December Pick ups

[Samsdaddy]

Nice Yaz Jason.

I have always liked the All Star cards and the 69's are no exception. The All Star cards as well as the All Star rookies are always neat sub sets to collect in my opinion.

[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by Samsdaddy

Nice Yaz Jason.

I have always liked the All Star cards and the 69's are no exception. The All Star cards as well as the All Star rookies are always neat sub sets to collect in my opinion.

Agreed. I suspect my vote would match that of many others that for all around look plus player selection, 1958 Topps can't be beat--Mantle, Musial, Aaron, Mays, Williams,... For me, next is 1961 followed by its 1970 clone. The 1970 AS card has a cool design concept but some of the action b/w shots are sketchy (like this Yaz), and I begrudge it for omitting Aaron.

[bobc88]

The '57 Reese is one of my favorites. Hard to find one with much better centering.

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[begsu1013]

[Peter_Spaeth]

Bob, how many of those proofs are known to exist?

[begsu1013]

nice catch, peter!

not exactly sure. 2 others that i know of for sure...

1 was actually auctioned off by topps vault in '04, i believe.

[ALR-bishop]

very impressive

[dclarkraiders]

Glad to add this one to my collection.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Bob, how many of those proofs are known to exist?

According to Keith Olbermann's blog site "Baseball Nerd" there are at least eight known copies of the 1977 Topps Reggie Jackson proof card. There are only one known copy each of the 1977 Grote and 1977 Thompson proof cards.

[begsu1013]

very cool and thanks for the additional info, cliff!

i believe olberman has the one from toppsvault, if i remember correctly?

but if i had to guess, i'd say there are quite a few more out there than that.

maybe 50 or less total.

never know if some print tech stashed away a hoard... ; )