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I have no focus and am working on a bajillion sets at one time....ONE SET COMPLETED, HA!

RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
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Over the weekend I calculated the # of sets I'm working on and where I am at with each. Can't believe how out of focus I am. Here's the list: (all baseball unless noted)


1977 Topps: Complete, need to replace 3 cards. So I'm at 99.5%.

1976 Topps Football: 99.8% complete. (527/528, need Randy White RC). EDITED TO ADD: Purchased a White RC off Ebay today. Done!

1976 Topps: Complete, need to replace 200 cards. 69.6% complete.

1975 Topps: 94.2% complete (622/660).

1973 Topps: Complete, need to replace 157 cards. 76.2% complete.

1972 Topps: 40.4% complete (318/787).

1971 Topps: 14.3 % complete (108/752).

1969 Topps: 25.7% complete (171/664).

1968 Topps: 78.7% complete (471/598).

1967 Topps: 33.6% complete (205/609).

1963 Topps: 23.6% complete (136/576).

1961 Topps: 36.2% complete (213/587).

1958 Topps: 36.4% complete (180/494).

1956 Topps: 33.3% complete (114/342).


In addition to that mess, I have "starter sets" of less than 100 cards in 1954 Topps, 1959, 1960, 1962, and 1970, as well as 1952 Bowman Football.

Am I an unfocused fool or a crazy genius? Wait a minute, don't answer that!



Stay classy,



Ron

Ron Burgundy

Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items

Comments

  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    crazy genius??

    are you having fun doing it?
  • gocatsgo538gocatsgo538 Posts: 616
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  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    maybe you're vying to be the next Crandell, Jim.
  • hankcaddyhankcaddy Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭✭✭
    one thing is for sure, you can never say there is nothing out there you need!!
    i feel this may be a good long term strategy on set building,as long as you are looking for bargains on the sets you need many cards on, probably willing to pay more for a set you only need a few cards to complete or upgrade


    good luck and keep plugging along
    hank
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  • cravetoppscravetopps Posts: 1,134
    Ron...I would say it depends on your time frame, budget and whether you have a realistic "GPA" goal relative to your budget (unless you're buying raw cards). I think your list is doable depending on the answers.
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  • MajorDanbyMajorDanby Posts: 1,343
    money is always the limiting variable when you enter this hobby. If you have the money to collect a lot, good for you. If not, then you'll need to scale down. I had to make a tough decision recently to drop a few sets....had to because i needed the money.
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  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    These sets are primarily raw, and my intention is not to do completely graded sets. I might do that with the '56 set, but the rest will remain mostly raw except for some stars and any common that looks 9ish (or 10ish in the case of a 70's set).

    My ultimate goal is a complete Topps run from 1951-80, but I doubt I will ever have the dough to put together a nice '52 and '53 set. I think eventually (10 years or so) I can do the rest, but I intended to do these one at a time and now it's ballooned out of control.

    At least I'm now laser focused on completing the '68, '73, '75, and '77 sets.



    Ron
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  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭
    i have the following started
    raw
    55 topps
    55 bowman
    75 mini
    70 topps
    graded
    86 fleer basketball
    81 topps basketball
    52 topps baseball
    51 redbacks
    larry bird basic/master
    all-time celtics
    1964 topps giants baseball
    2000 CE uncirculated
    1989 fleer basketball

    updating 55 all american complete set

    i look at it this way until i can get rid of some of them, i always have something i need and can look for!!!


    good luck with your mess, i have my own, i need to focus
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
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    ted's Old Gold, not the cigarettes 1911 T205 Gold Border 20.00%
    Turkey water 1911 T3 Turkey Red Cabinets 14.00%
    when I can't stop fiddlin' this set's my Ridilin 1915 Cracker Jack 6.25%
    Ever ask yourself why another set???? 1954 Red Man Tobacco 66.67%
    Teddy get ready for another annoying journey 1955 Bowman 25.00%
    better than drugs image 1955 Topps 82.52%
    Nolan Ryan affordable, but semi-cuckoo set Nolan Ryan Basic 54.37%
    t-pains t-9's 1911 Turkey Red Boxing 23.08%
    The cold war was heatin up 1951 Bowman Red Menace 100.00%


  • dudedude Posts: 1,454 ✭✭
    In the early 90's, I started building high grade raw Topps baseball sets from 1959-1980. Around 1998, I only completed three raw sets: the 1970, 1972 and 1975 Topps, and was over 90% on 1967, 1968 and 1969 and about 70% on the 1971 and 1973 sets and the rest varied from 25% to 50%.

    Then when grading and eBay came on strong in 1999 I decide to only work on graded sets from '64-'75 and sold off the other years. To make a long story short, I'm now at '67 -'72.

    The bottom line is that it's a very time consuming and very costly project to complete one high-end graded set let alone multiple sets. Good luck!
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    that why im only doing same one for next 10 years-and possibly 55aa fb because they are beautiful too and only 100 cards cards in it
  • F1ferrariF1ferrari Posts: 583
    For now, I'm hanging on to only 2 'series' of sets, Topps baseball and Topps Heritage. I'm slowly picking up sets to do a 1980-current run of the regular baseball sets,. Once I've finished the run from 1980-2007, I may start going back through the 1970s sets.

    As for my Heritage collection, I'm 15 cards away from finishing 2004, and I've got a 2005 base for which I just need to find the SPs and variations. That leaves me finishing the red/black back variations in my 2001 set and the entire 2003 set, and I may wait until after the 2008 set is released to start on the 2003 set, or just buy it complete from eBay.

    So, no, having a few projects at one time isn't crazy. image
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  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭✭
    The solution is quite simple, just do what I did: I was working on 10 different Topps sets from the 1950's (1951 Red Backs - 1959), now I'm just working on one (the 1950's Topps Mega Set) image.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Guity

    1953 TBB 18%
    1954 BBB 100%
    1954 Red Heart 85%
    1954 TBB 67%
    1954 BFB 87%
    1955 TDH 76%
    1955 TBB 100%
    1955 BFB 59%
    1955 TAA 89%
    1956 TBB 91%

    And those are just the ones over 50%

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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • BuccaneerBuccaneer Posts: 1,794 ✭✭
    I'm working on 10 sets right now (well, taking a winter break, but you know what I mean):

    57,61,62,64,65,66,67,68,71,72

    The last three should be done when I start back up in the spring. Hopefully I can get the 57 done by summer and then finish the 67. The rest will come in time, as well as the ones I haven't started.

    I still blame RonBurgundy. image
  • gemintgemint Posts: 6,097 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's my nightmare. And this is just what I have registered...

    Set Name Grade % Complete Set Rating ATF Ranking
    Baseball: 1951-Present MVPs 8.218 62.50% 5.136 8
    Baseball: 1952 Topps - Basic 8.000 3.69% .131 85
    Baseball: 1956 Topps - Basic 7.841 15.20% .823 91
    Baseball: 1956-Present Cy Winners 8.348 35.94% 3.000 5
    Baseball: 1957 Topps - Basic 7.944 7.62% .472 105
    Baseball: 1961 Topps 8.003 83.99% 6.590 52
    Baseball: 1963 Topps - Basic 7.941 7.29% .511 64
    Baseball: 1964 Topps 7.985 23.51% 1.439 41
    Baseball: 1965 Topps 7.990 12.21% .752 76
    Baseball: 1966 Topps - Basic 8.009 15.89% .905 45
    Baseball: 1967 Topps - Basic 8.010 34.32% 2.267 53
    Baseball: 1968 Topps - Basic 8.030 64.72% 5.382 45
    Baseball: 1968 Topps Atlanta Braves 7.830 45.16% 3.640 10
    Baseball: 1968 Topps Baltimore Orioles 8.069 48.57% 4.882 10
    Baseball: 1968 Topps Boston Red Sox 8.020 40.00% 3.440 10
    Baseball: 1968 Topps Detroit Tigers 7.970 35.71% 2.955 29
    Baseball: 1969 Topps - Basic 8.423 100.00% 8.423 8
    Baseball: 1969 Topps - Master 8.416 96.12% 7.465 7
    Baseball: 1969 Topps Boston Red Sox 8.329 96.67% 7.600 6
    Baseball: 1969 Topps Cincinnati Reds 8.427 100.00% 8.427 5
    Baseball: 1969 Topps New York Mets 8.205 100.00% 8.205 7
    Baseball: 1969 Topps New York Yankees 8.256 90.63% 5.750 8
    Baseball: 1969 Topps Pittsburgh Pirates 8.615 93.10% 8.195 3
    Baseball: 1970 Topps - Basic 8.057 41.39% 3.850 21
    Baseball: 1970 Topps Cincinnati Reds 8.074 29.03% 2.158 7
    Baseball: 1970 Topps New York Mets 8.050 35.71% 4.000 8
    Baseball: 1970 Topps New York Yankees 8.000 32.14% 3.273 11
    Baseball: 1971 Topps 7.751 88.56% 6.786 32
    Baseball: 1972 Topps 8.224 45.24% 4.599 36
    Baseball: 1972 Topps California Angels 8.000 25.00% 3.320 6
    Baseball: 1972 Topps Pittsburgh Pirates 8.151 55.56% 5.694 10
    Baseball: 1973 Topps - Basic 8.631 45.76% 4.237 21
    Baseball: 1973 Topps California Angels 8.800 33.33% 3.880 6
    Baseball: 1973 Topps New York Yankees 8.550 29.03% 1.970 10
    Baseball: 1973 Topps Philadelphia Phillies 8.644 54.55% 5.186 6
    Baseball: 1974 Topps - Basic 8.683 78.33% 7.077 25
    Baseball: 1974 Topps California Angels 8.461 51.61% 6.009 6
    Baseball: 1974 Topps Philadelphia Phillies 8.292 34.38% 3.685 7
    Baseball: 1974 Topps Traded 8.050 29.55% 2.270 16
    Baseball: 1975 Topps 8.133 12.42% 1.713 83T
    Baseball: 1975 Topps Cincinnati Reds 8.220 24.24% 4.681 14
    Baseball: 1976 Topps 8.095 12.12% 1.699 31
    Baseball: Al Kaline Basic Set 7.882 40.91% 1.985 30
    Baseball: Al Kaline Master Set 7.852 8.75% .586 13
    Baseball: Billy Williams Basic Set 7.804 50.00% 3.590 8
    Baseball: Billy Williams Master Set 7.809 19.18% 1.118 6
    Baseball: Boog Powell Basic Set 8.330 31.25% 2.680 4
    Baseball: Boog Powell Master Set 8.214 15.22% 1.411 2
    Baseball: Brooks Robinson Basic Set 8.000 37.50% 1.950 13
    Baseball: Carl Yastrzemski Basic Set 7.958 26.47% 2.534 30
    Baseball: Dock Ellis Basic Set 8.530 25.00% 2.590 4
    Baseball: Dock Ellis Master Set 8.407 16.67% 2.671 3
    Baseball: Ernie Banks Basic Set 8.185 26.32% 1.545 28
    Baseball: Frank Robinson Basic Set 7.680 57.89% 2.980 10
    Baseball: Frank Robinson Master Set 7.740 15.13% 1.003 2
    Baseball: Gaylord Perry Basic Set 8.233 20.69% 1.967 5
    Baseball: Hall of Fame Players 8.277 29.82% 2.468 23
    Baseball: Hank Aaron Basic Set 8.220 37.50% 1.740 44
    Baseball: Joe Jay Basic Set 8.000 16.67% 1.100 3
    Baseball: Johnny Bench Basic Set 7.810 37.50% 5.250 21
    Baseball: Mickey Lolich Basic Set 7.720 25.00% 2.080 5
    Baseball: Mickey Lolich Master Set 7.818 8.47% .708 4
    Baseball: Nate Colbert Basic Set 8.000 11.11% 1.000 4
    Baseball: Roberto Clemente Basic Set 8.000 30.00% 1.756 52T
    Baseball: Sam McDowell Basic Set 8.130 30.77% 1.510 4
    Baseball: Steve Garvey Basic Set 8.263 20.59% 4.132 7
    Baseball: Thurman Munson Basic Set 8.380 70.00% 5.960 13
    Baseball: Willie Stargell Basic Set 8.000 3.85% .773 13
    Baseball: Willie Stargell Master Set 8.261 1.38% .245 13

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  • killingdreamkillingdream Posts: 232
    I too am guilty of this. Currently I am working on 8 sets as well as my Pittsburgh Pirates and Postwar Hall of Famer projects which will probably both be ongoing for years and years. As for the 8 sets here's where I am at :

    These are all Topps Baseball by the way

    1965 - 35%
    1968 - 50%
    1969 - 83%
    1970 - 88%
    1971 - 87%
    1972 - 80%
    1973 - 97%
    1974 - 99%

    For the 1970-73 sets I need mostly high numbers. as for the 74 I need 8 cards which I just haven't gotten around to.

    After these are done I'll be moving onto the 66 and 67 sets.
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    I'm working or have completed sets from 1887 thru 2007. In the long term it is definitely beneficial to be working on a range of sets at once.

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • jeff8877jeff8877 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭
    Hi everyone,

    I am working on the following sets in PSA 7/8 baseball...1960, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967.

    I need to narrow my focus to be able to finish some of these. I have 100 card starter sets from 1964 and 1966 that include low pops, stars etc. Most are PSA 7 with some 8s mixed in. Would like to trade or sell these if someone has an interest.

    Also have about 300 different raw 1967 baseball...mostly commons that range from NM to EX...average condition probably EX/MT available.

    Shoot me a PM or email at jeff58@sbcglobal.net

    Jeff

  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,896 ✭✭✭
    Focus is bad. It makes you miss great opportunities in other areas.
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  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭✭
    <<I'm working or have completed sets from 1887 thru 2007. In the long term it is definitely beneficial to be working on a range of sets at once.>>

    What do you have against sets from 2008?

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  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    I would like to thank the others that are in this club with me. At least I know I am not alone.

    I fully blame ADD for this. The silver lining is that when I get close to completing a set, my ADD hyperfocus kicks in and all I think about is getting the set done. When I get real close, I stop eating for several days because all I do is sit in front of the computer waiting for the next round of Ebay listings.



    Ron


    PS. The last sentence, I was kidding. Sort of.
    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    And the next round of Ebay listings yielded the Randy White RC I was looking for.



    Ron


    Ron Burgundy

    Buying Vintage, all sports.
    Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭


    << <i>What do you have against sets from 2008? >>



    Just that Heritage isn't out yet!

    Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's

  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>What do you have against sets from 2008? >>



    Just that Heritage isn't out yet! >>



    What about the cards before 1887? Got a problem with them?!?

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    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    "What about the cards before 1887? Got a problem with them?!?"

    yes. two problems

    1. mass produced
    2. too many inserts
    3. cheap card-stock (used toilet paper)

    LOL
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