365 Days of Roberto Clemente

[docpatlv]

Wow!!! Thanks for the list and for taking the time to put that together. I will, in the future, be posting more items from time to time as new acquisitions are made. I’m sure others will as well. It would be nice to have some sort of expanding checklist to review.

Thanks again for doing this.

Mike

[Empty77]

Originally Posted by docpatlv

Wow!!! Thanks for the list and for taking the time to put that together. I will, in the future, be posting more items from time to time as new acquisitions are made. I’m sure others will as well. It would be nice to have some sort of expanding checklist to review.

Thanks again for doing this.

Mike

It is my pleasure to be of service.
I do plan to keep up with it, and do so by using the edit function on the existing list---as the whole list is one place seems the only way to keep the whole thing user-friendly.

[71buc]

Wow thanks for the amazing resource.

[Empty77]

I came of collecting age in the grand ol' year of 1988 and remember getting as a holiday gift that season the complete pre-built factory set of Topps baseball, straight from the toy section of the JCPenney catalogue, for $25 if memory serves. Good times.

It wasn't long before I discovered monthly price guides on the newstand and the joy of fixating on those little up/down arrows of who was up this month from $0.50 to $0.75. Wow! Good times again.

Anyway, I soon used my own savings on an annual subscription to Beckett BBC Monthly so it would come right to the front door, and I'm sure could hardly believe it when one of the first issues after activating my subscription would have been the one below, their 50th anniversary issue that you may recall (near 30 yrs ago now!):

[docpatlv]

Lol...those damn up & down arrows. I remember, when something would move up $5-10, thinking I was sitting on some gold mine. And conversely how pissed I would get when something I owned had a down arrow.

[Empty77]

Originally Posted by docpatlv

Lol...those damn up & down arrows. I remember, when something would move up $5-10, thinking I was sitting on some gold mine. And conversely how pissed I would get when something I owned had a down arrow.

Yeah, and how they knew that a 1989 Donruss Mark Lemke rookie card went down from $0.20-something the prior month to precisely $0.17 cents the next will remain a hobby mystery for all time. (an actual example; for old times sake I flipped through it a bit when I made that scan above.)

and FYI in that issue:
-the Clemente rookie was "up" to $800 in NM condition [at least I think that's what the right hand most column was meant to be indicative of for vintage, but I couldn't find a key in that issue confirming that, not that NM meant the same then as it does now in the era of professional TPG]
-the '52 Mantle was holding steady at $6600
-and on the monthly "Hot-Cold" list, Mike Greenwell and Greg Jefferies were holding strong in the top 5, having traded each other for the second and third spots from the prior month (Canseco held at #1 of 30); meanwhile, some new kid named Griffey Jr cracked in at #20 from previously 'not-ranked'....I recall that he was very favorably scouted at the time and with a lot of optimism as well, but still no one could have known exactly how that was going to eventually play out...

[Empty77]

I picked this up recently. Not sure whether they are often seen in other circles? vs. I wonder how many were thrown out by stores or the manufacturer when the sell-by date passed on the primary product...

1972 Kellogg's single card pack