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Posted onJuly 9, 2019July 11, 2019 The Week in TTM: Three Houston Firsts 375 × 524

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Moonshots

A somewhat crazy list of cards and ephemera I want most.

A Jeff Bagwell printing plate
A Bill Brubaker on-card autograph (’39 or ’40 Play Ball)
A Nellie Fox autograph
Any of the original 1962 Phillips “Here Come the Colts” magazines
An uncut sheet of the twelve 1967 team issued cards
A Colt .45s bobblehead
The “Streaking Orbit” bobblehead

Top Targets

A quick list of cards which are most desired at the moment, as dictated by random collecting whims.

2018 Big League Gold Parallels: 86, 104, 304
2019 Topps Chrome Refractors: 28, 62
2019 Topps Fire Inserts
En Fuego: Gurriel Gold Minted parallel
Fired Up: Correa (+ Gold Minted parallel)
Flamethrowers: Cole Blue Chip
Max Velocity: Fisher Blue Chip parallel

Flagship Needs

One of my goals is to finish off all the Colt .45s / Astros team sets – let’s say by the end of 2023, since there are some dang ol’ high numbers in there.

Topps Needs

1962 Topps #126 Al Cicotte (green tint)
1962 Topps #156 Merrit Ranew (green tint)
1962 Topps #177 Bobby Shantz (green tint)
1962 Topps #526 Hal Woodeshick
1962 Topps #536 Dick Gertner
1962 Topps #556 Al Spangler
1962 Topps #568 Jim Golden
1962 Topps #598 Rookie Outfielders (Ed Olivares)
1963 Topps #312 Colt .45s
1963 Topps #338 Russ Kemmerer
1963 Topps #442 J.C. Hartman
1963 Topps #491 Harry Craft
1963 Topps #538 George Brunet
1963 Topps #544 Rookies (Rusty Staub)
1963 Topps #553 Rookies (Brock Davis)
1963 Topps #576 Johnny Temple
1964 Topps #544 Steve Hertz / Joe Hoerner
1966 Topps #530 Robin Roberts
1966 Topps #539 Bill Heath / Carroll Sembera
1966 Topps #548 Gary Kroll
1966 Topps #557 Felix Mantilla
1966 Topps #566 Mike Cuellar
1966 Topps #576 Dave Nicholson
1966 Topps #586 Claude Raymond
1966 Topps #596 Nate Colbert / Greg Sims
1967 Topps #337 Joe Morgan
1967 Topps #447 Bo Belinsky (incomplete stat line)
1967 Topps #543 Dan Schneider
1967 Topps #564 Alonzo Harris / Aaron Pointer
1970 Topps #672 Leon McFadden
1971 Topps #583 Ron Cook
1972 Topps #679 Bob Fenwick / Bob Stinson
1972 Topps #716 Jesus Alou
1972 Topps #732 George Culver
1972 Topps #747 Jimmy Stewart
1972 Topps #770 Jim Wynn
1973 Topps #613 Bob Boone / Skip Jutze / Mike Ivie
1973 Topps NNO Astros Checklist

Donruss Needs

Fleer Needs

1963 Fleer #36 Joe Amalfitano

Score Needs

Upper Deck Needs

Set Killers

A non-exhaustive list of cards that will finish Astros team sets for me. Assassins are most appreciated.

1988 Donruss Baseball’s Best #150 Billy Hatcher
1988 Fleer Star Stickers #88 Nolan Ryan
1989 Topps Big #291 Scott Servais
2000 Upper Deck Hitter’s Club #4 Craig Biggio
2001 Topps Traded – Chrome #T96 Tim Redding
2012 Allen & Ginter #345 Nolan Ryan

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