1968 Topps Football set

Last month I decided to make a complete set of 1968 Topps Football cards. This set is one that i had collected as a 7 year old out of packs. I purchased the 5 cent packs at Marlboro, Mass stores such as Marlboro Rexhall Drug (Mel Shear was the great guy who owned it), Delaney's News Stand (Jimmy Delaney was an interesting guy) and Spurrie's Market (nice people), and Estabrook's (mean guy who acted like he was doing us a favor taking our money).
Some of my favorite cards in this series are the Green Bay Packers and Oakland Raiders players. These cards are horizontally designed and feature members of the AFL and NFL Champions of 1967. Bart Starr is the #1 card. This is the first Topps set to have both the NFL and AFL players included.
I wish this set was bigger and had more players from teams like my home town Boston Patriots! It is a very nice design that Topps used this year. The series one cards have green print on the reverse and series two has blue on the reverse. It's interesting that the check list card # 219 is available in both colors!
 So, as of today, I have about 75 of the cards graded. That's not a bad start. Along the way I have learned a lot about the pricing and availability of certain cards in certain grades. I've found a few dealers with fair prices and a couple that want way more than the card is worth plus an insane amount of postage per card! I will stick with the nice dealers that I've bought from thus far.
So, as we wrap up Wednesday, May 18, 2011, here's a card I got today.
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Bill Hedin