At long last complete - '59 Morrell Dodgers

MorrellMan

Be it ever so humble, it is finally completed, along with some additions to my #2 set. I'll post a scan of the final card tonight when I get home.

WinPitcher

great job Mark!

nice to see them scanned too. many are 1/1's I see.

Sd

sando69

Congratulations on BOTH sets MM... that's quite an accomplishment... TWICE!
i, too, enjoy perusing each of your scans.
did you happen to grow up in the la area at the time these were distributed?

lamontcarter

Congrats on a really cool set!

Scott

blue227

Congrats, Mark! The '59 Morrells are the toughest by far to find which makes your top ranked registry sets all the more impressive. I really think that Morrells suffer from a lack of recognition. Someone should write an article and submit it to SMR! Where's Kevin S.?

ArnyVee

I'll tell you something....those cards are beautiful! I had never seen them before.

Maybe it's because I'm a Dodger fan or a fan of older baseball, but these are great lookin' cards. What do these cards typically cost?

bowdowntome

MM, congrats! It's always a great feeling of accomplishment when you finally find the last card in a particuloar set, and those are great looking sets.

Robby

Mark................Terrific accomplishment on reaching 100%........as others have already noted , I really enjoyed looking at all the scans you provided ! My favorite , would have to be the Jim Gilliam card of him fielding , very unusual pic of a player fielding ! ........Robbie

ctsoxfan

Mark - congrats to you! Very nice job on an underappreciated set!

Onlypsahockey

Mark!

What's next?

Griffins

Great job Mark! I know how much this set has meant to you over the years, and you certainly deserve to be top dog on it. Now you need to get them to tweek the weighting so you can really distance yourself from the #2 guy, Sybil.
I think it is significant that singles from this set virtually never come up, as opposed to the other 2 years that are relatively easy. In terms of availability it has to be one of the toughest sets from the '50's and '60's, right up there with Briggs and Hunters and Stahl Meyers.

MorrellMan

Thank you all for your comments. This is indeed an incredibly difficult set; singles come up very rarely and most often in pretty much ungradable condition. I've toyed with the idea of doing an article about this set because there is so much about it that sets it apart from the other two years of this issue, but there are also some important questions unanswered - most importantly, why are the '59s so scarce? I understand that Yeko bought up a lot of surplus '60s and '61s, but there was no such surplus of '59s. Aside from the stars (Koufax, Snider and Drysdale), two of the toughest commons are Neal and Gilliam. Two copies of the Koufax card sold on ebay last year for over $1500 a piece, raw, and I don't think either was as nice as mine, although I could be wrong. I better go to the whip before that #2 bastid catches me!