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Hey Rick, I had a chance to check this out again without listening while driving. Not a good idea for a video that requires you seeing the cards. Though, I can picture them in my mind. When Charlie Gehringer and Reggie’s rookie are your honorable mentions, you know it is going to be good. I always love to see the Lasorda rookie. The yellow on that card with the blue cap just captures the era perfectly. I have come to appreciate the black and white full body image too. The Mantle/Berra card is a beauty. I agree with you on the 57 set. I still need to get that one. The 69 Bench is a fantastic card. My favorite of his will always be the 1976. The Bobby Doerr PlayBall is a stunning card with the background. The 50 Bowman Bob Feller is the card I would own if I could only have one of his. As I mentioned in my text, you really do have an awesome collection. What I like most is that I can hear the passion for your cards when you talk about them. You know why you have them in your collecting and even remember when you bought many of them. I really enjoyed this.

Enjoyed the first 30 Rick!

Great list; I love all the Play Ball cards.

I m joining that club too in July Happy Birthday Rick ❤ Grest video

Hey Rick…Happy Birthday! I join you at 60 later this year. My birthday wish…More Dodgers Championships please! What great cards you have! What I love about your videos is that even as a lifetime Dodgers fan I learn about new Dodgers from seeing your cards. You have the most diverse Dodger card collection I’ve seen. Had not heard of Jake Talbert, Bart Shirley or Kirby Higbe until now. That 1957 Dodgers Sluggers card is one of my favorites. Stay safe down there and looking forward to seeing the next 30 cards. 👍

Beautiful cards.

Happy Birthday, thank you for sharing your collection

What a packed video! The card countdown......and you have shown some awesome cards......your 60th birthday!......I eagerly await the top 30, and hope you have celebrated this momentous day. Take good care!

Beautiful run Rick. So many great cards. I love it

Happy Birthday! Welcome to the old fart 60 club. Love the Collins and Wheat card! Heck, love them all. Hope you have a great weekend

Welcome to the 60 club-- I just got there as well. We must have started buying cards the same year-- age 8, 1973. A fun watch! Prayers are out for all you enduring the fires, hope the rain comes hard!!!

Happy birthday my friend. Cheers for another year of health and happiness and cards of course

First hope you are doing well through the horrific tragic California fires. My heart is with all of you in Los Angeles. Happy 60th and many more. You have 17 more years to go to be where I am. Thanks for the great Movie recommendation Chasing 3000 watched right after your video. Love your choices in your top 60 collection. Great cards! Dodgers should be incredible this year with the money they spent. What a team. Stay well and looking forward to your final 30.

Happy 60th Rick! Great showcase. The logo not being on the hat is the reason I haven't picked up the Campy rookie 😅

Happy 60th and great run down. Looking forward to the next installment.

Great cards Rick, many of them on my want list.

Welcome to the world of us geezerheads! I think you'll find that being an old guy gives you more freedom and flexibility in many milieus. I don't know if I've mentioned this previously, but I've got a soft spot for the Chiefs because one of my most memorable students, back when I was substituting, was a distant relative of Patrick Mahomes.

Some nice nice cards there. Thanks for sharing Rick!

HAPPY birthday rick. Hope they get those fires under control soon. The roberto clemente movie sounds good. I will be 61 this may i dont know where the time went so hang in there its just a number. Can you believe Anthony rizzo and pete alonzo havent been picked up yet. Next month pitchers and catchers go back. Great video. How about them buckeyes !! Love the johnny bench card. Take care. Ken

Hello my friend

have you ever thought about putting together the "master " set of these? if so here are some variations you may or may not know about. we'll cover the cubs cards first. #18, #29, #45, #117 and #534 all have a variation that has green under the c and s in the word cubs on the top of the cards corrected would be yellow. #216 joe niekro has a type-o on the back in between his height their is a line, correct will not have the line. checklist #3, and #5 both have larger print for players names that make the names closer to the orange line on the bottom of the card, the other version has a gap between the names and orange line. #378 has 2 versions that have different asterisks one will have 8 pointed and the other will have a 5 pointed asterisk. #604 the back has a copyright on the bottom left and the other has it on the bottom right.

my goal as a set builder is to put together topps sets from my birth year 1959 to the current year.

cool video, new subscriber here , look forward for more....

Sorry about the Rams, Rick. It got nerve racking at the end.

Glad you are doing okay through the fires, Rick. I grew up in Pasadena and several people I know have been impacted. Praying for all of you. On the positive note, great share of your cards. Some real beauties. Love the stories! The Fatima card, wow!

Hey Rick, I am glad to hear you’re still okay. I wasn’t sure if the air quality was impacting you. I was happy to see the Rams win and will be pulling for them today. The hobby is a nice way to relax and break away from the stresses of the world. I find myself staring a my card cases occasionally when working at home just to decompress for a few minutes. It is a way to drift back to simpler times for a moment. I enjoyed this look into players you don’t hear from often. I wasn’t aware of Tommy Brown’s age. That is amazing to be able to hit major league pitching at such a young age. Love the 52 Shantz card. I still need to add a card of his and that may be the one. I didn’t realize you had the Uecker rookie. Collecting Dodgers team sets gets you some nice rookies. I always liked that Snider card. He always looked a little older due having gray hair early on but his hair is white on the 64. Fisk has some of the best cards. The 77 is my favorite but 74 is my second favorite. I like his 91 Topps too. Beautiful Kaline. I love the colors. Thanks for sharing, my friend.

Hey Rick… Great to see you are doing well with all the fires going on down there. Can’t believe what I’m seeing on TV of the devastation. Thanks for sharing your cards. That 1913 Brooklyn national cards is very cool and I love the story about Papa Maxwell. Thanks, Rick.

I glad your safe. Thanks for the video 😊

Golden Stamps put out some memorable issues. Who knew they would rise so much in value? I had the Hall of Fame set but traded it away in the 1970s. And how many people remember Preacher Roe was with the Pirates? I sure forgot. By the way, Baseball Reference first lists the Dodgers as the official team nickname from 1911-1915, then resuming in 1932.

Rick- Glad to know you are doing ok. I am sorry to hear about all the heartbreak in CA. Stay safe and thank you for the video. Great stories.

Hey Rick! Glad to see that you are unaffected by the fires. I asked Terry and he told me as well. Wow, Charley Maxwell. I am familiar with mostly his 1963 and 1964 cards and didn't realize he had one in the 1952 set. And I didn't realize he was still with us until just recently. I like that 1957 card of his. Now, Tommy Brown, I was completely unaware of. Cool that he was the youngest player to hit a home run. And yes sadly, we also lost Bob Uecker. I like his '62 rookie card. It's great that Bobby Shantz is still with us. Enjoyed the other cards you showed. I would love to get the '53 Haddix. Again, glad you are safe.

I'm so glad you're safe! That was a national tragedy. El Paso has been the opposite of SoCal -- we actually had a little snow. (Schools and other institutions panicked and delayed their openings.) I've actually heard of Charley Maxwell, and I know about his Sunday legend. On the other hand, I learned a lot about Tommy Brown, especially that he was the youngest major leaguer to homer. So thanks for this new theme!

Thanks for sharing your pickups. Great to hear you’re doing well.

Hey Rick Glad to hear you are doing well! Charley Maxwell being from Paw Paw is cool, our vacation home in South Haven Michigan is 20 minutes away from Paw Paw. There is a golf course near there I like to play with my daughters! I just read about Tommy Brown yesterday, great that you were able to share his story. Have a great weekemd

Hey buddy so good to see you on here again. I'm so glad your ok. I'm so ready for baseball. I'm a big reds fan. I'm 61 and grew up when the dodgers played the reds it was like playoff atmosphere. I knew the dodgers lineup like I did the reds. My favorite dodgers were Steve garvey and Ron cey the penguin. Those were some great games. I watched most baseball on a 12 inch black and white TV or my transistor radio lol. I'm from Ohio so go Buckeyes this Monday. Take care. Ken

Ive watched your videos for a while now and i really enjoy them. I seen the fires out in LA and thought id check on ya. Take care and god bless.

Hey Rick, It’s funny how 1980 marked the end of your days as a child collector, while it was my gateway into the world of baseball cards. I remember opening so many of those packs and storing the cards in either a cigar box or an old shoe box. I couldn’t get enough of Pirates and Yankees cards! There’s something about the simple yet colorful design that really lets the photographs shine. I’m with you on the mix of portrait and action shots-it would be great if Topps still did that today. It makes flipping through binder pages much more interesting, with each card telling its own story. What are your three favorite cards in the set? For me, it’s Dave Parker, Reggie Jackson, and Gary Carter. The Tim Foli card might not be the first one that comes to mind for most people, but I’ve always liked it. I still remember pulling it from a pack-it’s a great action shot, and you’ve got the pillbox cap with all those Stargell stars on it. The George Scott card was another standout, with a nice portrait shot. Rickey had such an incredible career. I was in Kindergarten when he retired, and then, I was married with my wife expecting our first child when he hung it up. Time sure flies! By the way, I love the added touch of the lunchbox and books displayed alongside the binder.

It's always interesting to hear what each collector considers the last "vintage" set. It's funny, I always have considered 1973 to be the last year. And that was my last year collecting as a kid, just like you with 1980. Those '80s look great in the binder. I'm discovering I'm liking the look of the various sets of the mid-70s - the late 80s in the binders.

1980 Topps...the year it all started for me

Fun stuff, Rick. Have a great new year.

Happy New Year, Rick. Really enjoyed seeing your cards and hearing your family Christmas stories. A belated Happy 90th Birthday to your mom. Looking forward to seeing your collection grow in 2025. All the best to you this year.

Hey Rick! I loved hearing you talk about the 1980 set! I also bought this as a complete set, probably around 1988! Three other memories you touched on. You mentioned "Big " Ed Halicki. Among myself and my friends at the time (back in the early 70s) he was known as "Ugly" Ed Halicki (my apologies to Mrs. Halicki) and I immediately could hear my College roommate calling his name! Second, Rusty Staub was always known as "Le Grande Orange" which is what the broadcasters on the French language radio called him! The name traveled with us as he made his circuit of a number of other teams around MLB. Finally, the Candyman's No-No is one of two no-hitters I have personally watched (this one on TV) from start to finish! The other was Andy Hawkins versus the Chicago White Sox which he lost in eight innings. He would later lose the no-hitter again when MLB changed the rules on 8 inning no-hitters qualifying as an official no-hitter. I also watched on TV Jim Bibby's 28-batter 1-hitter (I am thinking it was also against the Dodgers, but that may be untrue). He lost the Perfect Game when the very first batter singled to start the game! He then retired the next 27 consecutive hitters! Great memories! All of things you mentioned about the reason for the end of your youthful collecting experience were also true for me, except I eventually married the Girl!

I need to start doing videos like this with my team set binders. enjoyed hearing you go through the 80 set.

Fun video, Rick! Nice set!

I too was 15 and you're bang on...girls cars and was into the music scene too Rick...seems we had similar stories in our journey...hope you had a great holiday season Rick...cheers

1980 is a great set. Thank you for sharing. Saw your hat. I am going to Long Beach for business. Any food or card suggestions while I am there? Thanks Rick

Great set! Thanks for sharing!

Happy new year Rick. Great set and fun Hendersons to see. I agree with you about the Westminster show today. Mostly Pokémon and I also saw the mays and mantle. Talked to the dealers and they just brought it to show off and bring in eyes. Probably gonna hold off until the Burbank show next month.

Happy new year to you and your family 😊

Mike Scott was a pretty good pitcher. Wasn't he on a 1980 rookie card?