Some Significant 1957 Topps Set Progress

Last week I sold a few thousand baseball cards from a collection I bought a couple years back to a fellow collector.  We met about an hour south of where I live to make the exchange.  I typically have people come my way for a sale (and I expect to travel to the seller when I make a local deal) but I agreed to meet that far away for two reasons, 1) I needed to clear some space in my card room and 2) I am teaching my son to drive and this would get him 2 of his required 50 hours to get his license.

I was a little sad to see these go, there was quite a few good inserts and parallels along with some base cards from the late 70s and early 80s but I was happy to get the cash.  I decided on the ride home that I wanted to flip these cards for something I would enjoy in my collection.  I got home and posted my 1957 Topps want list up on Facebook in hopes of whittling down the want list.  My hope was to secure a nice volume of non-star cards and I had someone reach out to make exactly that happen.

I couldn't believe that I was able to pick up 56 cards of the 407 card set in the condition I am looking for from the same seller.  The cost of these was just over $2/card delivered which I felt was an amazing deal.  Here are all the cards:

I have a couple smaller orders coming in that I will share soon, one of which has some more star power.  Once those come in, this set build that started less than 2 years ago is down to a 68 card want list.  I am progressing much faster than I ever expected.  However I still have some very big hitters to go with a Mickey Mantle, Brooks Robinson, Ted Williams, Roberto Clemente, Sandy Koufax and Yankee Power Hitters (featuring Mantle and Berra) among the cards I need.