Set You Had Most Fun Putting Together

[tonyo]

73 topps for me.

My first year collecting as a kid was 72. In early 90's I sold most of my 70's baseball, but kept the 72's...when I got back into collecting in 09 I finished up the 72 set but only had a few holes.

73 I built from scratch buying lots on ebay..........Love the photography in that set and it brought back a lot of memories. Loved sorting the lots as they came in a choosing the best card to keep. It was my goal to spend no more than the average cost I was seeing for complete sets. Ultimately met that goal but it was nerve racking (read: fun) once I had completed the set and began trying to sell the doubles, triples, quadruples, quintuples to eventually get back down to my $ goal for net cost on a complete set.

Took me about 4 months to complete the set then another couple of months to sell the extras.

Also did the 52 bowmans in a similar manner - It was fun too, but overall the 73 was the best since I had seen so many of the cards as a kid!

The attached Clemente is the first card I bought :

[HRBAKER]

Pre-War: 1921 Exhibits, fun bc it was attainable over a reasonable amount of time and it is loaded with Hall of Famers

Post War: 1967 Topps, this one is special bc it was the first year I really collected in earnest as a child, the set contains some of those cards from my childhood and 1967 is a magical year for me bc my favorite team the Cardinals won the World Series

[Tcards-Please]

The following are my top choices:

1978 Topps - This was the first set that I put together with the help of my grandmother.

T205 - 61 away from completing which I started putting together in 2007. I have a feeling that I will always be 1 card short of the master set, which I don't mind.

1956 Topps - about 120 short, one of my favorite sets.

1952 Topps - 405 short. This will be my next set that I will attempt to tackle after I complete the T205s.

r/
Frank

[theseeker]

Had fun with:
*The '55 Topps for the beauty of the cards and for being in the middle of perhaps the most idealic decade for the sport and the hobby.
*The 1972 Topps that so epitomized their times with the radical design and by bringing that particular era to life like never before with all those action photos.
*I'll get some flack for this, but all the sets that followed 1973 for getting rid of the series issues and thereby eliminating the hard to get and expensive, hi-number cards. (One exception, read below.)

Least favorite to put together:
The '75 Topps set. I found it extremely overrated and just plain boring. They let the genie out of the bag in '71, when they first included action photos and took a step back in '75 when they treated them like a novelty that had run it's course.

[mintacular]

57/71 BB, always room to upgrade, some tough high #'s/centering and black borders. Lots of expensive stars so they are not too easy and you can't just buy the whole set at one time, at least not me...

[familytoad]

I am working on a run from 1953 to 1980 Topps with a few of the Bowmans that I haven't got serious about.
I will probably do the 1952 low numbers too, I have a good start.

A poster above mentioned the high numbered series from Topps...I gotta tell you that mostly that's just irritating to me to have to pay for high numbered, otherwise common players. The 1961 are tough for example...
I just want to get them and then close the binder. Damn high numbers!

But even though the 72 set has a TON of cards and some fairly scarce hi's...to answer the original question, it was my favorite to complete. That baseball set brought back the ol' memories of that summer where we'd buy cards almost every day...10 cents a pack. And even as a ten year old I remember noticing the different series... Somedays you'd open your pack and see ALL new cards and players, and what a blast that was for several weeks until you started seeing another whole new group!!
Luckily, with card collecting buddies like the OBC gang, I filled in the holes from that 787 card set a few years ago , complimenting my originals from that nostalgic summer. I might even try it again this summer...40 years later

[BearBailey]

Had Fun With:
1975 Topps, I remember putting my birth year set together in the late 80's and going from booth to booth at the Old Willow Grove Shows to finish out the set.
1959 Topps, I started this set my senior year of highschool in 93 and didn't finish it until well after college due to money constraints, but a great set with moderately difficult high numbers.
Least Fun With;
1967, 1966, 1961 Topps. All 3 have brutal high numbers especially in nm or better condition. I love cards but having to pay4-5 times book value for a nm common that you have not seen in that condition for almost 2 years is painful just to finally finish off the set.

I am one of the few who just loves the hunt of set collecting!!

[HOF Auto Rookies]

I don't know if you would generalize mine as a "set" per se, but I am trying to accumulate a "Master Collection" of HOF autographed rookie cards, players only. Obviously some don't exist, Negro Leaguers, 1887 A & G's, Old Judge, etc., but for the ones that do exist, I'm trying to grab, then upgrade to better conditions. I started in about 2007, mainly working on deceased HOF'ers and older HOF'ers who's health is turning for the worse.

[David W]

The first set I almost completed from buying packs and trading was 1976. I kept it sorted by teams and marked the backs of the team checklists to see how close I was to completion. When I got a team completed I wrapped them in a rubber band and put them in one of these......