My last post pointed out so many things that I'm not doing in the hobby. This one is about all that I actually am doing. And regardless of what it felt like in the previous read, it's a lot.
Vintage Sets
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| 1957 Topps |
My main man Marv in Michigan steadily supplied me with most of the remainder of my 1957 list. I still lack a few, including Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Brooks Robinson's RC, and several of the scarcer mid-series. (273 JDavis 276 Pyburn 313 Parnell 339 Speake). I'm looking for the right prices on the big ones, and just to find decent copies of the others. They are elusive.
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| 1962 Topps |
When I finished my 1964 set, I officially started '62. Marv provided so many nice cards, and did so basically on a monthly schedule, that '62 passed the '57 set and now stands with only the Mays/Mantle combo card left to finish it! I think that's the fastest I've completed a vintage set, like ever.
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| 1965 Topps |
So then I found a binder at Chantilly that started me on 1965 Topps. I got a big head start on the set, including many stars and almost all the team cards. I only needed 12 of the 40+ high number short prints (they're not all SP's), and promptly got them from you know who. I picked up a handful of the HOF'ers at the same show, and then got two more installments from Marv. So now I'm down to Clemente, Spahn, Mays, Gibson, Oliva, Carlton RC, Banks, and Bob Uecker, plus a bunch of commons.
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| 1961 Golden Press |
I got a handful of these from a trade on the Database. They were nice and that guy had amassed a pile of them. Then I started finding them at the Chantilly show. This is one set I'm only tracking on the TCDB, so you won't see it on this site. I have 18 of the 33 cards. Haven't tried to pay more than $5 each for them and still get nice looking specimens. At some point I'll have to track down the book they go into, but for now, they're a stack of Card Savers.
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| Vintage football |
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| Vintage Hockey |
Picked up a few big stars here and there this year, including the Mario above. Still need a Parent for the '74-'75 set. Also down to one on '73-'74 (Orr AS upgrade), '75-'76 (Orr again), '86-'87 (Roy RC), and '79-'80 (that Gretzky guy). I actually haven't finished all the '80s hockey yet. And I'm still working on tons of newer sets too, and Capitals.
More Modern Sets
The bulk of my wants are, of course, newer products. Every trade, COMC order, shop visit, and show add to the tallys.
These are some of the sets I have going that I don't even have boxes or shelf space for any more. Most of these have stacked up via trades. A couple of them are Database only....
...As are most of these. I have built the bulk of the 1985 inserts from 2020 Series 2 and Update, as well as a damaged block of 1988 Score, plus the 2008 Update baseball and full set of football. Recently I threw on the 2015 A&G set since I have almost none of it. Did the same for 2005 Upper Deck too. They have all been wildly successful and haven't cost me a dime. All I give is my extras that I want to move out anyway.
One of the little set-ish collections I started this year was all the parallels from 2019 Topps that show the World Series champion Nationals. I'll start a binder with all these down the line. I've traded for a few, and got a bunch on a COMC order.
Player Collections
My favorite hunt at shows and shops is for my player collections. Almost every time, I get a few more odd things for them.
This is why I wish there were more sets with retired players in them. But then I might complain about having too much new stuff to chase.
There are a few guys that I try for EVERYTHING. But usually they have short checklists, or I got lucky and got a head start.
Two of my most thorough PCs are football players. I added several new ones to my Priest Holmes collection on the last COMC order - which I'll post after the conclusion to this series. I started another one for local guy Jordan Addison this year. I've been getting his stuff in chunks too. Buys, trades and show purchases have built up my total to nearly 75 initially, but then in that same recent COMC order, I just about doubled it to 141. He's only tracked on the Database too. There are WAY too many to keep straight any other way.
The latest addition was also originated on that order. Rashad Ross has played for three teams that I follow in his career - Washington Redskins, the AAF's Arizona Hotshots, and the 2020 XFL's DC Defenders. He was drafted by the Bears, so that's what most of his cards depict. He's only got 144 total cards, and a lot of those are rookie autos and 1/1's etc. with Chicago - most of which I'll ignore unless cheap.
I also dabbled into the comic realm. I have a co-worker who loves Captain America, so I search out his cards for her when I can. And in the course of that search, I have found a few of my favorite cyborg soldier along the way. He's only got about 16 cards that I want, so it's a very finite PC.
That's not the complete list of collections I'm working on, but it's all the major highlights. Most collectors would probably specialize in certain parts, but I'm just crazy this way....
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