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Old 01-14-2015, 02:57 PM
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Default My "Good Book" project

Thanks to the latest group break and a generous trader, I was able to get another card in my slow-walk goal of collecting every card featured in the Great American Baseball Card Flipping Trading and Bubble Gum book profiles.

It's Van Lingle Mungo..who we learned was "the only player in the history of major league baseball to have a popular song written about him. With the possible exception of Blue Moon Odom and Sonny Siebert."

Twenty-six more cards to go.

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Old 01-14-2015, 04:03 PM
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What a great project and superb classic book. How long have you been working on it and is there any one card that looks to be impossible? I haven't read the book in a few years.
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Old 01-14-2015, 06:38 PM
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There are two 1952 Topps high numbers (Bobby Thompson and Frank Crosetti). I still need those.

The Koufax rookie and the Roberto Clemente rookie are in there but I do have them.

I've been working on that project for a couple years now. Hasn't been a real focus, but as I get closer I just might blow it out.
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In true retro fashion, you can then tape the cards to their respective pictures.

Wasn't there a Ted Williams Play Ball in the first part of the book, or maybe it was a DiMaggio?

Then there was that oddball football card of Unitas with the perfect crew cut/jaw line or something like that.
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Sounds like a cool project. Good luck on completing it.
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Old 01-15-2015, 06:37 AM
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In true retro fashion, you can then tape the cards to their respective pictures.

Wasn't there a Ted Williams Play Ball in the first part of the book, or maybe it was a DiMaggio?

Then there was that oddball football card of Unitas with the perfect crew cut/jaw line or something like that.
Different publishing editions of the book had different cards adorning the first part and other areas. That's why I'm only completing the cards that were in the "profiles" section and had the write-ups about them.
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In true retro fashion, you can then tape the cards to their respective pictures.

Wasn't there a Ted Williams Play Ball in the first part of the book, or maybe it was a DiMaggio?

Then there was that oddball football card of Unitas with the perfect crew cut/jaw line or something like that.
That is funny. I was picturing the old postage stamp books where the collector uses hinges to affix their stamps on top of the pictures😊.
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How very cool. Doing "The Book" as a set is something on my longer-range list right now, but I have thought about it often. One thing I love about The Book is that the cards they put in it are intentionally in lower grade to fit the motif and the way they describe them (i.e. dig the '55 Topps Ted Williams with crayon scribbling...) and so you don't really feel bad when your collection of the cards in The Book winds up being lower-grade as well. It's almost as if it would be wrong to go out and get a bunch of EX-MT cards for your "Book" collection, LOL.
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It is also nice to see that none of the cards are professionally graded!
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