December pickups

[CW]

These aren't stained, but I just thought this thread needed some Wonder Bread Star Wars cards (these being from my childhood)...

[CharleyBrown]

Originally Posted by CW

These aren't stained, but I just thought this thread needed some Wonder Bread Star Wars cards (these being from my childhood)...

nice! I wasn't a huge Star Wars buff (not sure what happened, as my father was), but I always thought it was R2D2. Have I been wrong all this time, and it's really Artoo Detoo?

[brewing]

Picked up from board member. This completes my Clemente basic Topps run. I need a 1965 Koufax to complete a basic Topps run for all Hall of Famers that had a Topps rookie card. I was hoping to complete before the end of the year. 26 hours left.

[the 'stache]

Brent, that's a really strong 5. Wow.

It's funny, the wood panel set, er the '62 set, was never one of my favorites. But Roberto makes even that card look good. Roberto never took a bad picture in his life, did he?

I'm going to start hitting his master set hard this year. I don't think I'll finish it in 2015, but I'd like to have it done by early 2016. I have to get the two I do have, the '71 and '73, graded, as I think they'll both grade out nicely. The '71 is a 7 at least, maybe a little higher. The '73 is an 8 +.

Right after the start of the year, I'm going to get a really nice '58. That's one of my all-time favorite cards of anybody. The '56 probably next after that. I can't wait to share them all with you guys.

[CW]

Originally Posted by CharleyBrown

nice! I wasn't a huge Star Wars buff (not sure what happened, as my father was), but I always thought it was R2D2. Have I been wrong all this time, and it's really Artoo Detoo?

No, you were technically right all these years... it's R2-D2, but I think the company that made the Wonder Bread cards was simply phonetically spelling it out.

[jason.1969]

Here is the subset I practically KILLED for as a kid. Have picked up these 9 over the last few weeks with the final one (Williams) due to arrive next week. Way back in 1978-79, it was these cards that got me excited about the all-time greats. I used to spend hours just looking at the stats on the back of Ruth, Cobb, Gehrig, Johnson, and Hornsby--of course, now I can't read them at all without my glasses!

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