May Pickups

[CW]

Jason finished up a fantastic April Pickups thread with this post of his Aaron collection.

Since it's May, I'll kick it off with one that technically arrived last week, but just got a chance to scan it. Not the best centered Bird, but the image and surface are so nice on this one. I wonder if the blurry, large policeman in the background knows he's been immortalized on a baseball card.

[Iwantmorecards77]

Some Rookie Pick-Ups from the White Plains Show today...

[jb67]

Todd, a very nice haul of rookie pickups to start the month congrats.

CW, that Fidrych card is a classic and yours looks great (clarity/focus). I need to add one to my collection. Thanks for sharing.

[DanP]

Todd, wow... nice job! Congratulations.

[ALR-bishop]

Interesting thought Chuck. Wonder how many folks have identified themselves or someone they know if the background of a card. Your cop and the guy in the LaRussa card would be examples. Wonder if anyone ever identified the guy airbrushed in the 57 Mantle card? Another good one would be the 65 card that says it shows Mantle hitting a home runoff Barney Schultz in the 64 WS, but really shows him missing a Gibson fastball. That picture appeared in a lot of papers and a lot of fans behind home plate are in the picture.

That Koosman rookie card is stunning :-)

[Chris Counts]

I just picked up a nice lot of signed 1953 Bowman cards. They came from the original owner, who had the foresight to mail away for the autographs back in 1953, and mount them with photo corners in an album soon afterwards, where they remained until a couple weeks ago. Here are just a few of them. If ever there was a set that looked great signed, it's the '53 Bowmans ...

[CW]

That's a cool collecting theme ^^^, Robert!

Great cards in this thread, guys, and thanks for the comments on the new Bird. Everyone should have one.

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

Interesting thought Chuck. Wonder how many folks have identified themselves or someone they know if the background of a card. Your cop and the guy in the LaRussa card would be examples. Wonder if anyone ever identified the guy airbrushed in the 57 Mantle card? Another good one would be the 65 card that says it shows Mantle hitting a home runoff Barney Schultz in the 64 WS, but really shows him missing a Gibson fastball. That picture appeared in a lot of papers and a lot of fans behind home plate are in the picture.

I hear ya, Al. You could include the folks in the stands on the '56 Mantle, too (some even twice!). I know Topps has had a promotion where you could have your own card, but I'm surprised they haven't held a promotion where you could be in the background of a MLB player's card.

[jason.1969]

Wow, not every day a Mantle rookie shows up!

[LuckyLuke]

That I can afford...LOL

[RobertC]

Got these in the mail today. Trivia Question - what is the common thread between these cards? Hint - I'm still waiting on a 1957 Don Gross.

[jason.1969]

I see they are all pitchers!

[RobertC]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

I see they are all pitchers!

Correct, but what else?

[jason.1969]

Ah, just got it! But I will leave the fun to others since you just posted!

[JollyElm]

I know Hank Aaron hit his first homer off of Vic Raschi, and everyone knows Al Downing's role in April of '74, so my guess would be they all gave up numerically significant home runs to Hammerin' Hank??

[Vintagevault13]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I know Hank Aaron hit his first homer off of Vic Raschi, and everyone knows Al Downing's role in April of '74, so my guess would be they all gave up numerically significant home runs to Hammerin' Hank??

+1. I know Hank hit #500 off Mike McCormick. I think his last was hit off of Drago.


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[RobertC]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I know Hank Aaron hit his first homer off of Vic Raschi, and everyone knows Al Downing's role in April of '74, so my guess would be they all gave up numerically significant home runs to Hammerin' Hank??

Correct
Raschi #1
Gross #100
Kline #200
Craig #300
Belinsky #400
McCormick #500
Jackson #537 (passes Mantle)
Simpson 3000'th hit (I know, not a home run)
Perry #600
Twitchell #649 (passes Mays)
Brett #700
Billingham #714 (ties Ruth)
Downing #715 (passes Ruth)
Drago #755 (last HR)
I'm planning on doing some sort of display of other players significant to Hank Aaron. I'm also planning to use Jim Bunning (Hank's only inside the park HR), Mike Lum (first player to pinch hit for Hank), and Lindy McDaniel (Hank's only walk off grand slam). I tried to get players' cards from the year when the events occurred.

[jason.1969]

Always dependable to break up the nice run of baseball cards with some ephemera, here is my latest 1952 Topps Look N See. To go with our Newton display, my boy and I are also building a Great Physicists display that had a little too much white space.

[jason.1969]

Re: Aaron milestones...what about 1974 Tom House?

[begsu1013]

he was A pitcher, but for the braves and caught the ball, right?

ironically enough, admitted to using anabolic steroids as well....

I definitely think it should be added though. good call, Jason!

[jason.1969]

Love the Hodges and the Brooklyn signatures. Not a card but just picked up something that matches your theme...1955 Game 7 at Yankee Stadium.

[dclarkraiders]

Jason,

Awesome program. That item is on my wish list. Thanks for sharing

Duane

Originally Posted by jason.1969

Love the Hodges and the Brooklyn signatures. Not a card but just picked up something that matches your theme...1955 Game 7 at Yankee Stadium.

[MattyC]

Late to the already impressive May jam, but bringing some good liquor...

Pic is of Ted signing that same actual card. I am never one for autos but the insane provenance of this one just really moved me. Should be in hand soon. Beyond grateful to the gentleman who made it possible. Plus some nice buns in the BG!

[jerrys]

1968t-maysa.jpg

[Hammerin'Hank]

Took a couple of months off buying cards in order to take the family to Disney World. Also sold a couple of really nice sets on here that funded the entire trip. My wife will never curse my baseball card hobby collection again. LOL

Any way..........picked up this '58 Topps WS Batting Foes card to ad to my Aaron collection. Also picked up this 1951 Bowman Warren Spahn.

[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Late to the already impressive May jam, but bringing some good liquor...

Pic is of Ted signing that same actual card. I am never one for autos but the insane provenance of this one just really moved me. Should be in hand soon. Beyond grateful to the gentleman who made it possible. Plus some nice buns in the BG!

Dude, that is crazy! Well done....

[Zach Wheat]

A new Topps sheet for my sheet collection

[jason.1969]

Outstanding! 3????

[gnpaden]

[QUOTE=jason.1969;1409676]Outstanding! 3??

Waiting to see why when I get it. Haha. I couldn't find any creases. I submitted an offer on a 4 too just in case.

[pawpawdiv9]

[QUOTE=gnpaden;1409681]

Originally Posted by jason.1969

Outstanding! 3??

Waiting to see why when I get it. Haha. I couldn't find any creases. I submitted an offer on a 4 too just in case.

Thats a sweet looking 58 Mick there u got Garrett. Better than the sgc55 i got at Sterlings right now. That one is like centered beautiful. Good eye there

[mickeymantle24]

Didn't realize how much I love the look of the 56 Mantle until I finally got one in person for my PC. I absolutely love it and plan to eventually pick up a double. Glad to finally cross this one off my list. Also added another 66 Mantle from the REA auction didn't think my bid would hold up, but not going to complain!

[MattyC]

Great Mantles! The 1956 is one of very few cards I enjoy having doubles (or more) of.

[jb67]

Originally Posted by mickeymantle24

Didn't realize how much I love the look of the 56 Mantle until I finally got one in person for my PC. I absolutely love it and plan to eventually pick up a double. Glad to finally cross this one off my list. Also added another 66 Mantle from the REA auction didn't think my bid would hold up, but not going to complain!

A couple of nice Mantles you have picked. I would love to add a 56 Mantle to my collection. I will at some point. Congrats. Until then I will continue to work on my Willie Mays run. Never sure how the centering on the 70's work but I thought this one looked pretty good. Here is my latest.

[jason.1969]

I was jealous and didn't even realize it was Venezuelan!

[savedfrommyspokes]

Nice Ryan RC card....my find is not quite as rare as a Venezuelan, but a tough to find (for me) MB card. Bought an inexpensive junk lot of 68s that had some 1st/2nd series cards pictured, and found this and 8 other MB cards embedded within the lot(none pictured in the auction's scans). Ironically, this Brinkman was the nicest card in the lot. Now up to 63/77 with the MB BB set and 25/33 on the FB set just by pulling cards from random lots I have purchased.

[Bestdj777]

Beautiful Ryan rookie! When you hinted in your prior post, I assumed it was that one.

[MikeGarcia]

...midgrade lot fell into my hands....love that 1953 Bowman Color of Richie Ashburn.....so many eye-candies in that set...

...that's Granny Hamner on the left and maybe a rookie card of a young Mel Allen on the right...

[MikeGarcia]

That's Mel Clark , not Mel Allen. I'm tired.

[jason.1969]

Holy Ted Williams shift! What a beauty! Even matches our N54 tee shirts!

[MikeGarcia]

Nice set...over here we consider them to be the 1953 Bowman Color of it's day. High praise , indeed.

[CW]

Monster card, Chris! Congrats!

Great auto'ed cards, Rob!

Cool Steve Kemp RC, Alfredo -- one of my favorites growing up.

[jason.1969]

I swear I am on the verge of picking up an actual BASEBALL card!! In the meantime, here are two Hall of Fame astronomers, Copernicus and Kepler, from Liebig's 1906 series. The pic doesn't do justice to the brilliant coloring.

[begsu1013]

nice pick ups everyone! hard to address everybody's but from the centered berra rook (which is a toughy), the auto'd monsters (really like the brock), that colorful corn off the cobb!, even the murph rook...applause all around!

even digging the copernicus card! keep posting those odd balls...

worth editing: that 57 herzog is a gem too! classic image.

[AustinMike]

Jason, those astronomer cards are pretty neat. Do you know French so that you can read them? Not knowing French, it looks like the Copernicus card is saying something about toilets.

In the meantime, I picked up my first Bazooka Mantle, thanks to Marc (pow323). Thanks again Marc!

[Robextend]

[begsu1013]

couldn't resist a pair of 7s:

[jason.1969]

Originally Posted by AustinMike

Jason, those astronomer cards are pretty neat. Do you know French so that you can read them? Not knowing French, it looks like the Copernicus card is saying something about toilets.

As any experienced O-Pee-Chee collector can attest, etoile is star! The card is describing a meteor shower ("rain of falling stars").

[stlcardsfan]

That Brooksie is a steal! Congrats

[rsdill2]

Not in hand yet but this is definitely one of my best finds in a couple years.

Paid $21.32 for this:

[NateMack]

Originally Posted by rsdill2

Not in hand yet but this is definitely one of my best finds in a couple years.

Paid $21.32 for this:

People must have been sleeping on eBay! That card usually goes for high dollars! Awesome score!

[KingFisk]

This card doesn't seem super popular but it's a nice add to the collection.