Complaints have been coming from my family regarding the time and money I use to collect cards. Therefore, I'm going to place myself on hiatus for the time being until I get back into the good graces of my loved ones. I'm going to maintain the list of cards that I have for trade since I've promised not to spend any money. I'm not sure what I'm going to pursue yet, but it will have to be done in extreme moderation.
1974 Topps Baseball Singles- Team photo cards-all vg/ex or better: Cardinals; Indians; Phillies; Twins; Tigers; Yankees; Mets: singles- #7 Hunter; #30 Bonds; #60 Brock; #90 Murcer; #179 Berra; 190 Oliva; #300 Rose; 331 All Star SS; 414 Chklst (unmarked); #575 Garvey; #598 Griffey. I also have various traded and team checklist cards. The checklist cards are unmarked, but have wrinkles, o/c, or have corner wear.
1975 Topps Baseball Mini- #38 Bell (ex-mint, off-center).
2018 Topps Heritage Nolan Ryan Highlights 6 card set
2011 Topps Lineage 3-D and 1964 Stand Ups-influenced by 1964 Stand Up sets
2012 Topps Archives 3-D set
1985 Donruss hand built complete set with puzzle in near mint to mint condition.
WANT LIST
I promised my wife that I wouldn't spend any more money on cards for the foreseeable future, which means no more upgrades or starting new builder. Instead, I'm looking to get some of the cards that I collected from 1972-1975. I received my first "old cards" in 1972, a stack of 1960 Topps Football and a 1960 Topps Harry Anderson. From there, I collected random cards from 1952-1967. The condition varied from poor to a few ex-mint cards. I had some stars, but even now in poor shape I wouldn't be able to redo what I once had.
My favorites were the 1957 and 1959 Topps Baseball sets, so I guess I'll focus there. Condition wise, I want cards that are in "good" condition: NO PAPER LOSS, WRITING, STAINED OR TRIMMED cards. Wrinkles and moderate creases are fine. There are three cards that I'd like to have more than anything from 1957 and 1959: 1952 Topps #96 Willard Marshall; 1962 Topps #40 Orlando Cepeda; and 1963 Fleer #64 Orlando Cepeda. Here's the want list:
1952 Topps #96 Willard Marshall
1953 Topps #44 Kinder; 46 Klippstein; 76 Pee Wee Reese (mine was trimmed by a pair of drunken scissors); 113 Jerry Priddy
1953 Bowman Color #149 Corwin
1954 Topps #3 Monte Irvin; 29 Jim Hegan
1954 Bowman #105 Maglie; 122 Furillo- this was one of my near mint cards
1959 Topps #14; 15; 16; 27; 63; 65; 67; 82; 89; 150 Musial- paid $3 for it and kids thought I was stupid for doing so; 158; 195; 201; 206; 224; 232; 250; 255; 274; 290; 297; 309; 340; 378; 389; 398; 404; 405; 407; 414; 423; 426; 429; 431; 445; 452; 475; 482; 484; 487; 500; 506; 541; 548; 565; 567; 568; 570
1960 Harry Anderson and random 1960 Topps Football- I had about half of the set given to me and I remember having the Unitas and J. Brown, everything else is a blur.
There are more from 1960-67 but I'm only going to concentrate on the ones I have already listed.