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[Arazi4442]

Very excited to add this one!

[Jerry G]

Originally Posted by Arazi4442

Very excited to add this one!

Wow! Very nice.

[bellowslunchbox]

Hello,

I am new to the board and also new to collecting boxing cards. As a kid I collected baseball cards, but now I focus on boxing. I am slowly, piece by piece, putting together the 1951 Topps Ringside set, and yesterday Johnny Saxton came in the mail.

[vintage mesiah]

nice centered card welcome to the board! Hope to see more cards and talk about the sport , not a lot do

[bellowslunchbox]

Thanks! I am a huge boxing fan and love boxing history. The cards for me are really just an extension of that.

[Exhibitman]

Ditto. That was how I got into it.

Nice to have new boxing blood in here. The 51s are a classic set choice. I am still kicking myself for acquiring then selling off a partial set of signed Ringsides some years ago. I bought the lot to get at the Ray Miller but I really wish I'd kept the rest too. It had most of the possible (living at time of issue) signers. If you're a Ringside fan maybe these will be of interest:

Salesman sample w/Marciano RC:




Contracts for the set signed by Ruby Goldstein, Barney Ross (Topps watermark is in the scan, not the contract), Ray Miller:

[bellowslunchbox]

Those contracts are amazing. $1!

I picked the 51 set by accident. I think I had watched a couple old fight films of Jimmy Carter, the lightweight champion from the early 1950s, and decided to look him up on EBay and found the Topps Ringside card, which I promptly ordered. I also ordered a copy of your book, which has been a major help as well.

I like using the cards as a way to track my education of the history of the sport. I learned a lot about baseball as a kid through card collecting, and so the boxing cards are a way of carrying that forward.

[GregZakwin]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Ditto. That was how I got into it.

Salesman sample w/Marciano RC:

Good god that Salesman Sample is GORGEOUS.