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This was the last pattern I needed. Pattern #39 . Card number 90. @gracecollector had it. Now I have it. It arrived today.
I have......all 90....... 1998 Topps Tek Randy Johnson patterns.... A completed player set..... wow.
When I got back into the hobby near the end of 2013 and joined this board I needed 23 patterns. In May 2014 I needed 9. Took 2 years to find 9 cards. I found the 89th card back in September. 8 months waiting on the last one.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Best of luck to MansGame and everyone else still in the hunt, it's tough. Of course now that I have a complete set I'll be going after a reverse order set, odd & even pattern number sets, a prime number pattern set, a 90-card set of all the same pattern number and so on. I will pay the Jan 2002 Beckett high price.
Heh, we kid, but that's the joy of 98 Tek is all the different ways you can collect. Here are my projects:
Nine diff Griffey Diffractors - complete
Nine diff Buhner Diffractors - complete
Diffractor set - Need 26
Griffey set - over halfway there
Minty fresh set - about halfway. I seem to have good luck with certain patterns for avoiding the spotting.
22 diff Juan, 14 diff Jeter, and 11 diff Lofton in case I ever get close enough to go for sets.
I wish they would do another set like 1998. I think it would generate a ton of activity from player and team collectors and that makes it fun.