Just completed my first set on the Registry!
jsnpritchett
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1961 Topps Los Angeles Angels
I'm starting small, but it still feels nice to finish something!
The Angels have been my favorite team since I was 7 years old, so this seems like a fitting tribute to them. Hope you guys enjoy it!
Jason
I'm starting small, but it still feels nice to finish something!
The Angels have been my favorite team since I was 7 years old, so this seems like a fitting tribute to them. Hope you guys enjoy it!Jason
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CU turns its lonely eyes to you
What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
Vargha bucks have left and gone away?
hey hey hey
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Wow! Nice set, beautiful scans, and interesting descriptions. Home run your first time out. Good job!
Bob
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'ATTA BOY!!!!
Larry
email....emards4457@msn.com
CHEERS!!
Jason
Sooo, when are you going to break it up and sell a few cards?
<< <i>I Love the notes and the scans! This is a true collector! Great job and congratulations! >>
Thanks! I really enjoyed writing the biographical notes and comments. I love reading other collectors' comments on their sets, so I figured it was the least I can do. Glad you liked it!
Jason
<< <i>Great job Jason. I too like the notes on each player.
Sooo, when are you going to break it up and sell a few cards?
Thanks, Eric! I'll be breaking up the set as soon as Bartolo Colon gets down to less than 250 pounds. So, in other words...never.
Jason
Dave C.
Great looking team set and nice scans also......good job.
Paul.
STEELERS4LIFE
Just outstanding. I spent 15 minutes looking at it and learning about the cards and players. I really enjoyed it and thanks for sharing.
Well done! How did you become so interested in the Angels? Just a home-town thing? I'd like more people to offer some insights to their sets and the players contained therein. I'm going to start to add some of that kind of stuff to my registry when I finish...should be soon.
Congrats again!
dgf
Which would you rather have...
A winning lottery ticket or Bartolo's a$$ full of nickels?
dgf
<< <i>Jason,
Just outstanding. I spent 15 minutes looking at it and learning about the cards and players. I really enjoyed it and thanks for sharing.
Well done! How did you become so interested in the Angels? Just a home-town thing? I'd like more people to offer some insights to their sets and the players contained therein. I'm going to start to add some of that kind of stuff to my registry when I finish...should be soon.
Congrats again!
dgf >>
Thanks for your comments! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
While I do live in Los Angeles now (well, actually Santa Monica, but close enough), I'm not from here originally. I was born and raised in a tiny little town called Hog Mountain, Georgia (yes, that's the real name of the place!). I bought my first pack of baseball cards in 1981. Of the 18 '81 Donruss cards in the pack, 7 of them were Angels. I thought that must mean they were a good, popular team, so I started liking them. Little did I know, huh?
One of my next goals is a PSA 9-or-better '81 Donruss Angels set, as I mentioned here a few weeks ago. That one's going to be much more of a challenge than this '61 Topps, I bet!
Jason
100% is still 100% no matter how big the set! So, enjoy your accomplishment and start planning on the next one!
Sets - 1970, 1971 and 1972
Always looking for 1972 O-PEE-CHEE Baseball in PSA 9 or 10!
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81 Donruss has been a pet project of mine for years. Case after case of wax, buying raw sets, cherry-picking singles, binder-raiding, etc. That is a challenging project, indeed. I recently completed the Angels in Mint or better and can say that they are not the toughest team in the set so you're in business. I probably will never grade these--like most of my sets (77 is my graded set)--but I applied absurd standards as relates to this issue and may very well have some mint copies in reserve. I will sift through the boxes and pull a couple. Meanwhile hit the link and enjoy. The Carews are, indeed, in PSA holders--VERY easy cards.
81 Donruss California Angels...a couple of cards...
81 Donruss California Angels...a couple of the tougher cards....
The print quality and color will be perfect on these and the backs must be dead-centered to qualify. Centering, cut and print quality are positively DEMONIC with this product. I love it because it features many backdrops of Wrigley Field and Comiskey Park in Chicago.
dgf
dgf
dgf
<< <i>...also the corners come up mushy in the scans sometimes...they are perfect under 100 watts and 10x. Your cards will be mint if I can find them. Of the 20 cards I've actually sent to PSA they've averaged close to 9.5.
dgf >>
DFG:
I just sent you an e-mail about the '81 Donruss. I'm intrigued!
Jason
<< <i>Faye Throneberry looks like my CPA!!! >>
Yeah, I think he got stuck with the bad genes in the family. Here's Marv Throneberry:
Then again, look at Faye in 1955:
Maybe he just didn't age well?
Jason
<< <i>Hey Jason...
'ATTA BOY!!!!
good job! Never more satisfaying than completing a set!
looking for Red Heart's in PSA 9 and 10 holders
Larry >>