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[IndyDave]

Originally Posted by Zach Wheat

Congrats, IndyDave. What were the hardest panels to collect?

Thanks Zach.

I went back through the old want lists on my computer and found these were last ones I obtained.

The 1979 Murphy/Matlack/Bochte panel was by far the hardest. There have only been a few hit eBay in the last year and all went for over $200.

The next two hardest were ones I quickly jumped on Buy It Now offers for $99 earlier this year

1976 - 31/32/33 Danny Darwin / Fritz Peterson / Rod Carew

1978 - 145/146/147 - Lyman Bostock / Gary Carter / Ron Blomberg

The other one my last four I got for $40

1975 - 85/86/87 Dave Kingman/ Ed Herrmann / Ralph Garr.

The fivew before that were all in the $40 - $45 range

1975 Dwight Evans / Ken Holtzman / Cesar Cedeno

1976 - 34/35/36 Carlos May / Tom Seaver / Brooks Robinson

1976 - Johnny Bench / Luis Tiant / Dwight Evans

1978 - 28/29/30 Bob Watson / Bob Boone / Reggie Smith - This was only $17 - with a Bob Boone autograph?

1979 - 97/98/99 Jim Sundberg / Bob Horner / Ruppert Jones

I finished the 1977 set long before the other years.

I'm sure there are a few harder ones I acquired long ago - whether at a show in the 70's or 80's or off eBay. And I could probably have acquired a few of my last four cheaper if I had been willing to spend. For the longest time I didn't want to go over $25 or $30.

I've elected to store mine in one pocket pages, with four panels (two each direction) per page. I lay the binder flat on my shelf.

The lot I recentlly acquired came in a binder with all the panels in three pocket sheets. All the panels were cut right down to the line.

The panels I collected as a kid, had much larger cuts - the only ones we cut on the lines were from Ho Ho boxes because the lines were right on the box edges. I decided not to cut down all the ones I had an many of the one I purchased were also outside the lines.