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09-06-2011, 02:16 AM
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I love the 71 set..its a beautiful card set..but ofcourse it is maddening if you want to collect them in near mint like condition..you just have to accept the lower grades..and just enjoy them..when I was a kid I ofcourse recolored the borders if they got chipped......its funny that a lot of the cards are now considered trimmed too..I never did that as a kid.....but I upgraded over the years...and bought some from unopened boxes...and they were smaller than normal size...and if I tried to get them slabbed i'm sure they will come back rejected...but mine are in album sheets so it doesn't matter.... looks great as is in all its EX condition glory...
 Ricky Y 
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09-06-2011, 03:17 PM
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I really like the 71s but 1975 is my favorite of the decade! Being the year I was born it was a big deal to complete that set, sometime around 1988 or 1989 at the Old Willow Grove shows. I completed a much higher grade set in the 1990s as well.
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09-06-2011, 03:35 PM
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First packs I ever opened were 71's, used to get them at Schierer's dairy store.
It's my second favorite set, 76 is my favorite, only because it is the first set I ever was able to completely put together from buying packs and trading. Also, Lou Brock's best card is in that set. (Scan taken from ebay, not mine) I've still got the set, all dog eared and creased.
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09-06-2011, 05:51 PM
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I've always liked the 1971's and 1972's. Never cared that much for the 1975 set. I like the MVP subset, but they used lots of bad poses in that set. They can also be very difficult to collect in good shape.
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#5
09-10-2011, 10:17 AM
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1971 set question
I have not had time to check this out in my own set, but someone on CU mentioned that the photo in the Munson card is bigger than that in some of the other cards in the set ( he mentions Harrelson specifically), and questions whether the Munson is unique in it's photo size ( which the poster notes may cause to the card to look OC compared to other cards with smaller photos), or whether there are differing photo sizes throughout the set.
Also, I have seen references to a variation ( or print defect) in the 71 Munson card. May have been his name in white rather than yellow. Anyone else heard or seen anything along those lines ?
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#6
09-10-2011, 09:39 PM
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Personally I don't care for the 71 set. It does have some positives, fronts look good, challenging high numbers make it fun, but the backs are so dark and drab, maybe my least favorite backs out of any topps set. Really prefer the 1970 & 1975 sets from this era.
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09-11-2011, 10:02 PM
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Agree, the backs are dark and drab. But you can't say that about 1971 O-Pee-Chee...
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