so the 1976 all time all star cards are fairly reasonable on eBay, I was actually surprised. Most can be found for around $5 in decent shape, just picked up a Honus Wagner and will probably grab the Ty Cobb too, like you said that photo is pretty good, considering this was in the 70s.
Something I meant to mention is you can get most/all of the cards in this "1976 Topps All-Time All-Stars" subset on COMC, and since they're already on property, it just combines shipping. I have four I bought to fill out my subset. Along with a bunch of pretty cool giveaway cards!
Thanks, man! Honestly, I grew up hating the ‘76 set, but I absolutely love their All-Star cards, and this subset. I always loved the Ruth and Cobb cards specifically, just cuz as a dopey kid, you’d hear about them in random movie or tv references. You’d never hear much about Pie Traynor or Walter Johnson, haha. But not until I got my Toploader Binders did I ever care about filling this subset out — which made me wonder what the subset was all about. Had no idea ‘76 was NL’s 100th anniversary. Anyway, I’m with you — what can Fanatics do!?! I’m excited. These would look cool in Chrome for sure!
Very nice write-up, David, about a subset of which I’m slightly unfamiliar. I’m aware of it, of course, just have never held one in my hand. While I revered the 70’s cards/stars as a kid, I basically skipped over ‘76 and ‘77, I think because I didn’t love the designs (my outlook on this has changed). Very cool to learn more about them (didn’t know they had career stats on back-that’s awesome). Will definitely be interesting to see how Fanatics handles the 150. Well done, thanks very much.
so the 1976 all time all star cards are fairly reasonable on eBay, I was actually surprised. Most can be found for around $5 in decent shape, just picked up a Honus Wagner and will probably grab the Ty Cobb too, like you said that photo is pretty good, considering this was in the 70s.
Something I meant to mention is you can get most/all of the cards in this "1976 Topps All-Time All-Stars" subset on COMC, and since they're already on property, it just combines shipping. I have four I bought to fill out my subset. Along with a bunch of pretty cool giveaway cards!
Thanks, man! Honestly, I grew up hating the ‘76 set, but I absolutely love their All-Star cards, and this subset. I always loved the Ruth and Cobb cards specifically, just cuz as a dopey kid, you’d hear about them in random movie or tv references. You’d never hear much about Pie Traynor or Walter Johnson, haha. But not until I got my Toploader Binders did I ever care about filling this subset out — which made me wonder what the subset was all about. Had no idea ‘76 was NL’s 100th anniversary. Anyway, I’m with you — what can Fanatics do!?! I’m excited. These would look cool in Chrome for sure!
Very nice write-up, David, about a subset of which I’m slightly unfamiliar. I’m aware of it, of course, just have never held one in my hand. While I revered the 70’s cards/stars as a kid, I basically skipped over ‘76 and ‘77, I think because I didn’t love the designs (my outlook on this has changed). Very cool to learn more about them (didn’t know they had career stats on back-that’s awesome). Will definitely be interesting to see how Fanatics handles the 150. Well done, thanks very much.