When you need a gift for that special collector in your life, where do you turn? I mean, even if that special collector is you?

Back in the 1970s or 1980s, you could go to one of the hobby papers in July or so to make sure your orders got to your doorstep before the Fat Man’s big day, but today …

Today, we can find pretty much anything we want online.

And, if what you want are 1970s baseball cards — with an oddball twist and at a reasonable price — these ten just might be up your alley.

There’s one for each year of the psychedelic decade, and none of them will set you back more than a C-note.

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1970 Milton Bradley Complete Set

1970 Milton Bradley Complete Set

In 1969, Milton Bradley issued a baseball board game, complete with 296 black-and-white player cards that measure 2″ x 3″. You rolled the dice and then collected the outcome corresponding to that number on the back of your card.

Roll a five with Hank Aaron, for instance, and the home run king added to his dinger total.

The game was back in 1970, but pared down to 28 player cards to go along with 32 generic playing cards.

While the player choice is (obviously) much reduced, the good news is that you get Hall of Famers like Aaron, Willie Mays, Rod Carew, and Ernie Banks, along with other legends such as Tom Haller, Denis Menke, and Don Mincher, all for a reasonable sum.

And if you’re looking for a heftier burden, MB was back with a 402-card game in 1972.

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1971 Fleer World Series Set

1971 Fleer World Series box

Fleer had already had their hands slapped a couple of times by 1971 for trying to go after current players and compete head-to-head with Topps.

So, while they prepared their antitrust lawsuit against the cardboard giant, Fleer went about its business of tackling retired and dead players. In this case, they brought back their cartoon-based World Series issue, following their own lead from 1970.

The 1971 set features 68 cards, each one detailing one Fall Classic from 1903 through 1970, plus a card for the missing 1904 Series.

Though much of the subject matter repeated from the year before, Fleer rolled out new cartoons and replaced blue ink on the back with black fare.

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1972 Kellogg’s All-Time Baseball Greats Set

1972 All-Time Baseball Greats Set

Collectors spent a lot of time in the summer of 1972 eating cereal in an attempt to track down the flashy, 3-D baseball cards that Kellogg’s included in specially marked boxes.

That task was compounded by the possibility of not just one set to collect, but two. Because, in addition to the current-player issue of 54 cards, Kellogg’s also offered up a 15-card set of All-Time Greats.

The checklist is everything you’d think it might be with a name like that and at that point in history:

So, yeah, it’s loaded. And with extra, um, weight attached to the Babe.

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1973 O-Pee-Chee Team Checklist Set

1973 O-Pee-Chee Team Checklist Set

OK, so these are technically not a standalone issue, but rather an insert set seeded “randomly” in late-series packs in 1973.

Still, they’re a pretty cool concept, with each card showcasing facsimile autographs of a team’s players on the front, along with a checklist of those players’ individual 1973 OPC cards on the back.

This oddball exists in a Topps version, too, but why not go bilingual when you can?

The whole shebang got a sequel in 1974, when blue borders were replaced by red.

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