Mike D's 1977 Topps Binder Project

[Mike D.]

Up next:

109 Jorge Orta
110 Steve Carlton
111 Rico Petrocelli
112 Bill Greif
113 Toronto Blue Jays CL
114 Bruce Dal Canton
115 Rich Manning
116 Joe Niekro
117 Frank White

This batch is all here. 111 Rico Petrocelli and 113 Toronto Blue Jays CL are both upgrade candidates.

The cards:



The dups:

[Mike D.]

Next:

118 Rick Jones RC
119 John Stearns
120 Rod Carew
121 Gary Nolan
122 Ben Oglivie
123 Fred Stanley
124 George Mitterwald
125 Bill Travers
126 Rod Gilbreath

All here! 119 John Stearns and 123 Fred Stanley are upgrade candidates.

The cards:



The dups:

[Bigdaddy]

Good luck with the set. I was 11 in 1977 and these are the first wax packs that I can remember opening. Always excited to find an 'All-Star' logo on a card when opening up a pack.

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by Bigdaddy

Good luck with the set. I was 11 in 1977 and these are the first wax packs that I can remember opening. Always excited to find an 'All-Star' logo on a card when opening up a pack.

Thank you! I was 11 when I started collecting 10 years later, in 1987.

My 8 year old son, "inspired" by my binder projects, has started a 1987 Topps binder project of his own.

Pretty funny watching him bust packs of the first set I ever bought!

[Mark70Z]

Man, you picked up a pretty good amount up front. Really like the look of this set and looking forward to viewing it all. While I’m not really a set collector I really like viewing all the different cards and this is one of the last years I really was picking up a ton of cards. I did get some ‘78’s, but that was it for quite a number of years.

Love that your son is getting into it as well. Be cool to see some pics with his cards!

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by Mark70Z

Man, you picked up a pretty good amount up front. Really like the look of this set and looking forward to viewing it all. While I’m not really a set collector I really like viewing all the different cards and this is one of the last years I really was picking up a ton of cards. I did get some ‘78’s, but that was it for quite a number of years.

Love that your son is getting into it as well. Be cool to see some pics with his cards!

Yes, I did start with quite a pile! I was noticing that when doing the initial sort by 100's to get started.

I blame two factors for this: 1) the relative affordability of lots from this year and 2) the Net54 community, who provided some great lots that I couldn't say "no" to.

I wasn't a set collector until I started my 1976 project, but it's fun. Glad folks are enjoying the posts...it makes it a lot more fun and interesting to share the journey.

I think I may hit '78 Topps next. It's funny, but being a young collector in the late 80's and early 90's, that set seemed like an unattainable big money "vintage" set. Molitor/Trammel RC?! Eddie Murray RC?! Might as well have been Ruth and Gehrig to a kid scratching together $16 to buy a box of 1990 Donruss.

My son made ME sort the cards down into 100's, and he then sorted cards 1-100 down by 10's. He's got up to number 20 in the binder...so he's taking the slow approach. Ah, to be 8...

[Mike D.]

The next few:

127 Ron Fairly
128 Tommy John Dodgers
129 Mike Sadek
130 Al Oliver
131 Orlando Ramirez RC
132 Chip Lang
133 Ralph Garr
134 San Diego Padres CL
135 Mark Belanger

All are here and no upgrade candidates!

The cards;



The dups: