#1882 - 09/16/02 07:11 AM
Re: Best Baseball card sets ever.....
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srs1a
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Hi DE and thanks for the welcome. I am a relatively old school collector (at least old!) and re-started collecting in the late '80's focused on "nice" quality star cards from the 50's. With the advent of grading, I discovered that my "nice" corresponded to somewhere between a 6 and 7. I have been getting cards slabbed for about 6 years and I am a recent convert from PSA to SGC.
1968 was the year that I collected big time as a kid. I still have my old set, but it is really rough -- Mr. Mantle went to school with me every day -- and looks like it! About 5 years ago, I decided to rebuild the set -- it was alot of fun and it is now complete -- 110 of the cards are slabbed, including every HOFer. The tally is:
14 PSA-7's
56 PSA-8's
8 SGC-86's
14 SGC-88's
13 SGC-92's
3 SGC-96's
1 BGS-7.5
1 BGS-8.0
I registered the PSA piece and it checks in as #18.
I bought several large lots of commons from vending to finish it up which were georgous (ebay from vintageauctions) -- I combed through them and sent in the 3 freshest (J. Niekro, T. Agee and F. Howard) and scored 3 SGC-96's. I have quite a few really nice dupes, so if anyone out there is struggling with this set, I might be able to help you out.
I'm now working on a '63 set -- talk about tough (I'm preaching to the choir since you're a '62 guy!). I'm going for a solid NM set -- and have 44 more cards to go.
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#1883 - 09/16/02 04:06 PM
Re: Best Baseball card sets ever.....
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deadlyembrace
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Hi srs1a --
Wish I'd known about your '68 set a bit earlier. I just mailed three '68 Topps WS cards (including the Gibson), all graded SGC 98, for consignment in a future independent auction.
Good luck on the '63 Topps set. I seem to notice even fewer available top quality '63s than '62s ... if that's possible. Chipping around the bottom, solid colored edges seems to plague '63s that are otherwise drop-dead beauties. But hey ... if it wasn't challenging, it wouldn't be fun ... right?
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#1884 - 09/30/02 02:39 AM
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I pick the T3 Turkey Red set. Will these oversized cabinet style cards ever get slabbed due to their size?
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#1885 - 09/30/02 11:54 AM
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downgoesfrazier
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Registered: 08/02/02
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Those are awesome. If they are ever slabbed, SGC or GAI holders would look nice.
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#1886 - 10/05/02 01:10 PM
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Do you guys even understand what a VINTAGE baseball card is? Anything made after WW2 is a MODERN card.
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#1888 - 10/05/02 06:27 PM
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For myself, my obsessions are the 1933 Goudey and 1975 Topps minis. The colors when well focused just draw me into them. I should admit though I was born in 75 so I may be overly partial to that year.
Edited by poor33 (10/05/02 06:36 PM)
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#1889 - 10/06/02 12:44 AM
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vayank
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Registered: 04/13/02
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poor33 > One of my prized cards is a 1933 Goudey #25 Paul Waner SGC 30, so I know what you mean.....
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