My Completed Setsby Billy Kingsley - 266 cards (Last updated on Jun 24, 2022) |
Since I am OCD, I also have kept track of when I completed many of the sets. If I know the exact date, I will include it in the caption. I also had the idea, circa 2004, to record the last card I needed to complete the set, if I wrote it down, that is the card I will use for this album.
131. 2002-03 Upper Deck MVP #49 Ben Wallace
This set I did a box of, but came up one card short. It came in the same package as the 1993-94 Fleer card above. |
132. 2001 Inkworks American Pride #37 Route 66
I received a box of these as a gift from a fellow Database member on 12/27/13, and opened about half the box, coming up with 36 of the 45 cards. I decided to save the rest and open them on July 4th, which I did, and completed the set. The set is kind of odd though, in that they advertise the set as stickers...even though there are no stickers in the set whatsoever, not even as inserts (there are none of those). I have a bunch of duplicates of this set and even some packs left over, which is highly unusual- only the second time I've ever completed a set and had packs left over, after 1991 Topps Desert Storm Series 3. |
133. 2004 Upper Deck History of the United States #TR12 General Horatio Gates' Victory at Saratoga
I somehow managed to miss including this one on my chart. Not sure how I did that! I cheated and bought a factory set. I love Saratoga and I've spent much time there. |
134. 1995 Traks 5th Anniversary #2 Steve Grissom
My first completed NASCAR set of 2014. Scored a box on Ebay for $10 and completed the set...I only had one card beforehand. I actually almost completed the set twice over, but it took until the last pack to get this card. |
135. 2003-04 Topps #48 Ray Allen
After several years of differently colored borders on the flagship Topps set, (1998-99 through 2002-03) they returned to the traditional white border for four seasons beginning with this set. It was an unusual set as well, in that it was reissued twice. The base set, at 249 cards, featured silver foil. It also had a full slate of inserts and gold and black border parallels. I came up one card short on it and acquired it through the Database's Amazon partnership. It was later updated and modified for a 265 card factory set, which also appears in this gallery. |
136. 2003-04 Topps 1st Edition #101 Marko Jaric
2003-04 was the first year of Topps 1st Edition. A concept that was totally pointless, yet it didn't stop me from getting them. The 1st Edition cards are exactly the same as the Topps release, only with a silver foil 1st Edition logo on the top of the card. There were no parallels or inserts in the 1st Edition boxes, and they were Hobby only issues. The 1st Edition cards are listed as parallels or inserts on the Database, but they were standalone issues, NOT inserted into Topps packs. I did two boxes of them this first year but came up three cards short. I got them all at the same time as I got the final card I needed for the Topps set. |
137. 2004-05 Topps #196 Brandon Hunter
I missed including this when I made up my original paper charts, and so missed adding it to this gallery until I posted the cards earlier this week. I got every card in the set on 9/6/2004. I didn't write down which number was the last, but I did make note of this being the very first Charlotte Bobcats card in my collection. |
138. 2012 Press Pass Ignite #40 Sam Hornish Jr.
I came up three cards short on this set, and got them as a RAOK off a Facebook card page on 8/28/14. |
139. 1922 Lambert & Butler Motor Cars #25 Standard
1922...never thought I'd ever complete a set this old! For a long time it felt like I'd never even be able to get back into the cigarette card era. I just needed the right sources! I bought the entire set in a binder in September 2014. |
140. 2007 Press Pass #73 Jeff Gordon's Car
My brother gave me a box of this set for Christmas but I came up short. I got it in a big trade on 12/8/14. |
Comments
As a straight up baseball guy (who briefly dabbled in football and basketball-don't know where those went), it's fascinating to me what people collect. Nice list. V3
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Great list!
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Cool list and achievements.
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Set #1 is my favorite. I have 25 of those cards and hopefully will get the whole set one day. Great era of Monster Truck racing.
Great list.
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The trade with Billy for his last card to complete his 158th set was my first trade on the DB. Nice list Billy.
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I JUST now saw all your comments, thanks folks!
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I had no idea that a Bill & Ted card set existed. Very cool!
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The Marvel Universe cards...I wasn't ever into comics, but most of the boys in my class were collecting these cards, so I did as well. Everybody was trading and working on sets...and chasing those holograms!
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Man, Billy! I get excited about basketball everytime I read a list of yours. I didn't see 90-91 Skybox or Hoops as completed. Are they, but just not logged in? | ||
Dave, most excellent! Kin, still chasing those holograms myself! Commish, I have not completed Skybox yet, but I did complete Hoops, I forgot to list it on here though! | ||
It's surprising to me how very few of MY very few sets are in your list! In NASCAR, I saw 2010 Legends on the list. I pulled that whole set from one hobby box. 2009 Press Pass Racing, I still have an unopened factory set of that as a freebie from D&A Cardworld. 1996 UD Road to the Cup Racing, you just sent me the next to last card I need to complete that set about a month ago, but still missing that last one. Where are the NBA sets that I actually own? I HAD the 92-93 sets of Skybox and UD until someone stole a bunch of my cards. I actually had almost every complete set released for NBA cards that season. I picked specific sets to replace the missing cards from those years and re-completed the full Stadium Club and Ultra sets. I kept/re-completed a few of the insert sets from various brands for that year too. BUT, I mostly traded away cards from anything that year to finish my Club and Ultra sets. I also have the 1994-95 Ultra set and the Series 2 set of 1997-98 Z-Force (loved that brand). Back to the Marvel cards mentioned before, 1990 Impel Marvel Universe is the TOP non-sport set that I would love to complete! The holograms are RARE and I have 2 of them already. But I loved the design so much that I went after the 1991 Impel Marvel Universe set hard when it was released and it still took me 15 years to get the last two base cards I needed to complete that set. I completed the 5-card hologram set LONG before I completed the base set!!! I haven't even mentioned my MLB/NFL complete sets or the other NASCAR sets I've completed. I generally don't go after complete sets, but when I get close enough or really like the set, I'll try to complete it.
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That's the neat thing about the hobby, odds are nobody's collection will be exactly the same. If I had lots of money I'd complete a lot more sets, LOL! I'm curious to see what my first completed Hockey set will be. I know I have two factory sets waiting to be opened so I could make it one of them pretty easily, but I don't want to do that just yet... | ||
This is a very cool list Billy. As very much a non-set collector I am always fascinated by the people who go after complete sets and how they go about competing them. That is something I could never do, and that's ok. My collection is on random, always has been always will. | ||
Oh there's a ton of randomness to my collection. It's just really luck when I do complete a set these days! |
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