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What's up cardboard photo enthusiasts!  I want to thank 49ants for sifting through his half million to send me the final 13 cards to complete my first ever set... wait for it... 1993 Topps Baseball!!!!  Come on, let me have it... how many of you guys and ladies out there have 20 of those things you would have sold me by the pound a decade and a half ago?  You gotta admit, it's a good first set to have even if it has had 25 years to wear.

Come on, bring on the attaboys, free drinks, and slaps on the butt - I promised my buddy 4-niner a percentage cut of the love... and then tell me to get a life and go back to work!

I also want to thank the Admin, and the small group of you... seven? 12? who spend several hours every day engineering the website and keeping things going.  It is because of you guys I can trade with people I will never meet live who are hundreds of miles to half the world away.  In two months' time I have managed to load in 22,000 baseball cards, not half of my collection, and make over a dozen deals.  I am blessed as a shoebox toting collector of pictures of athletic men to have access to a worldwide portal of dudes just like me.  I could preach about how I am also blessed, for example to have electricity and a warm house and a loving family and a complete set of 1993 Topps Baseball cards! WHAT!?

Congratulations! Nice to see so much enthusiasm for a set of that era (my favorite in the hobby)

Congrats on your 1st set! I didn't manage to even come close to completing the 1993 Topps set, even though I was busting the packs when they were brand new.

Congrats.  Always a sense of accomplishment when the last card is inserted in its place.  So what is your next set in mind to complete?

I have plenty of matches with your wantlist.

From one Joshua to another, congratulations my friend! Very attractive choice to begin the endeavor of set collecting. I collect two players whose RCs are in this set, Jeter and Edmonds.

Blessings on future sets. Let me know how I may help.

Congratulations on a set completion!

Thanks guys,

Exactly what I wanted, praise! Hahaha

Billy, thanks for being first, I knew you would weigh in and you are one of the seven to twelve I was thinking of keeping things going, am I right?  I just wish we could trade; I have maybe 50 basketball cards I can't locate.

Next could be 2008 Topps baseball or 1994 Topps Baseball. I would also like to complete the '94 gold parallel in time. I'm probably around 90% on 2007 and 2004 Topps baseball.  I think I am close on 1992 Topps but I haven't counted that one in a decade.

If you guys keep watching me I will load up new stuff (like my 92s) by the month. It's tedious but one day, I'll be done!  Then I can finally take em out, look at them and enjoy them instead of scanning numbers on the backs.

congratulations!!!

It's a wonderful feeling when you open that envelope and hold that last missing card in your hands. Then slide it in its place, completing a set. The last brick to complete the shrine and the great thing is, all it took was to trade some extras to someone else who wanted them, some time at a wonderful website and a few stamps.

You got to love!!!! 

Woot woot! Nice job. I like that set quite a bit, so I also applaud your choice. I also would like to know what's next.