back from my 10 day vacation out of the state/country (4 nights at Disney World and a 4 night Disney cruise). Going to catch up on this thread. It looks great. Too bad you're missing so many. That sucks. But it does give you something to work on. Keep up the work.

Originally Posted by mr2686 (Post 1921102)

Love this thread. Makes me want to get off my butt and work on some of my 70's sets. I remember back around 1991 I had just purchased some new cleats for softball but after wearing them two times, I didn't like them so I gave them to a teammate. He remembered I had talked with him about my favorite set as a kid (The 1971 Topps set...which my Mom threw out. Yes kids, that really did happen to a lot of us). Anyway, he showed up the next day with a shoe box full of his 71 doubles. Still have them, so now I think I'll sort through them and start working on the whole set. Sounds like fun just talking about it!!

Originally Posted by Mike D. (Post 1921183)

Hey man, I came of age in the junk wax era....we had to throw out our OWN cards! :p

Originally Posted by mr2686 (Post 1921245)

Darn it Mike, you made me spit milk through my nose. Too funny! LOL

Originally Posted by Kurri17 (Post 1921325)

Love this thread. I was a kid of the '70s (ages 6-16), so those sets are my love. The '76 is the first one I built in my quest to rebuild all of the years '72 thru '79. I have yet to put it in an album though I finished it a few years ago, and its fun to see them all like this. I truly loved my cards as a kid, and when there is one I don't recognize, I know that is one I never got from packs as a kid. I usually managed to get about 600 or so from each set just through packs, and thus probably another 400-500 dupes as once you got close it was just a lottery buy to see if you could hit one you needed. Funny how excited a Juan Beniquez can make you. Thanks for sharing the ride on this one.

Originally Posted by wdwfan (Post 1923389)

Looks like you're moving right along. Congrats.

I bought my first lot of 1975s this week. Got a lot of a little over 400 for $65 shipped. I know it has Aaron, Yaz, Bench and a few other HOFers/stars. So not a bad lot at all, and not a bad price for Ex-Mt to NM cards.

Once I get them in, and I buy a couple other lots, I'll start a thread. I also have to buy a notebook and pages. So once I get all that done, I'll start the thread and go about like you did.

I really enjoyed following along.

Originally Posted by Rickyy (Post 1923615)

wow you're picking up some nice cards there...as we who collect 70's cards..the 76 ones were very hard to find nicely centered.

Ricky Y

Originally Posted by Mike D. (Post 1910996)

I'm hoping folks will tolerate me using this thread to track my latest project.

Inspired by a friend who is working a half dozen Topps sets of various years and putting them in binders for easy viewing, I'm going to undertake a similar project of my own.

I'm going to build a "binder set" of 1976 Topps - the Topps set from the year of my birth!

So, what is a binder set? It's got non-high end, non-graded cards, perfect for flipping through without risking any major investments.

I'll probably aim for an average of EX for the set, with a range of VG-NM depending on what I come up with. Some of these cards might be a bit dinged up. At 43, I'm a little dinged up too. :D

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.

I think this will be fun. My 7 year old son will be helping me with the sorting, so it's a nice father-son project!

Now...the 1976 Topps set has 660 cards. Here is the checklist.

The biggest rookie in the set is Eckersley, with cards of Hank Aaron and Nolan Ryan among the more expensive cards in the set.