September pick ups

[David W]

Those 59 Bazookas are just a great looking set of cards.

[DanP]

Still looking for a centered 48 Bowman Musial, finally found a decent 48-49 Leaf.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Good stuff, Dan.

[h2oya311]

Dan - cool oddball "rookies"...I love the not-so-common rookie / almost-rookie cards of players!

Here's my best post-war pick-up this month, a 1948-49 Trinidad y Hno Marianao team booklet w/ Buck Leonard:

[JollyElm]

For my fellow error & variations collectors, I present my new Ryan 'missing the dot in the 'i' of his signature' pickup. Tough card to find.

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Edited to add: Man, it's crazy how bad a card looks when it's blown up in a hi-res scan! In my hand, the corners look fine, but the scan makes it look all round cornery. Yowza!

[ALR-bishop]

At least there were only two versions of this card and not the 6 or maybe 7 of the 55 Sullivan i

[Tanman7baseball]

Just a few notable cards I picked up out of this collection today. Got a couple more Mantle cards to add to my hoard of course. I am excited to finally have a Joe Morgan rookie

[ALR-bishop]

Lot of nice ones there Colby

[David W]

Joe Morgan was my 2nd favorite player after Lou Brock. In the 70's the Cardinals weren't much good, so Cincy kind of became a team to follow a bit and Morgan was always my favorite player on the Big Red Machine. I've been tempted over the years to put together a Morgan collection, much like my Brock collection.

We shall see, maybe someday, he certainly has plenty of cards to collect.

[ALR-bishop]

Similar to Brock, his trade from Houston to Cincinnati in 1971 is viewed as one of the worst, if not the worst, in Astro's history

[stlcardsfan]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Similar to Brock, his trade from Houston to Cincinnati in 1971 is viewed as one of the worst, if not the worst, in Astro's history

Wasn't sure of the details so I looked it up. Thought everyone else might be interested...

November 29, 1971: Traded by the Houston Astros with Ed Armbrister, Jack Billingham, Cesar Geronimo and Denis Menke to the Cincinnati Reds for Tommy Helms, Lee May and Jimmy Stewart.

[Bestdj777]

Originally Posted by David W

Those 59 Bazookas are just a great looking set of cards.

Mine just arrived today. I was not expecting them to be such large cards. For some reason, I had in my mind they would be a lot smaller. Really an awesome set. Almost makes me want to try to complete the set.