The last card you needed for a set

[betafolio2]

Originally Posted by HoofHearted

Card #139 ("Babe Hits 60" with green tint) is the only card that made the grade of PSA 7 or better.

Wow, that one card must be really special to you then! By the way, not to sound ignorant, but I never heard about the green tint issue in the '62s. Can you tell me more about it? I'm always looking to learn something! (And it should be obvious that I'm not working on a '62 set -- YET.)

[ALR-bishop]

Mike is the go to guy for info on this group of variations, but in general the entire 2nd series of the 1962 set, cards 110-196 can be found with two distinct printing variations. The first printing, by one production group, resulted in cards that had a greenish tint and were a mite blurry to boot. Another production group was used to correct this quality issue and the second printing is much sharper and not greenish. There were also some pose variations in the second printing that impact cards 129, 132, 139, 147,, 174, 176, and 190. The green tints are scarcer than the corrected cards but not rare and you can likely find a some on ebay right now with a search for "Topps 1962 green tint".

By the way, Topps intentionally recreated the green tint phenomena in the 2011 Heritage set, which is based on the 1962 design. Cards 110-158 and 160 to 196 can be found in green tint or red or black depending on what retailer sold the cards.

In the original 1962 set there are 4 versions of card 139...Ruth with and without the foul pole...and Hal Reniff portrait or pitching

[wolfdogg]

1952 Topps---#325 Serena

[steve B]

74 Topps -Mike Schmidt. Took a few years of waffling before I found one at a price I liked. Not a bad thing as it became the last one needed when his cards were at their peak. So I saved a bunch by waiting.

Most other years, 78-80 I don't really recall. Usually some common, and at the time most dealers had big boxes of commons you could go through. So it was usually more like the last 10-20 cards all bought at once.

My 88 topps set it was Canseco. Also took a couple years Too "expensive" to find in flea market lots, but too cheap for a dealer to give it space in the case. Or bother digging it out of the big box in back.

I really can't recall which 48 Bowman was the last. I think one of the SPs but not a star.

Steve B

[HoofHearted]

Originally Posted by betafolio2

Wow, that one card must be really special to you then! By the way, not to sound ignorant, but I never heard about the green tint issue in the '62s. Can you tell me more about it? I'm always looking to learn something! (And it should be obvious that I'm not working on a '62 set -- YET.)

Thanks, Al, for the green-tint update. Couldn't have done it any better! I'd like to add that it was a lot of fun searching out the green- and non-tint variations because each not only had sometimes dramatic differences in the tint, but both runs were cropped differently.

So as not to high-jack this fun thread, I'll have to search for one maybe already posted on the '62Ts...

[saltire]

Great thread, guys! Here's a list of my "last cards" from 1960-1973:

1960: #316 McCovey
1961: #531 Coates
1962: Still one to go (#594 UeckerRC)
1963: Still one to go (#536 RoseRC)
1964: #538 Minoso
1965: #207 Rose
1966: Still 11 to go
1967: Still 22 to go
1968: #490 Killebrew/Mays/Mantle
1969: #640 Jenkins
1970: #580 Rose
1971: #630 Clemente
1972: #703 Griffin
1973: #615 Schmidt

Bit of a mix. Interestingly, only one featuring Mantle.

[lutherlafy]

My favorite cards are the mid 1950's regional wiener cards.
Just finished my 1953 Hunter Wiener set and the last card
being Willard Schmidt.

Going back several years, the last Topps card for my 1951-90 set run was the 1966 Topps Minnesota Twins team card.
1960 Leaf Jim Brosnan
1963 Fleer Joe Adcock

By far the toughest Rodeo wiener card to obtain is the 1956 Joe Astroth and it was the last card that completed both the 1955 & 1956 sets for me. I also have two of the 1955 Rodeo Scrapbooks.

Does anyone out there have an extra 1954 Hunter Wiener Stan Musial??

[stlcardsfan]

Here are some I remember:

1969: Bobby Cox (#237)
1968: Lee May - I swear that card is short printed
1967: Seaver - enough said
1964: Orioles Team Card (#484?)
1966: Denny McLain, Roger Craig, or Dick Green. I just remember all 3 took me forever.
1961: George Thomas (541?)
1959: Nellie Fox AS

[Rich Klein]

Something weird is about the 1968 Lee May card. It is the semi high series and I once sold, 12 of them in one Albany show for probably $1 each when they booked for probably a quarter.

The minute the crowd heard I had a few, they ALL were sold that show.

The Bobby Cox was tough for me in packs in 1969 as well one of the last I needed

Rich

[mintacular]

Any comment on tougher 72s? I've found the Ron Cey RC is a tough one to get, also 70 Gamble RC gets some love

[betafolio2]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

Something weird is about the 1968 Lee May card. It is the semi high series and I once sold, 12 of them in one Albany show for probably $1 each when they booked for probably a quarter. The minute the crowd heard I had a few, they ALL were sold that show.

Rich

Yes, there is something weird about this card's availability (or lack thereof). As it happens, I need just three cards to finish off my EX-MT 1968 set, and wouldn't you know it -- the Lee May card is one of them!