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Saturday, December 28, 2019

Blog Bat-A-Round: Favorite Set of the Decade?

This decade is rapidly approaching the end. It will be the 2020s by this time next week...so I thought it would make a nice Blog Bat-A-Round to see what everyone considers their favorite set from the decade.
For me there were a couple of sets that I considered, but I kept coming back to one: 2012-13 Hoops. Besides the fact that it's Panini's best NBA effort, it's also the set that brought me back to the NBA after walking away in 2006. The pure enjoyment the set brought me as I was chasing it when new, and in the years that have followed, is unmatched by any other set issued in the Teens.

As I wrote when I did my Top 20 Favorite NBA sets countdown, "Why I like it: There are many reasons. The biggest, of course, is that it's the one that got me back in. The fact that it includes coaches. The fact that it's (mostly) sorted by team. The fact that it was the first card for so many of the players who now make up the NBA in my collection. The color coding to each team."

 All that still holds true. Nothing else from this decade has had as much of an impact on my hobby than this set. Not even the hockey cards, although the companion set- 2012-13 Score- is my 2nd favorite hockey set of all time and did play a role in my beginning to collect that sport...it didn't have as much of an impact as the Hoops set did. 

      
     
Although this scan is not up to my current standards, it's the one I used in my Top 20 sets countdown, so I thought it would be fitting to use it again....for some reason I can't get it centered, though. I'm one card away from completing the set, and I'm working on a trade to bring that card to me.

So, what's your favorite set of the decade?
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 28, 2019 at 12:19 PM

    For baseball, it's 2015 Topps by far. I really liked 2018 Panini Classics football (the same design was used for part of the Panini Chronicles NBA set) My favorite basketball set might be 2015-16 Donruss by default, I know I've seen some interesting sets (2017-18 Panini Status, for example) but nothing that made me want to collect the whole set. For hockey, I'm actually going with an O-Pee-Chee set. My favorite design is the 2015-16 Retro parallel set, and I like the 2016-17 OPC base set a lot. Never bothered to buy a box of it though.

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    1. Billy KingsleyDecember 29, 2019 at 2:18 PM

      Do a post with some scans!

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    2. AnonymousDecember 30, 2019 at 12:41 AM

      I would but my next 20 posts are planned out since I never finished my All-Time Teams series.

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  2. FujiDecember 29, 2019 at 11:55 AM

    In regards to set design... I'm with Chris and give 2015 Topps baseball my vote.

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    1. Billy KingsleyDecember 29, 2019 at 2:18 PM

      I'll say the same thing to you, do a post with some scans :)

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    2. FujiJanuary 1, 2020 at 7:50 PM

      https://sanjosefuji.blogspot.com/2019/12/end-of-era.html

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  3. JonDecember 29, 2019 at 12:37 PM

    I'm probably not familiar enough with sets from this decade to participate in such BBA. I've only had any real experience with maybe ten sets, and those are all pretty much either Golden Age or Prizm basketball.

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    1. Billy KingsleyDecember 29, 2019 at 2:19 PM

      Which one of those is your favorite? Do a post with some scans! (And yes, I typed that each time, no copy and paste, LOL!)

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  4. MattDecember 30, 2019 at 9:28 AM

    I will do a post with some scans! ;)

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    1. Billy KingsleyDecember 30, 2019 at 2:15 PM

      Great!

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    2. MattJanuary 27, 2020 at 10:36 AM

      It took me a month, but I finally got it done! - https://diamond-jesters.blogspot.com/2020/01/blog-bat-round-favorite-set-of-decade.html

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  5. CommishbobJanuary 13, 2020 at 11:17 AM

    Well, I'm far behind on my blog reading so I'm just now getting caught up with this. I'd really have to give some thought to picking a favorite set from the 2000s. I didn't collect much of anything other than buying a few packs here are there and finding some Orioles cards. I'm sure I'd pick one of the Stadium Club sets but I'd have to go back and check them out first to decide.

    But if we are not restricting ourselves to sports sets I'd have no problem. The Topps/Kickstarter Mars Attacks: Occupation set from 2015 was amazing. I've never been involved with collecting anything quite like it.

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