Mike D's 1976 Topps Binder Project

[Mike D.]

The first item I needed to procure was the binder and pages.

1 BCW 3" Black Baseball Card Storage D-Ring Album Binder & 50 Pages 9 Pocket - $23.28 delivered

25 Ultra PRO Platinum 9-Pocket Hologram Card Album PagesBinder Sheets - $7.16 delivered.

That's a nice binder and enough pages to hold the entire 660 card set (with one page to spare!)

Total spent on binder set: $30.44

Total spent on graded: $0

[Mike D.]

Next, to pick up some starter lots to get me, well, started. I figure I'll have a lot of sorting ahead of me, then I can start to fill in gaps.

Lot of (495) 1976 Topps Baseball Cards Avg Ex BV $410 Brett Schmidt Yount Yaz - $109.02 delivered



Hey look...it's got a Brett in it! My first duplicate!

Total spent on binder set: $139.46

Total spent on graded: $0

[Mike D.]

Next up:

1976 TOPPS BASEBALL - 100 CARD LOT - ALL DIFFERENT - SEE LIST - EXC-NM - $18.08



These look to mostly be commons, but they're in decent shape and no dups!

Total spent on binder set: $157.54

Total spent on graded: $0

[Mike D.]

One more lot before the big sort starts:

1976 Topps Baseball Assorted Commons Lot 289 Different VG to NM - $31.62



Seemed like too good a price to let them go!

Total spent on binder set: $189.16

Total spent on graded: $0

[Mike D.]

1976 Topps PSA Graded Cards

Before starting the project, I do have a handful of 1976 Topps cards that are graded.



For this project, I'll target PSA graded cards only, PSA 7 and above, with no qualifiers. For most, I'll probably target PSA 8, with the exception being for those that 8's get a big pricey.

At some point I'll get photos or scans of the graded cards.

[Mike D.]

Newly Acquired PSA Graded

One more post before I go off and start slogging through piles of 1976 Topps commons....a couple recent PSA pickups:

1976 Topps #202 A.L. ERA Ldrs. Palmer/Hunter/Eckersley PSA 8 - $15.52 delivered

1976 Topps Baseball Card #347 Ted Williams All Time All Star PSA 8 - $21.39 delivered

1976 TOPPS NL RBI LEADERS #195 PSA 8! BENCH - $10.46 delivered

Total spent on binder set: $189.16

Total spent on graded: $47.37

[wdwfan]

Love the idea of doing it as well as the idea of keeping track of it.

BTW, some ebay sellers have pretty decent deals of lots from the 1970s. I'm thinking of doing a 1975 Topps set (my birth year). Right now I'm working on 62 and 58, but neither are binder ready (only a handful of each). Also I've been chasing "binder" sets as well as Ex-Mt to NM is what I look for. I know one guy who will buy the card no matter what they look like even if they're bent/creased, bad corners whatever. He says he'd rather have it in bad condition than not have it at all.

Good luck with your chase. I'll try and keep up with it.