Just finished building my first base set since 1994!!

[Gwynn545]

Ha! I can't believe it's been so long! I used to love building sets. Starting in 1978, I was BIG into building sets, since, well, that's what you did with baseball cards! I didn't build every set, but every year that was on my mind to at least try for as long as I could. Wasn't until the mid to late 80's when you could go to card shows, and ACTUALLY TRADE, with anyone and everyone. Those times were the best! I did all sports (including hockey!) up through the early 90's, and then obviously to about 1994 was when the insert craze was really beginning to take hold which changed my focus. 1994 Upper Deck SP Baseball (Arod RC) and 1994 SP Football (Faulk RC) were the last base sets I ever put together...until now!

1998 Topps Tek!!
I bought a box in January that put me about 20 cards short, so I decided to go for it with out spending a ton of money! A few members here really helped out, a few on other sites, a few trades, a few buys, a few on COMC, and finally with 3 cards left, I finally succumbed to the crusade and bought the the only "star" I needed- Griffey ( on Ebay for $5 dlvd.) Once i had that in hand, it was down to the last two: Mo Vaughn and Derek Bell.
They came in today!
So, even though it wasn't quite as fun as the "old" days~sitting in front of a computer compared to wandering card shows looking through commons!~ I still had the same old fever...
Sorry, no pictures. It's a stack of cards, none too exciting!
Thanks for the read!

 

[kerryfan5]

Congrats. Job well done.

 

[Lancemountain]

#niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

 

[Brewer Andy]

Love it!

 

[Enfuego79]

Congrats, now you get to focus on your next build maybe?

 

[Brewer Andy]

Congrats, now you get to focus on your next build maybe?

I say build a Gold Label set, even just a lower class. Those are pretty

 

[predatorkj]

I'd like to build the 1999 tops tek set with all patterns minus the golds of course.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

#niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

+1

 

[joey12508]

Ha! I can't believe it's been so long! I used to love building sets. Starting in 1978, I was BIG into building sets, since, well, that's what you did with baseball cards! I didn't build every set, but every year that was on my mind to at least try for as long as I could. Wasn't until the mid to late 80's when you could go to card shows, and ACTUALLY TRADE, with anyone and everyone. Those times were the best! I did all sports (including hockey!) up through the early 90's, and then obviously to about 1994 was when the insert craze was really beginning to take hold which changed my focus. 1994 Upper Deck SP Baseball (Arod RC) and 1994 SP Football (Faulk RC) were the last base sets I ever put together...until now!

1998 Topps Tek!!
I bought a box in January that put me about 20 cards short, so I decided to go for it with out spending a ton of money! A few members here really helped out, a few on other sites, a few trades, a few buys, a few on COMC, and finally with 3 cards left, I finally succumbed to the crusade and bought the the only "star" I needed- Griffey ( on Ebay for $5 dlvd.) Once i had that in hand, it was down to the last two: Mo Vaughn and Derek Bell.
They came in today!
So, even though it wasn't quite as fun as the "old" days~sitting in front of a computer compared to wandering card shows looking through commons!~ I still had the same old fever...
Sorry, no pictures. It's a stack of cards, none too exciting!
Thanks for the read!

very cool, now you can go for the diffractors

 

[notjomommasclint]

^ I Lol'd

Congrats on the set!


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