For some reason, this card is almost always severely tilted, even in PSA 9. Glad to land this copy, which puts me at 28/33 complete on the graded team set.
These arrived yesterday. These are the stock images since they look better than the ones I took quickly with my phone. These Project 2020 cards range from horrifying to great, but I plan to collect all 20 Donnie Baseball and make some sort of fine art type display.
For me, this one falls into the 'dream come true' category. Truly, I never thought I'd own one of these but a timely trade with a fellow collector (essentially - small cash changed hands, too) turned a once distant dream into a reality. The reason I never thought I'd have one is quite simply they are pretty hard to come by and most of the time will cost a king's ransom to acquire. "Low pop" is thrown around a lot and I fall into the camp of 'you never really know' but suffice it to say that these have been eligible for grading for quite some time and the total PSA population is 14, with a high of VG/EX 4. Because I was fortunate enough to have an item that was needed badly, I worked out a deal for this item that was fair for both parties. Now, this is not the nicest copy you will ever see by any stretch of the imagination and yet I think it presents really well and simply can not wait until I have it in hand.
And I'm proud to now call it mine.
1960 Post Cereal Hand Cut - Mickey Mantle PSA Authentic
( Added these two above - my photos. The scans are no good on my scanner as they just too big )
Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?
Beautiful card! One of my favorite Mantles, and it is probably the most attractive Mantle card. I have one with Mantle's autograph on the back, and got it graded by SGC several years ago when PSA wouldn't grade them.
Always looking for Mantle cards such as Stahl Meyer, 1954 Dan Dee, 1959 Bazooka, 1960 Post, 1952 Star Cal Decal, 1952 Tip Top Bread Labels, 1953-54 Briggs Meat, and other Topps, Bowman, and oddball Mantles.
Taken separately, to me, it seems that the different elements shouldn’t work together but for whatever reason, it really works.
Imagine that pitch over the phone?
“So it’s going to have Mickey Mantle against a pink background and we’re going with a faux wood grain border, - thick - with a gold nameplate and a facsimile signature. Yes...no...yeah, on the back of the box. No, I’m not smoking anything...”
Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?
One for the HOF rookie collection, and one for speculation that it'll join that collection:
Main collecting focus is Patrick Roy playing days 85/86-02/03, expect 1/1, National/All-Star stamped cards.PC Completion: 2,548/2,952; 86.31% My Patrick Roy PC Website:https://proy33collector.weebly.com
KILLER 1976 Football rack back from BBCE wrapping!! If you're a Steeler Fan or just a fan of football, this is a DREAM rack!! Oh, and a 3rd HOF'er on the back by the name of Charley Taylor!
@UFFDAH said:
KILLER 1976 Football rack back from BBCE wrapping!! If you're a Steeler Fan or just a fan of football, this is a DREAM rack!! Oh, and a 3rd HOF'er on the back by the name of Charley Taylor!
The "like" button doesn't seem like enough for this pack, absolutely incredible, and I'm a Cowboys fan.
Collecting anything and everything relating to Roger Staubach
Back to unfocused this month. Love '54 Topps and while I do not have a lot of them pick them up when I find a nice one. This Snider looks great and was priced fairly. The Dodger' Boss and Power is towards getting every multi-player card of the 50's and 60's with at least one HOF. The '71 Mays is because I try to get his cards when I can. And the OPCs are mostly because I love those '71 OPC backs. The Blyleven is my first ever OC qualifier card I purchased but the price was cheap and I am unlikely ever to spend for a better one. Really excited to add all of these.
I just got this set in the mail today. This is the best centered Hogan I own and looking forward to sending it in. Overall a beautiful set with some strong grading candidates.
I'd collected a few in person autographs back in grade school, when the "Royals Caravan" would travel through the small Missouri towns right before spring training, with players making appearances at the local lumber yard or sporting goods stores, while the local radio stations did on site broadcasting and interviews to get people hyped for the upcoming season. Most often, it was either the young and upcoming players, or the bench players and back of the bullpen guys. Even as a kid, I quickly grew tired of spending hours of my time waiting for an autograph of a guy that may not even be on the team by June. Autographs soon fell out of favor with me, especially as I grew into a more "serious collector". Cards were meant to be kept in "mint" condition, and autographs essentially ruined the cards by marking them up.
Fast forward to 2012, and the All-Star Game Fanfest was here in Kansas City. The biggest stars, not just Royals players, but in all of baseball, past and present, were there, signing autographs mostly for free, and even as an adult, you couldn't do or say anything to get me to stand in line for that. I can't overstate my previous aversion to autographed memorabilia.
Up until this point, I'd mostly stayed with collecting vintage and the junk wax of my youth. I started wading more and more into the modern stuff probably around 2016. I'd get a pack pulled autograph of some nobody from a team I didn't follow, or some ridiculous manufactured patch card or jersey relic that I despised. It wasn't until I pulled a Mike Trout red ink auto #/25 out of a Heritage blaster that I finally started to come around. I quickly sold that card, though, and long story short, those funds allowed me to purchase maybe 2 percent of a Royals super fan's collection when it was dispersed at an estate sale auction. He had an absolutely ridiculous collection of memorabilia, and my personal focus was on mostly the non autographed items, but there were countless autographs and relics that just came along for the ride within the various lots that I was fortunate to win from the auction (of which I've shared pics of in other threads). These items soon found a spot on display in my card room. So, while I'm still not all in on the idea of autograph collecting, I have been picking up some Royals items here and there to round out and fill some holes in my display.
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This last photo, with all the recent hype for Canseco cards, I couldn't pass it up when I found it in the "bargain box" at the LCS. For just a couple dollars, why not? Takes me right back to the late 80s and that feeling I'd get from handling one right out of a pack or seeing a stack of them at a card show.
Greg Pryor did an in store signing awhile back, and the owner of the LCS, knowing my recent hunt for Royals autos, threw this one in for free with my purchase. That card takes me right back to that feeling that I had waiting in line at the lumber yard! Haha! (Sorry, Greg...)
Got these in today. The Baines will have to go to PSA whenever I send more cards to be reholdered because there seems to be a string or something inside the case on the bottom right between the card and the holder.
What I Collect:
PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 77.97% Complete)
PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.26% Complete)
PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
@orioles93 said:
Got these in today. The Baines will have to go to PSA whenever I send more cards to be reholdered because there seems to be a string or something inside the case on the bottom right between the card and the holder.
you really have been getting some really great cards lately.
This will go down as a pretty great pickup; a nice lot of collector grade cards - mostly ‘69s - to go with 4 oversized Mantle items. Three of them are postcards and then this 4x6 Yankees Team Issue from 1969. The set was produced then but really not that popular as 2 of the 12 components of the set would barely see the field if at all; Thurman Munson played about 30 games and Mickey retired on March 1, 1969. Given they’re appearing in the set together, this is the only possible year of issue. While not popular at the time, the have endured mainly because it is one of the first issues of Thurman Munson, predating his ‘70 Topps card by a calendar year and the last team issue of Mickey Mantle.
1969 New York Yankees Team Issue - Mickey Mantle
1969 Topps Lot
Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?
@Kid4hof03 said:
Tim, I've never seen that 1969 team issue before, do you have pictures of any of the others? Very cool.
This is the Munson - but it’s not mine.
Edited to add:
I know they came in hanger packs with a reddish color and black font topper with the photos below that label in cellophane; six to a pack with names of the players inside on the packaging. Like many of these items of the era (Jay Publishing, Team Issues and Phot/Picture Packs, Sports Service, All Star Packs) it was probably a multi-year issuance without much to differentiate one year from another aside from having the full unopened pack.
The date of 1969 is a result of my amateur detective work and general knowledge of Yankees ephemera. I don’t consider myself an ‘expert’ - at all - but rather a curious Mickey Mantle fan who likes looking for information on old baseball cards.
Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?
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For some reason, this card is almost always severely tilted, even in PSA 9. Glad to land this copy, which puts me at 28/33 complete on the graded team set.
Also picked up these autos:
Yaz Master Set
#1 Gino Cappelletti master set
#1 John Hannah master set
Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox
These arrived yesterday. These are the stock images since they look better than the ones I took quickly with my phone. These Project 2020 cards range from horrifying to great, but I plan to collect all 20 Donnie Baseball and make some sort of fine art type display.
Kris
My 1971 Topps adventure - Davis Men in Black
$18 delivered & never touched? Sure. Why not!
Recent pickup from REA Auctions.
A few Phillies that aren't yelling
2004 spx
1989 topps psa 10
1959 phillies
Phillies of the 70's
For me, this one falls into the 'dream come true' category. Truly, I never thought I'd own one of these but a timely trade with a fellow collector (essentially - small cash changed hands, too) turned a once distant dream into a reality. The reason I never thought I'd have one is quite simply they are pretty hard to come by and most of the time will cost a king's ransom to acquire. "Low pop" is thrown around a lot and I fall into the camp of 'you never really know' but suffice it to say that these have been eligible for grading for quite some time and the total PSA population is 14, with a high of VG/EX 4. Because I was fortunate enough to have an item that was needed badly, I worked out a deal for this item that was fair for both parties. Now, this is not the nicest copy you will ever see by any stretch of the imagination and yet I think it presents really well and simply can not wait until I have it in hand.
And I'm proud to now call it mine.
1960 Post Cereal Hand Cut - Mickey Mantle PSA Authentic
( Added these two above - my photos. The scans are no good on my scanner as they just too big )
Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/987963/1951-wheaties-premium-photos-set-registry#latest
Beautiful card! One of my favorite Mantles, and it is probably the most attractive Mantle card. I have one with Mantle's autograph on the back, and got it graded by SGC several years ago when PSA wouldn't grade them.
Always looking for Mantle cards such as Stahl Meyer, 1954 Dan Dee, 1959 Bazooka, 1960 Post, 1952 Star Cal Decal, 1952 Tip Top Bread Labels, 1953-54 Briggs Meat, and other Topps, Bowman, and oddball Mantles.
Adding to my variations of this awesome card.
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/pdub1819/othersets/6204
Added Posey's Topps RC
PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 77.97% Complete)
PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.26% Complete)
PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
Tim, the Mantle Post is incredible, that's one of the iconic issues of the era for sure. Congratulations!
That Post Mantle is sweet! I've never seen it before.
@judgebuck
@Kid4hof03
@doubledragon
Thanks a lot, David, Abe and Jason!
Taken separately, to me, it seems that the different elements shouldn’t work together but for whatever reason, it really works.
Imagine that pitch over the phone?
“So it’s going to have Mickey Mantle against a pink background and we’re going with a faux wood grain border, - thick - with a gold nameplate and a facsimile signature. Yes...no...yeah, on the back of the box. No, I’m not smoking anything...”
Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/987963/1951-wheaties-premium-photos-set-registry#latest
A very reasonably priced set upgrade
Jason
Personal Collection | Willie Woodburn | Legion of Doom
One for the HOF rookie collection, and one for speculation that it'll join that collection:
Main collecting focus is Patrick Roy playing days 85/86-02/03, expect 1/1, National/All-Star stamped cards.PC Completion: 2,548/2,952; 86.31% My Patrick Roy PC Website:https://proy33collector.weebly.com
Biggest mail day I've had in a long time. Been looking for this card for quite some time and finally pulled the trigger. Love the 01 SP Authentic set.
PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 77.97% Complete)
PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.26% Complete)
PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
Great, underrated card! Normally there's edge wear on those 1996 SPs but yours looks super clean. Why do you suppose 9 and not 10?
One for the Bradshaw set:
One for the Clemente set:
Thanks! Card has a minor surface issue on the back.
KILLER 1976 Football rack back from BBCE wrapping!! If you're a Steeler Fan or just a fan of football, this is a DREAM rack!! Oh, and a 3rd HOF'er on the back by the name of Charley Taylor!
Nice Sam Cunningham rack!
Yaz Master Set
#1 Gino Cappelletti master set
#1 John Hannah master set
Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, 1964 Venezuelan Topps, 1974 Topps Red Sox
@DBesse27 - Woot Woot!!
Decided to do some work on my Mattingly basic Topps set.
Jason
Personal Collection | Willie Woodburn | Legion of Doom
The "like" button doesn't seem like enough for this pack, absolutely incredible, and I'm a Cowboys fan.
@Kid4hof03 - thanks!! I'm a Packer fan now and have been for quite some time but as a kid I was all in on the Cowboys.
PSA does not give out many Sp RC 10s from 93-96
Here is my Owens from a self sub from last year I think.
96’s are brutal
Another for my 87 set.
I collect hall of fame rookie cards, https://www.instagram.com/stwainfan/
Back to unfocused this month. Love '54 Topps and while I do not have a lot of them pick them up when I find a nice one. This Snider looks great and was priced fairly. The Dodger' Boss and Power is towards getting every multi-player card of the 50's and 60's with at least one HOF. The '71 Mays is because I try to get his cards when I can. And the OPCs are mostly because I love those '71 OPC backs. The Blyleven is my first ever OC qualifier card I purchased but the price was cheap and I am unlikely ever to spend for a better one. Really excited to add all of these.
Picked up this ticket for my Ralph Sampson collection. 1979 McDonald's All American Game, Sampson and Dominique Wilkins were co-MVP's.
Another Bernie Williams for my Topps run
UFFDAH your stuff is amazing! I tried to friend you through that Facebook group.
ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240
I just got this set in the mail today. This is the best centered Hogan I own and looking forward to sending it in. Overall a beautiful set with some strong grading candidates.
You definitely chose the right team in the end
Snagged this from a buddy of mine for way below comps to match my PSA 9 Refractor...
I'd collected a few in person autographs back in grade school, when the "Royals Caravan" would travel through the small Missouri towns right before spring training, with players making appearances at the local lumber yard or sporting goods stores, while the local radio stations did on site broadcasting and interviews to get people hyped for the upcoming season. Most often, it was either the young and upcoming players, or the bench players and back of the bullpen guys. Even as a kid, I quickly grew tired of spending hours of my time waiting for an autograph of a guy that may not even be on the team by June. Autographs soon fell out of favor with me, especially as I grew into a more "serious collector". Cards were meant to be kept in "mint" condition, and autographs essentially ruined the cards by marking them up.
Fast forward to 2012, and the All-Star Game Fanfest was here in Kansas City. The biggest stars, not just Royals players, but in all of baseball, past and present, were there, signing autographs mostly for free, and even as an adult, you couldn't do or say anything to get me to stand in line for that. I can't overstate my previous aversion to autographed memorabilia.
Up until this point, I'd mostly stayed with collecting vintage and the junk wax of my youth. I started wading more and more into the modern stuff probably around 2016. I'd get a pack pulled autograph of some nobody from a team I didn't follow, or some ridiculous manufactured patch card or jersey relic that I despised. It wasn't until I pulled a Mike Trout red ink auto #/25 out of a Heritage blaster that I finally started to come around. I quickly sold that card, though, and long story short, those funds allowed me to purchase maybe 2 percent of a Royals super fan's collection when it was dispersed at an estate sale auction. He had an absolutely ridiculous collection of memorabilia, and my personal focus was on mostly the non autographed items, but there were countless autographs and relics that just came along for the ride within the various lots that I was fortunate to win from the auction (of which I've shared pics of in other threads). These items soon found a spot on display in my card room. So, while I'm still not all in on the idea of autograph collecting, I have been picking up some Royals items here and there to round out and fill some holes in my display.
.
.
.
This last photo, with all the recent hype for Canseco cards, I couldn't pass it up when I found it in the "bargain box" at the LCS. For just a couple dollars, why not? Takes me right back to the late 80s and that feeling I'd get from handling one right out of a pack or seeing a stack of them at a card show.
Greg Pryor did an in store signing awhile back, and the owner of the LCS, knowing my recent hunt for Royals autos, threw this one in for free with my purchase. That card takes me right back to that feeling that I had waiting in line at the lumber yard! Haha! (Sorry, Greg...)
Got these today. I have a rookie card coming I can't wait to show.
I collect hall of fame rookie cards, https://www.instagram.com/stwainfan/
Got these in today. The Baines will have to go to PSA whenever I send more cards to be reholdered because there seems to be a string or something inside the case on the bottom right between the card and the holder.
PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 77.97% Complete)
PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.26% Complete)
PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
Michigan Test FASC!
ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240
Great, underrated card! Normally there's edge wear on those 1996 SPs but yours looks super clean. Why do you suppose 9 and not 10?> @rexvos said:
That's a bummer. I have a Marvin Harrison all packed up and ready to go the next bulk order. I guess I'll temper my expectations for that one.
you really have been getting some really great cards lately.
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waited three weeks in the mail for this card but I finally got it.
Not the best photo. I ordered this today
I can't wait for it to get here .
I collect hall of fame rookie cards, https://www.instagram.com/stwainfan/
This will go down as a pretty great pickup; a nice lot of collector grade cards - mostly ‘69s - to go with 4 oversized Mantle items. Three of them are postcards and then this 4x6 Yankees Team Issue from 1969. The set was produced then but really not that popular as 2 of the 12 components of the set would barely see the field if at all; Thurman Munson played about 30 games and Mickey retired on March 1, 1969. Given they’re appearing in the set together, this is the only possible year of issue. While not popular at the time, the have endured mainly because it is one of the first issues of Thurman Munson, predating his ‘70 Topps card by a calendar year and the last team issue of Mickey Mantle.
1969 New York Yankees Team Issue - Mickey Mantle
1969 Topps Lot
Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/987963/1951-wheaties-premium-photos-set-registry#latest
Tim, I've never seen that 1969 team issue before, do you have pictures of any of the others? Very cool.
This is the Munson - but it’s not mine.
Edited to add:
I know they came in hanger packs with a reddish color and black font topper with the photos below that label in cellophane; six to a pack with names of the players inside on the packaging. Like many of these items of the era (Jay Publishing, Team Issues and Phot/Picture Packs, Sports Service, All Star Packs) it was probably a multi-year issuance without much to differentiate one year from another aside from having the full unopened pack.
The date of 1969 is a result of my amateur detective work and general knowledge of Yankees ephemera. I don’t consider myself an ‘expert’ - at all - but rather a curious Mickey Mantle fan who likes looking for information on old baseball cards.
Curious about the rare, mysterious and beautiful 1951 Wheaties Premium Photos?
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/987963/1951-wheaties-premium-photos-set-registry#latest
Another raw pick up
The last of the autos......for now.
