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[LeftHandedDane]

Originally Posted by LeftHandedDane

Completed 1961 Post, 1964 Topps Coins, and 1961 Topps Stamps recently.

Topps regular run (except 1952) complete. Bowman run complete except 1949 (need 43).

Working on assorted 50's/60's/70's issues: 1963 Topps Peel Offs (need 4),1972 Fleer Famous Feats (need 5), 1954 Red Heart (need 2), 1962 Post (need 1), 1963 Post (need 3).

In pre-war, 1933 Goudey (need 66), 1934 Goudey (need 34), 1934-36 Diamond Stars (need 37), 1939 Play Ball (need 39), 1940 Play Ball (need 55) and 1941 Play Ball (need 1).

Update as of January 2018: Bowman 1949 is down to needing 14. On the assorted issues have completed all except 1 1954 Red Heart (damn you Erskine!)

In the pre-war, updated counts are for 1933 Goudey need is now 29, 34 Goudey need 19, 34-36 Diamond Stars need 19, 1939 Play Ball need 8, and 1940 Play Ball need 11.

Also working on the Kelloggs run and only need 16 from the tough 1971 set and 2 from the 1972 set.

Finally, have started on the 1948-49 Leaf set - only the non-short prints - need 15 of those.

[baseballfan]

really trying to finish these sets this year:

55 topps 50 robinson, 194 mays, 198 berra

56 topps 5 Williams, 31 aaron, 33 clemente, 79 Koufax, 130 mays, 135 mantle, 251 yankees

57 topps 95 mantle, 198 tigers, 281, 286 Richardson, 324 dodgers, 405

64 topps giants 9-10-57-60 psa 7 or better
64 topps giants raw 3-7-11-25-45-47-49-51-60


let me know what you have to help
good luck guys
Fred

[TheNightmanCometh]

I'm currently collecting a complete Topps base card run of Braves players, starting from 1951. I am currently 95 cards short of reaching my goal. I have everything from 1959 to today, minus 6 Aaron's.

[geosluggo]

Still 60 cards away from completing my 1958 Topps baseball set, but this week I did finish the cool-looking All Star subset. Seven Hall of Famers in a row, cards 482-488: Banks, Aparicio, Robinson, Williams, Mays, Mantle, Aaron.

[LeftHandedDane]

Originally Posted by LeftHandedDane

Update as of January 2018: Bowman 1949 is down to needing 14. On the assorted issues have completed all except 1 1954 Red Heart (damn you Erskine!)

In the pre-war, updated counts are for 1933 Goudey need is now 29, 34 Goudey need 19, 34-36 Diamond Stars need 19, 1939 Play Ball need 8, and 1940 Play Ball need 11.

Also working on the Kelloggs run and only need 16 from the tough 1971 set and 2 from the 1972 set.

Finally, have started on the 1948-49 Leaf set - only the non-short prints - need 15 of those.

Having received #2 Tom Seaver from the 1971 set today - marking the completion of the Kellogg's run - I am checking in on my set building progress.

The Bowman run seems stuck on the final 5 cards in the 1949 set. They include the Big 3 (Robinson, Paige, Snider) but also two other toughies: Preacher Roe and Dave Ferriss.

I have been making great progress on the pre-war front (low to mid-grade):
- 1933 Goudey need 13 (including Lajoie)
- 1934 Goudey need 12
- 1934-36 Diamond Stars need 11
- 1939 Play Ball need 2 (including Williams)
- 1940 Play Ball need 3 (including DiMaggio and Shoeless Joe)
- 1941 Play Ball is complete

I have completed almost every Robert Laughlin related set out there - still seeking the "Erorrs" set and the "Sports Slang" set. PM me if you have a line on either of those.

The hunt continues!

[commishbob]

Finished off my '62 baseball and '70 basketball sets and swore I'd take a break from serious set chasing. But that didn't work out.

At the local hotel show last month I came across a nice 1961 starter lot in a binder for under 60 cents a card. Added a really cheap lot via eBay (nice condition for the price!) and find myself about 60% through with it already. A bit less than that for the higher cost star cards.

My other set builds have taken a back seat and are creeping along.

[JollyElm]

Finally finished off my 1967 Topps set with the addition of a beautiful Rocky Colavito high number. Now I will await the next ebay 15% coupon to try to knock off the last couple of 1957's I need.

[jiw98]

I just added a couple more cards to my 1955 Bowman baseball set. I need 8 more cards to finish.
I need the following to complete the set: 68,179,238,242,246,270,278,& 310.
I also have several extras for trade or sell.

[drmondobueno]

Finished off a lower grade ‘55 Topps set this week with a Koufax rookie (finally!).

On to chasing whatever is next...

[Promethius88]

Thought I had my 62 Topps baseball set completed then went back and realized I was missing 5 cards. Just doing a vg-ex set, some better and some worse.
#320 - Aaron - Kept buying raw at good deals so I sent to PSA and they kept coming back 5's so I would sell them
#318 - Switch hitter connects. Had one raw and not sure why I sold it
#470 - Kaline A.S.
#471 - Mantle A.S. - Have a PSA 6oc that I might use
#544- I have 10 of these ranging in grades PSA 2-8. Can't seem to keep one raw.

1986 Fleer Basketball PSA 8 Set
#57 - Jordan

1986 Fleer Basketball Sticker PSA 9 Set
#1 - Jabbar

1986 Fleer Basketball Sticker PSA 6 Set
#1 - Jabbar
#3 - Dantley
#4 - English
#5 - Erving

1986 Fleer Basketball Raw Set
#7 Barkley
#57 Jordan

1961 Topps Baseball Raw
Missing 134 cards right now with a lot of them being high numbers. Trying to do the set in NM and have some that I will need to upgrade. Will have to list the numbers missing sometime to see if anyone here can help out

1962 Jell-O
Attempting to do this set all in PSA. Most will be "authentic" but have a good amount of numerical grades at this point. Sitting on the registry with about 55% graded right now with more at PSA and several sitting here waiting to be sent in. Overall I'm at about 75% complete with 40-50 cards to go.

[LeftHandedDane]

Originally Posted by LeftHandedDane

Having received #2 Tom Seaver from the 1971 set today - marking the completion of the Kellogg's run - I am checking in on my set building progress.

The Bowman run seems stuck on the final 5 cards in the 1949 set. They include the Big 3 (Robinson, Paige, Snider) but also two other toughies: Preacher Roe and Dave Ferriss.

I have been making great progress on the pre-war front (low to mid-grade):
- 1933 Goudey need 13 (including Lajoie)
- 1934 Goudey need 12
- 1934-36 Diamond Stars need 11
- 1939 Play Ball need 2 (including Williams)
- 1940 Play Ball need 3 (including DiMaggio and Shoeless Joe)
- 1941 Play Ball is complete

I have completed almost every Robert Laughlin related set out there - still seeking the "Erorrs" set and the "Sports Slang" set. PM me if you have a line on either of those.

The hunt continues!

Haven't checked back in on this thread in a long time. Funny to see the progress since my last post. I have completed the 1933 Goudey except for the second Gehrig and the Lajoie. 1934 Goudey is done except for Greenberg. Diamond Stars is done except for 3 high numbers (99/105/108). I have the Play Balls except the 39 Williams, 40 Dimaggio and 40 Shoeless Joe. I consider all these "done" - except for the Diamond Stars - as the remaining cards are too darned expensive.

In the mean time, I started collecting variations. For example, I have all but 3 of the 1958 "yellow letters", the entire 62 green tint set, and all but 1 of the 69 "white letters". I have also picked up the other standard variations across the mainstream post-war sets with a couple of exceptions like the 55 Bowman Kuenn (name spelled correctly); the 58 Loes (no trade) and the 67 Topps Gomez and Belinsky stat line misprints.

I have also started in on some of the older small sets like the 1948 Swell Sports Thrills, 1951/1952 Berk Ross, 1952 Wheaties, 1960 Leaf (need 4), and 1968 Milton Bradley. And some of the less popular inserts from the 1960's like the 1965 Transfers and 1966 Rub-Offs. And working on, but not expecting to complete, the 1962 and 1963 Jello sets. Its interesting to see how much variation there was in the population across these sets, which are not reflected very well if at all in Beckett pricing.

PM me if you have any of the things I have mentioned here and are interested in selling/trading. As always, happy hunting to all my fellow set collectors!