April Pickups

[G1911]

I don't mind ponying up for rare cards (okay, I mind a little), but it hurts to do so for expensive but very common cards. Should have stopped passing on Jackie's for the last 10 years. Sometimes its cheaper to just buy it for my set now and not cry. With the two stocks and two variations of the logo, I believe I actually will need 4 of this card for my set eventually. I hope the A grade is because of the erasure mark and I didn't fail to notice something.

The Pakfo hasn't changed in price much for a long time. I'll never understand why it's expensive in low grade (over 10x other common players in series 1), but I've been building series 1 in both black and red back versions. I already had the red, so nice to cross this one off. It's probably the most expensive card of the run (except the wrong back Page/Sain errors if one counts them).

Mickey I got lower than I thought, it's Poor but it's Mickey and was only $70. Leaves me at 1 card to go for the 1959 basic set, Bob Gibson. I still need a grey back Maris and one of the Spahn variants for my master.

[GregZakwin]

[butchie_t]

I just picked up this nice, unchecked and uncut 1976 Topps Baseball Team Set send-in. This finishes my run of 74 to 82 Topps Send ins.

If I am ever fortunate to come across an uncut panel of the 73 Team checklists, I have seen two of them so far, I will gladly add that to the run. Until then, another checkbox checked.

[GasHouseGang]

A couple of 1954 Topp's.

[rugbymarine]

Centered Kaline? Sign me up!

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by rugbymarine

Centered Kaline? Sign me up!

Very nice card Ian.

[rugbymarine]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Very nice card Ian.

Thanks, Phil.
And you too with the 58!

It just occurred to me that Topps chose red as Kaline's background color EVERY time in the 50s (54, 55, 58 and 59)!