Favorite Baseball Sets Ever

[card-treasury]

Try to pick only one set for each category.

I'm curious which sets appear most often.

The categories (and my favorites) as follows:

1950's: 1958 Topps (love the pink backgrounds)
1960's: 1961 Topps (love the All-Star cards)
1970's: 1977 Topps
1980's: 1980 Topps (love the design)
1990's: 1999 Bowman Chrome
2000's: 2005 Bowman Draft
Oddball: 7-11 Slurpee Coins

 

[All In Cards]

2007 Elite Extra Edition

 

[Halonut]

1950's: 1956 topps
1960's: 1962 topps
1970's: 1975 topps
1980's: 1989 upper deck
1990's: 1990 leaf
2000's: 2002 bcdp
Oddball: kellogs 3-d superstars

 

[wideright]

I only have 2.

1980: Topps (this was my first baseball set)
2005: Ultimate Signature Edition

 

[DaleMurphyCollector]

1950's: 1954 Topps
1960's: 1968 Topps
1970's: 1975 Topps
1980's: 1984 Donruss
1990's: 1993 SP
2000's: 2005 Bowman Chrome DPP
Oddball: Braves Team Issued

 

[Tomlinson21RB]

Topps Gold Label!

 

[domino2012]

1950's: 1956 topps
1960's: 1965 topps
1970's: 1972 topps
1980's: 1989 upper deck
1990's: 1990 leaf
2000's: 2005 Heritage (looks like 56 Topps)

 

[TNP777]

1950's: '53 Bowman Color gets the edge over '57 Topps
1960's: '60 Topps gets the edge over '63 Topps
1970's: '78 Topps (my first collected set)
1980's: '81 Topps
1990's: '97 Flair
2000's: Pick a Heritage set, any Heritage set
Oddball: '62 Post

 

[Phishmon23]

1950's: 1959 Topps followed closely by 1955 Topps
1960's: 1963 Topps
1970's: 1975 Topps
1980's: 1984 Donruss
1990's: 1993 Finest
2000's: 2003 Topps Pristine followed closely by 2005 Topps Chrome

 

[cbrandtw]

1959 T
1965 T
1975 T
1984 D
1994 SP
2001 Bowman Chrome
Any Kelloggs 3-D set

 

[MOFNY]

1998 Gold Label

 

[hofmichael]

1950's:1954 not sure why?
1960's:1967T the photography is very bright and crisp
1970's:tied 1971T/1975T
1980's:1986T this is my favorite design ever.
1990's:1992T the photography was great see the Ripken card
2000's:2003T I like the blue borders alot.
Mike

 

[kuggy2]

70's topps
80' 89 upper deck
90' 1st yr topps finest
00's 2001 sp game edition

 

[pitt23]

Pre-1980 - 1967 Topps. Very clean, basic card design.

Post 1980 - 2001 Donruss Classics. Great autograph checklist and one of the best game used sets in the Legendary Lumberjacks set.

 

[daveyou]

just in the 2000s but i love 2004 sp game used patch edition. don't care that they are stickered. card design is gorgeous, checklist is deep and i cannot for the life of me find them tins....currently trying to complete a 5 card ichiro set (3 of 5 so far)

dave

 

[Dazed]

1950's: 1955 Bowman (Love the TV set design)
1960's: 1967 Topps
1970's: TIE 1972 Topps (The year I started Collecting) & 1975 Topps (Brett, Yount, Rice & Lynn Rookies)
1980's: 1984 Donruss (I think this set saved Donruss)
1990's: 1993 Finest
2000's: 2001 Bowman Chrome
Oddball: 1977 Topps Cloth Sticker

 

[DocGoodenCollector]

1950's: 1956 Topps
1960's: 1963 Topps
1970's: 1975 Topps
1980's: 1987 Topps
1990's: 1993 Finest
2000's: 2005 Prime Patches
Oddball: Mets Colla postcards

 

[f2tornado]

Sticking with base sets here:

1950's: 1953 Topps
1960's: 1960 and 1965 Topps (tie)
1970's: 1972 Topps
1980's: 1984 Donruss (hands down)... 89 UD not too far in second
1990's: 1993 Finest
2000's: 2002 Topps Chrome
Oddball: 1970's/80's Kellogs cards