Those Red-Checked Checklists

The other day I mentioned that when I first busted a wax box, of 1983 Fleer, I marked out the checklist cards to see what I had, and soon regretted it. I mentioned that I had never since then marked on a checklist card, and that I had kept those original red-checked cards to remind me never to do that again.

Here they are in all their glory. I shudder.

Apparently if I had kept this going, I would have been a box filler rather than an X-er or a check-marker.

I'm not sure what the big red blotch is next to #538 though.

I can't remember if these checklists were the result of one or two wax boxes, but it appears that I got close to completing the set. I have since done so, and it is one of my fondest memories buying (all by myself) ripping, and putting this set together.

An interesting note to the '83 Fleer checklists is that in addition to the player checklists they also included a team checklist, so as you completed a full team, you could check it off here.

So, do you write on checklists?

And if so, are you an X-er, a filler, or a check-marker?

New Collections 2015: A Neglected Baseball Set

I've mentioned in the past that when I worked for the wholesale distributor back in the early 80's I picked up boxes of baseball cards that I put aside for several years.  Eventually this resulted in the 1983 and 1984 Topps sets that I was able to binderize and complete last year.

Well, there was another few boxes that I bought at the time, 1983 Fleer.  I actually had gotten pretty close to a complete set (and then some) from the 2 wax boxes I had ripped, and I had them in a binder at one time.  Somewhere along the way I decided I didn't like the set so much and had no desire to finish it so I broke it up and started trading and selling some away.  The rest ended up in a box.

Over the holiday last week I was doing some sorting and came across the cards, so I decided to see what I had left of the set.  Surprisingly, with all the dupes I had, I still had close to a complete set so I put them in a binder and here I am.

So out of 660 cards here is what I'll need to complete this thing:

19,38,76,81,82,87,89,93,94,95,96

102,103,110,129,145,147,

216,221,241,247,265,279,

329,334,343,373,377,378,381,383,386,393

402,403,430,431,433,434,435,436,439,443,463,465,478,479,

500,502,511,533,564,566,573,575,580,

602,606,612,619,640,647,648,649,650,651,652,653,654,655,656,657,658,659,660.

Not bad huh?

Note: I do have 8 of the checklist cards, but they are marked so I would like to replace those with clean examples.  Those card numbers are in the want list.

Any help finishing this guy is appreciated.