To summarize, I am trying to put together a few more sets that would be in the "oddball" category that are from the 1980s and 1990s. Things like the Kellogg's and Hostess cards, maybe some of the Denny's sets too. I started out with 9 cards, which were mainly Cardinals cards, a few players with connections to the Cardinals, like Jack Clark, and a few that are somehow connected to the Durham Bulls.
My goal is to finish in two months, it has now been over a month and I have crossed off another eight cards from my checklist. That brings me up to 18 out of the 60 cards, or 30% of the set. I am going to have to pick up the pace a little bit in the next month in order to finish this project in my allotted amount of time.
I am going to break these down into two groups. The first five came from a Sports Lots seller.
I had a couple of more recent sets that had some holes in them, nothing worth posting as a project, but I always have trouble getting combined shipping on that site. It's a cheap way to get single cards, but if you have to pay shipping to each person you buy a single card from, it makes it expensive.
In this case, I found the four or five cards that I needed for my recent set, and also ran across these five Kellogg's card for this set project. Love combined shipping.
Next three.
I got these in a trade with someone off of a Facebook group. They were not originally part of the trade, but I have been asking, while working on other trades, if people have any 1983 Kellogg's cards. I ran into one collector.
While I feel behind on this project, 70% more to fill the set, I actually have a bunch coming in off of COMC that I got by making offers, and a few more that I have pulled in from Ebay and another Facebook trade. On paper, it looks possible, but it's going to be close.
More Kellogg's early next week. The updated checklist....
1 Rod Carew
2 Rollie Fingers
3 Reggie Jackson
4 George Brett
6 Pete Rose
7 Fernando Valenzuela
8 Rickey Henderson
9 Carl Yastrzemski
10 Rich Gossage
11 Eddie Murray
13 Jim Rice
14 Robin Yount
15 Dave Winfield
16 Harold Baines
17 Garry Templeton
19 Pete Vuckovich
23 Willie Wilson
24 Johnny Ray
26 Andre Thornton
27 Leon Durham
31 Nolan Ryan
32 Dan Quisenberry
33 Len Barker
34 Neil Allen
35 Jack Morris
39 Jim Palmer
40 Lance Parrish
41 Floyd Bannister
42 Larry Gura
43 Britt Burns
44 Toby Harrah
45 Steve Carlton
46 Greg Minton
47 Gorman Thomas
51 Fred Lynn
52 Dale Murphy
53 Kent Hrbek
54 Bob Horner
55 Gary Carter
56 Carlton Fisk
57 Dave Concepcion
58 Mike Schmidt
59 Bill Buckner
Dang. Imagine standing on the mound and staring down Foster. Awesome card. Best of luck with this set.
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