Mike D's 1977 Topps Binder Project

[Mike D.]

Picked up:

#8 Leading Fireman

$2.09 delivered.

This gives us every card in the set from 1-276. So that's something!



Total spent on binder set: $298.15
Total Reclaimed: $13.95
Total Spent on Graded: $31.02
TTM Successes: 4

[Chicosbailbonds]

Design-wise I thought this was a underrated set. The expansion year cards of Seattle and Toronto with the airbrushing really hold it back in the eyes of collectors.

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by Chicosbailbonds

Design-wise I thought this was a underrated set. The expansion year cards of Seattle and Toronto with the airbrushing really hold it back in the eyes of collectors.

Yeah, overall I agree that these have kind of classic "baseball card design".

I can see what you're saying about the expansion teams...but once you go single series, what else could they do, right?

[Chicosbailbonds]

Originally Posted by Mike D.

Yeah, overall I agree that these have kind of classic "baseball card design".

I can see what you're saying about the expansion teams...but once you go single series, what else could they do, right?

Right, even though there were plenty of airbrushd cards in the early 70's when they were still released in series.

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by Chicosbailbonds

Right, even though there were plenty of airbrushd cards in the early 70's when they were still released in series.

Yes, good point...non-expansion cards. Can't see dinging 77's for that.

For being printed on garbage paper, sure....but not that.

[Mike D.]

Next up:

405 Claudell Washington
413 World Series Cincy Wins
428 Texas Rangers CL
429 Ken Boswell
435 Maury Wills TBC
438 Marty Perez

Washington, Boswell, Wills TBC, and Perez were upgrades.

The WS card and the Rangers TC were missing.



50 missing (7.6%)

100 upgrades (15.1%)

[Mike D.]

The next batch:

537 Dave Roberts
287 Cincinnati Reds CL
383 Stan Bahnsen
434 Carl Yastrzemski TBC
439 Gorman Thomas
474 Rookie Shortstops

Roberts, Bahnsen, and Thomas were upgrades.

The Reds TC, Yastrzemski, and Rookie SS's were missing.



47 missing (7.1%)

97 upgrades (14.7%)