Congratulations to Davalillo

zardoz51 · June 2, 2003 10:12PM

For knocking me out of the second spot on the Kellogg's all time finest. He said that he was going to do it, and by God, he did! LOL

dude · June 2, 2003 10:29PM

Congratulations Jim! Your baseball card empire continues to reach new heights! Again kudos!

Basilone · June 2, 2003 11:01PM

Congrats Jim! I'm sure your Kellogg's set is the centerpiece of your massive collection.

John

mikeschmidt · June 2, 2003 11:28PM

Davalillo:

A truly valiant effort! Of your extensive run of sets -- this is by far my favorite VINTAGE set.

thegemmintman · June 3, 2003 12:24AM

It's definitely an outstanding job by Davalillo, and he did it in a relatively short period of time. Well done!

BobS · June 3, 2003 12:57AM

Short time, but big $$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Congrats Jim. I can only admire your collection and dream about the day when I'm rich too.

carew4me · June 3, 2003 1:13AM

I am not sure I understand what the big deal is.....

Come home from work and return the messages left by dealers who have located over priced 70 Kelloggs cards
on your behalf and write the check???

All of this in an effort to prove to you guys how quickly and easily he could build a high grade set.

How is this an achievment?

(Jims overall collection is impressive)

Caramels · June 3, 2003 2:45AM

[How is this an achievment?

Because we had to sweat to collect ours for the square root of wholesale! Over long periods of time as well.

(Jims overall collection is impressive) >>

and to you Dan & Paul-

" All my Ex's.....live in Texas" that's why I live in non-humid Cal!

PlayBall · June 3, 2003 2:59AM

<< <i>How is this an achievment? >>

As far as collecting and building this set.....I don't believe it's much of an achievement at all.

However, the life achievement and success that allows him to build all of these sets.....that's what I find to be impressive.

dude · June 3, 2003 3:15AM

Caramels -- A George Strait fan? I didn't know it was even legal to play country music in California, but I've heard Bakersfield does have an exemption from this law.

....... the life achievement and success that allows him to build all of these sets.....that's what I find to be impressive.

Here, here! Very well said Playball!

qualitycards · June 3, 2003 5:14AM

The achievement for Davalillo is that he DID BUILD the set, whether he could afford it or not is irrelevant. Its an impressive set that is highly collected by dozens of people. He help put that set on the map with his "vintage, not vintage" discussion w/ ZARDOZ, GEMMINTMAN and others. I for one am impressed with what he did in such a short time...jay

doncherry · June 3, 2003 5:20AM

Congrats to Davilillo on building a fine set but im i mistaken or did Dave Jacobs begin building this set after Davilillo and is not too far behind at an impressive 9.31 GPA

Davalillo · June 3, 2003 8:06AM

Thanks to all for the nice thoughts and for the not so nice ones thats okay too--I did this for the fun of it as Paul and Gemmint know. They are good sports at the end of the day. Of course I could not have built the psa 9 set in 2 weeks without Zardoz's help. For those of you that think I wrote big checks for any of the 9s, I hate to disappoint you but not true. I did not pay much for any of the 9s.

Now the 10s are a different story--most of them I won fair and square in auctions against gemmint, king kellogg or Dave Jacobs on Ebay.

I have had the good fortune to meet or receive personal messages from many who commented here--you are a great bunch of guys.

Dave Jacobs may well overtake me--I am turning my attention to my vintage sets.

Thanks again to all.

Jim

Congratulations to Davalillo

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