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Posted By: bcornell

I still don't believe this set is taking off, Bob - there always seem to be just enough guys collecting it to make it pricey, but I've yet to see one of those unfortunate manias affect this set. If it happens, I'll be the first to welcome it.

Many of the Recruit commons are still relatively cheap and those can get you most of the way in this set. The 13 HOFers are mostly easy to find, especially Johnson, Bresnahan, McGraw, Marquard. Wallace and McKechnie are bears - much tougher than Hooper or Speaker.

Naps... yeah, they're tough to find, but the set is so hard to finish, I think of them as a distraction. I have one remaining and consider myself "done".

My top 10 scarcest: Donlin, Ragan, Kuhn, Irving Lewis, Ward Miller, Saier, Ellis, Pelty, McCarthy, Wallace. Lowdermilk doesn't make this list. I didn't believe that Recruit backs were among the 10 toughest until I tried to finish the set and found cards like R.Miller, Woodburne, Bushelman, etc. were more plentiful than Wallace, Ellis, McKechnie, Easterly, Steele. Tim's VCBC article from a few years back was very accurate.


Bill