Finally Completed my 1969 Topps Baseball Set Completed in PSA 8(NQ) or Better

gemint · May 19, 2004 1:46AM

After more than 15 years of searching and five years of submitting and seeking PSA graded cards, I've finally completed my 1969 Topps baseball set in PSA 8 or better. Thanks to Dave Jacobs for selling me his PSA 9 #127 Kevin Collins and #321 Jim McAndrew which were the last two upgrades I needed. Thanks also goes to Bob Cacamese who sold me some other tough cards over the years including the PSA 9 Mike Andrews and Randy Hundley, and PSA 8 Dick Radatz, Tom Satriano and Tom Tresh. I also picked up several upgrades from Dave Read and Kyle Boetel supplied many raw cards that helped me to upgrade my set along the way. This is one tough set to complete in high grade. I plan to continue to leisurely upgrade the 8's to 9's through my own submissions and occassional purchases of high population 9s. I don't plan on making a run at the #1 spot and I'll redirect my focus to my other sets now.

John Constantino's 1969 Set

aconte · May 19, 2004 2:18AM

Congrats Gemint! Great job on the set.

aconte

CON40 · May 19, 2004 2:45AM

John;

Congratulations! A nice accomplishment. I know just how tough this set is as a good friend of mine is trudging along at 75% (Gobin Collection)... that last 25% must have been difficult and expensive. Nice job!

Mitochondria · May 19, 2004 3:01AM

Congratulations John. You have achieved quite an accomplishment. More importantly, you have extraordinary knowledge and experience with one of the most challenging sets of the 1960s.

Ron

Dhjacks · May 19, 2004 4:11AM

Fantastic job. What a journey that must have been!

srs1a · May 19, 2004 4:31AM

Nice one gemint!

RobE · May 19, 2004 4:35AM

aro13 · May 19, 2004 4:36AM

Congratulations! Nice accomplishment.

Robby · May 19, 2004 4:48AM

John.................TERRIFIC accomplishment and a nice GPA to achieve ! Hope to join you someday on reaching 100% on my set ! .........Robby

gemint · May 19, 2004 5:09AM

<< <i>John.................TERRIFIC accomplishment and a nice GPA to achieve ! Hope to join you someday on reaching 100% on my set ! .........Robby >>

Good luck with the set Robby. Is it on the registry?

WinPitcher · May 19, 2004 5:46AM

Congrats Gemmy

scottsusor · May 19, 2004 5:53AM

Congrats!

Scott

TWINRON · May 19, 2004 6:51AM

Great job-- CONGRATULATIONS JOHN!! It won't be long before your set will top my set as #1. I think that since Stump27 (Dave Jacobs) "abdicated", We are mearly "pretendors to the throne". However, being the FIRST to complete a PSA8 OR BETTER set with 664 very difficult cards is a significant achievement for which no one can top you. Best, Ron Hobbs

TWINRON · May 19, 2004 6:54AM

To Ron Sanders-- Please get rid of that disturbing gator logo. Beating FSU 2 out of 3 in baseball this year is painful enough.

gemint · May 19, 2004 7:59AM

<< <i>Great job-- CONGRATULATIONS JOHN!! It won't be long before your set will top my set as #1. I think that since Stump27 (Dave Jacobs) "abdicated", We are mearly "pretendors to the throne". However, being the FIRST to complete a PSA8 OR BETTER set with 664 very difficult cards is a significant achievement for which no one can top you. Best, Ron Hobbs >>

Thanks Ron. I don't think I'll be approaching your set rating any time soon. I agree that we will probably always be the supporting cast to Dave's incredible set. It was sad to see him break it up but it will always reside in the all time finest list for all to enjoy. I'm just happy that my set resides in the company of so many fine sets on the registry.

GradyM333 · May 19, 2004 8:49AM

Congratulations. What a tough set. John got me started on this set by putting his set for sale on Ebay in an attempt to get people interested in the registry. It worked..He sold me my first few graded cards and I was hooked. An amazing set with a really high class group of people working on trying to complete it.

Congrats again,

Grady

gaspipe26 · May 19, 2004 11:34AM

Thanks for the mention. I'm happy to say I sent alot of the tough ones to you, Dave and Ron. In fact I'm pretty sure alot of Rons was my original set. Is that a correct statement Ron? I'm slowly but surely creeping back up. Hopefully I'll get to that 100% too. I have quite a few of the POP 1's and I hope to get a big push in the next few weeks to put me at about 70%. The last 100 cards are always the toughest.

miami3 · May 19, 2004 9:48PM

Congrats on completing this fine set!

What will your next project be????

Jim

1967topps · May 19, 2004 10:22PM

Wow - that's terrific. It's one thing to complete a set in graded (I have 1967) but another to
get all 8's - am still working on that;the second goal may take as long as the first. way to go!

MorrellMan · May 19, 2004 10:43PM

GM - awesome

congrats

gemint · May 19, 2004 11:42PM

<< <i>Congrats on completing this fine set!

What will your next project be????

Jim >>

Thanks. I'm not sure if I'll focus on a particular set or just continue finding raw cards wherever and whichever can be located. I've managed to get many of my sets up to 5-10% completion without buying a single graded card. If I focus on a particular year, it will be either 1968 or 1967.

Finally Completed my 1969 Topps Baseball Set Completed in PSA 8(NQ) or Better

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