What's going on with the HOF registry sets? 75 BB in particular.
Darin
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Was thinking about doing the 75 baseball HOF set again after selling mine to focus on other projects, and
noticed it is now a 76 card set. Used to be 35-36 in the set I believe but they added all the highlights cards,
the MVP subset and team cards if it shows a HOF manager. If its not a players regular issue card it doesn't belong
in the registry set, imo. Now I'm not going to do it because its so diluted with cards I don't want to acquire.
Anyone else notice this with the registry? Any opinions on the subject?
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I did notice this, but only because I logged in one time, and instead of having 4 completed sets on the main page, it showed me as only having 3. I investigated, and realized that my 75 HOF set had gone from 100 percent to 57 or whatever.
Seeing how I have completed the regular 1975 set, and it was still showing 100 percent, I was confused. That's when I noticed they'd changed the card requirements for the set to include all of the highlights, MVPs, and managers.
I simply added the best available items from my regular 1975 set, and voila!, for a few fleeting moments I was the owner of the number 1 ranked 1975 Topps HOF set! It was a proud moment, as a sense of accomplishment washed over me and I felt that all of the hard work I'd put in on my set had paid off! I was being recognized as the best! Then, over the course of the next few days, some of the other registry participants updated their HOF set, and I slowly started sinking back down the leaderboard. I'm now back to my rightful place in life as an also-ran...
Countofthe75set- LOL, you have a great 75 set. Keep up the good work! I know how difficult it can be
to complete the 660 card set, as I've started and stopped a couple times now. Last time I think I made
it past 50%. Maybe I'll start on it again someday.LOL.
I think I might just do the 75 HOF regular issue cards and forget the rest of them. Love the
HOF'ers in the set, Killebrew, Gibson, Seaver, Yaz, Aaron and the rest. Just wish they would have given
Al Kaline a regular card in the set, although he does have a highlight card.
@Darin Thanks for the kind words. I really enjoyed working on putting that 75 set together. It took me roughly 3 years to get everything in 8+, and I still upgrade it now and then if I find a match of both card and price. I believe the highest I ever got on the current set list was #22. I really wanted to be in the top 20, but it was just too much of a gap to make up, and I could feel the breath of the hard chargers behind me at the time. I was eventually overtaken by several collectors, and dropped to as low as #28, I think, but with my upgrades added since then and some of those ahead of me retiring their sets, I'm back up to #24. The top 20 would still be a nice goal of mine, but it'd likely require me to upgrade a lot of the heavily weighted HOFs to 9s to achieve that. I'm not really looking to do that right now, as that would suck up much of my budget, which I'd rather allocate to other pursuits at the moment.
I am not really sure why the decision was made to expand the HOF set requirements to include all of the extra cards, but I think I noticed it with some other HOF sets like the 82 Topps with team leader checklist cards and league leader cards also. So it's not just a thing with the 75 set.