Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Thanks everybody. Here's the results from the original CC renewal in April 2016. The PSA 9 Gwynn is the one that bumped. I'm kicking myself for not noting the source at the time. I'm pretty sure I posted raw scans back then but that was before the whole photobucket thing.
I'll be sure to scan the new PSA 10 when I get it back.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Finally some poppage. Due to the lack of appealing specials, I didn't renew my membership. Eating all of a 100 card bulk sub is a bit steep for me, so luckily I was able to piggyback on a board member's bulk sub. We had loggage on 2/20 and poppage on 5/2.
1 1 28957010 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 466 Tom Underwood Card --- from eBay mega common lot
2 1 28957011 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 581 Tom Seaver Card --- from cello
3 1 28957012 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 614 Ed Glynn Card --- from eBay mega common lot
4 1 28957013 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 592 Shane Rawley Card --- from eBay partial set
5 1 28957014 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 655 Al Bumbry Card --- from wax
6 1 28957015 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 504 Don Werner Card --- from eBay partial set
7 1 28957016 MINT 9 1983 Topps 582 Marshall Edwards Card --- from eBay mega common lot
8 1 28957017 MINT 9 1983 Topps 328 Craig Reynolds Card --- from eBay partial set
9 1 28957018 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 226 Enrique Romo Card --- from vending
10 1 28957019 MINT 9 1983 Topps 742 Padres Batting & Pitching Leaders Card --- from rack
11 1 28957020 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 507 Tony Scott Card --- from eBay mega common lot
12 1 28957021 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 7 Gene Richards Card --- from rack
13 1 28957022 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 75 Amos Otis Card --- from rack
14 1 28957023 MINT 9 1983 Topps 710 Willie Wilson Card --- from michigan wax
15 1 28957024 MINT 9 1983 Topps 330 Buddy Bell Card --- from rack
16 1 28957025 MINT 9 1983 Topps 562 Dave Rozema Card --- from eBay mega common lot
17 1 28957026 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 400 Dave Concepcion Card --- from vending
18 1 28957027 MINT 9 1983 Topps 705 Victory Leaders L.Hoyt/S.Carlton Card --- from rack
19 1 28957028 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 516 Bill Virdon Card --- from michigan wax
20 1 28957029 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 787 Dick Tidrow Card --- from michigan wax
21 1 28957030 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 31 Bill Gullickson Card --- from wax
22 1 28957031 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 622 Dave Edler Card --- from wax
23 1 28957032 MINT 9 1983 Topps 103 Darrell Porter Card --- from eBay partial set
24 1 28957033 MINT 9 1983 Topps 538 Danny Heep Card --- from vending
25 1 28957034 MINT 9 1983 Topps 449 Eddie Milner --- from eBay mega common lot
Really pleased as 14 of 25 hit PSA 10. My best sub ever in terms of percentage of 10's hit. No real big hits here with the Werner a pop 9 the lowest pop. The Seaver is only the Super Vet card, not his base card.
Also, I see that I never posted a scan of my Gwynn that bumped to a PSA 10 upon review.
Scans always seem to expose any flaws, but it looks like I may have gotten somewhat of a gift here. More OC than I remember. Some chipping along bottom edge. Green smudge along top left hand border. Oh well. I'm not going to throw it out or crack it back out hoping for a 9.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
@ahopkins said:
Brett, what's the % of completion at this point?
Andy
Andy, I'm at 597/792. Just over 75%. That includes 275 PSA 10's and 322 PSA 9's.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
This is my favorite thread about my favorite set. Can you let us know your current completion percentage and what cards are really haunting you at this point?
When you get cards like that Gwynn back in a 10 that you maybe thought was generous, does it make you go back through your reject pile second guessing yourself?
When I decided to finish my 1968 set with Mint raw commons instead of graded ones, I was so picky that I set aside about half the cards I already had because I nitpicked every flaw. I decided to send in a group 20 of them to test out my standards and 12 came back 9's, 2 8.5's, and 6 8's. At that point, I realized I was more picky than PSA.
@GreenSneakers said:
This is my favorite thread about my favorite set. Can you let us know your current completion percentage and what cards are really haunting you at this point?
I'm at 75.38%. 597/792. With 275 10's and 322 9's.
Hard to say what cards haunt me. Of all of the noted low pops in the set, I think I've pulled at least one card that I deemed submittable. I definitely haven't always got PSA 10's in return, but at least I know solid copy's are out there.
A couple commons I can think of: Mike Marshall - In addition to centering issues, this card seems to be plagued with printing issues. The card always looks washed out. Colors don't pop. Dan Schatzeder - Again, with all lower pops, centering is the main issue, but the dark background on this card makes any fish eyes or printing blemishes really stand out.
Two Hall of Famers: Phil Niekro - Very bad centering. Must be a corner card on the sheet. Rickey Henderson All Star - Centering plus fuzzy, washed out picture quality.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
@Arsenal83 said:
When you get cards like that Gwynn back in a 10 that you maybe thought was generous, does it make you go back through your reject pile second guessing yourself?
When I decided to finish my 1968 set with Mint raw commons instead of graded ones, I was so picky that I set aside about half the cards I already had because I nitpicked every flaw. I decided to send in a group 20 of them to test out my standards and 12 came back 9's, 2 8.5's, and 6 8's. At that point, I realized I was more picky than PSA.
This definitely happens. Whenever I post my poppage, I try to identify the source that I pulled it from. I've identified some as source unknown. These are cards I've pulled out of a Monster Box when I'm filing that year's mess of cards that didn't make the grade.
It works the other way to. I've had cards ready to be subbed and before I put them in the box to PSA, I've pulled them back at the last minute and put them in the reject pile.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Poppage. Piggybacked on a board member's bulk sub again. Logged 6/28. Popped 10/2 I believe.
13 out of 25 PSA 10's after 14 of 25 on the last bulk sub.
A couple semi-tough cards. The Hurst is now a pop 10 and the LaFrancois is a pop 9. Also HOFer Fergie Jenkins.
606/792 with 288 PSA 10's and 318 PSA 9's.
81 1 41200312 MINT 9 1983 Topps 463 Gaylord Perry Card --- from cello
82 1 41200313 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 470 Greg Minton Card --- from rack
83 1 41200314 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 222 Damaso Garcia Card --- from eBay partial set
84 1 41200315 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 584 Dave Hostetler Card --- from cello
85 1 41200316 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 502 Braves Batting & Pitching Leaders Card --- from rack
86 1 41200317 MINT 9 1983 Topps 562 Dave Rozema Card --- from eBay mega common lot
87 1 41200318 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 1983 Topps 734 Steve Braun Card --- from eBay partial set
88 1 41200319 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 342 Atlee Hammaker Card --- from eBay partial set
89 1 41200320 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 128 Mike Ramsey Card --- from cello
90 1 41200321 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 536 Johnny Wockenfuss Card --- from eBay mega common lot
91 1 41200322 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 369 Jesse Orosco Card --- from eBay partial set
92 1 41200323 MINT 9 1983 Topps 700 Keith Hernandez Card --- from eBay partial set
93 1 41200324 MINT 9 1983 Topps 769 Checklist 661-792 Card --- from rack
94 1 41200325 MINT 9 1983 Topps 682 Bob Stanley Card --- from eBay partial set
95 1 41200326 MINT 9 1983 Topps 472 Gary Allenson Card --- from eBay mega common lot
96 1 41200327 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 364 Brett Butler Card --- from eBay partial set
97 1 41200328 MINT 9 1983 Topps 698 Tony Bernazard Card --- from Mich. wax
98 1 41200329 MINT 9 1983 Topps 164 Dave Palmer Card --- from cello
99 1 41200330 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 8 Steve Balboni Card --- from eBay partial set
100 1 41200331 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 217 Tim Stoddard Card --- from rack
101 1 41200332 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 82 Bruce Hurst Card --- from vending
102 1 41200333 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 383 Ozzie Virgil Card --- from eBay partial set
103 1 41200334 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 344 Roger LaFrancois Card --- from wax
104 1 41200335 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 230 Fergie Jenkins Card --- from vending
105 1 41200336 MINT 9 1983 Topps 215 Mario Soto Card --- from eBay mega common lot
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
I love this thread. Thanks for continuing to update. I collected the hell out of this set as an 11 year old. Not the first year I collected cards, but the first year I was semi-conscious about keeping them in decent shape. Your pics bring back to a very happy time.
I know how deligent you are in grading this cards before you send them in; which gives me pause about doing this myself when I see you have some "8's". I'd probably get back "7's" on cards that look perfect to me.
Collecting PSA 9's from 1970-1977. Raw 9's from 72-77. Raw 10's from '78-'83. Collecting Unopened from '72-'83; mostly BBCE certified boxes/cases/racks. Prefer to buy in bulk.
Thanks all for the kind words. Things have really slowed down for me with the lack of specials and the bulk cost at $8. Someone floated the idea in another thread about a special with all cards from the same set. Obviously, I'd totally be on board for something like this. Not sure what the benefit for PSA would be. They seem to be doing fine as is.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Really enjoying this thread!! This set along with 84 and 85
Donruss were my favorites from the eighties. I hope it won't
be another 5 months for your next post. Good luck!!
Still grinding away. Here's what I have to break this Winter.
Not as exciting as it looks. That is 3 vending boxes and a Michigan wax box, but the rack box only holds a lot of 10 racks and the cello box holds a lot of 20 cellos. There is a good variety. I'll start with the cello after New Year's.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Is the set you are building on the registry? This reminds me of how I built my 1978 set. Tons of ripping and submitting. That was in the early 2000’s. I wouldn’t attempt it today as pricing on unopened is just in the stratosphere. I’m so happy I did it when I did. Very cool thread!
I started off the year by busting a lot of 20 cello packs. They were purchased back in March for about $127 after taking advantage of an eBay 20% discount.
It looks like somebody may have opened the first 4 packs in a box, saw the centering was off and tried to cut their losses by offering up the remaining 20 packs. I did pull a Gwynn and Boggs, but unfortunately the centering was pretty indicative of what I saw throughout the packs.
I feel lucky that I was able to pull 9 candidates for the grading pile, including a Rivers which is pretty tough.
Next up: one of the vending boxes.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
This week I busted one of the vending boxes. This box was purchased in June for about $104. Again, after taking advantage of a 20% eBay discount. Overall, a very strong box. Usually you can shuffle pretty quickly through the cards and dismiss most cards right away, But with this box I had to do a lot of 2nd and 3rd takes. I ended up pulling 43 cards for the grading pile. Including a nice Gwynn. Also tough Armas Record Breaker, Bobby Castillo and Bobby Grich.
When I get a nice box like this, my exuberance probably gets the best of me and maybe I get too generous, but for now I will keep all of these for the grading pile.
This week: The lot of 10 rack packs.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Thanks guys. The Gwynn is really nice, but... if you look next to his left knee there's a black spot. This is from an imperfection in the cardboard that has been printed over and leaves what I call a pimple. Those of you who rip a lot of stuff or grade cards from this era know what I'm talking about. In my experience, the best a card like this can get is a PSA 8. Unfortunately if I see it the grader will too. So not sure if it'll stay in the grading pile at this point.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
It could just be the scan, but is that upper left corner on the Gwynn not as sharp as the other three? That card is beautiful if not for that "pimple." I love seeing you chase this set in a 10. It's truly awesome.
@ahopkins said:
It could just be the scan, but is that upper left corner on the Gwynn not as sharp as the other three? That card is beautiful if not for that "pimple." I love seeing you chase this set in a 10. It's truly awesome.
Yeah it's just the pic. I used to scan most of the stuff, but it's easier to just take a quick picture.
I think I'm like 7th or 9th on the registry. The guys ahead of me have mind blowing sets. Just picture less than 10 cards to have an all PSA 10 set.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Last week I opened a lot of 10 rack packs purchased back in July for about $106 after utilizing $20 odd dollars of eBay Bucks. It's easy to see why so many prefer rack packs as opposed to any other type of unopened. The cards just come out so clean. No gum. No wax. No vending curl. Even if the cards are OC, it just feels like the cards are quality.
I pulled 2 OC Sandberg's and an OC Boggs.
I also pulled this beautiful Ripken. No hidden pimples this time. If this isn't a PSA 10, I'd be upset.
In addition to the Ripken, I also pulled these 22 cards for the grading pile.
The Milbourne, Leonard, Pryor and Crawford are all pretty tough. 23 gradable cards from 10 rack packs. I'm very happy with that.
I think I'll try another vending box next.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Awesome stuff, Brett!! The Ripken looks great! We're on business day 63 of our submission now, but 85 is the new 65, so maybe we have another month?! Looking forward to seeing your results when they finally do pop.
Jeremy, it'll be a nice surprise when they pop. I'll have to take a look at my spreadsheet to remember what I sent in. Hopefully, the grader will be as kind to me as on the last two subs.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
I might have to disagree on the Ryno on the left - I think it's within tolerance to get a grade sans the qualifier - I have a 9 with centering very similar.
Busted another vending box this week. An eBay purchase from December, I paid about $157. This was the only BBCE certified material I got this year, so the price was a little steeper.
The box was more in line with a normal vending box, not like the great box I opened earlier this year. Overall cards were sharp, just centering was a little off. I did pull one each of the Big 3 plus Ripken. Not gradable due to centering issues.
Also pulled 14 for the grading pile which is actually above average for a vending box.
The Michigan wax box is up next.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
@GDM67 said:
Good luck with the Terry Harper. That's rather low pop in PSA 10.
You're the Braves guy. Do you have the Horner or Niekro in PSA 10? They both must be corner of the sheet. Centering is just atrocious on both of them.
"I think the guy must be practicing voodoo or something. Check out his eyes. Rico's crazier than a peach orchard sow." -- Whitey Herzog, Spring Training 1973
Comments
Awesome! Congrats!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Nicely done! Congratulations.
Thanks,
David (LD_Ferg)
1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
Congrats Brett!
Thanks everybody. Here's the results from the original CC renewal in April 2016. The PSA 9 Gwynn is the one that bumped. I'm kicking myself for not noting the source at the time. I'm pretty sure I posted raw scans back then but that was before the whole photobucket thing.
I'll be sure to scan the new PSA 10 when I get it back.
1 1 25517347 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 83 Ryne Sandberg Card
2 1 25517348 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 482 Tony Gwynn Card
3 1 25517349 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 482 Tony Gwynn Card
4 1 25517350 MINT 9 1983 Topps 482 Tony Gwynn Card
5 1 25517351 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 1983 Topps 498 Wade Boggs Card
6 1 25517352 MINT 9 1983 Topps 498 Wade Boggs Card
Wow Brett - this is just incredible! Congratulations buddy.
Finally some poppage. Due to the lack of appealing specials, I didn't renew my membership. Eating all of a 100 card bulk sub is a bit steep for me, so luckily I was able to piggyback on a board member's bulk sub. We had loggage on 2/20 and poppage on 5/2.
1 1 28957010 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 466 Tom Underwood Card --- from eBay mega common lot
2 1 28957011 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 581 Tom Seaver Card --- from cello
3 1 28957012 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 614 Ed Glynn Card --- from eBay mega common lot
4 1 28957013 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 592 Shane Rawley Card --- from eBay partial set
5 1 28957014 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 655 Al Bumbry Card --- from wax
6 1 28957015 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 504 Don Werner Card --- from eBay partial set
7 1 28957016 MINT 9 1983 Topps 582 Marshall Edwards Card --- from eBay mega common lot
8 1 28957017 MINT 9 1983 Topps 328 Craig Reynolds Card --- from eBay partial set
9 1 28957018 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 226 Enrique Romo Card --- from vending
10 1 28957019 MINT 9 1983 Topps 742 Padres Batting & Pitching Leaders Card --- from rack
11 1 28957020 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 507 Tony Scott Card --- from eBay mega common lot
12 1 28957021 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 7 Gene Richards Card --- from rack
13 1 28957022 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 75 Amos Otis Card --- from rack
14 1 28957023 MINT 9 1983 Topps 710 Willie Wilson Card --- from michigan wax
15 1 28957024 MINT 9 1983 Topps 330 Buddy Bell Card --- from rack
16 1 28957025 MINT 9 1983 Topps 562 Dave Rozema Card --- from eBay mega common lot
17 1 28957026 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 400 Dave Concepcion Card --- from vending
18 1 28957027 MINT 9 1983 Topps 705 Victory Leaders L.Hoyt/S.Carlton Card --- from rack
19 1 28957028 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 516 Bill Virdon Card --- from michigan wax
20 1 28957029 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 787 Dick Tidrow Card --- from michigan wax
21 1 28957030 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 31 Bill Gullickson Card --- from wax
22 1 28957031 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 622 Dave Edler Card --- from wax
23 1 28957032 MINT 9 1983 Topps 103 Darrell Porter Card --- from eBay partial set
24 1 28957033 MINT 9 1983 Topps 538 Danny Heep Card --- from vending
25 1 28957034 MINT 9 1983 Topps 449 Eddie Milner --- from eBay mega common lot
Really pleased as 14 of 25 hit PSA 10. My best sub ever in terms of percentage of 10's hit. No real big hits here with the Werner a pop 9 the lowest pop. The Seaver is only the Super Vet card, not his base card.
Also, I see that I never posted a scan of my Gwynn that bumped to a PSA 10 upon review.
Scans always seem to expose any flaws, but it looks like I may have gotten somewhat of a gift here. More OC than I remember. Some chipping along bottom edge. Green smudge along top left hand border. Oh well. I'm not going to throw it out or crack it back out hoping for a 9.
Nice score, with a great percentage of PSA 10's.
Way to go!!!
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Way to go Brett .
You are the master of 1983 Topps! Congrats!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Brett, what's the % of completion at this point?
Andy
Andy
Thanks to all for the encouraging words.
Andy, I'm at 597/792. Just over 75%. That includes 275 PSA 10's and 322 PSA 9's.
That's remarkable, Brett. Good luck with the rest of it. I'm pulling for you.
Andy
Andy
Great grades and that Gwynn looks good in a 10 holder.
Thanks,
David (LD_Ferg)
1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
This is my favorite thread about my favorite set. Can you let us know your current completion percentage and what cards are really haunting you at this point?
When you get cards like that Gwynn back in a 10 that you maybe thought was generous, does it make you go back through your reject pile second guessing yourself?
When I decided to finish my 1968 set with Mint raw commons instead of graded ones, I was so picky that I set aside about half the cards I already had because I nitpicked every flaw. I decided to send in a group 20 of them to test out my standards and 12 came back 9's, 2 8.5's, and 6 8's. At that point, I realized I was more picky than PSA.
I'm at 75.38%. 597/792. With 275 10's and 322 9's.
Hard to say what cards haunt me. Of all of the noted low pops in the set, I think I've pulled at least one card that I deemed submittable. I definitely haven't always got PSA 10's in return, but at least I know solid copy's are out there.
A couple commons I can think of: Mike Marshall - In addition to centering issues, this card seems to be plagued with printing issues. The card always looks washed out. Colors don't pop. Dan Schatzeder - Again, with all lower pops, centering is the main issue, but the dark background on this card makes any fish eyes or printing blemishes really stand out.
Two Hall of Famers: Phil Niekro - Very bad centering. Must be a corner card on the sheet. Rickey Henderson All Star - Centering plus fuzzy, washed out picture quality.
This definitely happens. Whenever I post my poppage, I try to identify the source that I pulled it from. I've identified some as source unknown. These are cards I've pulled out of a Monster Box when I'm filing that year's mess of cards that didn't make the grade.
It works the other way to. I've had cards ready to be subbed and before I put them in the box to PSA, I've pulled them back at the last minute and put them in the reject pile.
Poppage. Piggybacked on a board member's bulk sub again. Logged 6/28. Popped 10/2 I believe.
13 out of 25 PSA 10's after 14 of 25 on the last bulk sub.
A couple semi-tough cards. The Hurst is now a pop 10 and the LaFrancois is a pop 9. Also HOFer Fergie Jenkins.
606/792 with 288 PSA 10's and 318 PSA 9's.
81 1 41200312 MINT 9 1983 Topps 463 Gaylord Perry Card --- from cello
82 1 41200313 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 470 Greg Minton Card --- from rack
83 1 41200314 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 222 Damaso Garcia Card --- from eBay partial set
84 1 41200315 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 584 Dave Hostetler Card --- from cello
85 1 41200316 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 502 Braves Batting & Pitching Leaders Card --- from rack
86 1 41200317 MINT 9 1983 Topps 562 Dave Rozema Card --- from eBay mega common lot
87 1 41200318 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 1983 Topps 734 Steve Braun Card --- from eBay partial set
88 1 41200319 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 342 Atlee Hammaker Card --- from eBay partial set
89 1 41200320 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 128 Mike Ramsey Card --- from cello
90 1 41200321 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1983 Topps 536 Johnny Wockenfuss Card --- from eBay mega common lot
91 1 41200322 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 369 Jesse Orosco Card --- from eBay partial set
92 1 41200323 MINT 9 1983 Topps 700 Keith Hernandez Card --- from eBay partial set
93 1 41200324 MINT 9 1983 Topps 769 Checklist 661-792 Card --- from rack
94 1 41200325 MINT 9 1983 Topps 682 Bob Stanley Card --- from eBay partial set
95 1 41200326 MINT 9 1983 Topps 472 Gary Allenson Card --- from eBay mega common lot
96 1 41200327 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 364 Brett Butler Card --- from eBay partial set
97 1 41200328 MINT 9 1983 Topps 698 Tony Bernazard Card --- from Mich. wax
98 1 41200329 MINT 9 1983 Topps 164 Dave Palmer Card --- from cello
99 1 41200330 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 8 Steve Balboni Card --- from eBay partial set
100 1 41200331 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 217 Tim Stoddard Card --- from rack
101 1 41200332 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 82 Bruce Hurst Card --- from vending
102 1 41200333 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 383 Ozzie Virgil Card --- from eBay partial set
103 1 41200334 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 344 Roger LaFrancois Card --- from wax
104 1 41200335 GEM MINT 10 1983 Topps 230 Fergie Jenkins Card --- from vending
105 1 41200336 MINT 9 1983 Topps 215 Mario Soto Card --- from eBay mega common lot
I love this thread. Thanks for continuing to update. I collected the hell out of this set as an 11 year old. Not the first year I collected cards, but the first year I was semi-conscious about keeping them in decent shape. Your pics bring back to a very happy time.
I know how deligent you are in grading this cards before you send them in; which gives me pause about doing this myself when I see you have some "8's". I'd probably get back "7's" on cards that look perfect to me.
Collecting Unopened from '72-'83; mostly BBCE certified boxes/cases/racks.
Prefer to buy in bulk.
Congrats on another great sub. I love seeing those gorgeous 10s!
Thanks all for the kind words. Things have really slowed down for me with the lack of specials and the bulk cost at $8. Someone floated the idea in another thread about a special with all cards from the same set. Obviously, I'd totally be on board for something like this. Not sure what the benefit for PSA would be. They seem to be doing fine as is.
Really enjoying this thread!! This set along with 84 and 85
Donruss were my favorites from the eighties. I hope it won't
be another 5 months for your next post. Good luck!!
Still grinding away. Here's what I have to break this Winter.
Not as exciting as it looks. That is 3 vending boxes and a Michigan wax box, but the rack box only holds a lot of 10 racks and the cello box holds a lot of 20 cellos. There is a good variety. I'll start with the cello after New Year's.
Good luck, Brett!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Best way to end the year, I was hoping you would post about your progress.
Best wishes and good luck!!
Is the set you are building on the registry? This reminds me of how I built my 1978 set. Tons of ripping and submitting. That was in the early 2000’s. I wouldn’t attempt it today as pricing on unopened is just in the stratosphere. I’m so happy I did it when I did. Very cool thread!
ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240
Good luck Brett! Hope there are lots of 10s hiding in there...
I started off the year by busting a lot of 20 cello packs. They were purchased back in March for about $127 after taking advantage of an eBay 20% discount.
It looks like somebody may have opened the first 4 packs in a box, saw the centering was off and tried to cut their losses by offering up the remaining 20 packs. I did pull a Gwynn and Boggs, but unfortunately the centering was pretty indicative of what I saw throughout the packs.
I feel lucky that I was able to pull 9 candidates for the grading pile, including a Rivers which is pretty tough.
Next up: one of the vending boxes.
This week I busted one of the vending boxes. This box was purchased in June for about $104. Again, after taking advantage of a 20% eBay discount. Overall, a very strong box. Usually you can shuffle pretty quickly through the cards and dismiss most cards right away, But with this box I had to do a lot of 2nd and 3rd takes. I ended up pulling 43 cards for the grading pile. Including a nice Gwynn. Also tough Armas Record Breaker, Bobby Castillo and Bobby Grich.
When I get a nice box like this, my exuberance probably gets the best of me and maybe I get too generous, but for now I will keep all of these for the grading pile.
This week: The lot of 10 rack packs.
Super sharp Gwynn from the vending box!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Ya rarely see a Gwynn that nicely centered.
Really - best of luck on the sub.
Sorry I don't remember your first name.
Keeping my fingers crossed!!
Glad to see you making some progress. Have really enjoyed watching your journey. Congrats on the recent Gwynn pull.
Wow...great box and a dead on looking Gwynn. Thanks for sharing the rips!
Congrats! Another of my favorite threads to follow.
Andy
Thanks guys. The Gwynn is really nice, but... if you look next to his left knee there's a black spot. This is from an imperfection in the cardboard that has been printed over and leaves what I call a pimple. Those of you who rip a lot of stuff or grade cards from this era know what I'm talking about. In my experience, the best a card like this can get is a PSA 8. Unfortunately if I see it the grader will too. So not sure if it'll stay in the grading pile at this point.
Brett , I'm glad to see you are still going strong . I hope the grading gods are with you .
It could just be the scan, but is that upper left corner on the Gwynn not as sharp as the other three? That card is beautiful if not for that "pimple." I love seeing you chase this set in a 10. It's truly awesome.
Andy
Yeah it's just the pic. I used to scan most of the stuff, but it's easier to just take a quick picture.
I think I'm like 7th or 9th on the registry. The guys ahead of me have mind blowing sets. Just picture less than 10 cards to have an all PSA 10 set.
Great stuff, thanks for picking back up on the project.
Last week I opened a lot of 10 rack packs purchased back in July for about $106 after utilizing $20 odd dollars of eBay Bucks. It's easy to see why so many prefer rack packs as opposed to any other type of unopened. The cards just come out so clean. No gum. No wax. No vending curl. Even if the cards are OC, it just feels like the cards are quality.
I pulled 2 OC Sandberg's and an OC Boggs.
I also pulled this beautiful Ripken. No hidden pimples this time. If this isn't a PSA 10, I'd be upset.
In addition to the Ripken, I also pulled these 22 cards for the grading pile.
The Milbourne, Leonard, Pryor and Crawford are all pretty tough. 23 gradable cards from 10 rack packs. I'm very happy with that.
I think I'll try another vending box next.
Awesome stuff, Brett!! The Ripken looks great! We're on business day 63 of our submission now, but 85 is the new 65, so maybe we have another month?! Looking forward to seeing your results when they finally do pop.
Jeremy, it'll be a nice surprise when they pop. I'll have to take a look at my spreadsheet to remember what I sent in. Hopefully, the grader will be as kind to me as on the last two subs.
The Ripken is sweet Brett.
I might have to disagree on the Ryno on the left - I think it's within tolerance to get a grade sans the qualifier - I have a 9 with centering very similar.
Best of luck.
Busted another vending box this week. An eBay purchase from December, I paid about $157. This was the only BBCE certified material I got this year, so the price was a little steeper.
The box was more in line with a normal vending box, not like the great box I opened earlier this year. Overall cards were sharp, just centering was a little off. I did pull one each of the Big 3 plus Ripken. Not gradable due to centering issues.
Also pulled 14 for the grading pile which is actually above average for a vending box.
The Michigan wax box is up next.
Good luck with the Terry Harper. That's rather low pop in PSA 10.
You're the Braves guy. Do you have the Horner or Niekro in PSA 10? They both must be corner of the sheet. Centering is just atrocious on both of them.
Phil Niekro is indeed the upper left corner card on the sheet. Bob Horner is on the top row of his sheet, 3rd card from the left.