[jchcollins]

Though I came of age during the time that the '68 Ryan card was skyrocketing in the early 1990's, I had started collecting 5+ years earlier, and from my reading already up to that point in time, I knew inherently somehow that the '67 Denehy / Seaver was the more difficult card due to it's series placement and scarcity. Interesting that when I first started buying packs in 1986 - Nolan Ryan was considered a good pitcher, but I think pretty much everyone would have agreed at the time that Seaver was better. Here nearly 40 years later - the card world aside, and the sports world (as evidenced by debates on social media, etc.) would seem to think just about the opposite.

I guess the Seaver RC has always been so appealing to me because it checks both the baseball greatness and baseball card greatness boxes. First ballot HOF'er, iconic pitcher who was likely the greatest of his generation. And from a card perspective, a single print high number in what was likely the most popular set of the decade of the 1960's.