I am Joe Collector

Regardless I ran into a speedbump when I opened 1 case of Masterpieces Football and the only reds I got were of Early Doucett III. I bought huge lots of these but made little if any headway toward the set and spent hours on end cruising ebay to find them.  I have 8-12 of many players and I average 4 of most players.

I have no idea how some of you do it.  Sets like the Black border A and G minis that are 350 cards?  No way I can do that, I am having enough issues with my Mayo Mini set and Murad, although I am sure I can finish them on comc at any time.  Not so with these sets.  Sportlots, COMC, EBAY, Blowout Forums, etc

I have been actively working on the set for well over a year and for the record, the final card was James Hardy #33.  I got it for free off of Freedom Card Board.

So now I have completed 07 BB both Greens, 08 Baseball and Football Black and Red.  The Baseball reds are not numbered and the Football is /199

Anyway, here they are:

Man, I started this set a long time ago.  Basically I spent a year and a half on this thing and it finally came down to the Evan Longoria.  It arrived yesterday.

To put this set into a bit of perspective.  120 cards per set.  These fall 1 per box.  16 boxes per case.  If you didn’t get 1 double, it would take just under 7 cases to complete the set.  The Masterpieces Football Patch set I put together is 60 cards.  2 per case.  30 cases to complete the set without getting a double. 

Somehow this set was more difficult.  Just a bunch more cards to get.  As far as the number of sets.  These cards are not numbered.  You get roughly 7 blue /125, 5 brown /100 and 2 green /75 in a case and as I said 16 of these per case.  Which puts these at approximately 285 sets.  Maybe a few more, maybe a few less.  I’m not sure how ofte these are pulled out of retail in relation to the other parallels to see if those ratios hold.

Anyway

Here it is:

Well actually a bit of a story first. I bought my first box of Masterpieces Football back in December 2008. Boxes were going for $50-$60 at the time and I paid $53 each for a couple of boxes. I pulled a JD Booty patch in the third box. I liked the patch but had no idea how many there were or how much they were going for. I didn’t give the patch another thought. Although I did state ” I do see myself looking to complete the framed sets in both baseball and football.” I have completed both blacks and both greens in 2007 less 1 card.

Regardles I then opened some boxes in January and pulled an Early Doucett 3 color patch with this now Epic Post. Then I opened this now infamous case of Masterpieces. I think it was about that time that I started seriously thinking of trying to complete the set. I put up my first patch wantlist in October 2009 after I had the set 2/3 completed.

Obviously I had been at this awhile and was picking them up on ebay as I saw them posted. I was bidding too little on some and getting outbid on ones that should have been easy pickins. I faught on and slowly worked my way down. It seemed I was spinning my wheels as the same cards came up for sale over and over again. There were quite a few that I had just not seen or had seen listed once.

Eventually I found myself down to a few but a problem arose. Another set collector joined the fray. He was spending a lot on the cards, more than I was willing to. He got a Dustin Keller 2 color that he went up to $17 or so on. Funny enough another was posted a few days later that I got for $5 shipped. Thats how it went though, weeks where 5 would be listed and weeks where none would be listed.

Down to the final three I needed Shockey, Chad Johnson and Bush. I found a Shockey on Beckett Marketplace and then within a month 2 were listed on ebay, I have all 3 that I have seen posted. Finally a Chad Johnson came up, the set collector and I went at it on a nice 3 color. I won for $30+. Around this time I ran into him on the Blowout forums and looked at his photobucket, low and behold he had a Bush. I asked if he would be willing to sell it, he said no but said he was planning on perhaps giving up. When the Bush was listed last week, he emailed me to let me know it was on Ebay. Very nice of him. He also asked me to make an offer on his Patch collection. I did and he was willing to sell it to me for what I offered.

Before he had received his last two patches that he had won so we could complete the transaction, I won the Bush and today it arrived. The set is complete but will get better when I get his 32 patches because he has a lot of two color where I have single.

Without further rambling, here they are:

BTW, this page looks cool in the Binder

Yes that is a complete /75 Green Time Warp Set.

Box 5


Oh Bush how you taunt me

Football Wantlist

Checklist Time Warps Rookies

Captured on Canvas Jerseys

16 Demarcus Ware
19 Devin Hester
51 Matt Ryan
57 Ryan Grant

Red /199 need4 of 86
10 Brett Favre
28 Dwight Clark
33 James Hardy
60 Malcolm Kelly

Blue /150 need 5 of 86
7 – ben Roethlisberger
8 – Brett Favre
46 – Joe Montana
75 – Adrian Peterson
88 – Walter Payton

Brown /99 need 10 of 86
2 – Adrian Peterson
3 – David Tyree
34 – Franco Harris
36 – Dexter Jackson
42 – Jamaal Charles
47 – Joe Namath
49 – John Elway
86 – Vince Lombardi

Green /75 need 25 of 105
3,5,8,9,19,20,32,37,43,44,46,47,57,64,68,85,87,88,89,90,101,103,105,106,107
Light Blue /50
2,3,4,9,10,13,16,18,19,24,32,33,34,37,38,39,42,44,48,50,51,58,60,62,64,67,69,73,75,76,78,79,80,83,84,86,88,91,92,93,95,96,97,102,104,106,107,110

green /50
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,10,12,13,15,16,21,23,25,28,34,37,38,39,42,44,45,46,48,49,50,52,54,59,60,63,65,68,69,70,71,75,76,78,80,81,88,91,93,95,96,97,99,101,103,104,107,108,109,110

2008 Masterpieces Baseball Color Parallel Want list

Checklist

Red 119 of 120
7 Even Longoria

Blue /125 95 of 120
7,9,21,23,26,35,45,52,59,79,80,82,86,88,92,93,94,99,102,109,115,

Brown /100 81 of 120

6,7,9,10,16,17,19,29,30,32,33,39,47,48,52,59,60,62,63,64,68,73,75,76,80,91,92,94,96,98,99,102,103,112,115,117,

Green /75 51 of 120
1,2,3,4,7,8,10,11,12,14,16,19,22,24,29,32,34,39,44,47,50,51,52,54,56,59,62,64,65,67,68,69,75,76,79,81,83,87,88,91,92,94,96,98,101,102,103,104,106,109,112,115,119,120

Blue /50
2,3,4,7,8,11,12,13,15,16,17,19,23,25,31,32,36,37,39,40,41,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,52,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,69,70,71,73,79,83,87,88,89,92,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,118,119,120

2007 Masterpieces Baseball
Serious Black /99
2,8,10,12,17,22,24,25,26,29,30,31,35,37,38,39,40,41,42,44,45,46,49,53,54,55,58,65,67,68,70,72,82,85,86,88

Black Linen /99
2,8,9,10,12,13,17,26,28,29,30,35,37,38,42,45,46,50,53,58,61,64,65,68,69,70,71,72,74,80,82,85,86,89,

Blue Linen /75
2,6,10,15,16,17,25,29,30,31,32,39,41,42,43,45,46,47,52,53,55,68,69,72,74,76,77,79,82,83,86,87

Pinot /75
1,8,10,14,17,20,26,27,29,30,33,36,38,41,42,43,45,46,47,49,53,54,55,5867,6871,72,73,76,78,80,82

Hades /50
1,6,8,10,13,16,17,19,20,22,24,25,26,27,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,40,41,42,43,45, 46,47,49,52,53,54,55,56,61,62,65,69,74,75,76,77,78,82,85,89

Blue Steel /50
2,5,8,10,11,12,13,14,16,17,19,20,21,22,23,24,26,27,29,30,31,32,33,35,36,38,39,40,42,43,45,46,49,50,52,53,54,55,58,59,61,62,65,68,69,70,71,72,73,79,81,82,83,84,86,87,88

Rusted /50
1,2,3,4,9,10,11,13,15,17,19,21,22,23,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,34,38,39,40,42,46,49,52,53,55,56,59,62,65,67,68,69,70,71,72,74,76,77,79,80,82,83,84,86,87,88,89