OT: Justin Verlander 3rd No-Hitter

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by z28jd

Two players in the set, Corcoran and Pettee, who seems to be harder to find. I have nine Corcorans and one Pettee. I'd say that could be half that exist

I'm sure you've discussed this before, but what is your interest in Corcoran? Is he somebody from your hometown?

[GaryPassamonte]

Raymond- It's interesting that you SO 21 consecutive times and that I was a 21 K pitcher in PONY league. It was a 2 hitter.

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

I'm sure you've discussed this before, but what is your interest in Corcoran? Is he somebody from your hometown?

I have, but I'll be happy to give the quick version again. I was able to pick out an OJ card as a birthday present when I was young and bought Corcoran from Larry Fritsch because it was the best common player he had available. When Ebay first started, I went on and the first card ending was a Corcoran, different pose than mine and cheap, so I bought it. At the time, I thought maybe 20 of his cards existed, so having two seemed hard to get.

I decided to try to get all of his variations. In the process of doing that, I had trouble finding the last two, but I saw doubles that I bought as trade bait in case anyone had them. While waiting, I upgraded two of them and by the time I completed all six variations, I was just one away from getting two runs of all six. So I did the same thing and it finally just turned into me buying whichever ones I saw because that's what I was basically doing.

The initial intention was far different than the final outcome. I'm at the point now where I won't go all in for one if it shows up because the prices were getting out of hand, though I've only seen three in the last 2+ years. The only exception would be the one variation I only have three copies of, because who doesn't want four runs of the same player

[barrysloate]

Got it. I assume there are other people who at least have a few, and that you don't have them all.

[z28jd]

Others do exist. If I had to guess, I'd say 70 copies of his OJ card exist. I've never bought or even bid on any of his other cards, so I'm not a complete monster.

[Fred]

Ok, I"m assuming there's a connection to Verlander in here somewhere.....

Do you have any of the glass negatives of Larry? You have to figure, if you're all in on the card board, might as well be all in on the entire Larry collection.

Barry,

John is the reason so many people can't get a Larry card.... I'd love to have a London Larry but I'm sure it's not to be.... not a bucket list card, but it's one I'm looking for....

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by Fred

Ok, I"m assuming there's a connection to Verlander in here somewhere.....

Do you have any of the glass negatives of Larry? You have to figure, if you're all in on the card board, might as well be all in on the entire Larry collection.

Barry,

John is the reason so many people can't get a Larry card.... I'd love to have a London Larry but I'm sure it's not to be.... not a bucket list card, but it's one I'm looking for....

Verlander threw his third no-hitter. Corcoran was the first to throw three no-hitters

[Fred]

Originally Posted by z28jd

Verlander threw his third no-hitter. Corcoran was the first to throw three no-hitters

There it is! I've got to believe that the Larry collection has got to be the biggest collection of a single player assembled by a single collector of a player from the N172 series. Sooooo, can you post your glass negative of Larry? I'm sure you have at least one, if not the entire run....

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by Fred

Ok, I"m assuming there's a connection to Verlander in here somewhere.....

Do you have any of the glass negatives of Larry? You have to figure, if you're all in on the card board, might as well be all in on the entire Larry collection.

Barry,

John is the reason so many people can't get a Larry card.... I'd love to have a London Larry but I'm sure it's not to be.... not a bucket list card, but it's one I'm looking for....

Offer John a good trade item. That's always your best chance.

[RCMcKenzie]

Originally Posted by Fred

Ok, I"m assuming there's a connection to Verlander in here somewhere

I was watching the game on t.v. and as soon as it ended they flashed the graphic with the 6 guys to throw 3 or more and Todd Kalas was asking Geoff Blum about Corcoran. I was pretty sure I was going to see a Corcoran thread on here after that. I bet we see another one after Mike Fiers hurls his third.

[barrysloate]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

I was watching the game on t.v. and as soon as it ended they flashed the graphic with the 6 guys to throw 3 or more and Todd Kalas was asking Geoff Blum about Corcoran. I was pretty sure I was going to see a Corcoran thread on here after that. I bet we see another one after Mike Fiers hurls his third.

Mike Fiers has a grand total of two complete games in his career...and both were no-hitters.