A 40 year Project Completed - 1969 Cubs

[Mark70Z]

Hi Mark,

First, let me say from an unauthorized spokesperson for Net54, within the pre-1980 card forum, is that you’re forgiven...

Secondly, I share your same birth year, but was born in Baltimore so my dedication was to the Orioles. I’m still a fan today, but this year so far is tough to watch. Will be a Birds fan till the end. Your dedication to a project is definitely motivation to start and/or complete what you set out to do and your ‘69 Cubbies look great. Congrats on a very cool run of autographs.

Lastly, you need to display those 1969 Cub pictures and let us see the outcome!

[ALR-bishop]

Mark, the OP, congrats on finishing such a labor of love. Even as a lifelong Cardinals fan there were a lot of Cubs on that team that were a credit to the game. It must have been a heartbreaker year for die hard Cub fans

Mark, the unofficial moderator, thanks for not moving this to the memorabilia section

[Mark70Z]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

. Mark, the unofficial moderator, thanks for not moving this to the memorabilia section

Al,

If you were accustom to the process of being an unconfirmed moderator you would have noticed that it took me a day of unobstructed thought to ultimately make the unofficial decision to keep the thread where it resides I already forgave Mark (what a memorable name by the way) for his recognition of being in the incorrect section, but he “had to share” (so glad he did!)

Mark,

Again AWESOME accomplishment!

[JTysver]

Nice! I'm going after the 73 Mets the same way except I'm not necessarily seeking them on photos.

[mr2686]

Congrats Mark on completing a great and fun project. I am also working on the 69 Cubs, with my main focus on getting as many of their signed 69 topps cards (and some 1970 cards). Of course, that's not possible for some of the players that did not have a card for either year, and some that did are just plain impossible to find.
Also, you are absolutely spot on when you said that some are/were very tough. I ended up with Randy Bobb on a minor league team sheet (your's is so much nicer, but you take what you can get). It doesn't look like you have any of the coaches (except Durocher the manager) but if you every try to get them, Verlon Walker is by far the hardest (just got mine yesterday and is up on the autograph side under May pick ups...there are 2 up on ebay right now, which is a rare occurrence.
One more thing, and something that might look cool with your other photos, would be an 8x10 of the black cat running in front of the dugout. I have that one signed by Santo. Looks really nice.
Good luck on your future projects.

[skil55voy]

Nice job. Congratulations