Last card - 1965 Topps completed

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Originally Posted by brian1961

Congratulations Ed! That's a great set.

Let me ask you, who are your three favorite cards in the set, and why?

This set is the only virtually complete set I have left from my childhood. I collected the 1965 set when I was 10-11 years old. My own personal favorite is Mel Stottlemyre. The high numbers were very hard to locate. I never came across them until my mom and I were visiting a town we used to live in. I begged her to stop at the Ben Franklin 5 & 10, one of my two favorite places to find baseball cards. They had the seventh series! She bought me a bunch of packs. I must have hugged and thanked her a dozen times. For some reason, the Mel Stottlemyre really stood out to me. At the time, he was the Yankees' budding new star, and Topps gave him the prime number of 550. His pose, with the camera angled slightly up on Mel, was so compelling to me. Anyway, Mel won 20 games for the dying Yanks that year, and I always regarded that card as a personal favorite.

Would love to hear of your favorites, Ed. Way da go, bro, on finishing the 1965 Topps baseball! ---Brian Powell

Thanks Brian. I am pretty pumped about finishing the 1965 set. Besides being my birth year, it is also my favorite set from the 60's. Great question about my favorite cards. I agree that the Stottlemyre card is cool (and a bear to find centered!). I would say my three favorite cards are: Aaron (I think it is his best 60's or 70's card), Bob Gibson (the Cardinals color combination on the 1965's is awesome), and Mantle (like Aaron, I think 1965 is his best 1960's card). Aside from the these cards, I really like World Series and leader cards.