What is your best card you added to your collection in 2013?

[kkkkandp]

An easy choice - Old Hoss

Eric:

Very jealous!

Kevin

[Jaybird]

Chappie Johnson with the St. Paul Gophers

[g_vezina_c55]

Verry nice E107 Plank Bob !

[oldjudge]

Eric--is that the 1887 sign for "one in the pink, one in the stink"?

[Exhibitman]

Wow, amazing stuff. I lost count of the Pirates cards in this thread...I am humbled by the caliber of collection I see here. Since I collect a variety of stuff I thought I would pull my favorite of each type. My modest contributions:

Baseball card, prewar: A newly-cataloged Adam Hats card that I've posted here so many times that people are certainly sick of it, but I am very glad to have it:



Baseball card, postwar: 1954 Johnston Cookies Hank Aaron RC:



Baseball memorabilia: A Lefty Gomez matchbook from the 1930s Adam Hats celebrity contest:



Baseball autograph: picked this up at the National:



Surfing/swimming: I have wanted this PC of the Duke for a long time, finally got one:



Soccer: This Pele card is my best soccer pick-up ever [1968 Crack from Argentina]:



Favorite hockey piece: 1964 postmarked Bobby Hull JD MCCarthy PC:



Favorite basketball piece: 1960 Wilt Chamberlain team issue



Favorite football piece: got this in a collection of 1950s-1960s cards I picked up. My favorite set of the 1950s-1960s FB, and Bart Starr was the #1 card in 1968, and the card had the special horizontal design only used for the Packers and Raiders Super Bowl teams:



Favorite nonsport: Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! 1957 George Reeves fan issue with neat DC comic advertising:



Favorite autograph: Nigel "The Dark Destroyer" Benn: He doesn't sign cards except on special occasions. A friend got this for me at a HOF event:



Favorite boxing card: Tough choosing here but I'd have to go with this 1920s Benny Leonard restaurant PC. I'd been looking for one for years:



Favorite boxing memorabilia: Again, a brutal choice, but I gotta go with this ticket from Jim Jeffries' boxing venue just up the block from my office here in Burbank. Again, an item I'd been hoping to find for a very long time:



And last of all, oddest oddball item is this rodeo PC of future movie star Hoot Gibson learning the hard way that if a horse doesn't want to be ridden, odds are the horse will win. I just love the image:

[Bugsy]

Another 1913 Cravats pennant

[joeadcock]

Wow Adam

Amazed at how you spread yourself all over the place, to bunch a different sports and then the non sport.

Darn, would say your definitely not a specialist, but rather a general practitioner.

Cool stuff.

[Theo_450]

Great cards, and a great thread!

[LKeeler]

Great seeing the highlight pickups from the year. Guess these are my four favorites.

[philliesphan]

Some amazing acquisitions across this board. Really humbling the quality of collections people here have.

Here's one of my favourites for the year. In the Hall of Fame, but not for the sport with which he is pictured. Nevers went to University very close to where I'm currently living, and, of course, the tab on the bottom is a great addition to making this card a special card in my collection: