New Odd Ball Additions to my Want List

Although the new semester of teaching began last Monday, I've still been working hard organizing my cards during what little free time I still have.  Today, I decided to take a look through my binder that I labeled "Odd Ball Sets" at one point to see if I was close enough to finishing any of the sets to make it worthwhile to keep them in the binder.

As it turned out, I was - and so, I've added three more cards to my want list.

First, from the 2001 Post Cereal set, I'm missing a single card (#6 of Harmon Killebrew).

The 2001 Post Cereal set contains a mere eight cards - each of which depicts a player in the 500 Home Run Club.  As you can see in the above scan, I have seven of the eight cards - and a blank spot where Mr. Killebrew should reside.

The second set that I realized I was tantalizingly close to finishing requires only two cards (and it is a 220 card set).  The 1988 Pacific Legends set was a complete set gift given to my brother and I when we were young.  Unfortunately for my collection, my brother and I decided the only fair thing to do with our shared gift was to split the cards up.  I don't remember exactly how we did that, except I know that I got all the Reds, he got all the Pirates (his favorite team at the time), and I believe we "drafted" the rest.

I will say, as a baseball fan, you probably couldn't find a better "junk wax era" set to use a draft.  I imagine it went something like this:

Me:  Ok, I'll take Hank Aaron.

My Brother:  Fair enough, I'll take Jackie Robinson.

And so on.

A set packed with (mostly) the best stars, managers, and sports personalities that baseball has ever seen.  As my brother and I grew up, he lost interest in baseball - and baseball cards.  Eventually reaching the point where he "sold" me his cards, probably for ten bucks or something, though I no longer recall exactly.  As I went though and sorted his cards, I tried to reassemble the 1988 Pacific Legend set - and that's when I first noticed that two cards were no longer in our combined collection.  For years I figured I'd never have the set complete and thus forgot about it - but now with things like eBay, Check Out My Cards, and hopefully my great blog readers, I'll be able to once again claim a full set of a set that reminds me of the good times in my childhood!

As for what I'm missing, it's only two cards:

64.  Ralph Terry

111.  Reggie Jackson

Any help with either set (or anything else I'm trying to collect) would be much appreciated!