Replay Baseball 1981 Near Complete Set in Box Classic Era APBA-Like Game

Description: Replay 1981 season near complete baseball set in NM/M condition in Replay box. The set appears unused. This is the classic season edition from the original Brodak Roth era. This set is missing 3 cards that were listed on the team roster cards: Clancy (Tor), Howard (NYM), and Jackson (Mon). On the other hand, the set includes 3 players who were not listed on the team roster cards: Luebber (Bal), Lewallyn (Cle), and Castro (NYY). The set also includes: - two copies of the team lineup sheets - final standings- schedule of games after the 6/11/81 strike date (but only through mid-August) See my novel below if you want more general information on Replay cards and the Replay sets I have for sale. :) I will combine shipping for multiple purchases. Shipping by USPS Ground Advantage or Priority Mail, your choice. I will be listing many more Replay sets soon. I know we have all gotten used to buying via the world wide webatory, but still it is not the same as seeing in person what you are buying. I truly want you to know what you are buying so you will be satisfied. Therefore, PLEASE email with ANY questions. I am very happy to answer them and would much prefer you to ask if you have any doubt or questions whatsoever. Thank you! Novel on Replay sets for sale (especially if you are not familiar with Replay sets; most of this information relates to cards issued prior to the 1990 season during the Brodak/Roth era): Replay published its first season set in 1973 (based on the 1972 season) and through the 1990 season, the original owners published each just-ended season plus a number of historical seasons. I call the seasons published in this era “classic” seasons. To the best of my knowledge, Replay was run by two men originally (Roth and Brodak), and later was acquired by the current owner, Pete Ventura, around 1998. It was never a large company with numerous employees, and as a small shop, had some anomalies in card sets that I describe further below. In this classic era, pitchers' cards were typically taller than batters' cards. Replay did not publish any sets from approximately 1992-1998, and then Pete Ventura published the 1998 season in 1999 and continues to publish current and historical sets to this day. Prior to the Pete Ventura era (and starting again in 2007), Replay sets were issued as pre-cut cards and typically with each team set held by a rubber band. The very early sets may have come in envelopes; the 1973 set I have is in envelopes. And some gamers put the cards in envelopes, but typically they were in rubber bands. That creates the drawback that over time, rubber bands may deteriorate and leave rubber band residue. I have attempted to describe whenever I have found rubber band residue and show at least one picture of such a card in the related listing. Usually the impacted card is the team card and the last pitching card since they were the first and last cards in the set. Fortunately, the residue issue was fairly limited as I inventoried and collated all the sets I have for sale. In an abundance of caution, to prevent any potential damage, I have removed the rubber bands from almost all of the listed sets. The only exceptions are when the cards were clearly in brand new super mint condition and I felt it was better to preserve that condition by inventorying the cards carefully while still in the rubber bands. I plan to wrap groups of teams in cellophane wrap, safely secured in a box with appropriate packing material, to keep the cards together and get to you in a safe and orderly fashion. However, if you prefer rubber bands, please message me when you buy the set and I will put the cards in rubber bands instead of cellophane. Based on my review and collation of all the Replay sets I'm listing, in the vast majority of cases, if I wasn't the original owner, the prior owner(s) bought the set as a collector and not as a player. Most sets had not been collated and appeared unused. Each set will have my best attempt to accurately describe its overall condition and the number and scope of any exceptions. Another anomaly of Replay sets (especially in the earlier years of the company) is that some suffer from printing issues. Occasionally, a shadow of part of a card back was imprinted on the front of the subsequent card. Cards are sometimes slightly miscut (though I haven't seen any so miscut as to be missing game play info), and occasionally show printing smudges. Sometimes the typeface is very dark red. These are all fairly infrequent and the issues seemed to subside in sets printed later as printing technology improved. Also, most classic Replay sets as originally issued require some level of collation. I believe the reason is that the printing process was designed for a certain number of cards per team. Teams that have less than the average will have players who belong on teams who have more than the average number of cards. Those players are usually the last (lowest AB) batters and (lowest IP) pitchers. Typically, bad teams (think Pirates and Athletics for SO. MANY. YEARS. until the 60s) have more players because they're calling up players and trying anybody, maybe even people from the stands. 😊 It looks like in many classic seasons, Replay's philosophy was to card every player. Let's say that results in an average of 26 cards/team (so different than today!). A really good team might only use 24 players, so they likely have 2 players collated with them that belong to another team. Meanwhile the Pirates, who have 30 carded players, are missing 4 players who are on other teams. I have sorted all that out for you! You're welcome! :) IMPORTANT: The ONLY way to know you have a complete set is for the seller to have fully inventoried it and reported to you, which I have done. That said, the team roster cards that list the players are not perfect. I found multiple examples of a carded player who did not appear on any team’s roster card. That leads me to wonder if some of the apparent ‘missing’ players are not really missing, but were either mistakenly or intentionally not carded. If a ‘missing’ player was a reasonably significant contributor to the team, I think I can be sure that it is a truly missing player. However, in many cases missing players had something like 6 AB or 2 IP. I am not sure they were carded. I have seen eBay listings by other reputable sellers where they believe some players weren’t truly carded. Nevertheless, to be cautious, I will list them as ‘missing’ in my listing as I could not find on the google any way to verify the actual list of carded players in a given season. I also used utmost care when collating the cards, so as not to detract from their condition (which often was NM or M). I did not shuffle the cards (like you would when, for example, moving the current batter to the bottom of the stack while playing) but instead gently separated the card just enough to see the next player. Thus, that fresh, gritty feeling that mint cards can have is retained as much as possible. The only few times I did not do this was when a set had clearly been used. I have attempted to describe defects and include pictures of defects so that you know exactly what you are buying. Whew, well I told you it was a novel! If you made it this far, thanks for reading!!

Price: 199.99 USD

Location: Acworth, Georgia

End Time: 2024-10-30T22:37:58.000Z

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