Let's Talk About Sets Volume 61: 2022 Upper Deck Marvel Allure Base Set

Let's talk about sets baby, lets talk about sets with me. Let's collect them all and complete it to, let's talk about sets.

Today as I sit down with you and discuss sets, I am thinking about all of the sets I need still. I am not sure if they will ever all be completed, but maybe.

The last time I put up one of these posts it was for the 1991 Pro Set Musicards that I still need to complete along with the second series.

Today is the only other non-sport set I am chasing, and it comes along with my new addiction to Marvel movies.

 

My set chase for this one started off with a blaster box break then expanded to some trading to help narrow my list down some.

 

Which got me down to these out of the 150-card checklist. 100 is the base set, 50 are Sp's.

I hope I can finish up this one and the Musicards set.

If you have any set help for this one or either, just drop me an email at sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com and let me know. I always genuinely appreciate all help!

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 59: 2023 Topps Aces

Hey You, Yeah you reading this. I bet sets is on your mind right now. Big sets, little sets, sets, sets, sets.

Well, you're not the only one with sets on the mind.

I am trying to finish up a lot of sets recently and one that has been a slow start so far has been the 2023 Topps Aces. This is by far one of my favorite Topps insert sets in years, you know it is if I am actually chasing it. I very rarely chase newer sets.

Here is what I have,

Here are my needs,
AA-1 Nolan Ryan - Texas Rangers

AA-2 Bob Gibson - St. Louis Cardinals
AA-3 Greg Maddux - Atlanta Braves
AA-4 Randy Johnson - Arizona Diamondbacks
AA-5 Pedro Martinez - Boston Red Sox
AA-6 Justin Verlander - Houston Astros
AA-7 Clayton Kershaw - Los Angeles Dodgers
AA-8 Jacob deGrom - New York Mets
AA-9 Gerrit Cole - New York Yankees
AA-10 Corbin Burnes - Milwaukee Brewers
AA-11 Shohei Ohtani - Los Angeles Angels

AA-12 Shane McClanahan - Tampa Bay Rays
AA-13 Carlos Rodon - San Francisco Giants
AA-14 Sonny Gray - Minnesota Twins
AA-15 Shane Bieber - Cleveland Guardians
AA-16 Aaron Nola - Philadelphia Phillies
AA-17 Sandy Alcantara - Miami Marlins
AA-18 Joe Musgrove - San Diego Padres
AA-19 Alek Manoah - Toronto Blue Jays
AA-20 Max Fried - Atlanta Braves
AA-21 Stephen Strasburg - Washington Nationals
AA-22 Dylan Cease - Chicago White Sox
AA-23 Luis Castillo - Seattle Mariners
AA-24 Julio Urías - Los Angeles Dodgers
AA-25 Max Scherzer - New York Mets

Have any I don't and that you don't want? Let's talk! You can message me on Twitter or hit up my email sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com.

Hope everyone has a great Wednesday! Or in sets terms, hope you have a happy hump day ;)

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 58:1993-1994 Stadium Club Beam Team Basketball

Let's talk about sets baby
Let's talk about sets with me

Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about sets (1993-1994)
Let's talk about sets (Stadium Club)
Let's talk about sets (Uh huh)

Let's talk about sets....

It's been almost two years since we have had sets to talk about. Must be a married thing :)

But, let's finally sit down and talk about sets today.

In 1993-1994 Stadium Club basketball random inserted Beam Team inserts into packs. I didn't know how much I liked the cards until I landed an MJ for dirt cheap from a Yard Sale 10 years ago. From there, I wanted to set build.

With the big piece in hand, MJ, already, the rest of the set I wouldn't think would take too much of an effort to complete. Except it has and has taken me too long. I was hoping for some quick sets but it appears this one is more delicate than I expected.

 

Alonzo is my latest add to the 27-card set chase.

Here are my needs,

1993-1994 Stadium Club Beam Team
1,3,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,18,20,21,22,23,24,26,27

If any of you have any collecting dust I will take them or if you would like to do a PWE trade I am good with that too. Just drop a comment or an email to sportcardcollectors@hotmail.com.

I hope to hear from you and hope you sets life is doing well.

Thoughts on this set welcomed in comments.

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 58:Grounded Again.

 

Let's Talk About Sets baby, let's collect some sets with me. Let's talk about these back in ninety-five-eee, let's talk about sets!

This is my third year of chasing 1995 Summit Ground Zero football. I have been chipping away the 200 card set and have really made progress recently thanks to some pickups from Burbank Sportcards Beckett Marketplace  and saved 10% by using code 15Burbank at checkout.

With these 13 down, I am well under 100 left to go. I have picked up a good portion of the bigger players, but still have a couple of good rookies left. I am hoping in the next year or so I can finally finish this bad boy up.

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 49:Get Out The Leather

 

You don't need whips and chains when you are working on sets, you just need some leather.

Piece by piece I have been building the 1998 Contenders Leather set with most of my help coming from Burbank Sport Cards website. In which I saved 10% off by using code 15Burbank at checkout. Also free shipping over $50.

 

This round I added 8 more for my set chase including Corey Dillion and this Terrell Davis.

 

Among this group as well.

I am still so far off from the set and missing the two biggest key pieces in the set with Randy Moss and Peyton Manning. I need to try and land those next so I can just add all of the smaller pieces so if you have either and want to pwe trade, hit me up.

I will be updating my needs for this set soon!

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 48:Power Surge!

Set's talk Volume 48 is here folks! And just before I started typing this up, I learned a new position on today's sets. 

That there is more than just one way to have this sets.

1995 Stadium Club Power Surge was inserted in Series 1 packs falling 1:18 packs but I also found out that they were in Series 2 as well falling 1:36 packs making this once thought 12 card set into a 24 card set chase.

And this is why I do my research.

I just recently started to decide to chase this set when I opened a box of 1995 Stadium Club series 1 and saw how invigorating the design was.

  

The foil doesn't only shine with rainbow,but the lightning strike in the background does as well with a streak that offsets the rest of the card. Not sure how they did that but its very appealing.

 

And a couple more. These are a little bit up close so you can see the full angle.

With these 6 new adds from Burbank Sportscards Beckett Marketplace (also saved 10% by using code 15Burbank), I am only 3 away from having the Series 1 set. Now I gotta figure out how far from Series 2 I am.

Another fun chase in the works among my many others. I will further update this chase down the line with more sets talk.

For now, have a good day and remember to have protection for when you are doing sets.

Have I Lost My Mind?

Have I lost my mind? Has quarantine really played with it? What am I even thinking?

Do I have answers to any of these burning questions?

No.

Why do I have those questions? Well, over the course of the past month, I have added three new blogs to my blogging. THREE.

One is Cards Over Coffee that I have been partially promoting on here but two others just had their first posts up today.

I may not be able to answer the questions above about my sanity but I can answer some of these FAQ's I expect.

Q:How do you find time to do five blogs?

A:Well, I really only focus on getting this one a posted daily. Otherwise, the other blogs get posts when I find time and have the materials ready to go.

Q:You say you're running out of ideas on here for posts, but you start up multiple other blogs with new posts?

A:The new blogs have their own specific directions and may revisit old stuff I have already done. Sport Card Collectors no longer has a direction really.

Q:If I add those new blogs to my blogroll and follow it, will you keep posting on them or drop them like your past attempts at more than one blog leaving me with a blogroll full of nothing?

A:I plan to keep posting on all of them. Like I said, they won't be daily like this one at all and could be once a week. Could be more. Could be even less. But, they should keep on having new posts. I don't plan to stretch myself thin with them like I did with other blogs in the past which is why they failed.

Q:What are these blogs names, links, and can you tell me a little about them?

A: Here we go, BLOG LINKS ARE EMBEDDED WITH THE NAMES.

1. Snagging Cardboard: This is my NY Giants card blog and sometimes complaint central during the season. I post my cards there and sometimes an article.
2. Cards Over Coffee: If you are looking for my best work, that's this blog. I spend a long time working on these articles and try to tell a story about the cards while having a nice hot brew. there is plenty of reading on this blog so far and many great cards you may have missed out on if you haven't read it yet. You can find Cards Over Coffee on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well.
3. Collectin' Rodney: Well, it's my Rodney Hampton PC. I will do my best to keep it in order from 1990 til now re-visiting all of the cards and sets along the way.
4. Let's Talk About Sets: Just like with the segment on here, I will be using that blog to post a front and back of a set need along with the numbers I need as well. I am hopeful that will show what I need to others can recognize it. Maybe even some of you have stuff I need.
5. Sport Card Collectors: Mail days, reviews, Rodney's Cardboard, Autograph Of The Week.This will be the main purpose of this blog.

Follow the ones you think are interesting, leave the rest or follow them all and add them to your blogrolls. Completely up to you. I have had some partial discussions with myself, who doesn't talk to themselves, about possibly retiring this blog and going to Cards Over Coffee full time. But, as of now, I have no plans to do that and plan to continue what I have been doing here for almost 9 years. And I am only 101 posts from hitting the 5,000 plateau once this one publishes. Also remember this is also a streak of no missed days on here since March 2012.

I hope I clarified everything up and maybe even caught you off guard today with all of this.

Thanks for stopping by!
Matt

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 36:1996 Zenith Noteworthy

1996 Zenith has been one of my favorite products over the years and ranks in my Top 5 overall favorite products all time. I think one day I should make a list of those.

What do you guys think about that?

These Noteworthy inserts are shiny pieces of wonderful art and fell 1:12 packs which is two per box.

 

For me I like the rainbow foil over the top of the sepia shine makes this card really stand out. If only we saw cards like this today.

I was able to build what I have so far from busting boxes. It's also one of my more favorite boxes to open. I actually have one in wait for me still.

As for my set of Noteworthy I am trying to build, this is all I have for now, still a long ways to go with the 18 card set,

4,5,7,10,18

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 30:1996 Zenith Football

(I have been sitting on some drafts for a long time, so for fun to clean them up and give you something else extra to read to take your mind off from the Coronavirus, I will be doing some double posts for a little while. I hope everyone stays safe out there!)

Outside of the Spx sets of the 90's, there was only really one other set that turned me on towards it. That set, 1996 Zenith football.

Yes there were other years of Zenith football but none of them caught my eye more than the 1996 edition that had a black/gold appeal where the cards popped off at you.

There are 150 cards in the set. I am a little disappointed it has taken me this long to complete.

I apparently haven't updated my numbers for these yet as I am much closer to this set than what it's telling me. I think roughly 10 cards left or less. Once again, another set I just need to finish up. I really want this one.

That does it for sets talk today, plenty more sets ahead!

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 29:1995 Fleer Ultra Gold Medallion

I have said before in this series, nothing catches my eyes for sets more than gold. Gold leads to sets.

There was no bigger set to chase full of gold foil goodness then 1995 Fleer Ultra football.

With two series, the set is a massive 550 carder with lots of rookies and Hall Of Famers to chase within.

That means I have to chase down 550, yes 5....5...0 cards in this parallel set. If that doesn't say that I am crazy, nothing does.

Here are my latest additions to this major set.

 

And here is my overall look at what I have so far,

1995 Fleer Ultra Gold Medallion Parallel HAVES

11,13,14,15,18,19,42,43,44,59,61,66,71,72,79,80,80,96,100,102,109,116,121,125,139,140,154,166

167,186,187,188,191,193,194,211,213,214,218,221,223,224,225,228,229,230,231,246,247,252,253,

279,286,289,290,293,295,297,306,309,316,320,322,323,325,345,346,347,354,372,376,385,412,

418,422,423,441,454,456,458,462,476,482, 483,484,488,489,502,507,502,537,542,

I have knocked down maybe 1/5th of the set so many more to go. I would be impressed if I can ever focus to finish this one up. For now I have just been adding occasional cheap pieces as I find them or can trade for them.

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 28:1997 Upper Deck Rock Solid Foundation

I am not sure how far along with my sets I would be if it wasn't for @CardpocalypseNC helping me along the way. He has found stuff from his own collection, shows, trades and everywhere else to help me move forward.

Today's is a set I have marked wrong, yes wrong, in my set directory. I have these listed as 1996 when in fact they are from 1997 Upper Deck. I will fix that at some point.

Today we are looking at the latest adds to the set, a 20 card set, that featured the most important players at the time under the age of 25.

Such as Jason Kendall

 

And Raul Mondesi

With these two added, this is what I have now,

2,3,11,12, 13,16

Not many, so still have a ways to go.

What caught my eyes with these is the pure design factor. I love the foil but the touch of rock/marble in the background sealed the deal. These were found 1:7 packs of 1997 Upper Deck so I don't expect prices to be nuts on them but it will still take a little while to finish building this one.

We will be having more sets soon!

Let's Talk About Sets 27:1995 Studio Gold Baseball

Sometimes it takes credit cards and gold for me to do sets.

That's exactly what got me drawn to 1995 Studio Gold.

Beautiful cards using player stats for it's credit card layout.

 

There are 50 cards in the set, there is a silver version as well with just as many cards that I only have one card of, but the gold one I have this many of,

3,6,9,10,11,12,13,15,17,26,27,28,29,31,32,34,39,41, 48,49,50,

But luckily thanks to @CardpocalypseNC, I was able to knock two more down including a Griffey I surprisingly didn't have.

More sets talk coming up!

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 23:1995 Skybox Premium

Skybox Premium always brought their A game when it came to making a really solid base set design. Especially from 1995 and up.

But, none of them caught my eye more than 1995 that I bought a ton of back then.

I enjoyed the many layers it presents.

The regular base design. Yup, that nostalgia is kicking in

A newspaper add...so cool.

And one of the best, well, the best looking subset of all time. Nothing tops this. This card even looks better than today's inserts.

 

Kerry Collins rookie car. Kinda cool looking and a PC piece.

Once again these new sets adds were added thanks to @cardpocalypseNC.

Here are my remaining needs,

11,13,22,23,32,33,35,36,37,38,39,44,48,49,60,51,52,53,54,55,56,58,59,

64.65.67.70.72,80,88,89,91,92,111,119,120,123,139,141,142,145,146,147,148,150,151,154, 157,158,159,161,162,164,165,167,169,171,174,176,178,181,.182,183,
185,186,188,192,193,194,198,199,200

There's still plenty more sets to be had. Stay tuned!

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 21:1998 Topps Chrome Football

@Cardpocalypse and myself recently pulled off a good size trade, well a big trade since it will take two rounds of mailing to complete it for both of us.

In my end of the trade, Tim did me good with sending some major set help. One of those sets was from 1998 in Topps Chrome.

I have set myself a big task by trying to collect all of the Topps Chrome sets from 96-99 from all sports. I have done this with a couple other products as well.

There are 165 cards in the 1998 Topps Chrome football set including hot rookies of Charles Woodson, Fred Taylor, Randy Moss and of course Peyton Manning. Luckily for me I have nailed down the big ones.

Now it's down to the smaller stuff.

Tim send this gigantic stack of set help.

There were some stars and plenty of other rookies

Imagine how hot this card was in 1998??!

Out of my Topps Chrome chase, the 1998 is the one I am closest to collecting.

Here are my updated numbers for haves

1998 Topps Chrome HAVES

4,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,30,31,32,33,34,36,37,38,39,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53
54,56,57,58,60,62,63,64,65,66,67,69,70,71,72,80,81,82,84,85,86,87,88,89,91,92,95,96,98,99,102,111,112,113,
117,125,126,127,135,136,137,138,139,140,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151,154,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163,164,

If you have any of this set to help me out, just let me know! 

That does it today for sets talk. There will be plenty of sets ahead!

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 20 :1995 Pro Line Classic Football

This dirty ole sets talk has returned! Check out some my latest card porn set adds in this series making it's first come back in almost four months.

@Cardpocalypse and myself recently pulled off a good size trade, well a big trade since it will take two rounds of mailing to complete it for both of us.

In my end of the trade, Tim did me good with sending some major set help. One of those sets was from 1995 in Pro Line Classic.

The set is simple, 400 cards of stars of today and tomorrow. You also mix in borderless full color photography and you have a winner.

 

Tim sent along a few for me to knock down but I have more to go.

Actually, this is what I have left,
400,399,398,397,384,383,380,376,375,374,372,371,369,365,360,359,357,355,354,353,351,348,336,
331,325,324,323,321,320,319,316,315,314,312,309,308,307,306,305,301,300,298,297,295,293,292,
285,284,282,281,279,275,269,267,266,264,262,260,259,256,253,250,249,248,247,242,236,235,
234,233,224,223,222,221,220,217,215,214,212,210,209,206,203,201,200,195,188,187,184,182,181,177,
175,174,173,162,153,152,151,150,148,141,139,138,137,136,134,133,125,124,123,122,121,119,117,116,113,111,107,106,105,102,101,98,97,
90,89,87,84,82,80,79,72,68,67,65,63,62,56,54,53,51,50,48,47,45,44,41,35,34,31,30,29,26,25,23,
20,19,18,17,16,15,12,11,10,6,5,4,2

Not too terrible, but still enough of a challenge.

I hopefully can knock down some more from this set as time goes on. I have so much hot sets right now it's hard to keep up with it all.

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 12

Let's talk about sets babyLet's talk about it with me
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about sets (1995)
Let's talk about sets (Summitt)
Let's talk about sets (Uh huh)
Let's talk about sets....

1991 song by Salt-N-Pepa was about a much different topic than I am turning it into. You see, I am staying on topic with cards. Not,well, what they were talking about. This newest segment about the 90's will focus on my set chases (the ones I have already used for a Origins Post or don't plan on using) and new additions to them along with updates on how far I have gotten.

It's time for us to sit down and have that discussion between your parents and you that you tried to avoid. You know, that conversation you have with them about the Flairs and the Pinnacles. Kids, it's time to Talk About Sets.

Today's sets talk is from my trade with @card_a_holic who I said caught my attention from having set needs for me.

So let's check out the sauciness today.

We are knocking down two needs for my 1995 Summit Rookie Summit set. Something about the photography on these really drew me in to wanting to collect them.

Stoney Case showing off some skills. If only he had on the field for the Cardinals.

Kyle Brady taking a leap into the NFL.

These mark cards 7 and 8 towards the set of 18. I still have a long ways to go but if I keep chipping away and having sets work more often, I can get this done.

A lot more to show off still in this trade.

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 13

Let's talk about sets baby
Let's talk about it with me
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about sets (1995)
Let's talk about sets (much)
Let's talk about sets (Uh huh)
Let's talk about sets....

1991 song by Salt-N-Pepa was about a much different topic than I am turning it into. You see, I am staying on topic with cards. Not,well, what they were talking about. This newest segment about the 90's will focus on my set chases (the ones I have already used for a Origins Post or don't plan on using) and new additions to them along with updates on how far I have gotten.

It's time for us to sit down and have that discussion between your parents and you that you tried to avoid. You know, that conversation you have with them about the Flairs and the Pinnacles. Kids, it's time to Talk About Sets.


Today's sets talk is from my first ever trade on Twitter with WestCoastHockeyHits who not only had hockey cards, but had some serious set help for me. This is just one part of it.

I am always hoping people will dig deep and find some Ground Zeros in their collections that are collecting dust and he did.

Fleer NFL Prospects of Michael Westbrook I needed. These were inserted one in every 6 packs.I have 14 of the 20 needed for the set so it's coming along.

This card marks me half way to the 18 card set. TD was a huge need that I desperately needed. These fell 1:23 packs or roughly one per box.

And check out this Red Siege set help. Nine new ones!

We had a lot of Sets today. The next part focuses on one particular one. Come back for the next volume and let's have some gold added to our sets.

Let's Talk About Sets Volume 6

Let's talk about sets baby
Let's talk about it with me
Let's talk about all the good things
And the bad things that may be
Let's talk about sets (1995)
Let's talk about sets (Score)
Let's talk about sets (Uh huh)
Let's talk about sets....

1991 song by Salt-N-Pepa was about a much different topic than I am turning it into. You see, I am staying on topic with cards. Not,well, what they were talking about. This newest segment about the 90's will focus on my set chases (the ones I have already used for a Origins Post or don't plan on using) and new additions to them along with updates on how far I have gotten.

It's time for us to sit down and have that discussion between your parents and you that you tried to avoid. You know, that conversation you have with them about the Flairs and the Pinnacles. Kids, it's time to Talk About Sets.

So grab a cup of Frutopia and grab some Doritos flavored crackers and check these out.


I have spoken so much on my Ground Zero chase from 1995 Summitt on, but I haven't even touched much on my intimacy for 1995 Score Red Siege parallels and how far I have gotten with that set.


So far I haven't gotten as far with it as Ground Zero, but I am making my sweet moves to try and get there. Thanks to some help from @CardpocalypseNC.

Jack Jackson. Interesting name almost baby Jack Jack

Steve Stenstrom who was supposed to be the next Chiefs great QB. Well....

Mo Lewis was a solid backer for the Jets. It seems like they always have that edge on the Giants.

Vincent Brisby with the 90's Pats uniforms. I think the jerseys look better then.

Huge accomplishment getting Emmitt knocked down in the set. But I do believe there may be one or two more.

Glenny Foley..enough said.

Irving Fryar was underrated like a few other 90's WR's who played for subpar teams.

Everyone waited on Jeff George for his potential, they still are.

Rob Moore changed teams from Cardinals to Jets in 1995

Willie!

Terry Allen was a decent back for the vikes

Big ole Tim filling up the middle

The Buc's uni's. Nice. Dilfer didn't really get going til he was a Raven then he beat my Giants in the biggest game. Sigh.

Carnell Lake had some great defensive gems for the Steelers.

Both Mathis and Johnson were household names when I was breaking packs.

This is simply a great photo of Bryan Cox who was a get backer.

Score had some gems for photography and this is another one.

Agent Tony McGee

Johnny Bailey. A player I actually hadn't heard of.

Tim Brown I think would have gotten more respect had he played elsewhere like Green Bay.

Drew Bledsoe will to me be best remembered as a Patriot. I also blame him for being injured and giving us the Tom Brady era.

Richmond Webb was like trying to move a boulder.

Neil Smith was one of the greats when it came to pass rushing.

Thanks to Tim for adding these sassy parts to my set.

I hope everyone had fun with today's Sets Talk. Don't forget to remember me the next time you do sets. Well, I guess that came out wrong. Just do sets the way you want to.