R330 Double Play, R312 Pastels, or Meusel Set

[Leon]

I voted other....none of those do it for me ...

[bbcard1]

I enjoyed doing the double play. Pretty easy to complete, nice enough player selection.

http://bbcard1.com/double/

Honestly, I'd never do it myself, but I would like to find an appropriately priced set of the cards cut in half.

[nat]

Double Play has the advantage of being relatively inexpensive, but the disadvantage of being boring. I like the idea of a player master set, but I'll second the criticism of picking someone who played in the 1920s, probably the worst decade for cards (pre-1980 at least). Some of the pastels are neat, but mostly I'm not a fan. Which means: pick any of them! Then you won't be competing with me for cards!

Seriously though, if you're interested in other suggestions, how about W517? It's got tons of hall of famers, the cards are large (like the pastels) and mostly inexpensive (like Double Play). Yeah, there's Gehrig and a couple Ruths, so the set isn't easy to complete exactly, but given the other options you mentioned, it seems like it might be the sort of thing that interests you.

[shernan30]

Looks like the R312s are pushing to the top. Taking a look at my budget I may tackle those and the Meusel set.

[Leon]

R312 does have some interesting cards for not a lot of money. Definitely can be collected on a budget.

Originally Posted by shernan30

Looks like the R312s are pushing to the top. Taking a look at my budget I may tackle those and the Meusel set.

[bn2cardz]

I voted for the double play set. Not only does it include very brief bio/stats it also has some overlooked HOF RC cards (Rizzuto, Slaughter, Boudreau).

[Leon]

Looks like the R312s won by a not so narrow margin. Not really surprising due to the competition. Now if you put a poll up with other cards, R312s might not fair as well. I was watching a Double Play Joe D a few days ago on ebay and it skyrocketed at the end...I think it was $600+ (it was a 5 or 5.5 though)....I liked that card!!