What set are you currently trying to build and will see it threw till the end?

[Sean]

Originally Posted by bigtrain

I am up at our summer place in Cooperstown this weekend for the Hall of Fame game and at the same time am picking up the last few raw cards I need to finish off my 1956 set. It is from the year I was born. Also working on a 65 set as that was my favorite set as a kid.

Tom, this is a coincidence. I was also born in 1956, and the '65 set was my favorite also. I'm almost finished with it. I have 597/598. I'm only missing Joe Nossek.
I'm at 522 in the T206 set, so I've gone as far as I can. I'm working on sub-sets now, like getting a Merkle with every possible back.

[bigtrain]

Originally Posted by Sean

Tom, this is a coincidence. I was also born in 1956, and the '65 set was my favorite also. I'm almost finished with it. I have 597/598. I'm only missing Joe Nossek.
I'm at 522 in the T206 set, so I've gone as far as I can. I'm working on sub-sets now, like getting a Merkle with every possible back.

Sean,
Great that you are so close to finishing the 65 set. I get a kick out of searching for commons cards like Joe Nossek because as a kid I probably got one in every pack. There was always one guy you had 20 of, I particularly remember that in 66 it was Phil Roof. I could have wallpapered my room with his cards.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by bigtrain

Sean,
Great that you are so close to finishing the 65 set. I get a kick out of searching for commons cards like Joe Nossek because as a kid I probably got one in every pack. There was always one guy you had 20 of, I particularly remember that in 66 it was Phil Roof. I could have wallpapered my room with his cards.

Tom, in the 1965 set it was Gary Bell for me. It seemed for the first month that every time I opened a pack there was a Bell in it. Good luck with your set.

[frankb22]

Nearly five years now on t206 but with disclaimers of course.

For the whole set there are 10 or less possible complete sets due
to the Doyle card so would like to see all those T206 guys add their
disclaimers. There will be no Doyle for me (not interested) nor Wagner
(most overvalued card in the hobby) Everything else is up for discussion
although the next two I'd nix would be Demmit and O'Hara. Magie I
would consider and Plank may just not be worth the resources. They will
certainly be the last two if they ever make it, Plank being completely
legit but just too expensive.

[PowderedH2O]

I am gradually working my way backwards. I am down to three cards for the 1954 Topps set (sadly, they are the Aaron, Banks, and Kaline rookies). That set is mostly VG to VG-Ex. I am mostly working on my 1963 and 1967 sets now (Ex to Ex-Mt), but I am dabbling in 1955 Bowman, 1956 Topps, and picking up the few cards from the early 70's that I need to finish my run back to the 60's. I had a fairly nice collection of graded cards, and a few months ago I bought some nice raw cards. I decided to get them graded, then at the last minute, saw that I was about to spend $1300 to get cards graded that I already had. I decided to use that money to buy other raw cards and then I decided to sell my graded cards and start over. My goal is to have 1953-present in baseball, 1948-present in football (Topps and Bowman sets) and eventually tackle the playball sets of the 40's.

Sam

[sb1]

Originally Posted by Sean

Tom, in the 1965 set it was Gary Bell for me. It seemed for the first month that every time I opened a pack there was a Bell in it. Good luck with your set.

Great that you are so close to finishing the 65 set. I get a kick out of searching for commons cards like Joe Nossek because as a kid I probably got one in every pack. There was always one guy you had 20 of, I particularly remember that in 66 it was Phil Roof. I could have wallpapered my room with his cards.

In 1969 the 1st series I must have gotten an Al McBean in every other pack.