Sunday Edition

Non-Wallach Mailings

I've started to take part in a few more trades for set needs and just Wallach cards.  Below are two envelopes I've received recently that didn't include a single Wallach card.  

These eighteen 1977 Topps were sent by Mark of Memphis, TN.  Mark reached out over Twitter, which loathe as I am to admit it, I'm actually starting use Twitter quite a bit.  I still think it's mostly a hangout for bigots and morons, but there's also some decent stuff and people to be found.  These '77 are a little worn from the years and all the stops between their original wax and my binder, but I don't mind.

I've changed my opinion of this set so many times I'm starting to get dizzy.  The first card from the 70's I ever owned was a '77 Dawson my father bought be for my 7th birthday in 1986.  I wanted rookies for all the Expos stars.  Naturally I loved it, and subsequently I started off with a very high opinion of the '77 set based on my sample size of one.  Dawson left Montreal that off-season for Chicago (and stole the '87 MVP from it's rightful recipient Tim Wallach), but my disappointment was tempered by the skyrocketing number next to the '77 Dawson in Beckett every month.  I became the envy of half the neighborhood, which only heightened my esteem for the '77 set.

Somewhere along the way though, I decided it was bland and boring (blame my introduction to '72 and '75 Topps sets).  But I was wrong, this set isn't bland and boring.  It's really a great looking set with a simple, classic design that just screams "baseball card" and has some fantastic photography.  Somehow, even the bland pitcher standing on the foul line shots, like the Tommy John above, look great in this set.  The Padres uniforms don't hurt it either.  Thanks for the cards Mark.

These cards were sent by Jim of Elgin, IL.  Jim started sending me cards about a year or so ago, and has probably sent me over dozen envelopes of Wallachs since then.  I believe this is the first time he sent one without any Wallach's.  Awhile back on one of these "Sunday Editions" I wrote about my love for the early Fleer Basketball sets from '86-89.  Thanks for the cards Jim, and since he asked in his note, here are need list for those sets.  I have a good number of Topps duplicates I can trade from '52-91, and 2009-15.

Need Lists

1986-87 Fleer Basketball: 6, 9, 26, 53, 57, 111

1987-88 Fleer Basketball: (Nearly all of them), I HAVE these two: 81, 108

1988-89 Fleer Basketball: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 132

1970 Topps: 635, 696, 702, 703, 710, 715, 716

1976 Topps: 24.30.45.46.48.55.73.78.80.84.90.95.104.112.118.119.125.128.130.147.150.160.169.172.179.180.
185.192.202.205.225.230.241.270.298.300.304.317.330.341.342.344.345.346.347.348.355.361.365.
374.392.399.420.421.435.445.480.504.508518.531.550.556.580.581.585.589.590.594.595.596.598.
600.606.610.620.643.650.660

1977 Topps: 
1.4.6.10.20.27.32.34.40.42.48.51.66.70.74.77.79.95.100.110.111.113.120.130.134.135.136.140.150.
152.162.167.183.186.208.210.214.229.230.231.232.234.250.265.270.276.277.280.285.286.287.289.
299.305.313.320.327.335.355.356.365.369.374.375.380.387.390.397.411.412.413.414.418.419.425.
427.428.430.433.434.435.437.439.445.450.467.470.473.476.484.494.495.498.504.516.518.522.541.
546.547.560.564.570.571.580.597.599.600.610.615.620.621.626.630.631.632.634.638.645.647.650.652.655.656