November pickups
 

I thought I'd start us off this month.

This just came in today. This is pretty much the personification of what I'm looking for as I build the 1975 Topps set. The left to right centering is very slightly off, but acceptable in light of everything else. The edges and corners are beautiful. 4 of the sharpest corners I've ever seen on a 1975 Topps card. It looks like it just came out of a pack (and it might have before being sent off for grading. It's in the new slab). The color is flawless. And there's not even a hint of a print flaw anywhere to be seen. This should be an 8.5, in my opinion. It's just beautiful.

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I will have more cards from this set coming in over the next four weeks. Let's have a great month, guys. Have fun!!!

That is a sweet Seaver Bill! :eek:

1971 Topps Greatest Moments
 

I put this set together a long time ago. I like to keep an unopened pack or at least a wrapper with each set. Never have seen an unopened pack for these, nor had I seen a wrapper until this one came up in a recent auction.

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A great start this month Guys. Al - I'm drooling! The '71 greatest moments is one of the "non-mainstream" sets I want to put together along with the '64 standups.

November pickups
 

Nice '64 Kahn's Woodie Held just in.

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Al, that is a fantastic wrapper. I've never seen one either. Do you think it was actually issued or a very limited test perhaps? There are lots of 1971 Greatest Moments cards around, but never a wrapper until now. Very nice. Is there more to the story?

Randy

Strong start to the month guys!

Got these in the mail today. Two more down in the 58 AS subset. Still searching for a mid-grade Mantle at the price I want.

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Great pickups guys...

Bill...that Seaver is nice...yeah very even on both sides...and no tilting either...

Al...dang... I have a GM set...and I need a wrapper too... :D

Shoebox...the color just jumps out on those 58's!

Ricky Y

Picked up 2 more for my '64 Giants set

1964 Giants
 

Steve--that set has always been a favorite of mine. Great Photos

Thanks Al.

Nice PUs so far....I have been building a 53 Bowman set, and this Mantle brings me to within 10 cards of being complete and fit in line with the rest of the set condition wise. I have been looking for a better centererd copy at a reasonable price...this card met both goals

Wow AL! Only one I've ever seen. Nobody had ever been able to produce an image of one before.

Caught one of my white whales. When I say white, I mean white. After almost a decade of searching I had never been able to even locate an image of a "white" back 74 Deckle Sutton. The grey backs are plentiful but when this white was listed recently I was fortunate the seller didn't identify its back variation in the title, limiting the competition.

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Thank you, gentlemen. I have such a long way to go on this set, but I enjoy looking for pieces that meet my high standard. The 53/47 centering is the only real flaw, if you can call it that. I don't know how they get an 8 out of that card, though.

Al, I don't know how you find some of the things you do. Your additions never cease to amaze. That wrapper is really stunning. Obviously, I have less experience than a lot of you guys, so it's not surprising that I, too, have never seen one of those wrappers.

Dustin, those are two really nice AS cards. Really nice eye appeal for the grades. I think we've collectively hit a group of cards where at least from the scans, it appears that the cards are a bit undergraded. The centering is a bit off, but otherwise, the cards are very clean. Nice edges and corners, certainly nothing that would warrant the grades they received. I think more than anything, you guys just happen to find beautiful cards that are stronger than their grades would suggest. I like the Sport Magazine/Sporting News All Star cards quite a lot, actually. My favorites are the 1961 Sporting News design. The profile pictures busting out of the newspaper is a really cool design. Aesthetically, they're just great looking cards. A collector could just work on those, ignoring the remainder of the set, and have one hell of a collection. I've thought about starting the '61 subset, as I really am not working on anything in the 60s right now. That would give me the Bowman Color set in the 50s, the 1975 Topps set, and the 1980 Topps set for the 80s. It would be a no brainer if Clemente were in it. He was an All Star for the first time in 1960, hitting .314, and an All Star in 1961, winning his first batting title hitting .351. But these cards were obviously printed before the end of the season. Maybe I'll just make a custom card and print it on some high quality paper, and offer it to our vintage members. I'll have to look into that.

Steve, those two cards are beauties. You know, the '64 Topps Giants cards is another option for a 60s set. I don't know why the set isn't more expensive. I think they're beautiful cards. And there is a Clemente. Hmm. :D

Bob and Joe, nice cards, too. I admit I know nothing about the Kahn's set, or the '74 Topps deckle edge (though I have at least seen them before). Though Topps was the only game in town for a long time after Bowman stopped producing, there are some nice alternatives that popped in from time to time. I'd like to explore some of them, including the Kellogg's baseball cards, because they are unique.

But thus far, Saved has my favorite card. Finding '53 Bowman Color cards centered and clean can be difficult. Finding Mr. Mantle like that is an exercise in frustration. I haven't even been seriously looking as a prelude to purchasing one (that will be a little later). I've just looked for the sake of finding one, and that's a really nice example. One of my all-time favorite cards, and a beautiful highlight for your set. Bravo!

Keep up the great pick ups, gang. November is off and running! Now, to eBay I go!

1974 Deckle
 

Very nice Sutton Joe, and you are right about the white backs being tougher. I have gone a little over board on this set . I have completed in in both deckled and in undeckled form with finished backs. I also have it in blank back proof form on two uncut sheets. But I am still two white backs short of finishing it in both deckled gray and white back.

Thank you Bill!

D323 Tip Top
 

Had never gotten around to picking one up...there is a very light, horizontal wrinkle across the middle of the card. It can mainly be seen when tilting it sideways and looking at it. I thought it was a nice looking 2, especially for the series.

Al-if anyone was going to find that wrapper it was you! I believe one box at least is out there as well. It was a limited release in certain cities and Card Collectors Co. sold off the overstock from what I have unearthed.

Leon-nice pickup on the Tip Top-tough issue, maybe one of the tougher sets out there in the post WW2 issue that saw any kind of (sorta) national distribution.

Thanks Dave..... They aren't that difficult to find but seem to be in mostly lower condition (which is fine by me as long as they look good). Here is another I added yesterday, H801-3, 1948 Smith's...(the back scan is off a little, it is sharp in person). I still need a 1947 HOF'er....hint hint......

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Leon - Some Tip Top's are out there in relative abundance but as a set it's a doozy. I thinnk I read in an old TTS only one collector was known to have completed the set. Yikes!

I'm a big fan of PCL issues, though I only have a few. I wonder sometimes how different MLB would have been had the PCL been accepted as a third major league in the 1950's.

November pickups
 

Nice 1958 Topps Dodger. Pretty nice centering for a '58...

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My first Clemente Rookie.


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Nothing like the first time! Congrats on the Clemente rookie. Bobc88 very nice pickup with the Erskine. Presents itself very nicely for the grade.
Picked up this nicely centered 57 Mantle today of Ebay.

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57 Mantle
 

Nice card jb. I wonder if anyone has ever located the original photo and identified who the airbrushed guy is

Nice Mick!


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So bummed! In the 15 months I've lived in this condo I've never ever missed a package (concierges are great!). Today I have two Clemente rookies coming and he or she was gone when the mail carrier showed up! So I have to wait one more day.

I've been trying to buy one of these for years. One more day and I'll have two!

Also, awesome Mick and Erskine. Great looking cards.

Not a graded card guy at all, but when I can find a pair of nicely centered 1972 PSA 8 high numbered stars at a good price, I jump.

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BTW, both of these guys are available for trade.

Congrats Jon! Much nicer than the technical grade! If that's the one from Goodwin, that was my consignment. I sent it to Al in it's pure form and thought it got hammered by PSA. Great lookin' 1 IMO!

November pickups
 

Thanks Derek. I just picked this one up from Love of the Game. I felt the eye appeal far exceeded the grade so I went for it.



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Al,
The most impressive item I have seen in a long time. I believe Tom Pfirrman had one in an SCD auction in the early 80's.

I almost purchased the display box at the National in 1997.

Thanks for sharing.

Dav.id

Bummer! But two Clemente rookies coming is a really cool thing to have. Congrats.


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From one of my favorite non-Topps/Bowman sets...

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I love the look of those Redman Tobacco cards. Sharp looking card!

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Cool Banks, almost didnt see that is was autographed

Oops - I meant that I consigned it to LOTG, not Goodwin!! Yep, that was once mine. I'm sad that I had to let it go, but I'm happy to see it found it's way to a good new home!

Enjoy!

There's nothing like reuniting twin brothers separated at birth...

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Wow!!! That is some reunion. Congrats!

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MattyC-

Magnifique, Mon Ami Mate Collector!:D

---Brian Powell

Great pickups this month! Well, they are great every month but I normally do not post on every pickup thread.

Below, are a few items I picked up at the Wilmington MA card show on Halloween weekend. The first item is a letter and envelope addressed to the baseball player Jimmy Brown from Sy Berger on Topps Bazooka letterhead. The second item is a small group of cards from Venezuela (1967 Topps). The last item is some sort of Bond Bread advertising item. I assume it was cut from something larger.

Alan

November pickup
 

This will wreak havoc with my Top 50 display, but I just picked up this beautiful (ignoring condition) card of Sadaharu Oh!

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Besides the picture looking like a work of art to me, 1964 was also Oh's big breakout season where he set the Japanese BB single season homerun record (since eclipsed) and won the first of his 9 MVP awards.

That's a stunning baseball card. Amazing color.

Yep, never seen that Oh card before. Beautiful!

Killer Mantle, Matt! :cool:

The back of the Sadaharu Oh is a bit underwhelming! The Japanese writing simply says, "OUT!"

I'm assuming the cards doubled as a game, similar to how my friends and I used to play baseball with the Topps 1978 "Play Ball (Played by Two) cardbacks. most memorable to me for the Tony Armas UER featuring the outcome of STRIKE UT. (And ten points to anyone who from memory can name a player with an outcome of HOME RUN! I can't anymore, though Bobby Grich is in my head.)

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Oh my!! Nice pickup with Sadaharu Oh. Where did you find it?

I found it in an eBay search for Sadaharu Oh cards. I scrolled down the full list to see if any were affordable, "vintage enough" (1969 is my cutoff), and cool looking. This one came up at $60 obo and I took a shot with $40, having also seen that the same merchant attempted to sell it once at another auction with a $40 starting bid.

This Oh card is a bit more beat up than mine and not as vintage, but it's an awfully cool picture too.

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First off, gotta love the ball just coming off the bat...and then, what's that? Did the sun just explode in the background?

Jason, great looking Oh card.

I found a great ebay seller with these three 58 All-stars listed. Way able to work out a package price for all three. Some diamond cut/tilt to them but the color is just fantastic. I am now 2/3 complete on the subset.

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Really like those 58 all-stars and the whole issue overall. What a dream outfield on the NL side...Mays, Aaron, Robinson...and then Stan the Man at first base!

Some really incredible cards coming in this month. Matt, good God, man. What can I say? I'd gladly chop off a foot, and hop around on one foot for just one of those. Two? Yikes. Your eye for great cards is only matched by your sheer aggressiveness in chasing, and acquiring what you want. Congratulations on now having two beautiful Micks.

Bob-truth be told, Erskine is one of my favorite Bums. He only had the one 20 win season, and a couple other pretty good years, but I liked him because of the things I read about him. He was one of the Dodgers that lived in the area (Bay Ridge), and when they weren't playing, it was said that Carl spent a lot of time at one of the local diamonds where kids were playing the game. He was a real positive presence in the community, and he was always encouraging the kids that were playing. How can you not like a player that does that? Those days are gone, unfortunately, but I will always have respect for Oisk. :p There's a really nice '53 Bowman Erskine on the current Joe's Vintage Sports Card auctions that I'm bidding on. It's in high excellent shape, well centered, beautiful eye appeal, and it's au natural. It would be a nice addition to my in progress '53 set. Once I finish the '75 Topps set, I'll hit that pretty hard.

Some really incredible cards coming in this month. Matt, good God, man. What can I say? I'd gladly chop off a foot, and hop around on one foot for just one of those. Two? Yikes. Your eye for great cards is only matched by your sheer aggressiveness in chasing, and acquiring what you want. Congratulations on now having two beautiful Micks.

Bob-truth be told, Erskine is one of my favorite Bums. He only had the one 20 win season, and a couple other pretty good years, but I liked him because of the things I read about him. He was one of the Dodgers that lived in the area (Bay Ridge), and when they weren't playing, it was said that Carl spent a lot of time at one of the local diamonds where kids were playing the game. He was a real positive presence in the community, and he was always encouraging the kids that were playing. How can you not like a player that does that? Those days are gone, unfortunately, but I will always have respect for Oisk. :p There's a really nice '53 Bowman Erskine on the current Joe's Vintage Sports Card auctions that I'm bidding on. It's in high excellent shape, well centered, beautiful eye appeal, and it's au natural. It would be a nice addition to my in progress '53 set. Once I finish the '75 Topps set, I'll hit that pretty hard.

Well, I don't have anything as astonishing as Matt's '52 Mantle, but I did get some nice cards in for my '75 set. I've got some more coming in yet, but I'll share these in the mean time. I've upped my list of cards that I'll have graded from the set to well over 30. I'm working on adding those stars and rookies all in PSA 8 or higher, and the Brewer team set, all near mint or better. I'm also adding some minor stars when I find them in really high quality at a good price. 660 cards is going to be a good exercise of discipline, but I'll get there.

Three graded to start: Hall of Famers Harmon Killebrew and Phil Niekro, and another man I feel will eventually be in the Hall, Dave Parker.

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And, some really nice ungraded cards. Recent Hall inductee, and longtime Chicago Cub great Ron Santo. A fine hitter, and an even better defensive third baseman (six consecutive Gold Gloves for the Rangers from 1979 to 1984) Buddy Bell. The 1974 American League MVP, also from the Texas Rangers, Jeff Burroughs. And two former Milwaukee Brewers, a pretty good right handed pitcher who won 32 games between 1978 and 1979, Jim Slaton, and catcher turned right fielder, and fan favorite, Charlie Moore.

Stache, have you read the back of the 54 Bowman Carl Erskine? The last sentence is a bit out of left field.

These are 3 cards I've picked up this month. I'm especially happy with the '60 Post. I've been looking for a nice one of these for a while.

Agree on Dave Parker. He was all-everything in the late 1970s. Parker, Foster, Rice, Lynn, and Reggie were the OF demigods of my childhood. I remember watching a game (1979 AS?) where Parker threw out TWO runners from the outfield. Unheard of, at least to a 9-year old.

And I remember much more vividly the 1988 WS game where Hershiser notched three hits, including two doubles, while holding the entire A's team to three hits. And all three hits were by Dave Parker!! This was a man who terrorized opposing pitchers and baserunners like no other, at least while in his prime.

It was in Seattle. The Cobra was my favorite player at the time. I was lucky enough to be sitting in the right field bleachers when he unleashed both of those incredible throws.

AustinMike---

Heartiest of congratulations on your Mantle acquisitions. The '56 is great, but that '60 Post Cereal is a real honey. I never, repeat NEVER, get tired of gazing at either of those Mantle gems.

For whatever it's worth, I cannot agree with you more strongly regarding how hard it is to find a very pleasing 1960 Post Mickey. You should feel a deep sense of accomplishment with owning that regal card. ---Brian Powell

The Cobra was my favorite player as a Little Leaguer in the late '70's. I had his model glove and bat (not that they helped me all that much). However, in 1979, I did attend the Bucky Dent Baseball School and received first-hand instruction from NY Yankees, Ron Guidry (pitching), Reggie Jackson (hitting), Lou Piniella (hitting), Dent (fielding) but missed the final session on catching as that was going to be Thurman Munson's area but he had just died a couple of months earlier in the ill-fated plane crash.

Excuse the language here, but holy shit!

I just got off the phone with Toppcat and I asked him out of the blue "Do you think there are 1971 Topps Greatest Moments packs or wrappers in existence?" and he pointed me to this.

I'd say that is the T-206 Wagner of wrappers....

i agree, the 60 post is one of the better images i liked and the rich deep salmon color added great color. I sold mine a while back (sgc10) in August, but since i changed my collecting goals, i dont have any regrets selling it, since I still have the 51 wheaties

Not baseball but a card I can't believe was only $2...it just came today!

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It's a 1924 tobacco card of Sir Isaac Newton, the Babe Ruth of physics...minus the womanizing!

Brian - thanks for the kind words. The '60 Post Mantle was probably one of the first baseball cards I ever had. I followed that up in the summers of '61, '62, and 63 accompanying my mom to the store to advise her on what boxes of cereal to get. So besides the beauty of the card itself, there are the memories attached to it. Now, if I could just afford a nice '52 Topps Mantle before Matty buys them all up. ;)

Beautiful 60 Post. I don't think I've seen one that nice before. Mine is a beater.

I want to say Warren Brustar was a HR, but I could be wrong. 78 was my first packs and remember them fondly, including the game.

AustinMike some nice Mantle pickups. Post Mantle rocks the house! Congrats!

Bill some nice 75's you picked up. Those 8's look very strong and the raw pickups look great as well. How far along are you with this set? I know you recently started it.

Here are some mid-grade Mantles that I was very happy to add this month.

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Wow -- so much action here don't know where to begin. Let's start with the last. Those Mantles are EXACTLY what I am after these days. I'm floored by those three. They each have the best centering I've ever laid eyes on for those years. If I owned those cards I wouldn't need to buy them in a higher grade ever. Did you find them raw and self sub, in one lot, over years?

Many thanks for the props from you fellas on the new Mick. A centered 52 Mick is simply my favorite card in the world. Stings like hell to be selling cards to make it happen-- but one look at the centered 52 and it makes it okay. Not great, buy okay, LOL.

The 71 Greatest Moments is one of the more interesting (and tough) sets around, and anything having to do with a pack of those is wild.

The Newton has great style and I'd be curious to see the whole set. What a title: LEADERS OF MEN. That's baller, to make that set!

Stache, you are killing it on the selections for your 75 Set. That's the kind of curation that makes the sum much greater than the parts. As someone who spent six years building only a set of 75s (minis), I really appreciate the specimens you are choosing. Bold color, clean surfaces, centered, that set is gonna look insane when it is all together.

Matt, thanks for noticing the centering on the Mantles. After seeing a lot of your pickups over this past year of mid-grade cards with great centering it got me looking at cards in a totally different way. I picked all 3 of them off of Ebay as is. I scored the 63 for what I think was a great price of $115. Could not figure out why no one jumped on that one because I hesitated for a few days. The picts were not well taken as it was on an angle and had a reflection that made part of it look like it had a white spot on the bottom near the letter OF. I gambled and when I received it I could not believe the centering and overall condition.

One more in, this really nice Catfish Hunter.

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Thank you, jb and Matt.

To answer your question, jb, the 5 other Brewers I have coming in will give me 25 thus far that will be part of the set. I have some Raymond (clydepepper) also sent me, a couple of which I will use as stand ins for the time being. Long way to go, but I'm going to do some more shopping tonight. I'll probably add another 20-25 or so by the month's end. I'm not in any hurry. It's about finding the right cards for me. I've looked at a lot of cards, and finding examples that meet all my requirements is time consuming. I have a few I've bought I know I'm already going to replace, the Winfield most likely. There's one corner that's touched.

I am allowing the very smallest of print imperfections, so long as they're really only obvious upon closer inspection. And some of these the left-right centering is slightly off, but nothing more than 60-40, and eventually, I'll work on getting it to 55-45. The ones i have thus far are all real beauties. Some, like the Gibson, will be sent in for grading.

Being picky is sometimes a little maddening when you're looking for a specific card. But I've just learned to just move on to the next card on my list, and come back to something I can't find now. Once I have a little more freedom in my spending money, I'll start putting some want lists up here on the BST.

I'm having a lot of fun, and that's the most important thing. :D

Here's my checklist this far

1975 Topps Checklist

29. Dave Parker (PSA 8)
35. Ron Santo
38. Buddy Bell
61. Dave Winfield
74. Mark Belanger (PSA 8)
99. Mike Hegan
123. Johnny Briggs
130. Phil Niekro (PSA 8)
140. Steve Garvey
150. Bob Gibson
175. Don Money
220. Don Sutton
223. Robin Yount
230. Jim Hunter
260. Johnny Bench (PSA 8)
280. Carl Yastrzemski
281. Jim Slaton
325. Tony Oliva
360. George Scott
370. Tom Seaver (PSA 8)
432. Ken Berry
470. Jeff Burroughs
556. Tim Johnson
636. Charlie Moore
640. Harmon Killebrew (PSA 8)

One card at a time. :D

Very nice Catfish Bill! Good luck with the set.Looking good so far!

Thank you, Steve. :) The '75 set is perfect for me right now. I have the money to buy more expensive cards if I wanted, but I'm like the prize fighter that's abstaining from sex before the title fight. I'm resisting the urge to reach my goal. So, instead of spending $100 on a common T206, or $500 on a Hall of Famer, I spend $15-20 on a Hall of Famer, and a couple bucks on a common. There will, of course, be some more expensive cards. The Yount will be replaced by a PSA 8.5 or a 9. The Brett will be costly, Misters Ryan, Schmidt, Aaron, etc can cost a pretty penny, as can the other rookies. But I'll just keep chugging along, having fun, and when I hit my goal, the next check will be spent on a big pickup or two.

Doing what I am, and seeing these beauties you guys are bringing in, keeps me going. The attaboys are much appreciated, gang. I'm not doing anything that hasn't been done before, but it's fun for me because it's the first time I've really done it. It's like popping a girl's bra the first time. Until you do it, you can hear the stories, but that rush can only come when you do it the first time.

Of course, it's pretty darned cool every time after that, too, because a good time usually follows.

I enjoy this board, and the pre-war board over der, much like I would enjoy sitting at a bar with you guys, tossing down a couple of beers, watching the Sawx and damned Yankees playing at Fenway on a Saturday afternoon. It's all the greater because right now, getting out and going to the real sports bar right now is a little tough on the back. So this is the next best thing.

I am really having fun, everybody, and I thank you all!

1968 bazooka baseball shipping carton
 

Hi Guys:

Not really something I collect, so I will be looking to move it, but could not pass it up. I just got a shipping carton for the 1968 Bazooka set.

If you can't read the side of the box because of the flash it says:

NEW! BASEBALL BOX PROMOTION

4 All-Star Baseball Cards on each box

PLUS

Informative Baseball Lesson on Back of box

24 boxes 25 count

Nice Erskine story, Bill!

Some cards
 

Since getting back in to the hobby, there are certain cards I remember ogling from afar when I was a kid...legendary players whose exploits reached Bunyan-like levels of legend....this was one such player for me... despite having no Cardinals affinity, I remember looking at this rookie at one of the many Valley Forge Convention Center shows that my dad drove me to (with my $50-$75 in pocket to spend)...to finally attain such a nice copy, even with that slight bit of off-centeredness, has been one of the true thrills and highlights of my collecting renaissance....and what was especially nice was showing this to my dad while visiting him in Pennsylvania today, 25+ years later after these shows and having him say, "Wow...Bob Gibson!! Did I ever tell you about this guy...."

Gibson
 

I am a Cardinals and Gibson fan, even though at age 9 when I first got this card I had no idea who he was...and he had lousy stat on the back. My personal favorite is his 60 card...but he still had lousy stats. I wonder if whoever picked pink for his 59 card lived long enough to see the irony in it. Except for this card, who would ever think pink in the same thought with Bob Gibson :)

Nice card Carl

Topps Scoop Ruth
 

One of my favorite Ruths but I got carried away last month and got an unopened pack. I also picked up an empty wax box to go along with. A complete set would be nice in the future.
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Ok, I have now. What the heck? LOL. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall for that conversation.

"Chief, did you see the one they call Erskine threw a no hitter tonight?"

"That's it! We shall name him honorary Chief in recognition of his baseball mastery!

Been wanting a decent Nuxhall for my 1952 High number run......up to 22 now. Pick away SLLLOOOWWWLY....
Also got my FINAL low number card.....Gil Hodges red back in about EX from Chris and Kris Buckler (somersetvelvet on ebay).....great card.....great people!
Have 1-310 and 1-80 in both red and black. Now the highs.....and upgrade about 10 or so from the low number set to get rid of creases..........

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