Site News: A New Project - 1975 Fleer Pioneers of Baseball.

Inspired early on in my card collecting and blogging ways by Blue Heaven's Ernest Reyes and his quest to put together a set of Allen & Ginter N28s, I aimed significantly on the cheaper side of things and decided I would eventually like to put together the 1975 Fleer Pioneers of Baseball 28-card set.

I soon thereafter went to eBay and picked up a pair cheaply. Mike "King" Kelly will easily be my favorite after reading up on him. Two years or so went by before I added anything more to the project even though I would occasionally check eBay. I finally pulled the trigger on a lot of seven for $2.50 delivered (which included two doubles), with one catch: I wasn't sure they were from the right year.

(Please ignore the penny sleeves wreaking havoc....) I originally thought my first two were from '75 and when the lot of seven arrived, was disappointed to see they were from '74. Unsure of what to do, I dug out the first two and then realized that they were all in fact from 1975, even though they say 1974 on the back. Mini-not-really-crisis averted. My Want List has been updated accordingly with the remaining 21 that I need to complete this awesome set:

2. Harry Wright
3. Buck Ewing
4. A.G. Spalding
5. Old Ross Radbourn
6. Dan Brouthers
7. Roger Bresnahan
9. Ned Hanlon
10. Ed Delahanty
11. Pud Galvin
12. Amos Rusie
13. Tommy McCarthy
14. Ty Cobb
15. John McGraw
17. Johnny Evers
21. John Glasscock (Editor's Note: .....ha....)
22. Hal Chase
24. Jake Daubert
25. Mike Donlin
26. John Clarkson
27. Buck Herzog
28. Art Nehf

Now, to figure out how the hell to store these safely in a binder with appropriately-sized pages....