March Pickups

[KingFisk]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

Thanks so much. All going well. Already back on the basketball court, and preparing to make a HUGE comeback on the April Pickups board.

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That is great to hear, Jason!

[VintageBucs]

a slew of 62's in the mailbox today, all in that beautiful Bucco black and gold . Working on my Pirates team sets from Topps.

[Thecafewha]

Not sure why I thought I needed this but I'm glad I did. I don't particularly collect Yankees or Ruth but I can't resist oddball pieces.




Joshua Van Pelt

[dclarkraiders]

Finally found a '55 Topps Gil Hodges with good centering.

[bobc88]

Originally Posted by dclarkraiders

Finally found a '55 Topps Gil Hodges with good centering.

Nice Hodges.

[Jcfowler6]

Getting closer to completing this set.


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[jason.1969]

Glad to be back on the scoreboard. Another for my Top 100 display. Let me know if you can tell from the scan why the grade is so low. My eyes aren't great, but I thought the card looked pretty good.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

Let me know if you can tell from the scan why the grade is so low. My eyes aren't great, but I thought the card looked pretty good.

What's the unseen flaw? Card looks about like a 4 to me at the worst...



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[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

What's the unseen flaw? Card looks about like a 4 to me at the worst...



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Now that I have the card in hand, I am so happy with it. No creases...I think the downgrade is all about this very small area of glue residue. Happy to have a card of the NL's last Triple Crown winner and man who shares my birthday.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

...I think the downgrade is all about this very small area of glue residue.

Awesome. I'll take cards like that all day long. It's funny sometimes how severely they downgrade for something that's hard to notice...and then sometimes how they don't. Nice pickup!

[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Awesome. I'll take cards like that all day long. It's funny sometimes how severely they downgrade for something that's hard to notice...and then sometimes how they don't. Nice pickup!

I am up to 6 Diamond Stars HOFers now, including a helluva Big Three from the New York Giants.



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[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

Glad to be back on the scoreboard. Another for my Top 100 display. Let me know if you can tell from the scan why the grade is so low. My eyes aren't great, but I thought the card looked pretty good.

Have you seen that thread on the post-war side with footage from the 1934 all star game? Check it out. A little of Medwick is shown. Cool stuff.

[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Have you seen that thread on the post-war side with footage from the 1934 all star game? Check it out. A little of Medwick is shown. Cool stuff.

Thanks for the tip. And here is the YouTube link to the footage - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehZvzWhQw3U

Not only does the footage show Ducky hitting it into the seats but it also shows four of Hubbell's five consecutive strikeouts. No sound, but otherwise really fantastic.

[jchcollins]

Nice Jason...I have only one Diamond Star - a tattered Stan Hack of the Chicago Cubs.


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[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

Nice Jason...I have only one Diamond Star - a tattered Stan Hack of the Chicago Cubs.


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Small world! I was just now showing that card (online) to my girlfriend as the coolest looking card in the set and one of the most artistic cards ever!

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[jchcollins]

Unfortunately mine is so trashed I don't think it would qualify. Agree with you on the set though. I might make a run next year at getting into the Diamond Stars. Their artistic quality is fantastic with that 1930's style, Art Deco or whatever it was. They are very under appreciated too, at least in comparison to Goudey or Playball cards. They came out right about the time the movie "The Natural" is supposed to be set in in the late '30s. Too bad there is not a Diamond Stars Roy Hobbs...

[jason.1969]

I think the lack of Ruth and Gehrig hurts the set too, but it also makes it (relatively) affordable. I love just about all the HOF cards in the set, though the Jimmie Foxx as catcher takes some getting used to.

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[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

Jimmie Foxx as catcher takes some getting used to.

Oh, I love that card! That one's on my list too. Foxx started off as a catcher if I'm not mistaken. But the best catcher card in that set is Al Lopez - with him ripping his mask off going after the ball (and even the exaggerated lines drawn around the mask).

[irv]

Received these today.

I am trying to collect some low cost 52's, and happened to see the Walker Cooper card searching, which I thought would be pretty cool as my son is also named Walker.

While looking further, I also noticed his first name is William, just like my son and just like my son, he used his middle name as his primary name.

I showed my wife and son, and both thought it would be a really cool card to own. I knew my son would be into me purchasing it, but I was surprised my wife also said the same!

I also received the "Irv" Noren card, which was chosen for obvious reason.

I would still like to purchase a PSA (4-8) Walker Cooper copy as well as I am not sure this copy is worthy, and I nor my son ever plan on selling it.

[Kelleys1]

Picked these 2 up this month...55 came from a fellow Net54 member.

[DBesse27]

I love Diamond Stars and the Hack is a classic.

Kelleys, are you a piersall collector?

[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by Kelleys1

Picked these 2 up this month...55 came from a fellow Net54 member.

That 55B looks fresh out of the pack. What a great find!

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[jason.1969]

BK picked a great year to give whole cards to the Tigers rooks. Do you know if they did other teams also...eg 1978 Molitor or 1977/1978 Dale Murphy?

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[jason.1969]

Quick question that I couldn't solve via Google. O/T for our pickup thread but I know one of you will have a quick answer.

A term I see on N54 a lot is "Type Card" but I don't know what it means. Lemme know.

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[Neal]

I think the term "type card" would be defined as any card within a collection of different issues, years, teams, etc. Each one is it's own type.

I know many collect players from a certain team, and like to get a card from every issue known. When adding a 1952 Topps or a 1932 US Caramel to a Phillies set, for example, they are adding a "type card" to that collection.

[jason.1969]

Right or wrong, I tend to lump Al Simmons and Chuck Klein together, so I decided a while back to get cards of each of them for my Top 100 display from the same set--1933 DeLong. A N54 member gave me a terrific deal on Simmons, but I struggled to find an affordable Klein with good centering and color.

After much searching and losing out on a PWCC auction, I finally bit the bullet. And shown with it is my Simmons from last year.



93 down...7 more to go!

[almostdone]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

Right or wrong, I tend to lump Al Simmons and Chuck Klein together, so I decided a while back to get cards of each of them for my Top 100 display from the same set--1933 DeLong. A N54 member gave me a terrific deal on Simmons, but I struggled to find an affordable Klein with good centering and color.

After much searching and losing out on a PWCC auction, I finally bit the bullet. And shown with it is my Simmons from last year.



93 down...7 more to go!

That's awesome Jason. Congrats! Who are the last 7 you need?
Drew

[irv]

[the 'stache]

Just out of curiosity, Jason, why?

Originally Posted by jason.1969

Right or wrong, I tend to lump Al Simmons and Chuck Klein together

[jason.1969]

A few tough ones left to go!

Ruth - 1933 Goudey
Gehrig - 1934 Goudey
Dean - 1934 Goudey
Appling - 1935 Diamond Stars
Hartnett - 1936 Worldwide
Gehringer - 1941 Play Ball
Cronin - 1941 Play Ball

Not sure if you guys saw the red Ruth that went in PWCC last night...SGC 40...near perfect but with two very faint surface creases. Man, was I close on that one!

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[jason.1969]

It was really about when/how I learned about these guys. As a kid, WAY pre-internet, I knew about the top-shelf immortals like Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Young, etc.--basically the guys who would get chapters in 1970s-era kids' books like "Baseball's Greatest Players" or the guys in the 1976 Topps All-time All-star subset.

Once I got my hands on the Baseball Encyclopedia, these two guys I'd never heard of jumped out at me. Both played largely in Philly around the same time, both had almost exactly 300 HRs (which was a LOT when I was a kid), and both hit for very high average--.320 and .334.

But yes, as I type this, I am cognizant of your (very correct) "Klein is overrated" post from a year ago...taking away ballpark effects, I gather these two guys begin to look very different.

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[the 'stache]

That's ok, I tend to always think of Yount and Molitor the same way because they were both Brewers, though their games were completely different.

[begsu1013]

poof!

[Neal]

speechless .... wow!

[pokerplyr80]

Impressive. What's with the rubber bands?