There are some Red Sox team sets where it doesn't make sense for me to buy the whole team. There are some where I just accidentally happened to have a good start for whatever reason. Maybe I bought a lot of packs that year and just had a bunch. Maybe somewhere along the line I bought a Red Sox lot and picked them up that way. I went to COMC recently and finished off a couple sets by buying singles.
I bought a lot of packs in 1981. I almost had the complete Red Sox team without really trying. But I never had this one before now. I liked Fred Lynn when he was with Boston. I have these memories, real or exaggerated, of him flying over center field walls to make catches and landing in bullpens. Completing Donruss for 1981 means I have all the Red Sox from the big three products that year.
I made a mini run at the 1985 Fleer team set at a flea market once back in the 80's. I was left four or five cards short and never finished it. That has now been rectified. Barrett was the biggest name player of the ones I picked up on COMC. That gives me all the Red Sox from the main brands in 1985, still just the big three.
My father-in-law had a bunch of Bowman cards from 1989. I never had any, so when I got his two years ago I was introduced to these cards that were too tall for Ultra Pro binder pages. So they were put in a box. I did inventory before the COMC order and found that I was only missing Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens from the Red Sox. By 1990 there was Topps, Donruss, Fleer, Upper Deck, Score, and Bowman. I now have all the Red Sox from all of them. I'll probably do a post on Bowman pretty soon, but suffice it to say for now that I have really started to like them as I've been working on this team set project.
The 1998 Mark Lemke from Pacific Online wasn't bought to complete a team set. I'm not working on minor sets like that. But I didn't have a Red Sox card for Lemke yet for 1998 and going slightly oddball is how I had to get it. After completing the team sets for any given year I should also circle back and see which players are not represented yet, if I ever get the time.
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