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My Favorite 2017 Mays Pickup
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Willie Mays Want List: 1958-1961 JAY PUBLISHING PHOTOS-TYPE 1 WILLIE MAYS PORTRAIT-POSE TO NECK 1964 MEADOWGOLD DAIRY PANEL-HAND CUT MANTL / KOUFX / MAYS / MAZERSKI 1968 AMERICAN OIL WILLIE MAYS LEFT SIDE-$10 1969 GLOBE IMPORTS PLAYING CARDS WILLIE MAYS ACE OF HEARTS-CHECKERBOARD BACK 1971 BAZOOKA NUMBERED WILLIE MAYS HAND CUT |
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Whoa
GREAT STUFF GUYS! Brian I think we need a pic I never heard about these pieces so obviously I never seen one.
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Bill distinctly recalls a time back then when he was at a grocery store with his mom. While walking down the aisle where the soda pop was stacked, he immediately noticed something else on the dirty floor. Strewn here and there all down the aisle were Hire's baseball cards. They now were filthy, being stepped on and run over by dozens of grocery carts. Let your imagination run loose of how they all came to be on the floor, having been yanked out of the Hire's Root Beer six-pack cartons. My point is not that kids thought they were worthless. I'm sure some ornery kid tried to pilfer them, and his parents put the kai bosh on that scheme. Rather, my point was to illustrate how vulnerable the cards were by how they were issued---being shoved down beside a bottle in a 6-pack. That card would have been subjected to all sorts of handling by the time the child recipient was given his "free prize". By comparison to what Bill Zimpleman saw, your Willie Mays is pristine. Moreover, it is the test issue version, for which the window of opportunity to get one of these was doubtless very brief. Wholesale Cards Co. offered complete sets of the regular Hires issue in their 1960s mail order catalog, but I would have to hunt down my 1969 catalog I have somewhere to see what, if any, that Bruce Yeko offered of the scarce test issue. I suppose your fine Say Hey fell into the PSA hands of Darth Grader. Let's say EX-MT 6 is deadly accurate. Sometimes a "6" is GEM MINT. Know what I mean, Brian? Back in the early 70s, when I was attending my first major shows in Chicago and Detroit, Excellent-Mint was considered the top grade for a regional, Goudey, or T-206. You just did not think in terms of being able to get something that was flat out MINT among those kinds of cards. If you went in demanding Mint of those issues, the veteran collectors would deem you ignorant, stupid, dumb, infantile, and an imbecile. Let me say this, I know all the pioneers and knowledgeable collectors of today would say you did great in getting a Mays that nice. Tis a centerpiece of distinction, mate. Well done. ---Brian Powell Last edited by brian1961; 12-24-2017 at 06:15 PM. |
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I will chime in on this. I was buying Topps Heritage from Target. I still like putting things together the hard way. Then Aaron Judge got hot. Then he got REALLY HOT!!! All of a sudden, ALL of the Heritage was gone in my area. Target, Wal-Mart, everywhere. Gone. Not a pack to be found. So, I am going to go with the 2017 Heritage Aaron Judge cards (the one with Austin, and the solo variation - which has become a VERY expensive card).
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I'm going with the idea of best pickup for the year. I spent most of this year looking for non-mainstream issues with Pops <100; lots of Milk Duds boxes, Bazooka boxes and panels, regionals (Johnston Cookies Aaron; Kahn's Clementes and Aarons)
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