I got back into collecting in late 2010 and started building sets at the start of 2011. The second set I completed that year was 1974 Topps. Not long after I decided to work on the master set, but card 599 (San Diego small print) always eluded me. To be perfectly candid, I rarely gave it much thought and when I did I found that the card was selling for $30 or more. It wasn't that I couldn't afford it, but I was just loath to spend that kind of coin on a common card*
Fast forward 14 years and a good friend just sent me that card, so now I have completed the master set.
* It seems rather quaint now that I would be so reluctant to spend $30 on a common since I am trying to build 1967 Topps and am mostly down to high numbers (I'm looking at you, Mike Shannon)
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