The cool Cincinnati Reds thread: Show your stuff!
jrdolan
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This thread is for those who collect all things Cincy. Bring up a topic. Show off your favorite Reds collectibles! I'll start it off (and I'll try not to do too much Johnny Bench).
Here's a Today's 1971 Reds Yearbook, which includes Today's Team Stamps of Bench, Rose, Perez and the rest of the early Big Red Machine. The stamps are pretty scarce in graded form -- 86 from all teams, 22 from the Reds. Rose has 14, Bench 5, Perez 2, Concepcion 1.
Shown are the cover and a page of perforated cards including the key members of the Machine.
Here's a Today's 1971 Reds Yearbook, which includes Today's Team Stamps of Bench, Rose, Perez and the rest of the early Big Red Machine. The stamps are pretty scarce in graded form -- 86 from all teams, 22 from the Reds. Rose has 14, Bench 5, Perez 2, Concepcion 1.
Shown are the cover and a page of perforated cards including the key members of the Machine.
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Chris
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Got this at a show at the cincy convention center a few years back, also got to meet johnny bench but i didnt have the pic yet. At the same show I saw a guy who had a giant cardboard poster of the 75 team pic signed by most everyone. He was finishing up the last few when Pedro Borbon signed it upside down...I would have killed him!
This is the original art for the back of the 70T BB card of Ray Washburn of the Reds:
The Rose auto ball comes from Jackson.com:
This acrylic art was done by Chuck Feist who I think does nice work; unfortunately the whole thing wouldn't fit in the scanner:
OK, I've hogged enough - thanx for looking
your friend
Mike
Denver, CO.
RustyWilly's HOF Portrait Collection
and
Cards for Sale
That one's for you JRDolan!! Pennant from Johnny Bench Night. Here's some more- pennant from the '73 team. Yearbook from '64, and the yearbooks from '75 and '76.
Keep 'em coming. The Reds will rise again.
<< <i>Keep 'em coming. The Reds will rise again. >>
JR
you got it! I like pulling stuff out. This was obtained in the late 70's and you can see Rose's auto has changed a bit, but not much IMO.
Also, I am collecting the 63F set and here is a really nice Purkey - the guy had one wicked knuckleball!
your friend
Mike
Something old...
Something new...
Currently collecting.....your guess is as good as mine.
I didnt think I had anything to offer to this thread, but remembered this signed 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 autographed picture of Big Klu. I got this in person in the early 70's and remember Klu to be an extremely friendly guy when he signed this.
One is a 1969 MLBPA pin, the other is 1971 Topps Tattoo, given to me by a board member. PSA did the old "refund, no holder available" dance, and I'm still steamed about that. It would fit easily in their standard holder and is just as legitimate as say, 1971 Topps coins, and a helluva lot more condition sensitive.
T-205 Gold PSA 4 & up
1967 Topps BB PSA 8 & up
1975 Topps BB PSA 9 & up
1959 Topps FB PSA 8 & up
1976 Topps FB PSA 9 & up
1981 Topps FB PSA 10
1976-77 Topps BK PSA 9 & up
1988-89 Fleer BK PSA 10
3,000 Hit Club RC PSA 5 & Up
My Sets
This thread also gives me the opportunity to spam some Reds stuff that I have ending tonight.
In my stack of cards to send to PSA, A '71 Keds Bench:
One of those weird 1975 Mengler 3x5's...It almost looks like Johnny:
Postcard from Johnny's restaurant he had in the 70's...I've got a metal dining plate and a menu, but they're too big to scan.:
My favorite autograph I have of Klu...holding a bat like a toothpick:
An Rose autograph personalized to me and my little brother that somehow survived our childhoods:
And lastly, my beginner's luck first submission to PSA, Mint 9 '70 Bench:
Hope that was some eye candy for Big Red Machine Fans. Who else thinks it's a shame that there's no Redsfest til 2007? I can't believe the Reds don't see what a PR disaster this is.
Todd
Denver, CO.
RustyWilly's HOF Portrait Collection
and
Cards for Sale
charlie, some trooly drooly stuff there. I hope you do well on that Keds. Only two are graded so far. Lee Spies has one (PSA 4) and I have the other (PSA 3). Mine came from a panel in which Willis Reed and Stan Smith received PSA 8, but Bench and Bubba Smith each had a little crease.
Yours should become the top-graded Bench, if there's no crease or wrinkle. PSA might dock you because the right-hand cut is slightly into the dotted line. They hate that.
Gorgeous 1970 #660! I recently acquired that card in PSA 9 myself, and it cost an arm and both legs. Your way is better.
Thanks for starting the cool thread.
Todd
Meanwhile, here's an oddball Cincy thing from 1976 (the year we Cranked the Yanks). I have two sheets of perforated Reds cards, each card being 4 inches by 5 and 5/8 inches. They're Charles Linner portraits, a total of 12.
One sheet has "Famous Sailing Ships" on the back of each card, the other sheet has "Great Cars of the World." Each card also says "Pee-Wee's Hip Pocket Library" on the reverse. That's all I know about them.
<< <i>I started a legitimate thread because I throught you had a great idea >>
Gemmy
I think it was a great idea - your zealous love of the Yanks will drive out the trolls - just ignore them - I am also a Yankee collector (Braves fan) and have a lot of great stuff to bring to the table.
JR
Nice oddball cards! Interestingly, I have the press pin for the Sox of 75 but not the Reds - will be on the lookout - just never got around to it.
Have you got an schedules from the teams of the 70's?
your friend
Mike
Those cards are from the 1976 Linnett Superstars set and consists of Reds, Red Sox, and Dodgers players. The baseball players are really a subset of a larger set of collectible cards, so I'm told. The pictures come from the 1973-1974 8.5 x 11 Linnett Portraits, which were sold at MLB stadiums and retail stores from '73 to '74. I can remember my dad buying me the Rose and Bench in a packet at my first baseball game at Riverfront.
Let me know if you ever talk PSA into grading those perforated cards...I've got a bunch I'd like to have graded.
-Todd-
Speaking of Cincy stuff that's big, awkward and cool, let's keep the vintage stuff coming ... Here's the 1951 Topps team card, the first card in the first Reds Team Card Set that should be up on the registry any day now. Only 6 of these are graded. PSA 6 is the top grade, though I expect that will change now that there's a registry for it! Very scarce in any condition.
"All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
They call me "Pack the Ripper"
"All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Have you thought about PSA/DNA-ing it?
"All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Back to the obscure / oddball category... In 1971 Keds printed a panel of four athletes on some shoeboxes: Bubba Smith (football), Stan Smith (tennis), Willis Reed (hoop) and Johhny Bench as charliehustle showed us. But Keds also did some shoeboxes with only two stars on the lid.
Bench was paired up with Willis Reed on mine. These were much larger than the 4-panel cards, these were something like 3.5" by 6" -- too big to grade. Mine has a crease anyway, but I'm still fond of it as one of Bench's oddest and scarcest "cards."
I'll be at the Moeller HS show in Cincy this weekend, so hopefully I'll make a few pickups on some more cool Reds items. I'd post some Reds memorabilia if I could find the cord for my digital camera.
Later all,
Todd
<< <i>1971 Keds printed a panel of four athletes on some shoeboxes >>
JR
Absolutely cool item!
your friend
Mike
<< <i>JR...Every time I see that card I think it must be what Johnny Bench would have looked like if he'd have been the "special guest star" on Scooby Doo back in the 70's. >>
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Hey, charlie, keep an eye out for Bench Topps Venezuela or Topps candy lids for me. Or pre '73 OPC.
<< <i>Rut-roh, Raggy, Roe Rorgan ruck rout ... rut Ronny Rench ris rup rext! Ro Rig Red Rachine! >>
Hehe...One can only hope it's a lost episode that'll turn up on Cartoon Network someday.
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Hey, charlie, keep an eye out for Bench Topps Venezuela or Topps candy lids for me. Or pre '73 OPC. >>
Sure thing JR.
Found my digital camera cord finally...Mrs. Charlie cleaned house and put everything where it's supposed to be. How does she expect me to find anything that way? Anyhow, here's a couple cool Bench items:
1989 Bench HOF Cherry Crush Vending Display
Original metal dining plate from Johnny Bench's Home Stretch Restaurant
I've got a mug from Johnny Bench's Home Plate too, so I suppose I can have a full Big Red Machine style meal.
-Todd-
Todd -- Man, you have some nice Bench stuff. I'm planning to break into your house. Just so you know.
OK, you guys. So far I've been doing stuff that will fit on my scanner. Now I see I'll have to break out the ol' Canon G1. I wonder if it still works?
Pedro Borbon will be at the Moeller HS show in Cincy this weekend...I think he's secretly placed another hex on the Reds, so I'll politely ask him to remove it.
Later all,
Todd
Of course everybody and their sister has 1975 SSPC #31, but #29 is a b*tch. Good luck with Pedro!
mb
1963T Dodgers in 8s
Pre-war Brooklyn 5s or higher
<< <i>cool post. I was a hardcore Dodger fan in the seventies. The Reds were my second favorite team. I remember the 1976 allstar game infield being all Reds at the time. wow! >>
That's right. Plus Foster and Griffey Sr. in the outfield. Perez got into the game, but Garvey beat him out for the starting job at 1B. Oddly, there were NO Cincy pitchers, which shows you what kind of team the '76 Reds were. That might have been different if the fans had chosen the hurlers.