Pickups
 

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Eric, nice pickups. I really like '59 Topps.

Jason, I was about to say "nice Cecil Cooper rookie".... I'm such a Brewer homer.

"Cool that Carlton Fisk also appears on Coop's rookie". :p

Picked up a couple of 52's.:)

52s
 

Great cards, David

If the Drapo had an 8 instead of a 6 and the Bell a 7 instead of a 5
it would be easily accepted,, i opened many 52 packs in the early 70s
and i know 1st hand they didn't come much better than those 2,
very nice pick ups.

52s
 

Get yourself some of those Christmas Packs and do it all over again Jose :)

'71 Bazooka Dick Allen (Numbered)
 

Thanks to a heads up from CardinalCollector (thx, Randy) a ten year search has concluded. I overpaid but what the hey.

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Dick Allen
 

That's great Jeff. He only played one year in St Louis and some were happy when they got him and some leery due to his history. Plus Curt Flood was part of the deal to get him and that raised controversy everywhere. But he had a very solid year for them in 1970, 30 +HRS and 100 + RBIs as I recall, and Jack Buck even agreed to call him Dick instead of Richie

Thanks Al. I remember it well. I remember really being bummed out that his 1970 Topps card was just a photo of him in a Phillies uniform turned sideways instead of a beautiful Cardinal uniform.

Attaboy Jeff--much nicer than his '70 Topps Cardinals. Was he ever really called just Rich Allen though?

BTW, can you tell me what is the approximate ratio of unnumbered to numbered '71 Bazooka cards? The latter don't seem to hit my radar hardly at all.

Allen
 

I edited above. When Flood refused to report ,the Phils got Montenez instead. Check out what he produced for them in 1971. He surpassed some of Allen's rookie stats

karma or coincidence
 

The two most admirable Yankee heroes from the '50's are still hanging in there...;)

Grading...go figure...
 

What do they do - use a dartboard, or just take a wild guess?

....and a Lemon!:D

That's a lemon you definitely don't take back to the dealer :D

Lemon
 

Agreed. Great card

1967
 

Rob--great Denehy rookie card. too bad Seaver tilts is a little :)

It would be so much cooler if it was Brian Dennehy.

Rob, nice card!

Recent pickups
 

All from ebay.

Seaver Postcard
 

This was from a board member on ebay.

Nice pickups Dan!!

Bill,

Thanks:)

My wife and I just began putting this set together. Great fun so far!

Best Regards,

Eric

Picked these up from a fellow board member earlier this week. Yankees, Dodgers, quite a few high numbers...a great lot of mid-grade cards that didn't break the bank:)

Nearing the halfway point on '55 Topps. This set has been an absolute pleasure to build so far...

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Happy collecting, everyone. And have a great weekend.

Best Regards,

Eric

Nice pickups Dan!

My First Mantle
 

Solid centering and basically no print snow. Nice!

First Mantle
 

Jason---a great first Mantle

Jason...beautiful 63 "Mick"!

Here's "The Big Cat" I got yesterday!

Thanks everyone.

Nice cards!

Pickups at local show
 

some low grade stars

Low grade perhaps, but you sure picked the right ones. Congrats!

Todd,

Sorry I just now noticed your question. Based on my observations they are certainly scarcer but not extremely rare. I see see cards like the Robinson, Aparicio, McCovey and Gibson in the numbered variation a lot. For the life of me I could never find a Dick Allen. Even at 12 Nationals when someone would have a small stack of "numbered," no Allen.

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Grabbed these up at a local show. A pretty decently shaped Mantle (looks better than what the scan shows) and a very tough '61 high number.

Picked up
 

Picked up a few stars for my 57 set, overpaid a bit but that is the $ you pay for collecting a set you love...


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1957
 

Wow, great cards

Yowza!!

Nice cards Patrick, well bought.

Thanks
 

Thanks guys, makes me feel better for paying 75% + of beckett $. I think the Richardson in particular was a card that I could've searched years to buy with that centering so I kinda justified the $

'52 Topps Yankees
 

Not sure why I'm doing this since I'll likely never own the Mantle, but I keep picking up nicely centered, mid-grade Yankees when I see them...here's the latest...

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to go along with the others I have...

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Frankly, I think I'm nuts...oh well.

A 1951 Bowman rookie is a little out of my reach at the moment, so this will have to do - my first Mantle!

Mantle
 

Great start Iwant

In my life as a baseball card dealer/collector coupled with the fact of being
a life long Yankee fan, i've gone through many Mickey Mantle cards over
the years, and that 53 Bowman has always been the one i like the most,
close second would be the 53 Bowman Berra Bauer Mantle.

nice pick-up for your first Mantle

The 53 Bowman color is the nicest card set I have ever seen. Iwant, that Mantle is a classic card in every way.

Thanks, guys.

I over-paid just a little perhaps - but I thought it was for a reasonable price, strong centering, and from a reputable seller. I have no remorse!

I usually collect pre-war Hall of Famers and post-war rookies - but I always loved the '53 Bowmans and had to have this one - along with the Reese.

Nice pick-ups everyone!

stumped on this one. card is clean, no crease or wrinkle...just oc. looks nrmt/mt, but grades a 2.5? maybe card is trimmed, only explanation but it got a number grade.

am i missing something obvious? help...

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Well, come on Chad it has all that writing on the front.:p Actually, I don't see anything to explain the grade.

Actually David, I don't believe you are too far off with " all that writing " on the front. If the card was trimmed, the card should not grade numerically and receive an authentic or something equivalent. I think the autograph gives the card the grade.