Set Building Update

I've been having a difficult time trying to write a traditional sports card post.

There are a couple topics that I've considered discussing here and at The 1993  - perhaps a post about Kyle Schwarber or a catcher comparison featuring Buster Posey - but I seem to have exhausted all of my creativity on my 6-part "goodbye" series. (If you read any or all of that, I truly appreciate it. If you missed the series here's part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, and part 6.)


I haven't purchased any current-year cards in a long, long time. This may be changing soon, as I'm intrigued by 2021 Topps Archives and 2022 Topps flagship. It would be good timing since I've managed to earn some bonus cash at work and I'm in dire need of new trade bait.

 

 

The only cards I've been adding to my collection have been set fillers - mostly from the overproduction era. Basically I'm just trying to clear out as many duplicates as I can for... pretty much anything I don't have. I seem to have run out of trade matches on TCDB, so if any of my regular readers want to browse my trade list let me know what you need and I'll send a PWE your way. I'm not expecting anything in return but I've posted my complete set building list below - just in case I don't write another post for a while:

Baseball Checklist

1993 Fleer Ultra inserts
Home Run Kings #6 Barry Bonds, 7 Joe Carter
Strikeout Kings #4 Nolan Ryan

1993 Upper Deck
#257 Andy Stankiewicz, 486 Barry Bonds, 487 Dennis Eckersley

2013 Topps
#270 Manny Machado, 338 Mike Trout, 536 Mike Trout

2013 Topps Update
#US8, 26, 29, 51, 79, 80, 87, 99, 100, 101, 109, 116, 138, 146, 150, 168, 175, 178, 183, 199, 216, 218, 224, 250, 253, 255, 259, 265, 274, 278, 279, 282, 290, 300, 315, 321, 324, 329, 330

2017 Topps Heritage inserts
Baseball Flashbacks #BF-NR Nolan Ryan
Now and Then #NT-10 Aaron Judge
Topps Game #8 Anthony Rizzo, 12 Jake Arietta

2018 Topps Chrome
#1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 21, 25, 30, 32, 39, 42, 49, 54, 61, 65, 66, 67, 70, 72, 80, 82, 92, 93, 98, 100, 101, 104, 105, 109, 110, 113, 117, 122, 126, 128, 133, 135, 141, 147, 148, 150, 153, 155, 157, 162, 164, 170, 173, 177, 179, 180, 181, 193

Football Checklist

1986 Topps (upgrades)
#19, 25, 42, 54, 106, 112, 119, 125, 127, 135, 174, 176, 179, 183, 195, 218, 241, 252, 257, 259, 294, 296, 297, 321, 331, 371, 376, 389

1987 Topps (upgrades)
#27, 36, 37, 52, 64, 70, 117, 133, 136, 168, 170, 179, 232, 266, 326, 366, 374, 386

2019 Score
#10 Chris Conley, 346 Miles Sanders RC

Basketball Checklist

1990-91 Hoops
#4, 13, 279, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 353, 355, 358, 372, 376, 378, 379, 380, 382, 383, 385, 386, 388, 389, 390, 392, 394, 398, 399, 400, 403, 408, 426, 428, 431, 436, 437, 440

1991-92 Upper Deck
#4, 5, 22, 30, 32, 33, 34, 44, 47, 48, 51, 52, 53, 57, 58, 69, 70, 72, 75, 76, 92, 94, 100, 146, 148, 162, 171, 176, 192, 197, 198, 199, 200, 209, 245, 250, 251, 261, 270, 272, 273, 287, 291, 300, 317, 318, 319, 324, 333, 334, 335, 337, 346, 347, 348-351, 365, 380, 386, 398, 400 (plus most of high series)

1992-93 Upper Deck All-Division Team inserts
#1 Shaquille O’Neal, 8 Larry Johnson, 11 David Robinson, 12 Karl Malone, 16 Kevin Duckworth

2003-04 SP Authentic
#6, 8, 13, 15, 26, 30, 35, 38, 49, 62, 77

Hockey Checklist

1988-89 Topps
#9, 13, 16, 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 38, 42, 44, 53, 54, 56, 57, 61, 63, 66, 68, 75, 83, 90, 91, 98, 105, 112, 113, 120, 121, 123, 125, 128, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 145, 149, 152, 153, 158, 160, 165, 176, 177, 178, 183, 186, 187, 195, 197

1993-94 Leaf Painted Warriors inserts
#4 Patrick Roy, 5 Grant Fuhr, 9 Tom Barrasso

1995-96 Playoff One on One Challenge
#119, 123, 125, 127, 136, 137, 146, 148, 150, 151, 152, 158, 160, 180, 181, 184, 190, 195, 208, 219, 220 (plus high series SPs)

2001-02 Topps
rookies #331-360

2003-04 Topps Lost Rookie Cards inserts
#LRC-BH Brett Hull, CJ Curtis Joseph, JR Jeremy Roenick

2003-04 Topps Pristine (base rookies #d/1199)
#107 Patrice Bergeron, 113 Dominic Moore, 137 Matt Stajan

2007-08 Black Diamond
#194 Carey Price RC

 

Also I thought I was finished with COMC forever but I am starting to get that 'Black Friday' feeling again and it would be nice to have something to look forward to and enjoy this holiday season. So I might have something interesting to discuss by the end of the month. We'll see how it goes.




Thanks for reading!



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