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Shoeless Moe 09-05-2017 12:49 PM

Hank Aaron
 
It might be just me, but it doesn't seem like Hank Aaron gets the respect Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Mantle, & Mays get when it comes to collecting.

Is there anyone on the board whose focus is Aaron, or just in general anyone have any neat/unique Aaron items.

Show what ya got, please.

Sophiedog 09-05-2017 04:25 PM

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Sophiedog 09-05-2017 04:26 PM

In my opinion Aaron's Signed items are way undervalued

MrSeven 09-05-2017 05:56 PM

Found some PSA/JSA 8x10s for under $100. Think I'll be getting a few soon. :D

irv 09-05-2017 06:15 PM

I believe there are a lot of Hank Aaron collectors on here.

His RC has continued an upward climb since I joined the site in January of 2016 and I don't see that stopping anytime soon.

I have a few Aaron cards, not his RC, unfortunately, but one is definitely on my "hope to own one day" list.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...ron+collection

Topnotchsy 09-06-2017 01:15 PM

I would love to pick up a nice Aaron Negro League item, but have not come across anything to this point. Some amazing pieces were sold back in 2008 when many items from Syd Pollock's estate were sold, but I wasn't in the market then.

Sophiedog 09-08-2017 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by MrSeven (Post 1698153)
Found some PSA/JSA 8x10s for under $100. Think I'll be getting a few soon. :D

If you're looking to get Aaron signed photos it would be best to look for seldom seen photos and photos with vintage signatures. Always best to look for those then the ones that everyone else has. As a Mickey Mantle collector I look for his vintage signatures because they are much scarcer than the later autograph circuit ones...those also seem undervalued as well.

Runscott 09-16-2017 12:21 PM

I recently acquired an Aaron 1970's store model Louisville Slugger that is in nearly perfect shape. It was not my primary purchase but was included with something else. I would love to have Aaron sign it.

Aaron is sort of an enigma to me - as a kid he was one of my favorite hitters, along with Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Frank Howard. To us kids, the Aaron card was as sought-after as Mays or any other player after Mantle, and that was well before Aaron passed Ruth. I lived near Houston and we saw the Braves play a lot. Everyone seemed to be at the game to see Aaron (and the Astros) - I never heard anything negative. Yet Aaron has had plenty of bad words for the South and Texas, among other things. I'm sure he didn't imagine the negativity, but I was never too happy with his lumping all of us together.

mr2686 09-16-2017 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Runscott (Post 1701647)
I recently acquired an Aaron 1970's store model Louisville Slugger that is in nearly perfect shape. It was not my primary purchase but was included with something else. I would love to have Aaron sign it.

Aaron is sort of an enigma to me - as a kid he was one of my favorite hitters, along with Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Frank Howard. To us kids, the Aaron card was as sought-after as Mays or any other player after Mantle, and that was well before Aaron passed Ruth. I lived near Houston and we saw the Braves play a lot. Everyone seemed to be at the game to see Aaron (and the Astros) - I never heard anything negative. Yet Aaron has had plenty of bad words for the South and Texas, among other things. I'm sure he didn't imagine the negativity, but I was never too happy with his lumping all of us together.

Same here. We'd always make sure to include an Atlanta game each year from 1970-1975 when the braves came to play the Dodgers, just to see Hank play. He was my favorite active player followed by Willie Mays and Wes Parker. Fast forward to 1989-today and both Mays and Aaron have been two of the rudest, surliest autograph signers I've ever seen. I've seen them both on multiple occasions (I've been, and always will be, very respectful at signings...yes sir, thank you sir, etc) so it wasn't just one or the other having a bad day. They both seem to lump everyone in to the same boat, so I finally decided to jump out of the boat and not get anything else signed by them.

jeff8877 09-17-2017 10:10 PM

Extremely difficult Hank, the highest graded is a 5. One of the toughest sets of the 1960's. These were issued in Canada in 1968 and were the same as the US counterparts issued in 1967. The only difference was the poster number and at the bottom it says printed in Canada vs USA. It is thought that the print run for these was roughly 3-5% of the US. Anything you can find is torn or split at the seams. Most of the set pops are single digits.

https://i.imgur.com/SzCxi7F.jpg?1

yankeesjetsfan 09-18-2017 07:53 AM

I still consider Aaron to be the Home Run King of baseball, personally. I just missed seeing Aaron as a player. He retired in Oct of '76, same month I saw my very first baseball game, which was Game 5 of the ALCS. I don't have any Aaron in my collection, but I would love to pick up an autograph at some point, either a certified on card auto or a baseball. Want a bobblehead also as I am starting a HOF'er bobblehead collection.

Mike

Runscott 09-21-2017 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by yankeesjetsfan (Post 1702154)
I still consider Aaron to be the Home Run King of baseball, personally. I just missed seeing Aaron as a player. He retired in Oct of '76, same month I saw my very first baseball game, which was Game 5 of the ALCS. I don't have any Aaron in my collection, but I would love to pick up an autograph at some point, either a certified on card auto or a baseball. Want a bobblehead also as I am starting a HOF'er bobblehead collection.

Mike

Agreed on Aaron as home run king. I also consider Roger Maris to be the single-season HR king, but Stanton might get very close to 61.

TUM301 09-21-2017 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Runscott (Post 1703186)
Agreed on Aaron as home run king. I also consider Roger Maris to be the single-season HR king, but Stanton might get very close to 61.

Right there with Scott on this thought, Stanton looks like he`s making a serious move on the single season mark. Wonder what the vegas line is on him going over 61 ?

Shoeless Moe 09-21-2017 08:14 PM

He goes to Coors Field next week, that ain't gonna hurt.

doug.goodman 09-21-2017 08:56 PM

Regarding Aaron -

I saw him hit #751 at the Oakland Coliseum, and got his autograph before the game when he signed at the side of the field for a few minutes.

Strangely, Billy Williams also hit one that day (#422) and he also had exactly 4 more in his career.


Regarding Stanton -

At this point in the season in 1961, Maris had hit 58, and Mantle 53.

At this point in the 1927 season, Ruth had hit 57.

Runscott 09-22-2017 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by doug.goodman (Post 1703312)
Regarding Aaron -

I saw him hit #751 at the Oakland Coliseum, and got his autograph before the game when he signed at the side of the field for a few minutes.

Strangely, Billy Williams also hit one that day (#422) and he also had exactly 4 more in his career.


Regarding Stanton -

At this point in the season in 1961, Maris had hit 58, and Mantle 53.

At this point in the 1927 season, Ruth had hit 57.

Even stranger, Doug - I just finished doing the exact analysis that you did and was about to post when I read yours!

I will never forgive you.

tjenkins 09-23-2017 06:56 AM

Next to Harmon Killebrew, he is my favorite and most collected. I have all his regular issue Topps graded from '54 to '76. Here are a few of my favorite Hammering Hanks!

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...Aaron%20RC.jpg

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...56%20Aaron.jpg

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...an%20Aaron.jpg

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...A%208%20OC.jpg

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...%20PSA%204.JPG

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...67%20Aaron.jpg

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...isco%20PSA.jpg

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...ves%20Ebay.jpg

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...n%20Framed.jpg

http://toddjenkins.wikispaces.com/fi...Tek%20Auto.jpg

Exhibitman 09-25-2017 07:22 PM

My close friend/card rival when I was in primary school was a guy named Michael. We competed to find troves of vintage cards around Manhattan. He collected Clemente, I collected Mays, who I started to idolize at age 8 when he returned to NY to play for the Mets. My uncle took me to Shea once to see the great man and I got to see Lou Brock play too. With the help of the ASCCA show in 1976 I put together a run of every Topps Mays card. I remember turning down a 1951 Bowman at the show saying "I don't collect those." I had the Mays cards until I was in my twenties. I soured on Mays later in life, once I met the man at a show. I was very excited to meet him, of course, boyhood idol and all, so I carefully rehearsed what I was going to say when I was finally in the presence of the great man. I said my piece, Mays didn't even acknowledge me, just rolled my baseball across the table to the handler like he was shooing a cockroach from his dinner plate. I was so disappointed in that non-interaction that I sold off my entire Mays collection, 1952-1973, including the autographed ball [which I'd had Mantle and Snider sign too]. For years I refused to own a Mays card. I've made peace with the Say Nothing Kid since then--you gotta have Mays in a baseball card collection--but the idolization was dead the moment I left his presence.

Which brings me to Hank Aaron, the second player I decided to collect. I remember Aaron's quest for the record in the early 1970s. I was too young and too innocent to understand the social and racial ugliness that existed around the edges of the quest; all I knew was that Henry Aaron ["OH! Henry!" as the candy commercial said] was the greatest baseball player around, especially after 1973 when Mays was gone. I was so thrilled to pull an Aaron card from a pack, something I did in 1971-72-73-74-75-76, and had so much fun chasing down the record-holding cards in 1973 and the Hank Aaron Special series in 1974. I put together a complete run of his Topps cards as a kid in 1977. My respect for the man and his accomplishments has done nothing but grow over the years, especially after I read his autobiography and realized what he had to endure in 1973-74 when he neared 714. And best of all, when I got to meet him, Mr. Aaron was every bit the kind gentleman I'd expected him to be.

Figured I'd toss out a few oddball items I enjoy:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...by%20Aaron.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...ys%20Aaron.jpg
https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...20schedule.jpg

My autograph; got it in person:

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...size/Aaron.jpg

Nice to have the souvenir ticket with it so I know when and where I got it.


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