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Bruce BabcockI mentioned GC Millers because it is a small set (32 cards) and my collection began a few years ago, with a cancelled Paul Waner, a HOFer, for $59, which looked a lot better than any poor-fair card you could find. I had fun finding them and none of the cards are likely better than vg. I've known people that collected the set in cancelled form. Still, Matt, you are right, completion, because of the Andrews card, is very tough. Maybe GCM wasn't the best example.
For me, the Fleer sets, which I collected as a kid, are not period cards, and therefore not very interesting.
Diamond Stars are great and you can pickup up many of them for $25-50 in lesser condition. 108 in the set, though. With all of these sets you are going to run into multiple HOFers which could break the budget. As Dave pointed out, even a beater set of E98 is certainly over 10k.
Another possibility is a subset of a larger set. I put together the Brooklyn players from T205 very cheaply in about g/vg condition. These cards are more readily available and might make trading easier.