Net54baseball Pre-War Set Group Break - Set to be Decided?

[Leon]

Hey Guys and Girls
Nick and I spoke about the potential for a group break and given the responses from the other thread think we want to go ahead and try it at least once . Nick is on board for doing it exactly the way it was laid out in the other thread. I will purchase a set or a partial set of Pre-War cards. That group should have 50-200 cards to make it viable and to not have too many spots to fill. He agrees that we should mark it up 10% (my proceeds will go to a North Texas Animal cause). Then there will be a $1 per card expense for expenses(packaging??) PLUS the actual shipping charge (and we will probably round up so Nick doesn't get stuck holding the bag). Cards over a certain amount will get insurance. If a lower end card gets lost I will cover it. We don't think the partial/set should be too expensive or folks won't be able to afford it. We are thinking somewhere in the 2500-4000 budget range for the group. After the set/group is acquired and Nick has them he will be doing all of the organizing and so forth. We are considering different ways of doing the break too, with Rich K's idea a possibility. Of course there will be 100% transparency in everything we do.Once we have this discussion for a day or two I will be on the lookout for the first set to do. Let's have some fun with it.
Thoughts on a set or thoughts in general??

[chahn1980]

I'm in. T205 or 1921 Exhibit would be my vote. Problem is one is probably too much and the other not enough. Pretty much no matter what the set I will be in.

[bn2cardz]

1951 Bowman with a chance at Mays and Mantle rookies, but the set may be too big
1952 Bowman would also be interesting and is just slightly bigger than your max size.

[Sean1125]

1941 Play Ball?

I think the forum should have a vote on what they would pay for a slot and figure out a set after that.

If the consensus decides a $20 break or $50 break you will have an approx price range for the set and can easily pick one in a mid-grade range after that.

I am happy to help where ever I can.

[bobbyw8469]

My vote is for the 1955 Topps. Good set with some good rookies (Clemente, Koufax, Killebrew), as well as some good 2nd year cards of Kaline, Aaron, and Banks, and fading stars like Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams.

[Conner161822]

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[kailes2872]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

My vote is for the 1955 Topps. Good set with some good rookies (Clemente, Koufax, Killebrew), as well as some good 2nd year cards of Kaline, Aaron, and Banks, and fading stars like Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams.

I would like 55 or 54 but I think the big Rookies should be grade 5/6/7.

The $1600 54 set that Sterling had seemed pretty rough from what I read in the description. I am in the minority, but those are 2 of the 3 on my to do list. If I win the Clemente/Koufax/Banks/Aaron I am hoping to not have to upgrade.

Of course, when the drawing happens and I win low number commons, I can open this up and laugh at the idea of me fretting that the big dollar cards wouldn't be graded high enough...

[Sean]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

My vote is for the 1955 Topps. Good set with some good rookies (Clemente, Koufax, Killebrew), as well as some good 2nd year cards of Kaline, Aaron, and Banks, and fading stars like Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams.

Great idea. I would like the T206 set, but a subset will be much more manageable.

[Matvoo]

T206 Southern League Set
Not sure how much that cost though

[Luke]

1941 play ball sounds good to me.

[sebie43]

'41 playball sounds good. Also like the idea of T cards T201,05,06.. either way it is interesting. Great idea

[autocentral]

Thanks for all the input. Keep it coming.

Thanks,
-Nick

[varsitycollectibles]

I'm definitely interested in this type of group break. However, I am curious how condition of cards will be addressed. If it is a draft pick style break, will we have scans of cards to help us pick?

[autocentral]

Originally Posted by varsitycollectibles

I'm definitely interested in this type of group break. However, I am curious how condition of cards will be addressed. If it is a draft pick style break, will we have scans of cards to help us pick?

As of now it will not be a draft break. It will be a standard random break. I'm open for any suggestions but I feel like random breaks would definitely work better for this type of break than draft style break.

-Nick

[Nappy1525]

Do you have a time frame on when this would start?

[HalChaseCollector]

t205
or
1963 topps set

I like the idea of doing any set!

[pokerplyr80]

I'm new to this forum but I'd be in for the break. 41 play ball and 51 bowman both sound good.