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Welcome baseball card fans. I, like many of you, am a baseball card collector. I collected cards when I was a kid, and my collecting years were from 1975-1990. I took a 16-year break from the hobby and in 2006, I decided to revisit the cards that I had. Some of my cards were worn and some sets were incomplete; so, I set out to build better sets for myself.
I acquired multiple sets and lots from 1967 - 1979 to create my master sets. I have some duplicates from these years available in trade. I have complete Topps sets from 1964, 1965 & 1967 - 2025 minus a few variations/error cards which I'm pursuing.
I am also very interested in some assorted modern Topps (1984-Present) and Bowman (1994-2023) sets.
I started online trading in Jan 2010 and have acquired several partial sets and lots, but I have many more cards to go. Also, I am collecting several associated insert sets with them.
My goal is to have a vintage complete set that is EX or Better condition for 1967-1979. Condition rules are listed here ... http://www.markwing.com/baseball/conditionguide.php NOTE: Cards containing any size crease or wrinkle is graded VG-EX at best, while I initially accept them, I do try to upgrade them to EX or Better.
Since joining OBC I am now working on all Topps sets pre-1967 as well as the vintage Bowman sets. I never thought I'd be building these sets with the sets from 1953-1966 all now 69% complete or more. I would have never thought this would happen.