Set building question.

Stingray

Someone brought up a point on how someone won some cards and wasn't this like the 8th time he has tried to build this set. Along those lines I started wondering what paticular set have you given up on, only to come back to trying to complete it. How many time?

Stingray

charliehustle14

Stingray,

I personally have a love/hate relationship with the year 1971. I've started and stopped working on the '71 Topps Baseball set about five or six times over the last several years. I guess I'm working on it again since I just submitted about 50 cards from the set last month to PSA. Those black borders make for so many issues with chipped edges and rough corners. "Snow" and faded printing in the border areas is magnified on these cards. When these cards have nice corners and strong black borders, they are beautiful. Although I'm back in the game on this one, I am sure it's going to be a long-term project. I suppose part of the reason I kept getting frustrating and quitting on this one was that I had most of my cards raw and was a little too tough in my grading standards on this one. I feel a little vindicated, as my grades came in yesterday and I saw a whole buncha 8's!

I've also gotten semi-serious for about the fifth time on '71 Kellogg's...the Mother of all Kellogg's sets. I hardly ever see these at the shows I go to anymore, and the eBay market for these seems very competitive.

I'm sure I'm preaching to the proverbial choir, but it's hard to stay focused when there is so much out there to collect. For the time being, I've limited myself to working on '67, '70, '71, '74 Topps Baseball, and '71 Kellogg's Baseball sets. The '67 set alone is enough to make one age five years for every year you work on it.

-Todd-

rbdjr1

Greetings Stingray!

For me? It's "Charlie Hustle", yes, the PSA Pete Rose Master Player Set:

Can you imagine paying $ 5.00 each for a two decks of playing cards (i.e., '77 & '78 Pepsi/Sports Deck Division/Reds/Rose), and then spending between $5.00 and $10.00 per card to get them "PSA graded", just to satisfy "your set-building itch"? Well, hello! LOL!

Well, my family (who thinks Pete Rose is a "first class jerk" by the way!) will certainly "cut-off" my balls, if I ever dare to submit those Pete Rose playing cards to PSA again!

Not to mention the 1986 120 card Pete Rose boxed Set by Topps/Renata Galasso, that costs "peanuts" to buy, yet would cost somewhere between $600 to $1200, to get "slabbed", just to further that "PSA Set Registry" junkie itch, I have for PSA and Charlie Hustle!!!

Yep, I will definately get castrated by my loved ones if I do it! l

But after saying all this, I still have left, the #5 all-time master player set of Charlie Hustle, and after selling-off many Pete Rose PSA gems, I still find myself, buying some of them back! (They don't know about it! Pleeeeze don't say a word! Promise? hehehehe!)

Silly me!

MY PETE ROSE MASTER PLAYER SET

rbd

edit: P.S. Anyway, I'll have to "take a third mortgage on the house" to get some of those early Pete Rose items in "high end". And I only have one set of canolies! LOL!