The 1998 Topps Tek Thread

u2me57 said:

I looked but don't have any of those. Funny how at least 3 Belle collectors on here need pattern #2 , including Donald Apland, who is only about 37 cards away from having all 8100 cards. Good luck guys.

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Well aware... might not exist

Yeah, it's out there somewhere. With as many Belle collectors that there are I would have thought patterns 1, 47, and 90 would have been harder to find.

u2me57 said:

Yeah, it's out there somewhere. With as many Belle collectors that there are I would have thought patterns 1, 47, and 90 would have been harder to find.

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Makes two of us.

u2me57 said:

Funny how at least 3 Belle collectors on here need pattern #2 , including Donald Apland, who is only about 37 cards away from having all 8100 cards. Good luck guys.

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Donald Apland is now down to needing 30 cards to complete his set of 8100! Anyone who has one of these cards, please e-mail Don at [email protected].

B. Grieve 1– 8, 37
F. Thomas 6– 3
T. Glavine 10– 68
D. Jeter 14– 1
B. Anderson 16– 16, 83
V. Guerrero 17– 17
D. Justice 18– 62, 90
T. Martinez 25– 75
A. Jones 26– 70
R. Ventura 33– 20
P. O’Neill 37– 90
V. Castilla 38– 9
K. Lofton 45– 45
A. Belle 47– 2
J. Burnitz 48– 83
G. Maddux 50– 8, 33, 52
E. Burks 53– 25
B. Larkin 57– 4
J. Gonzalez 60– 59
E. Martinez 64– 77
K. Caminiti 68– 72
C. Knoblauch 70– 79
J. Bagwell 74– 19, 76
A. Galarraga 85– 1

rinkrat38 said:

Donald Apland is now down to needing 30 cards to complete his set of 8100! Anyone who has one of these cards, please e-mail Don at [email protected].

B. Grieve 1– 8, 37
F. Thomas 6– 3
T. Glavine 10– 68
D. Jeter 14– 1
B. Anderson 16– 16, 83
V. Guerrero 17– 17
D. Justice 18– 62, 90
T. Martinez 25– 75
A. Jones 26– 70
R. Ventura 33– 20
P. O’Neill 37– 90
V. Castilla 38– 9
K. Lofton 45– 45
A. Belle 47– 2
J. Burnitz 48– 83
G. Maddux 50– 8, 33, 52
E. Burks 53– 25
B. Larkin 57– 4
J. Gonzalez 60– 59
E. Martinez 64– 77
K. Caminiti 68– 72
C. Knoblauch 70– 79
J. Bagwell 74– 19, 76
A. Galarraga 85– 1

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How long has he been chasing this set and how motivated is he to finish it? I got to imagine some of these have to be out there... like there is a member here who was trying to sell the complete Caminiti set of 90 cards.

Oh great. The last one I need for my O'neill set he also needs.

Back in the day when I was down to my last 100 or so patterns out of the 8100, Larry Carpenter, @captainj, needed two cards to finish his set. One was a Manny Ramirez p. 66 card; I didn't have the other one he needed. No one was hoarding those same card#/same pattern# cards back then. I sent Larry the p. 66 card I had from my set. A week later, another Manny p. 66 card turned up. Larry picked up his last card a week or so later to finish the set, then another of that pattern also came in. He sent it to me, and over the next couple of months he found about another dozen of the cards I needed. I'm sure that when one p. 2 Belle card or p. 90 O'Neill card turns up, others will follow along quickly. They're out there.

If you assume 10 diffractor patterns were printed for each of the 8100 cards, that would be 230 patterns printed for each of the common cards if there was an even distribution of the 1998 Tek commons. Two assumptions here: the 10 diffractor patterns -- which is my best guess, and the even distribution of common patterns.

(10 diffractor patterns x 90 x 90 = 81,000 diffractors printed. 1 diffractor printed for every 23 commons (1 for every 6 packs). 81,000 x 23 = a print run 1,863,000 1998 Tek commons, divided by 8100 patterns = 230 cards for each common pattern).

Rich

MansGame said:

How long has [Don Apland] been chasing this set and how motivated is he to finish it? I got to imagine some of these have to be out there... like there is a member here who was trying to sell the complete Caminiti set of 90 cards.

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I remember Don collecting Cubbies' 1998 Tek players back about when I started collecting toward the whole set of 8100 around 2001. We traded cards back then. My daughter and I had been trying to collect the old Red Sox players since 2000 and had amassed a bunch of extras of players from other teams. In 2001, we put 90 sets of 10 UltraPro nine-sleeve pages per player in fifteen 3-inch binders -- six players per binder, and started filling them up. At that time, we had more than half the set. We finished just before she started high school in 2004.

Not sure when Don shifted from just the Cubs' players to the whole set, but he's been at it a while. I would say he is quite motivated to finish it. He knocked off four cards he needed just in the past three weeks. I don't think his motivation includes buying $500.00 boxes or buying a set of 90 to get one card though! I still think this is a remarkable accomplishment as eBay has made it a lot harder to track down player collectors to initiate trades.

Rich

So if anybody NEW to board has Any 98 TEKs send me your list of availables to [email protected]
not as a Reply

By Player, Card # pattern #

Sold 40 Beltre 98 TEK to a collector and have around 1300 dupes to trade

Lists of dupe provided upon request if looking to buysell, or trade 1998 Topps TEKs

Don needs at least four cards that are either card #1 or same number/same pattern. Hopefully we can help him out. He's a good guy.

rinkrat38 said:

Donald Apland is now down to needing 30 cards to complete his set of 8100! Anyone who has one of these cards, please e-mail Don at [email protected].

B. Grieve 1– 8, 37
F. Thomas 6– 3
T. Glavine 10– 68
D. Jeter 14– 1
B. Anderson 16– 16, 83
V. Guerrero 17– 17
D. Justice 18– 62, 90
T. Martinez 25– 75
A. Jones 26– 70
R. Ventura 33– 20
P. O’Neill 37– 90
V. Castilla 38– 9
K. Lofton 45– 45
A. Belle 47– 2
J. Burnitz 48– 83
G. Maddux 50– 8, 33, 52
E. Burks 53– 25
B. Larkin 57– 4
J. Gonzalez 60– 59
E. Martinez 64– 77
K. Caminiti 68– 72
C. Knoblauch 70– 79
J. Bagwell 74– 19, 76
A. Galarraga 85– 1

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Thanks for the update Rich! I just bought the Thome pattern #83 from a COMC Ebay BIN. Might be a good place for Tek player or set collectors who don't usually check the COMC site, like myself.

My current 1998 TEK Want List is below
the ones with "x" are coming in the mail

My 1998 Topps TEK WANT LIST

McGwire Card # 13 Pat # 13
Clemens Card # 21 Pat # 21
Dunwoody Card # 36 Pat 36
Ripken Card # 51 Pat # 51
Glaus Card # 61 Pat # 61
Konerko Card # 63 Pat # 63
Mussina Card # 80 Pat # 35
Lankford Card # 90 Pat # 90 ------------------(need 2)

1998 Topps TEK Diffractor want list (Set # 2)…14 to go out of 90 to complete set
9,13,14,16,30,51,57,61,66,67,74,78,80,85

1998 Topps TEK Diffractor want list (Set # 3)…35 to go out of 90 to complete set
1,3,6,7,9,10,13,14,15,16,17,23,26,27,30,34,36,39,43,44,45,47,50,51,56,57,60,61,66,67,74,78,80,85,87

My only dupe 1998 TEK Diffractor to trade (for Diffractors only) is Dunwoody Card 36 Pat # 63

My 1998 TEK Condition Upgrade Want List (Mst be Mint or Near Mint)

Ivan Rodriguez....Card # 5 Pat # 47
D Bichette…….……Card # 8 Pat # 36
Derek Jeter........Card # 14 Pat # 44
Brady Anderson….Card # 16 Pat # 34
David Justice......Card # 18 Pat # 25
Chipper Jones.....Card # 19 Pat # 28
Tino Martinez.....Card # 25 Pat # 38
Curt Schilling.....Card # 32 Pat # 7
T Dunwoody.......Card # 36 Pat # 36
Paul O' Neill.......Card # 37 Pat # 24
Randy Johnson....Card # 39 Pat # 11,21,27
Albert Belle........Card # 47 Pat # 36
Jeromy Burnitz....Card # 48 Pat # 36
Jason Kendall.....Card # 52 Pat # 15
Ellis Burks..........Card # 53 Pat # 25
Barry Larkin.......Card # 57 Pat # 28
Paul Konerko......Card # 63 Pat # 8
Javy Lopez.........Card # 65 Pat # 31x
Knoblauch..........Card # 70 Pat # 36
Kevin Brown........Card # 71 Pat # 36x
Jeff Bagwell........Card # 74 Pat # 78
Jim Thome..........Card # 89 Pat # 46

Pattern # 1 Want List (Set # 3) (54/90 so far)
3,4,6,7,8,11,14,17,18,23,28,29,30,31,36,37,38,39,45,48,50,51,53,56,58,59,60,61,62,64,67,
71,72,84,87x,90

Same Card #/ Pattern # Want List (Set # 4)…..(85/90 so far)
13p13(Mark McGwire), 21p21(Roger Clemens), 51p51(Cal Ripken Jr), 61p61(Troy Glaus), 63p63(Paul Konerko)

Same Card #/ Pattern # Want List (Set # 5)......(52/90 so far)
2,5,6,7,9,13,14,15,21,23,27,29,30,31,33,39,41,45,49,51,52,53,54,55,57,60,
61,63,64,65,66,67,74,78,81,83,86,90

Ive decided to start up another Bagwell set (only trading my dupes for them) and I just sold 40 Adrian Beltre 98 TEKs to another new 98 TEK collector who is looking for some more. Will trade my dupe for Beltres to help him out
email me at [email protected] (rather than PM or Reply here) if you have some to trade

Set # xx

Set # xx

Unreal.

I'm happy to add my 26th Paul O'neill diffractor to my collection.

Yanks2151 said:

I'm happy to add my 26th Paul O'neill diffractor to my collection.

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Congratulations Kevin! That is an amazing looking Paul O'neill diffractor. Only 64 more to go. Good luck.

Yanks2151 said:

I'm happy to add my 26th Paul O'neill diffractor to my collection.

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A beauty! Great pic. Congrats! I got a couple from same seller I'll be posting soon.

Gorgeous card. Outstanding pickup!

Nice, Max!

togaman said:

Wonder how high the Derek Jeter Pattern # 80 diffractor is going to get bid up to today? Around $ 74 now with two hours to closing.... I will set tbe over-under at $ 149.99 with anticipated last minute sniping gone wild expected......... Insanity I say....Insanity.

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The insanity continues The Over wins (or loses depending on how you look at it) at $ 157.50 plus $ 5.00 shipping