65 Down--1965 Philadelphia Football Completed in PSA 8 or Better

Davalillo

With the recent completion of 1962 Topps Baseball and now 1965 Philadelphia Football, I am now up to 65 sets in my quest for 100 vintage or semi-vintage sets with every card psa 8 or better. The final card(but not the toughest) was card #1-Colts Team--a pop 14 card I picked up on ebay. The toughest card is 114-Erich Barnes, a pop 5.

The set ranks 6th on the PSA Set Registry with a 8.15 set rating behind such collecting powerhouses as Fab Frank, the mighty MOSH and the ultra-competitive Fuzzdude. I will let it rest at this level. Having also completed 1964 Philadelphia, I am a long way from finishing both 1966 and 1967 although Art Miller has graciously offered to provide me with some cards to assist me on this latter set.

The going is getting a little tough for a couple of reasons--first, in many cases the cards in PSA 8 simply do not exist, second they are very low pop and just do not show up or third it would be prohibitly expensive to finish certain sets in psa 8(such as 1952 Topps). Nevertheless, the quest continues and I have enough baseball, football, football, hockey and non-sports sets in play that I am confident God willing I will get there.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

Completed sets in psa 8 or better are as follows:

BASEBALL(32):

1936 S&S
1948 Bowman
1951 Topps Red Back
1952 Bowman
1954 Red Heart
1954 Topps
1955 Bowman
1956 Topps
1957 Topps
1959 Fleer
1960 Fleer
1960 Topps
1961 Golden Press
1961 Nu-Card Scoops
1961 Topps
1961-62 Fleer
1962 Topps
1963 Fleer
1963 Topps
1964 Topps
1964 Topps Giants
1965 Topps
1966 Topps
1967 Topps
1967 Topps Red Sox Stickers
1968 Topps
1968 Topps Game
1969 Topps Super
1970 Kelloggs
1970 Milton Bradley
1970 Rold Gold
1970 Topps Super

FOOTBALL(20):

1950 Bowman
1951 Bowman
1954 Bowman
1955 Topps All-America
1958 Topps
1959 Topps
1960 Mayrose Franks
1960 Topps
1961 Fleer
1961 Nu-Card
1961 Topps
1962 Fleer
1962 Kahn's Weiners
1963 Fleer
1963 Stancraft Playing Cards
1964 Philadelphia
1965 Philadelphia
1967 Topps
1968 Topps 4-in-1
1976 Wonder Bread

BASKETBALL(7):

1948 Bowman
1957 Topps
1961 Fleer
1969-70 Topps
1970-71 Topps
1972 Icee Bear
1976-77 Topps

HOCKEY(3):

1962-63 Parkhurst
1962-63 Topps
1963-64 Parkhurst

MULTI-SPORT(2):

1933 Goudey Sport Kings
1954 Sport Oddities

NON-SPORT(1):

1960 Spins & Needles

FB

Jim,

Simply amazing!!! The depth and breadth of your collection is unbelievable! Keep it up!

Frank

Fabfrank

Congrats Jim. Haven't heard from you in a while. Thought you might be giving up on the quest
Keep us posted as you get closer to your goal. I'm sure you'll be there soon.
Merry Christmas!

Ravens124

Jim,
Congrats!

gregm13

Congrats Jim....another fine accomplishment. How is your 2008 budget looking?

Greg M.

SKINSFAN

Jim congrats as the song says another 1 bits the dust.

I think you are going to have to talk our buddy Frank out of those ultra tough 67,s he has the market on them now

Davalillo

Thanks.

Don't think 100 is around the corner--unless I get some help from some of you guys

As far as my budget is concerned, its a new year and once again the dollars are going. Trouble is, I cannot restrict myself to just pursuing this goal. Just agreed to buy 4 high grade SGC early Bobby Jones cards.


Jim

WinPitcher

Great Job Jim.


Steve

MeteoriteGuy

Wow...truely amazing.

bluemarlin

mikeschmidt

Good stuff, Jim. How many do you plan to knock out in '08?

Davalillo

My Plan to Finish in 2008:

FOOTBALL:
1953 Bowman--Need 1-the pop 2 Horace Gillom-#40
1955 Bowman--Need 2-tough HOF Ringo-#70 and pop 7 #151 Jarmoluk
1956 Topps--Need 1-- Stonesifer--#70-pop 9.
1960 Fleer-Need 1--Ultra tough #84 Woodward--pop 1 in 8 with 1 higher.
1964 Kahn-Need 1(Clendan Thomas)

BASEBALL:

1951 Bowman--need 3-- 15 Pesky(pop 25), 271 Wright(pop 12) and 272 Meyer(pop 13)
1951 Topps Blue Back--need 2-18 Garver(pop 10 with 3 higher) and 51 Waitkus (pop 9 with 2 higher)
1954 Bowman-need 1--144 Johnson(pop 15)
1958 Topps-need 1-256 White Sox Team(pop 13)
1959 Topps-need 3--105 Walls(pop 24), 222 Shantz(pop 19) and 572 Pierce AS(pop 18)
1960 Leaf-need 1--72 Donovan(pop 3)
1964 Topps Stand-Ups--need 5--Baldshun, Hunt, Johnson, Rollins, Woodeshick
1965 Kahn--need 5--Aaron, Harper, Hinton, Maloney, Menke
1974 Deckle Edge-need 1-Hebner

Basketball

1971-72 Topps

Non-Sports:

1958 TV Westerns-need one-#41
1967 Topps Who Am I?-need 2-Monroe(3) and Franklin(24)
1962 Civil War News--need 4(7,8,25,80
1956 Topps Presidents-need 7.

Of these 19 if I could do 12(one per month) I would be happy. That would put me on a pace to reach 100 in early 2010.

Of course it will not work out like this but its nice to have goals and a plan on how to get there.

RonBurgundy

Superb work!



Ron

NickM

Jim - have you considered doing R423? Just over 120 cards in the set, most are from $10-$20 in PSA 8 or 9 (including HOFers), and there's not that much competition for it.

Nick

Arsenal83

Jim, absolutely amazing collection. I'm still working on my first graded set (1968 Topps BB). I know you're always looking for cards, I was wondering if you had any dupes from 1968 that you had available. I think you have your PM turned off, so please feel free to PM me if you have any.

Thank you in advance,

Brian

Clemaz

Unbelievable achievement!

Davalillo

Nick,

Sorry--not familiar with the set.

Jim

Also, I don't keep any dupes hanging around but in 68 Topps baseball set 8s are readily obtainable.

Thanks again to all for tha congrats.