Archive for the ‘Operation Topps’ Category

Well, 1988 didn’t go as well as 1987.  I am missing a ton of cards and I also have a ton of doubles.  So let’s play swap. Here are the cards I need: 5,10,11,14,18,19,23,24,25,26,28,29,30,32,34,35,38,40,43,53,54,55,56,60,64,65,69,73,79,85,87,89,91,92,93, 108,109,115,116,121,124,125,131,137,138,140,144,157,158,160,164,167,179,186,198,199, 207,208,210,211,214,219,220,227,231,233,234,237,243,247,259,260,264,267,274,275,279,280,285,286, 287,288,294,301,313,314,320,322,323,324,326,328,329,334,336,339,340,341,346,350,353,360,363,364,369, 374,385,386,395,397,400,402,403,413,416,418,419,420,421,422,425,427,430,439,440,447,452,460,462, 464,468,474,475,483,484,485,487,491,493,501,508,512,514,523,524,525,526,529,532,536,537,539,540,543, 545,563,564,566,572,575,577,579,586,589,591,594,598,600,601,606,609,612,614,615,620,624,632,633,634, 636,638,644,648,655,668,676,679,682,683,696,699,702,703,715,716,722,723,727,728,731,732,734,735,737, 744,750,754,769,770,775,776,777,780,783 Absolutely brutal!  2 boxes and not even close.  Let me know what you [...]

I’ve been working on putting together the 1988 Topps set for Operation Topps.  Well tonight, my beautiful and completely understanding (due to the sheer volume of cards in the house) wife and I decided to put together a house of cards . . . 1988 Topps baseball style. See below: My wife suggested that we [...]

So I busted two boxes of 1987 Topps and it turned out I was 25 cards short of a set.  So I am going to throw this out there. Whoever can get me the closest to 25 I need, I will send out some bad wax sets, and replace the ones you send me.  I [...]

This review will be extremely short.  I am going through the packs now before I review them to separate the doubles from the singles.  Unfortunately, this one only has one card I need for the set.  So it’s one review and 16 links to previous reviews.  I didn’t get a chance to scan the card, [...]

The first box is done and the final tally was 544 non doubles. Meaning there was 248 cards not gotten and a double rate of right around 11%. No bad at all! My only notes that I have about the last box was that there wasn’t a Bonds or Bo rookie card. I’ve bought so [...]