Congratulations to Larry Pliss for attaining the All-Time #1 ranking for 1967 Topps Baseball
dude
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Larry ("Capecards" on the registry) just blew by my good friend Joel's (Skylaneflyer) retired set with an impressive 8.63 Set Ranking and GPA. Very impressive and once again, congratulations!
Link to '67T Registry
Link to '67T Registry
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Stingray
I remember when skylaneflyer retired his set and everyone agreed that it would be many years before it could be surpassed.
Great set congrats!
Groucho Marx
DAN - When are you gonna top him?
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Great to see a truely nice guy achieve the mountain top (I can only assume that this IS your mountain top but the way you've been relentlessly acquiring top graded 1967's ....) and knocking the old king of the hill off his perch !
Somehow I don't think the rest of the 67 set builders will let you rest on your laurels (including me ....)
Congrats,
Steve S.
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Collector of 1964 Topps Stand Ups, 1965 Embossed, 1968 Topps Game and 1969 Topps Decals
Registered Sets: 1964 Stand Ups, 1965 Embossed, 1968 Topps Game, 1969 Topps Decals
When someone retires a set does that mean they sold it?
<< <i><< remember when skylaneflyer retired his set>>
When someone retires a set does that mean they sold it? >>
I think in most cases it does.............but sometimes one might decide that they no longer want to upgrade anymore.
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<< << remember when skylaneflyer retired his set>>
When someone retires a set does that mean they sold it? >>
I think in most cases it does.............but sometimes one might decide that they no longer want to upgrade anymore.
I agree with the last statement - that's been the case for several collectors I know (usually done to minimize spending more money on the set). One in fact, Jim Merrill (#4 all-time on the '67 Registry) retired his set and still has it.
Stingray
i don't have unlimited funds but even if i did i'd never take the win at any cost approach. i usually bid the max i WANT to pay. i'm certain that another will eventually come along.having said that, my lack of success in winning the tough cards from this set indicates i may have to become a little more aggressive with my bids than originally anticipated.
i always try to keep in mind set building is journey, not a destination, this philosophy has served me well and saved me alot of money as well
Stingray
Dan: We need to catch up sometime. Are you going to Nationals?
Regards,
Alan
Dude: Very interesting info on your set. The money spent and the population level competition, prices / bids are absorbing material. So glad you shared the detail, this type of data would be intriguing for almost any popular set.
It has been awesome to see Larry whiz to the top--and I thought I was doing him a favor not bidding against him
Dude's words on the set are sooo true. Raw stuff is very scarce and usually costs as if it is already PSA 8. I think the best chance at finding 9's is to crack and resubmit high end 8's--
E
Used to working on HOF SS Baseballs--Now just '67 Sox Stickers and anything Boston related.
I take you back to the summer of 1967, in smalltown upstate New York, where the sun always seemed to shine, life always seemed fun and simple, people were humming with their transistor radios to the Beatles and The Little Old Lady From Pasadena, and summer seemed to just laaast forever. I was playing little league baseball back then, and each time we would win a game (which wasn't that often as I recall), Coach would take us to the concession stand and buy us each an orange soda pop and a pack of baseball cards. Well I remember my first card in my first pack was NL home run leaders, which I thought was so cool with Aaron and Willy Mays on the same card, and I was soon hooked to the point of my poor mother haranguing me for wasting all her nickels (packs were 5 cents back then). By the time school started, which was many nickels later, I had learned how to wheel and deal with the other kids in my neighborhood, and completed the set, even though I had to ride my bike five miles each day in late August to the only store in town that had the rare 7th series cards. This was a big deal back then as I was only 11 years old and I wasn't allowed to ride my bike that far away, but I did it anyway (I can say this now because I doubt Mom and Dad read this board). Hence I learned at an early age that to succeed often meant going beyond assumed limits. This line of thinking has stayed with me and guided my entire adult life, and only occasionally has gotten me in serious trouble.
The set remained in my closet, untouched (no, my mother did not throw them out, thankfully) for the next 30 years. I chanced upon them during a Christmas visit in 1997 rummaging through my old bedroom closet, and, looking at those little cards, a door opened in my brain that had been shut all those years - it was the summer of '67 again, ans something deep down told me this was a piece of my life, it must come with me, and not stay in this musty closet.
So I brought them home, where they then stayed in my own musty bedroom closet for a couple years. I would pull them out every so often, think about the summer of 1967, and put them away quickly when my mother, no now it's my wife called for something. I eventually got into the PSA thing and submitted the ones I thought were sure fire 8s or 9s, and of course they came back 5s and 6s, some with strange additional comments like "OC" or "ST". At first I didn't know what those strange appellations meant, but my instincts told me it wasn't good (how naive back then). The last couple years I have learned through trial and error (mostly the latter) more about the subject of grading, and have slowly built up the PSA set from scratch, helped along the way with both cards and advice by many of you reading this. I hope things will slow down soon, as I would like to begin working on my second favorite set soon.
In the meantime, I know that all glory is fleeting, someone will soon pass me on the list too, but I gotta tell ya it's lonely at the top! Well, I've had my 15 minutes on the stage, but I really am more comfortable being in the crowd. Hope to see ya there.
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As a seller (these days) that is a good thing.
1967and 1973 Topps baseball wantlists (any condition) welcome. Once had the #14 ATF 1967 set. Yet another collector like skylaneflyer, gimel1 who made it to the completion of 1967 only to need the money more than the company of 609 close friends.
Looking for oddball Norm Cash and Cleon Jones stuff, and 1956 team cards
What are you looking for? Since this isn't an ebay board, I can at least suggest that sometimes people like
to avoid listing and final value fees...
1967and 1973 Topps baseball wantlists (any condition) welcome. Once had the #14 ATF 1967 set. Yet another collector like skylaneflyer, gimel1 who made it to the completion of 1967 only to need the money more than the company of 609 close friends.
Looking for oddball Norm Cash and Cleon Jones stuff, and 1956 team cards