May pickups

[jb67]

MattyC thanks for the noticing the centering. I recently decided to upgrade and have sold most of my other Bench cards that were a lower grade. Still need to replace the rookie card along with several in the 70's.

darkhorse9 love the Koufax rookie. Congrats on closing in on the set. How long have you been working on it?

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by jb67

MattyC thanks for the noticing the centering. I recently decided to upgrade and have sold most of my other Bench cards that were a lower grade. Still need to replace the rookie card along with several in the 70's.

darkhorse9 love the Koufax rookie. Congrats on closing in on the set. How long have you been working on it?

Matt notices the centering in everything.

[MattyC]

It's a blessing and a curse!

[jb67]

Wow! Nice collection MattyC. You do have the centering down. BTW who coined the phrase "buy the card not the case"? I learned that lesson the hard way when I got back into collecting recently.

[kailes2872]

Great day at the Robert Morris today. I was able to upgrade a few cards with Uncle Dick and others. But, more importantly, I was able to find a nice deal on a solid EXMT-NRMT '61 set with nice Mantles and crisp Hi #'s (especially the All Star cards). My set run is now void of holes from '57-85. Now the real work begins - rebuilding the card bankroll between now and the National.

[ALR-bishop]

Very nice, Kevin

[mintacular]

Nice Kevin, I'll be at the show tomorrow. Hope you save me some nice 57s.

[KingFisk]

Originally Posted by kailes2872

Great day at the Robert Morris today. I was able to upgrade a few cards with Uncle Dick and others. But, more importantly, I was able to find a nice deal on a solid EXMT-NRMT '61 set with nice Mantles and crisp Hi #'s (especially the All Star cards). My set run is now void of holes from '57-85. Now the real work begins - rebuilding the card bankroll between now and the National.

Awesome, Kevin! Looks like some real beauts in there.

[KingFisk]

The Palmer rookie is still one of my all time favorite cards - that confident look of a premiere pitcher about to take the world by storm - right on the precipice of a dominating career, Cy Young awards and World Series rings. It just captures that moment right before so perfectly.

And why this Drysdale is a 5 is beyond me. Maybe the color is a little muted, the borders a couple of touches off center but otherwise I could look at this card all day long!

[darkhorse9]

Originally Posted by jb67

darkhorse9 love the Koufax rookie. Congrats on closing in on the set. How long have you been working on it?

The sick part is I have only been working on that set for about a month.

I never planned to start on it since I had a 1955 Bowman set, but my local card store got in a ton of 1995 Topps mid-low grade commons and minor stars and offered them to me at $1.50 each. I grabbed all I could and ended up just ten cards short of the set.

I've documented my amazing luck in getting the Clemente rookie, so I went from there.

The most thrilling (to me) part is that once I get those three missing 1955 cards I will actually have every complete Topps set from 1954-2014