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That's a heckuva Mantle.



Some day I gotta bust this out and get The Big Hurt to cosign it. Sure looked good in a Yankees uni...how many WS would the Bombers have won with Thomas on the team in the 1990s?
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I've derived much enjoyment from this thread, so I figured that I owe it a card. Does anyone know what sort of candy Oppie Dildocks was? I Googled it and came up empty.
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It doesn't address candy type, but perhaps the name was adapted from a contemporaneous comic strip:

W.L. Wells made the newspaper strip 'Old Opie Dilldock's Stories' in the Chicago Tribune between October 1908 and 1914. The strip was created by F. M. Howarth, who died shortly afterwards. On 24 February 1915, he created 'Old Nicodemus Nimble'. source:www.lambiek.net.

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I've derived much enjoyment from this thread, so I figured that I owe it a card. Does anyone know what sort of candy Oppie Dildocks was? I Googled it and came up empty.
Try searching for it by using blatantly misspelled words, like they did with "Your" on the back of that card.
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This is one of my all time favorite cards. Not because of the grading company or the counterfeit card they slabbed. Before a recent huge find this was a fairly rare card. A very long time card friend of mine bought it years ago. I tried buying/trading for it many many times over the years.

Then about a year ago because of age and the fact none of his family wanted anything to do with his collection he decided to sell it all. Even though we have made hundreds of trades/sales to each other over they many years. I finally got this one from him and will cherish it as long as I have a collection.
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My Dad collected a lot of late 80's early 90's unopened junk wax, thinking some day they might be worth something...of course they're not...so literally just last Thursday, I broke open a full box of 89' Fleer hoping to get this exact card. Unfortunately, all I got was the version with the black box wiping out the knob.

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This is one of my all time favorite cards. Not because of the grading company or the counterfeit card they slabbed. Before a recent huge find this was a fairly rare card. A very long time card friend of mine bought it years ago. I tried buying/trading for it many many times over the years.

Then about a year ago because of age and the fact none of his family wanted anything to do with his collection he decided to sell it all. Even though we have made hundreds of trades/sales to each other over they many years. I finally got this one from him and will cherish it as long as I have a collection.
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Leon, I like big borders too, as is evident on my E220 National Caramel card of Raymond Schmandt.

A regular, bigger size border E220 of Kopf is shown for comparison purposes.

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Thanks Leon, and neat Croft's. I typically end up with something that has little to no borders/backgrounds like these.

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I used to own a Darby Chocolates Chief Myers cut-out like that, Brian. I still like die-cut cards. From a design standpoint, this is one of my favorites:



The fight sucked but the card is freakin' great. It is the size of a 1952 Topps card, to the top of the eagle silhouette.

Another die-cut I love:



Two known examples, this one and one with the stand torn off.

This card isn't die-cut but I ran across the image and decided to put it up because it always makes me wonder "why was Jack Dempsey punching a blind guy?"

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Not a boxing fellow, but that is a cool Leonard diecut card. Here is the high number Batter-Up of Dickey that a kid did what a kid does, but then gave up halfway through.

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i love this colorful matty.
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About time this thread was brought back. And with the understanding that it probably isn't wise to stick out the neck too far, awhile back I was able to snag a 1951 Bowman Paul Richards card by the ears.

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Didn’t get much better as a kid than a signed Rickey Henderson card and a pair of his trademark lime green Mizuno batting gloves!
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And working the happy colorful orange E93 theme as Pete did with his Matty, here is an orange E93 of Tinker.


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Exhibitman:

This card isn't die-cut but I ran across the image and decided to put it up because it always makes me wonder "why was Jack Dempsey punching a blind guy?"

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Always loved The Beatles, ever since my dad introduced them to me when I was 11 (saw A Hard Day's Night). So when this set came out in 1993 when I was in high school, I was all over it. It's actually the only set I have ever put together 😀
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Sports card wise it's the Ryan. Always wanted this card as a kid but could never afford it. It was the very first card I picked up after a long hiatus from the hobby, and the rest is history.
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It hurt that I had to sell a signed 54B Ted last year, but I still have this Kreindler color study.

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IMPOSSIBLE for me to NOT smile when I look at this one...
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My dad watches Western everyday
I sit and watch Rifleman
And Rawhide and etc


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The 52 mick was my grail card
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Pretty good, but I would be more impressed if he had been able to pull off walking 2 miles backward in the snow.

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This piece has small neodymium disc magnets on the back of the screws and it is attached to one of the metal walls of my lab desk. It's the only piece of the hobby I have at work.
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Not sure when the obituary was added, but I'd think well before the dawn of the internet. Earliest death in the 52.set
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I started collecting vintage baseball cards back in the '70s. Therefore, I was able to accumulate a decent lot of Topps and Bowman HOF cards from the '50s, which made me pretty happy back then, and I do have quite a few of those same issues today. But for the most part, I'm really not super nostalgic about them. For me, today, it's the novelty of obtaining something that was either unavailable or unaffordable back then that makes me happy, like these . . .
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I find myself coming back to this thread.

This card will forever hold a special place in my collecting memories. I've told parts of this story before. Many years ago, up in Cooperstown NY I wandered into a small show a the Cooperstown Veterans Club, right across the street from the Hall of Fame. I was 10 years old. I spoke about cards to two very kind Gentlemen, one of them was Dealer George Mollyn, who is still somewhat active in local shows (last I checked) around the PA area. I chewed his ear off about the 1933 and 1934 Goudey sets. The other was our resident expert, and fantastic person, Ted Zanidakis.

After joining here many years later, I reconnected with Ted. We exchanged many emails, however looking back on it, I wish we exchanged more. Constantly having conversations centered around baseball. Especially players from Ted's youth. Phil Rizzuto always managed to come up in our conversations as well. When I finally had the opportunity to meet Ted in person, I went to the first Philly Show after Covid, over to Ted and Dan McKee's booths. We again talked cards and baseball for quite sometime. It's an experience that I will forever remember.

Ted in his showcase had this Phil Rizzuto card. It may have been a coincidence but I'd chalk it up to fate. I knew I had to purchase it. It will stay in this holder and be part of my collection until the end of my days. Ted touched many lives, and I thoroughly enjoyed being able to talk to him. I would like to think he is looking over us, but knowing Ted, he's arguing with Burdick over some obscure issue involving Tobacco cards.
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1972 Wendell Scott PC. He was the Jackie Robinson of NASCAR:



Took even more crap than Robinson, if that is possible, right down to being poisoned.

1972 Richard Petty signed PC. Long live the King:

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If Mr. Weston had been 72 or older when he walked 3600 miles in 78 days, yes, I would be impressed. But alas he was only 71 years old.

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These Zeenut cards are so special I only bothered to take scans of their backs.

I especially like the claw with its six digits...because the extra finger is the one that really does the damage.


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Mr. Weston being billed as "the greatest pedestrian that ever lived" on the back of his card makes me happy too. Here's all 4 of his T218 family cards.
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Mr. Weston being billed as "the greatest pedestrian that ever lived" on the back of his card makes me happy too. Here's all 4 of his T218 family cards.
He definitely was no pedestrian pedestrian.


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These Zeenut cards are so special I only bothered to take scans of their backs.

I especially like the claw with its six digits...because the extra finger is the one that really does the damage.


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Brian, yes, but the hula girl is quite enchanting.
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Old 02-10-2024, 01:39 PM
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Brian, yes, but the hula girl is quite enchanting.
True, and a bonus is that she appears to be performing by the light of a sliver of the moon.


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Old 02-10-2024, 02:04 PM
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Pretty good, but I would be more impressed if he had been able to pull off walking 2 miles backward in the snow.

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I would be even more impressed if Weston's card showed him doing some head cracking with his cane while on a walk.
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Mr. Weston being billed as "the greatest pedestrian that ever lived" on the back of his card makes me happy too. Here's all 4 of his T218 family cards.
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Old 02-10-2024, 03:20 PM
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I would be even more impressed if Weston's card showed him doing some head cracking with his cane while on a walk.
I think you are referring to a little bit of this action...

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This card will make many people cringe, but it is one of my favorites in my collection. It was given to me by a friend and even though it has a bit of writing on the front, I can't help by smile every time I see it.


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Old 02-10-2024, 04:07 PM
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backwards once. Premium paid for this card. Got outbid the last one offered
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He definitely carries a consistent premium; I have 500-1,000 T218 dupes at any time but Weston never sits around for long, he's the quickest card to move in trades as well. There have been a couple biographies of him in recent years, interesting guy and an exotic card.

If you are trying to pick one up in the near future, the T218 with the longer caption including "prize fighters" is the significantly scarcer one, but presently carries no market premium because it is not well known at this time.
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This card will make many people cringe, but it is one of my favorites in my collection. It was given to me by a friend and even though it has a bit of writing on the front, I can't help by smile every time I see it.
I like the action portion of the card, with sliding Willie and the catcher seemingly trapped underneath a giant spider web.

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This one.
I purchased it back some years ago because I thought, how cool, 3 all time greats/HOF's on the same card.
What I didn't know, until it was brought to my attention here, is this card is the only card available with these 3 all time greats.
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As was stated, money isn't the attraction here:

Cliff Blankenship was 'at least' involved in bringing Walter Johnson east. Some sources give him more credit, but I'll go by the details our own Hank Thomas, WaJo's grandson included in his wonderful biography of his Granddaddy.

For me Blankenship is key to my local collection as he was the first Major Leaguer born right here in Columbus, GA.

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The 1932 W574 set included the Rookie Card of my cousin Whitlow Wyatt, Whitlow won 22 games for the 1941 Dodgers and the only World Series game they won that year. He was also the Braves pitching coach for their first season down south in Atlanta (1966).

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