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.
21. 2003 UD Top Prospects #5 Carmelo Anthony
I have never liked college cards. However, I recieved a box of these as a gift and completed the set. This was the first set, I believe, that I posted the entire series of scans to the database of. |
22. 1999-00 Hoops Decade #1 David Robinson
A box from my local dealer, I completed the set on 3/2/2000. Just a random card. |
23. 1999-00 Fleer Tradition #7 Anfernee Hardaway
Another set completed from a box from my local dealer. After the first lockout the proper way of doing cards- 2 series- was mostly dropped (to the detriment of us all!) This is one of the few sets marketed as series 1 that never had a series 2. I completed it on 4/19/00 |
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25. 1994-95 Hoops #174 Clyde Drexler
When I discovered NBA basketball cards in 1996, my local Kmart still had retail boxes of this set, and it was likely the first NBA box I ever did...no later than second, but I don't remember what series it was anymore. I eventually completed the set on 3/2/02. |
26. 1999-00 Topps Tipoff #130 Felipe Lopez
This was the very first box I purchased from my current local dealer. I came up one card short, though, and I eventually hunted it down - this one - on 6/19/02. I don't remember where I found it. |
27. 1995-96 Collector's Choice #276 Damon Stoudamire
I purchased a factory set of this from one of my 5th grade classmates in 1996, but it wasn't complete. I finally hunted down the final card I needed on 7/17/02. I don't remember where. |
28. 1999-00 Upper Deck Retro #19 Rik Smits
I recieved a box of this for my birthday in 2002, and completed the set. |
29. 1994-95 Collector's Choice #125 Robert Horry
I bought a set collated from my first local dealer (now retired) on 11/1/02. |
30. 1975-76 Topps #310 ABA Finals
My first vintage set completion! (In basketball, I define vintage as Star and older). I bought a complete set from a comic dealer on 11/30/02. |
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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