Dollar box diving Part 3

I had meant for this post to be up on the blog mid-week, but an illness took me out for a few days.  But now we're back up and running.  Scanned a few cards today, and I'm happy with what I was able to acquire to put a small dent into the 70-72 Topps baseball want lists.  

Apparently I had the jitters when I was loading these 9 cards onto the scanner bed, but you get the idea of what I picked up.  Nothing real big time here, but it was nice to get an AL playoff card into the collection.  Still a long way to go to finish the 1970 set, just under 300 cards to go.  

1971 Topps hasn't been on the back burner for a while, it's been right off of the stove.  So when I started seeing these cards come up for a dollar apiece, I felt a bit of sympathy for the set, and a dozen cards have been added, including a few high-numbered cards.  

Now seeing these cards with a lot of dinged corners you're probably wondering what the excitement was to purchase them.   I know that this is a set that's going to take a very long time to finish and worrying about perfect condition for high-numbered cards at a cost of $1 was going to be silly.  Get them in, get the total number of cards to 299 out of the monster 752 card set, and move on.  

I've been jealous for a while; having seen a few people on Twitter complete this beauty of a set has me wanting to move on this 1972 Topps set for a few weeks.  Then I look at where I am (67% complete) and become aware of the fact that we're still a LONG way off.  Still, 7 cards off the list, 6 of them in the 600-699 # range still has me feeling a bit better about where I am.  

Still lots of sets I'm working on, I've also been on a bit of an A&G run lately to try and finish the 2006-2021 run.   

That is at least something that's achievable for me.

Robert

Dollar box diving Part 2

Not all, but most of these cards that I'll show today are part of sets that I'd like to put together someday.  But there are those that just came to the house because, well, they were football cards, and the players on them just looked like football players, or they had names that were unique.

Take this pair for example:

On the left.  1962 Topps Art Hunter.  He just LOOKS like a football player.  

On the right.  1972 Topps Rockne Freitas.  Another fellow that belongs on a football players catalog.  

In the middle.   Billy Martin.  Looks like a football player.  Name sounds like a baseball player/manager.

On the left.  This one has me very curious.   A.D. Whitfield.   Have no idea what the initials A.D. stand for.  His player page on Football Reference shows him as A.D.

On the right.  Bobby Joe Conrad.  Yep, he looks like a football player.

Single cards from the '75 set (Myers) and the '70 set (Nelsen).  I Love both of these sets, especially the '70 Topps set which has the orange backs.  Something odd about my love for this and the '64 Topps baseball set which has orange backs as well.  

1971 Topps football is another great set.  Even better is that I recognize a couple of the names here, especially Willie Lanier who was an 8-time pro-bowler and a 4-time all pro, along with winning a Super Bowl in 1970.

With each card that comes in for the 1969 Topps set, the more I love it.  It's down the road on the want to finish list, but when I get around to concentrating on it, I'll find more to enjoy and write about as I go.  It's a small set, just 263 cards (these 4 bring me to 10); I'm very curious to see if there's a pattern to the background color on the cards.  

I've saved the baseball for last, a few 71's and 72's to show.  At a buck apiece, I wasn't complaining about these cards coming home for sure.

Robert

Dollar box diving: Part 1

One of my favorite sellers on eBay has been featuring a nice quantity of vintage cards in his store at a buck apiece.  I dove in a couple of times during the month of January and found a nice mix of 60's and 70's cards in a trio of sports (wasn't feeling frisky about the basketball portion).  I showed off just one card so far in the Air Coryell post a week or so ago, but now I've got the time, along with a bit of organization, to show off the rest.

First up will be the hockey portion, which totals just 13 cards over 3 different sets from the early 70's, all of which have a long way to go in the set building category.

The lone add from the 72-73 set features Gary Edwards of the Kings.  I've had him confused with another goalie from that era, Gary Smith of the Chicago Black Hawks.  Maybe it's because Mr. Edwards bounced from team to team similar to what Mr. Smith did.  

Edwards' most productive time came with the Kings, where he played 6 seasons with the club.  Gary shared the duties in between the pipes with Kings legend Rogie Vachon, playing 44 games and winning 13.  That club also had the rookie season of Billy Smith from the Islanders dynasty of the late 70's early 80's fame.

The first scan got cut off a bit, but I wound up with 5 cards from the 73-74 set which I have barely touched during my collecting time.  

This is one of the more colorful sets of the 70's, which makes me wonder why I haven't added more to my collection than the paltry 13 cards that I own.  

For the longest time (we're talking years), the only card I had from the 70-71 OPC set I had was Joe Szura of the California Golden Seals.  

Was I ever surprised to see these cards in the dollar "box" on eBay, so I snapped up a few to add to the group.  Names that I recognize as well, such as Pit Martin, Ted Irvine (Chris Jericho's dad if you're into wrestling), and Joe Watson.  I now own 15 cards from the set, which is the same size as the 73-74 set, just 264 cards.  

More to come, next up will be the football portion, including a few from the '69 Topps set that I have really taken a liking to.

Robert