I’m collecting the 1973 set, slowly but surely. This post is the latest in my quest for the completion.
I’m going to change the format of these posts again. I want to get where I’m caught up posting everything I have so when I have a 1973 Topps post, it’s all the new stuff I picked up. So until I get caught up, I’m going to go by team and maybe combine a few teams into 1 post.
We’ll start our new posts with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
- Card Facts – Al Downing – Card #324
- Purchase Price – $.31 (“Crinkly Wrappers” lot - 145/$45)
- Card Facts – Bill Buckner – Card #368
- Purchase Price – $.50 (Ebay single)
- Card Facts – Bill Russell – Card #108
- Purchase Price – $.50 (Ebay single)
- Card Facts – Dick Dietz – Card #442
- Purchase Price – $.31 (“Crinkly Wrappers” lot - 145/$45)
- Card Facts – Steve Yeager – Card #59
- Purchase Price – $.31 (Purchased from “Crinkly Wrappers” 145/$45)
- Card Facts – Tommy John - Card #258
- Purchase Price – $.50 (Ebay lot - 4/$2)
- Card Facts – Wes Parker – Card #151
- Purchase Price – $.21 (Ebay lot 4/$.82)
I’d like to make these at least 10 cards and since the Los Angeles Dodgers only had 7 cards, I’ll add another team. I did it by grabbing another less than 10 team randomly. So here are the Oakland Athletics as well.
- Card Facts – Bill North – Card #234
- Purchase Price – $.11 (Ebay lot - 40/$4.25)
- Card Facts – John Odom – Card #315
- Purchase Price – $.12 (Ebay lot (4/$.47)
- Card Facts – Mike Hegan – Card #382
- Purchase Price – $.31 (“Crinkly Wrappers” lot (145/$45))
- Card Facts – Paul Lindblad – Card #406
- Purchase Price – free (Trade with “Justin’s World”)
- Card Facts – Rick McKinney – Card #587
- Purchase Price – unknown
- Card Facts – Rob Gardner – Card #222
- Purchase Price – unknown
- Card Facts – Sal Bando – Card #155
- Purchase Price – $.31 (“Crinkly Wrappers” lot (145/$45))
It’s good thing I went back on all posts and added tags for all the players represented. Otherwise I would have posted 2 cards, 1 from each team above, that I have already posted. I wonder how many others I duplicated so my stats below may not be all that accurate.
- Cards posted in this set – 154
- Total price paid – $29.18
- Average price per card – $0.19
- Cards left to post – 520 (including NNO Checklists)
- Percentage posted – 154/684 (23% posted)
- Percentage completed – 314/684 (46% completed)
Price per card went up a penny, I charge myself $.50 for each unknown card due to my poor bookkeeping. Percentage posted went up 3%.
LOVE those. '73 is my birth year so have always wanted to collect that set, my favorite next to 1971, which I just dig the look of. Thanks for sharing, this is a fun blast from the past. I've not collected cards in years
ReplyDelete1973 is my birth year as well and that's why I chose to collect it. I think it's a toss up for me between 1971 and 1975 for my favorite but if I was forced to choose, I would go with 1971.
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