Set You Had Most Fun Putting Together

[Volod]

Originally Posted by MilBraves

Thanks for the heads up! Hopefully, the price stays low enough that I would be able to keep panel 1 and resell the other 5 I already have w/o losing a lot of money. People pay a huge premium on buying all of them at once. A guy on Ebay just sold the 5 panels I have, individually, and only made about 250 bucks. Of course, he didn't have panel 1 for sale. I bet Legendary will get over 800 for that lot.

Scott: I did the same a few years ago. Had been trying to complete a decent set of 1951 ML All Stars for a couple of decades, but could not find a Kiner or Dropo with intact backs. When Legendary put up a five-card lot with backs, I had to have it, even though overpaid somewhat at 2.5 grand. Will probably take a loss unloading the extras, but worth it to me just because I wanted those two cards for so long.

[benderbroeth]

i hope no one gets angry but i must ask this question..i see so many people say i did not like putting 19** set together because it was an ugly set, unattractive to me and so forth....

to me i collect a set i like visually, i would never collect a set i did not like (i barely have enough money for the sets i do like lol)

so i bet you can see my question coming, why build a set you do not like?

[alanu]

Originally Posted by benderbroeth

i hope no one gets angry but i must ask this question..i see so many people say i did not like putting 19** set together because it was an ugly set, unattractive to me and so forth....

to me i collect a set i like visually, i would never collect a set i did not like (i barely have enough money for the sets i do like lol)

so i bet you can see my question coming, why build a set you do not like?

I believe some collector's like to have a complete run of Topps, Bowman, etc sets

[benderbroeth]

ah that makes sense to me lol..

[cdn_collector]

As a kid [in the 80's], I remember seeing pictures of Yogi Berra and Warren Spahn 1951 Red Backs and thinking how cool it'd be to own one. When I got back into collecting in the early 2000's, I got a Warren Spahn from Gar Miller, and proceeded to put together a raw g-vg set [including both variations]. The last card I needed was Duke Snider -- and Gar gave it to me as a gift for graduating university.

Compared to nearly every other set listed in this thread, what I did was easy, but it wasn't any less fun. Just thinking back to it has me thinking about building the set again!


Richard.

[Stu]

By far for me was 57 and 71 simply because I started out with the 57 being the first standard size cards and for there beautiful photos and the 71's for being the year that I most vividly remember collecting when I was a kid. I can still remember seeing all those rack packs in the supermarket like it was yesterday..........

[ALR-bishop]

Originally Posted by cdn_collector

As a kid [in the 80's], I remember seeing pictures of Yogi Berra and Warren Spahn 1951 Red Backs and thinking how cool it'd be to own one. When I got back into collecting in the early 2000's, I got a Warren Spahn from Gar Miller, and proceeded to put together a raw g-vg set [including both variations]. The last card I needed was Duke Snider -- and Gar gave it to me as a gift for graduating university.

Compared to nearly every other set listed in this thread, what I did was easy, but it wasn't any less fun. Just thinking back to it has me thinking about building the set again!


Richard.

The 51 Red Backs are a fun set. Blue backs too. And unopened packs are doable as well. I think the Topps 51 sets are in general under appreciated because of the stronger interest in the 52s and the impression some have that it was the first Topps baseball set.

I have done the Red Backs, Blue Backs, Connie Mack All Stars, Current All Stars ( only the 8 issued cards) and both versions of the Team cards. It has been awhile but the last 3 were pretty tough.

The Topps 1991 set was hailed as the 40th and the 2011 as the 60th, but I count my first Topps set as the baseball subset of the 1948 Topps Magic Photos

[cdn_collector]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

I have done the Red Backs, Blue Backs, Connie Mack All Stars, Current All Stars ( only the 8 issued cards) and both versions of the Team cards. It has been awhile but the last 3 were pretty tough.

If I ever re-assemble a Red Back set, I'll almost certainly also tackle the Blue Back set at the same time. The original goal oh-so-many years ago was to do both anyway. I doubt I'd bother with the all-star and team cards though. My budget and patience can probably only handle the red & blue backs. And even then, only if they remain under valued as you noted.


Regards,

Richard.