Collector Focus: Hunting High Grade 1969 Topps Baseball

You’ll find them staring into showcases or sitting on a chair, leafing through dealer’s albums.  Collectors bearing want lists are everywhere at the National Sports Collectors Convention because they know they can fill it and might even be able to name their own price and condition.

For collectors who insist on the best of the best, this is the one place, the one time of year when they can be assured of seeing graded singles and high end ungraded commons and stars.

We ran into one collector whose singular focus remains a set from 45 baseball seasons ago:

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About Rich Mueller

Rich is the editor and founder of Sports Collectors Daily. A broadcaster and writer for over 40 years and a collector for even longer than that, he's usually typing something somewhere. Type him back at [email protected].