Topps 1968 Milton Bradley set

[Mark70Z]

Someone show the Brooksie please!

[ALR-bishop]

Sorry---good catch Darren. The Robinson variants are from the regular set. I pulled up the wrong scan

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Sorry---good catch Darren. The Robinson variants are from the regular set. I pulled up the wrong scan.

You had me scrambling to update my need lists!!

[kickstand19]

Just wanted to chime in to acknowledge the great job Carlton did on putting this article together. He's been an immense help over this past year as I've hunted these cards aggressively. Everything he has said about these cards are true. A few collectors will be all it takes to start drying the inventory up. The MB story is a great one which I think will resonate with collectors. It's also very reasonable to believe these cards eventually end up in a Super Set. Great opportunity to find these cards now... Putting this set together has been an absolute blast!

BTW.... Just the Marichal checklists are in the MB set

[4reals]

I was fortunate enough to have Carlton ask me to help on his project. He emailed me the scans of each card and gave me the coordinates on where it would have appeared on a sheet and I simply pieced it together. Here is a larger version of the picture of the sheet since the one on the article isn't very big.

[JollyElm]

I have a pretty nice Stottlemyre…

[kickstand19]

That's a real nice Stottlemyre.... I've had trouble coming across that one

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by kickstand19

A few collectors will be all it takes to start drying the inventory up.

I have had great luck finding these MB cards (both BB and FB) embedded in random lots....over the past few years, I have probably come across 100+ of these MB cards (if I had kept them all, my BB/FB set likely would have been complete) out the 12-15K cards from these issues I have bought and gone through before reselling. Before Carlton turned me onto these cards several years back, I had no idea they existed, so in the years before, there is no telling how many I missed. Based on my experience with finding these cards embedded in lots(even from experienced dealers), there are a lot of these MB cards still out there lurking in dealer stock, collector sets and accumulations, unknown to their current owners.

I think it will be a while before these are dried up because they are so dispersed and embedded.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by kickstand19

A few collectors will be all it takes to start drying the inventory up.

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[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by kickstand19

A few collectors will be all it takes to start drying the inventory up.

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[ALR-bishop]

Thanks for posting that Joe.

Saved makes the point that some sellers may be unaware of this set and mix them with regular Topps 1968 cards in their inventory. When I was putting my set together I came across a few sellers offering cards from the later 1968 Toppps series as MB cards because of the similar backs. If collecting this set it is important to be familiar with the checklist.

Anyone here have the complete game with cards ? I know Carlton has a few. I am just a baseball guy so it is not on my list. Anyone collect the football set ? The hot rods ?

[savedfrommyspokes]

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[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Thanks for posting that Joe

Yes, very nice Joe

[kickstand19]

I do agree that there are still quite a few of these yet uncovered. However, they will be spread out thinly through many different collections. Hardly anyone will have a lot of these. I've contacted a ton over people over the past year (probably over a thousand or so) with regard to these cards; many big dealers included. Your going to find that a lot of the big dealers have been cleaned out and have very few. After they've been cleaned out, its going to take a long time for them to restock. I've also inquired with many sellers about MB's in their collections, and have scored quite a few of these this way (I have approx 800 total) I do expect to see a minor glut of these cards as people start to figure out what they have and attempt to make a few bucks. I just think a few collectors could put a serious dent in what's available. I guess time will tell.

[ALR-bishop]

Mark---here is the Robinson