First pulling the cards for today from the COVID lot, I saw the telltale signs of late 80s and early 90s sets, which is fine, but didn't get me overly excited. Then, I got to these fabulous keepers on a set I am slowly working on...
Probably the first set I got cards from a couple years after the fact, and the first set I feel in love with the design for. Now, it might be because it was my introduction to baseball cards, but regardless - I love this 1984 O Pee Chee set. As a kid, I foolishly traded away a bunch for newer cards....yeah, 1991 Donruss and similar. I may have won the numbers game in the amount of cards, but I would undo that trade every time now.
The cards here aren't in mind condition or anything, but that's fine for my purposes and collecting this set. I may upgrade some of the cards later if I end up finishing the set and having some horrid quality, but short of that, these are all fine for me, and pretty nice names too!
I was so happy, I didn't do a great job in cropping the other base set keepers. I did however crop my lone Jay addition...
and lone uncorrected error addition...
I am so glad that, as a kid, I didn't even really notice the different borders with retail and factory sets, let alone the dot and no dot versions. I mean, you just cared about the player and card and not the small detail. It was simpler times man!
Pre-Jay Molitor and Carter, and an always fine Ryne. Then, yes, 1991 Donruss...
Definitely a positive day overall, and a fun reminder of times as a kid. I am sure similar feelings that you have to sets that you attached to collecting as a kid. Nostalgia is a fun thing.
Definitely went through some regret for having traded all my 1984 OPC as well!
ReplyDeleteGood to know it wasn't just me....
DeleteI still can't tell the difference between the Donruss retail and factory sets!
ReplyDeleteThe border changes are such a pain to have to compare and contract....
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