Set You Had Most Fun Putting Together

[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.

[Volod]

Originally Posted by cdn_collector

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.

Interesting you mentioned the effect the Redbacks had on you in the 1980's. They were the set that I recalled most distinctly from my childhood - something about the format: oddly ugly b/w photos of MLB stars on playing cards with round corners in two-card panels, yikes. Plus, the extra All-Star card in the wrapper with a deliciously rancid caramel candybar. What kid could ever forget that. However, no Mantle or Mays rookie cards in the set, so consigned to hobby obscurity. I'm still searching attics for the impossible elusive big-three unissued current all-stars.

[Rickyy]

I'm like Tonyo...1973 was the first set I collected seriously as a kid...and over the years I upgraded it. I remember buying the 4th series complete from Larry Fristch since I couldn't for some reason find the 4th run in my area. The High Numbers were easier!

I went back and completed the 1972 set much later...but also enjoyed collecting that one.

1974 brings back the fondest of memories...I completed almost the entire set card by card by buying packs and then trading with my friends during that hot summer as a kid! Eventually went for the master set and finally obtained the last card i needed 1974 Washington NL Dave Roberts at the old Bob Lee show in SF in the late 80's...the guy I bought it from was just as excited as I was when I told him that was the last one I needed.

Ricky Y

[Samsdaddy]

I am not a set builder for baseball though I am for football and have a couple sets from the 1960's. That being said, I am toying with the idea of collecting the 1964 and more importantly the 1965 Topps Baseball sets as those are my favorite two years from the 1960's. It will take a while but having fun with both.

As a high school student back in the 1980's I put together the '58 Topps All - Star sub set. Some twenty plus years later they are still my favorite group of cards in my small but growing collection.

I am sure several remember the Hart to Hart episode that featured a young boy who inherited a great collection of vintage baseball cards from his deceased father. The cards were stolen and eventually Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) wins them back by flipping.

One of the cards they showed was Stan Musial's first Topps card, the '58 All - Star and I instantly fell in love with that sub set. The last two cards I picked up for that were the Mantle and Ted Williams and I believe I paid $10 for each back in the 80's.