Knocking down some want lists, COMC style

The latest push of card purchases came around my birthday late last week.  I decided to splurge on myself  a little (you only turn 50 once), and I also wanted to hit the $5 bonus so I decided to hit a bunch of different want lists.  Variety is the spice of life and all that....

So series 1 is finally complete, only 3 days after the World Series has concluded.  It's been a long time since I've been able to do a complete set post, so I'm looking forward to going through series 1 and picking out my favorite cards to show off.

I also put my Series 2 want list up today, 108 cards in total to put 2017 Topps to bed for good.

Here's the list, just in case you don't feel like hunting for it on my many want list pages...

355,356,357,359,360,364,368,374,380,381,389,391,395,396,403,407,408,
414,415,416,417,421,423,428,433,439,443,444,446,450,451,452,459,461,
463,465,469,470,473,475,476,480,482,487,488,489,490,491,498,502,503,
504,507,509,511,513,515,517,522,524,526,529,536,537,538,539,542,543,
544,550,551,555,561,565,568,571,573,579,580,581,589,592,597,599,601,
604,611,612,624,628,635,638,639,643,648,650,654,655,656,662,673,674,
679,681,686,688,694,695

15 cards from the almost completed 2016 Allen & Ginter set made their way to my door today.  I'm down to just 9 cards to finish the set, and knock off one of my 2017 'resolutions'.  Will be glad to get this one off the want lists as well.

In hindsight, buying a couple of '82 Topps cards as part of this last order might not have been the best idea, as I'm sure I can hunt around and find them a bit cheaper.  Plucking a few '68 and '69 Topps cards for less than 50 cents apiece was something that I didn't mind doing though.  I'm closing in on 100 cards in hand for the '69 set, and every time I see one of the pink or salmon colored backs I fall in love with the set just a bit more.

I've never really written much about the '74 Topps set on the blog, largely because I bought one large lot of it a couple years ago, and never chased it much since.  I'm 15 cards shy of having 2/3 of the set in hand, and could honestly say I could count on one hand the number of times I've mentioned it.

To show you how little I know about the set, I wondered during my shopping spree last week why I didn't have the first 6 cards of the '74 set.  Dopey me had no idea that the first 6 were a tribute to the great Hank Aaron.  So, I found a couple of the tribute cards for less than a buck apiece and added them to my order.  Surprising that I could only find one blog dedicated to the '74 set, and unfortunately that effort appears abandoned after approximately 90 posts. 

Well, that's the baseball half of the purchase.  Tomorrow, we'll go over the hockey portion, a little bit less but still it fills some holes in the collection.

Thanks for reading, Robert