March 2020 pickups

1951WheatiesPremium

Let’s see what you guys grabbed this month. This one was acquired on leap day, but most years that’s March right? Just enamored with the card and player (my first ever modern auto) and wanted to start the March thread off with a glimpse at the Yankees future....

2019 Panini Prizm Draft Picks #122 Jasson Dominguez Hyper /75

UFFDAH

Vagabond

Looks like he may end up staying with Colorado after all (which I hoped for).

Great card from a HOF lock (at this point in time) that can be had between $55 and $65

pab1969

A great start to the month!

stwainfan

I finished my Ripken rookie set.

A couple of Renfro cards.

Kid4hof03

I shared these in the vintage basketball thread, but wanted to put them here as well. Really excited to add these to my set, first ones I've seen since the National, hoping more will pop up.

1951WheatiesPremium

More Cuban goodness...

1946 Propagandas Montiel Grouping

Courtesy of the kindhearted and generous Ryan C.

Thanks again, Ryan!

pab1969

Got another in the mail today.

hyperchipper09

Both on the way

rounding3rd

Couple local card show pick-ups

rexvos

Love the Gwynn @rounding3rd

Vagabond

I picked up the Chrome version around January. Picked this one up last week. Glad I did because prices for guys like Soto, Bellinger, Acuna and Yelich rookies are rising in price as baseball season begins to pick up steam.

UFFDAH

"Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs!"

1951WheatiesPremium

@UFFDAH said:
"Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs!"

One of the best defensive football players ever.

Without question

JBrules

@UFFDAH said:
"Let's go out there like a bunch of crazed dogs!"

Very nice.

1951WheatiesPremium

As a Mickey Mantle card collector, I knew this little treasure was part of a board game called Challenge the Yankees. Released in 1964 by the Hassenfeld brothers of Pawtucket, Rhode Island (their company smartly called Hasbro, Inc.) the game was essentially the Yankees versus the All Stars in a dice game where your roll determined the outcome. The game proved fairly popular and sold enough copies where a new updated version was released in 1965. For Mantle, the presence of his all star appearances in his biographical section cements this as the 1965 edition of the card (a little SGC whoops!). The fifty card set can be broken into two parts with fifty percent being cards of the Yankees roster - HOF stars like Yogi Berra, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford and Elston Howard - and the other half comprised of a nice selection of MLB HOF stars including Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey, Duke Snider and Carl Yastrzemski, just to name a few.

1965 Challenge the Yankees - Mickey Mantle

rmh111985

A few lower end, nice condition Mantle's on their way:

steel75

Can't get enough of these T206's....

pab1969

Good mail day.

pab1969

@pab1969 said:
Good mail day.

Sorry forgot the photos.

UFFDAH

I hope everyone is “charged up” for the weekend!! Sneaking out of the office early to meet a guy to quote some new fence – barbed wire, not electric

PaulMaul

I haven’t had much luck finding nice cards lately. I did pick up a couple of nice 1972 WS cards recently.

jeffv96masters

Not a pickup so much as a "steal" 😄 a recent subbed set of these to BGS reminded me of my 400 count box . PSA. Pop report gonna go up a couple hundred in 4 months

dad2cl3

Been a slow start to the year for the main sets I’m trying to complete so I grabbed another Willie Woodburn autograph as well as some other odds and ends.

1951WheatiesPremium

I’m not the most patient guy

NGS428

George "Ken" Kenneth Griffey Jr. low pop... I like the back better so that is first...

NGS428

@1951WheatiesPremium said:
I’m not the most patient guy

Does Mickey know you are doing this? Nice card!

1951WheatiesPremium

@NGS428 said:

@1951WheatiesPremium said:
I’m not the most patient guy

Does Mickey know you are doing this? Nice card!

Mickey knows; this kid is allegedly the Latin Mickey Mantle. He has out of this world tools, hence they call him The Martian. It’s the most the Yankees ever spent on a player like this and he was 17 when they signed him. I’m a huge Yankees fan and with the brittle giants that man left and right and Aaron ‘DL’ Hicks in center, this kids going to be up sooner rather than later and patrolling center for years to come, making up for Clint Frazier’s lack of range...

...I think the Martian will land late 2022.

Huskies11

It was a childhood dream to own one of these, glad to have this one coming my way.

rmh111985

Currently on it's way:

pab1969

Mickey knows; this kid is allegedly the Latin Mickey Mantle. He has out of this world tools, hence they call him The Martian. It’s the most the Yankees ever spent on a player like this and he was 17 when they signed him. I’m a huge Yankees fan and with the brittle giants that man left and right and Aaron ‘DL’ Hicks in center, this kids going to be up sooner rather than later and patrolling center for years to come, making up for Clint Frazier’s lack of range...

...I think the Martian will land late 2022.

Do you think in 2022 he will regret having that haircut on his rookie card?

UFFDAH

1970 Topps Super Football wax pack with a star showing...Bart Starr that is!! Just back from BBCE Authentication/Wrapping.

softparade

@UFFDAH said:
1970 Topps Super Football wax pack with a star showing...Bart Starr that is!! Just back from BBCE Authentication/Wrapping.

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WOW I thought the only packs they wrapped were racks!

stwainfan

Another Brock card.

1951WheatiesPremium

This is a really nice example. As in just 5 are considered nicer by PSA. One of the best and most used early career poses AND if you collect 1950s sets featuring the Yankees, you’ve probably seen it.

1955-57 N.Y. Yankees Picture Pack - Mickey Mantle (Portrait)

Huskies11

First ever pack-pulled KGJ that I've ever sent in... aaaaaannnnd a 4 lol. Thought @NGS428 would appreciate it though. Glad this happened to me at thirty and not twelve as I would have been devastated.

I now have 10, 9, 8, 7, _ , 5 , 4 , _ , _ , _. Only four to go!

PNWcollector

Stoked for this card! I wish my scanner was able to scan slabs better... they always come out slightly blurry.

stwainfan

Just got these.

Kid4hof03

It's not often that I knock a 90's Bernie Williams off my want list. I was very excited to get this 1997 Yankees Score Premier in today's mail

UFFDAH

1969 TOPPS Football Packs.

Series 1 is loaded with stars and HoFers like Leroy Kelly, Bob Hayes, Merlin Olsen, Larry Csonka Rookie, Gale Sayers, Brian Piccolo Rookie, Joe Namath, Johnny Unitas, Ray Nitschke, Don Meredith, Lance Alworth, Len Dawson, Jackie Smith, Bob Lilly, Don Maynard, Dave Wilcox, Larry Wilson, Charley Taylor, Bobby Mitchell, Roman Gabriel....

dad2cl3

Added another BDawk RC

Jason

mintonlypls

UFFDAH...

Where r u picking up all these unopened packs? Ebay? Private transactions?

I am trying to finish a 60s 5-cent wax pack run and need 3 packs('60, '65, and '69)! Someone out there help me...I prefer the '69 pack to be either 1st or 6th series.

NGS428

@Huskies11 said:
First ever pack-pulled KGJ that I've ever sent in... aaaaaannnnd a 4 lol. Thought @NGS428 would appreciate it though. Glad this happened to me at thirty and not twelve as I would have been devastated.

I now have 10, 9, 8, 7, _ , 5 , 4 , _ , _ , _. Only four to go!

Sweet 4! I have never pack pulled one, so you got me there. The single I bought as a young kid has (OC) and (PD) all over it, but at that time, it was send in my $50 and I get a card sight unseen.

Here is my 4.. It's a 4 party!

UFFDAH

@mintonlypls said:
UFFDAH...

Where r u picking up all these unopened packs? Ebay? Private transactions?

I am trying to finish a 60s 5-cent wax pack run and need 3 packs('60, '65, and '69)! Someone out there help me...I prefer the '69 pack to be either 1st or 6th series.

It's a variety of sources. Will message you the name of a Facebook Group you should join. A great and fun group. It's where I connected on the 69 Packs.

1951WheatiesPremium

These items still in their originally packaged state are somewhat hard to come by. Produced by “Star-Studded Covers, Inc.”, these remarkable relics feature a blue and white color scheme with an image of various stars and were intended to be used as book covers for school aged kids in (possibly the late fifties and certainly in) the early sixties; the packaging includes a header printed with a price of twenty nine cents and that they came three to a pack, and stamped with the name of the featured star. The package dimensions are 10x11 and the plastic wrap is still sealed. The stars in the set included Frank Robinson, Al Kaline, Roger Maris, Dick Stuart, Norm Cash and others but the star I was after, of course, was Mickey Mantle (#4).

c1960 Star Studded Covers #4 - Mickey Mantle

UFFDAH

Saw this on FB

pab1969

@UFFDAH said:
Saw this on FB

Hopefully we will never see a "Game used" variety.

krisd3279

Is that 2 ply?

hyperchipper09

@UFFDAH said:
Saw this on FB

wins the thread

NGS428

TP should be 4.5” square. That is authentic at best.

2nd TP post today.. rough...

stwainfan

I need 62 more for the set.