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If you're suffering under the frozen anvil of the 'polar vortex,' forget about starting a fire or putting on an ugly sweater, because nothing will warm your soul quite like some new eye candy.


I'll start it off with the titleholder for the most underappreciated 1966 Topps SP high number, #580 Billy Williams. Sure, it's OC, but the top to bottom centering doesn't bother me enough to care too much, side to side it's nearly perfect, and the corners are wickedly sharp. Plus, using my ebay bucks allowed me to get it for a song...

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Dubuque Packers
 

I received this Dubuque Packers minor league baseball card today. It warmed me up a few degrees after minus 36 degrees actual temperature.

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Frankie Baumholtz was one of my favorite players. I attended a lot of PCL, LA Angel games in the late 40's and early 50's. He had a great year in 1950, 254 hits and batted almost .400.

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Nothing huge, but some nice recent ‘75 Topps pickups. As a child of the 1980’s and having started collecting in the same era, the Brett card has always been iconic to me, yet unless my memory is faulty - this is the first one I’ve ever owned. Was a PSA 6 in a new holder but bounced around in it more than a basketball - so was quickly liberated. The Schmidt is just a nice card, and I’ve started a little player run on him in the last month or so after realizing how inexpensive most of his cards are. Most besides his rookie can be had for well less than $50 in nice shape, not bad for arguably the greatest 3rd baseman of all time.

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Two all-time greats on a pair of regional issues...

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Good stuff, John! Two great 3rd basemen!

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John, nice 75's. The Brett rookie has always been one of my very favorite cards since I also collected in the 80's.

After a long time indulged in an upgrade.

Great card peter. That card in 7 is on shopping list.

Wow, nice card. I'm hoping to afford maybe a PSA 4 of that someday.

My second high grade Clemente OC of the month. Although technically off-centered and deserving the qualifier, if this card wasn't in a slab it would never even enter my mind that it was 'problematic'...

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I won’t post the entire haul, but this was the highlight of my LCS trip today. I had been looking for one of these for a while, but only recently realized how difficult this card can be to find centered. This one isn’t perfect, but is far better than several others I had been considering online recently.

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Good looking Seaver, John. What else did you get?

I got a '74 Topps Pete Rose, raw - but if not mint then I don't know what is...and a '77 Andre Dawson RC which is a bit off centered but has razor corners.

Sounds like a productive day at the LCS!

Craigslist purchase. An eclectic group to say the least!

How come I can never find anything like that on Craigslist?!?!

Another LCS pickup. Um, I probably should stay away from the LCS for awhile now...

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I’ve really got to stop going to the LCS...

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Technically not a Feb. pickup (I’ve had this card since I was 14...) but definitely a great mail day and a very welcome return home. This is my ‘56 Mick that I finally sent to SGC to encapsulate, just for the sake of preservation. I hope to be around for a long while to come, but when I’m not one day - I’m not guessing my two daughters are going to know a ton about vintage baseball cards. At least if it’s slabbed it will be easier to get rid of.

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Picked up this 1969 Red Sox pocket schedule real cheap. I know this is an artist's rendering and Yaz's name isn't mentioned anywhere on it, but am I wrong that the hitter bears a striking resemblance to the Great No. 8 ?

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That '56 has to be my favorite Mantle.

Yes, that's Yaz on the cover, regardless. I sold my 1967 Red Sox ticket to his agent at the National last year. He sent me two signed cards from Yaz.

That was Dick Gordon. He passed away in October

Picked up a Frank Robinson (RIP) I always liked but never had. Also added three more cards for a "Black Aces" project I'm donating to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum when I finish.

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Nice. Virtually all of Frank's cards besides the '57 RC can be had for a pittance compared to other more popular HOF'ers. I've said it in these forums many times before, but will reiterate - definitely underrated. Nice pickups!

Received this one yesterday. This one is very OC (which a lot of them are from this subset) and is very hard to find with both players signed. It's one of my favorite all-time cards because 1- it represents the 1960 series...the year that I was born, and 2 - well, the subtitle on the card should give it away (see my name). LOL Anyway, very happy with this pickup.

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Centering is not perfect but I still really love the card....

What a beauty! What an amazing set that was!

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Someday, he will be more appreciated:

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Bee-you-tee-ful card!

Love it!

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Some recent and not so recent 52 Topps cards for my set. Not as centered as I would have preferred, but with some recent career changes and the CDN dollar being real low again, beggars can't be choosers. The Dick Kryhoski was an upgrade. I normally don't upgrade but my previous copy was pretty bad.

Still need, Pafko, Hogue, Rizzuto, Roe, Martin, Hitchcock, Podbielan and Berra to finish my low number set.

Scratch the Roe, I just won black backed one. :)

Today's mailday was bittersweet. RIP Newk.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...4fed7abb69.jpg

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My recent postwar pick ups:

Holy shit!!!

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I know... let's just say the loan shark has me on speed dial. I posted more in the Prewar forums February pickups.

Another o/c HOF’er for the woodie set!

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Wow! Great haul.

LCS pickup. I seem to be gravitating toward ‘62s...

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Man, that pic is horrible. Apologies. No, that is not the uber-rare "pink tint" '62 Topps Robinson #45. I need to invest in a new scanner...

Nice Robinson, John!

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Love the ‘62 Brooksie. They used this image a lot; very cool pic.

Wow, you don't fool around, Shain! :)

Recent pickup, PSA calls these test stickers but they are stickers meant to be stuck on a poster display so custoners could see what the posters look like. These are very tough to find.

Damn. Just when I thought there were no more cards to add to my Doc Gooden want list! Nice find!

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Very late to the game, as I've purchased many cards since first finding out about these threads, but better late than never. Speaking of late, I'm finally cracking into the '52s, and boy oh boy, do they have some nice looking cards in this set. Not that you didn't already know that, lol.

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Go home, PSA - you’re drunk...

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Nice Mantle, John!

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Also picked up a couple of ‘62 Greenies after the other thread last week piqued my interest. Hey look! Baseball cards that didn’t cost hundreds of dollars!

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Very nice, is there a tiny crease somewhere? No way is that a 3 otherwise.

Yeah - there is what looks like a very small, light surface wrinkle at the top left - but I don't think it actually is - in looking at it over and over again. One of those things you have to hold in strong light and twist to see. Maybe some type of light stain that is mostly transparent?

The card has 6+ to 7 range corners, is centered decently, and is bright and new looking otherwise with bold color. Most of the other 4's and 5's I had been considering were more O/C than this one with worse corners. I paid way more than you should for a garden variety 3 - but this is clearly not a garden variety 3. The seller did tell me it was originally a 4 and he got burned on a resub - stands to reason given the new lighthouse holder, and how we all know they are getting tougher if anything on the details lately. Whatever - I really like the card despite the grade. And a true 6 would have been probably at least $200 more than what I paid for this.

A couple of cool things...

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John, get the purple sticker on that baby right away! :D

Billy Meredith Manchester City
 

He was one of soccer first super stars. Played for both Manchester City and Manchester United.

Amazingly, this is a card from 1922 - Billy is still playing here at age 47. He'll play two more seasons.
In fact he plays internationally at a record age 45 for his native Wales.

He was responsible for getting the players union to revoke the minimum wage - declaring that average players, and one who were substitutes, should not be paid the same as standout players.

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LCS pickup.

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LOL, can't anymore - it's no longer a graded card. :p Curiosity got the best of me yesterday afternoon and I cracked it out. Yes the "flaw" in the upper left could technically be considered a wrinkle, but it's still damn hard to see even holding the naked card. By PSA's own standards however, I still don't see why it wasn't at least a 4.5.

"Postwar baseball," bruh.

Newest and last addition for a while!

Extremely nice Mantle, congrats. That was the range I was looking at a decade or so ago to upgrade mine, but never pulled the trigger. Now they are way more expensive...

Beautiful card! I cannot believe they graded this a 3! If it were me, I might resubmit that to PSA one (or two) more times. I'm no expert but that card looks like solid 6.5/7 territory to me.

2 very cool cards!

Nice Yount rookie John! Are you going to keep it raw or get it graded?

Super pick up
 

One of only 3 known in this color(yellow/green) all discovered in one big batch of rare colors

Now that is cool!! I've never seen baseball player coins before.

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