May Pickup Thread

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1947 Bond Bread Jackie Robinson Rookie SGC 7.
(that's right I said it, ROOKIE, care to debate )

[Tom S.]

I stopped by the local card shop today and came away with some nice 1952 and 1954 Bowmans...

[Beercan collector]

must be nice to have a local card shop like that ,
Hate to throw around the words “ pack fresh” but wow

[Eric72]

This arrived today.

I've been working on '56 Topps for a while. A couple years ago, I decided to finish the set by focusing on the biggest stars first. I already had Mickey Mantle and Jackie Robinson. My next seven pickups were Mays, Aaron, Clemente, Koufax, Williams, Yogi, and Kaline.

Now that I've got Banks, I have (arguably) the ten biggest stars of the set. This was the goal I set for myself in '22 and I'm happy to have gotten here. I'll enjoy this for a little while and then get back to chipping away at the set.

[wdwfan]

I haven't been active in vintage in a while. But glad to be posting in this section again.

I have decided that I have way too many cards. Why do I have 40k cards of 2019-2024 products sitting in boxes in a closet? I mean, inserts, parallels/refractors, base, RCs, etc. Why do I have 20k Rangers cards sitting in boxes? I have no clue. And I have a wife nagging me to downsize. So I've made the decision to do just that.

I've decided to sell off all of my non-PC stuff and use the money to focus on slabbed vintage HOFers. Doesn't have to be high grade. Mid-grade (4s-6s) are just fine with me. To take it a step further, I've gone through all of my Rangers and picked out the players I like the most over time and pulled those players. I've decided to ditch the rest. Not sure what I'll do with 5 3200 boxes of Rangers from '72-'24, but I'll figure something out.

To get start, I have sold a pair of lots of 1980s-90s junk wax Rangers to a buddy of mine. Players like Palmiero, O'Brien, some of the no name guys. He then turned around and has sold me a very special card. Hopefully, it'll be here tomorrow, and I can show that off ... stay tuned.

So far, I've only sold a little bit of stuff. But I got enough to buy a couple of graded vintage cards. I'm extremely happy with my pick ups. I know Mantle isn't slabbed. But I plan on slabbing it with SGC at the Allen show next weekend. I will also take the 1958 Topps Snider, crack it and reslab that one too.

For now, here's what I picked up.

[wdwfan]

2nd high end mail day in a row. I could get used to these types of mail days, lol. But I realize I won't get them every day or even every week. Heck, I may not get mail days like this but a couple of times a year. Got this one for next to nothing. Long story, short version.

I've done a couple of deals with a guy about 2 hours away that lived probably 30 minutes from where I moved from. Anyway, I sold him probably 1,200 Rangers cards over the past 3 weeks. Older guys like Palmiero, Jeff Frye, Pete O'Brien, the nickel/dime type stuff. Probably 200 different Palmiero cards.

Anyway, he reaches out and says he has a card he wants to move and would make me a deal on it since I had given him a good deal and been easy to work with on 3 previous transactions (2 in the last 3 weeks and one in December that had 160 IP/TTM Rangers autos).

He shows me this card. I ask what he wants, and he lets me know. The amount he was asking was only $25 more than the cards I had sold him in the past 3 weeks. So, I basically paid $25 for this card. Well, it came in the mail today.

I plan on subbing it to SGC at the Allen show next week to get it slabbed. Not sure what I'll do with it then. But a dang Joe D auto. How cool is that? I wasn't sure where to post it since it's technically a 1992 card of a guy that played in the 30s-40s.

[effe]

Down to just 2 to finish my set. Anyone have a Bruton fielding or Covington 7 bats they're willing to part with?

[Schlesinj]

Stopped at a local show and grabbed a little nostalgia and a nice Berra. Very little vintage, but had a nice conversation with a few dealers.

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[Tom S.]

There was a show in my area today too. Among the stack of cards that I picked up were a few 1962 & 1966 high numbers and a nice little batch of 1969 O-pee-chees:

[sammythunder]

Picked this up at the Garfield, NJ show from Brian Fish. Since my budget doesn't afford me the opportunity to go after the 1968 Venny Nolan Ryan, I thought that Tom Terrific's 68 would be a fantastic alternative!

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