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joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
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I got a package in the mail from topps. I had been waiting months for my 2003 red ink Johnny Sain auto. I got a replacment in the mail
today.....2004 Heritage Red Ink Bill Glynn numbered 1/55

I could use opinions on this..did I get screwed or would you be ok with that substitution? I was very surprised that they both book the same.

Thanks
Kevin

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  • KnucklesKnuckles Posts: 2,512 ✭✭✭
    I've never heard of either one of them being a hockey guy mostly.. So to me it wouldn't really matter. But...

    I do think it's poor customer service, they should have had the same card in perfect shape autographed by Johnny Sain to send back to you. Unless of course this guy passed away and it wasn't possible to get his autograph. Maybe this sounds unreasonable to some but in my whacky mind it's the only fair thing to do.

    I would like to know why they still have #'d autographed cards laying around over at Topps rather than in packs for collectors to find though.
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  • mudflap02mudflap02 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭
    Sounds like a pretty fair tradeoff to me - I value all the Real Ones as equal, unless it's a major star/HOF like Banks/Aaron/Musial etc.

    Plus it's a 1/1! WOW LQQK how awesome is that only one like it in the world no punctuation
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    Sain is a Yankme. Aside from that meh..., I guess 1/55 is cool to have, make sure to SPAm it on ebay as a 1/1 of /55..lol
  • MarkLeeMarkLee Posts: 100
    The old Milwaukee Braves pitching rotation ... Spahn and Sain and Pray for Rain. I would rather have the Johnny Sain.
    Mark
    "Pete Rose would walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball." - Sparky Anderson
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    thanks guys, that pretty much what I thought...I mean I would rather have Sain, but its nice to get a 1/55, as the red autos usually
    sell pretty well no matter who is on them.

    What is probably most disturbing is that topps kept the 1/55 for over a year and a half....you kinda wonder what else they have
    sitting back at the old mail office.

    Kevin
  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭
    SAIN was a YANKEE from the 50's I BELIEVE


    Kevin....YOU GOT HOSED!!!!

    Call up tops and request another one if they are going to replace it like that....YANKEES ALWAYS GO FOR MORE.

    just an opinion of a yankee himself...

    Lothar
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    they would probably send me Steve Karly or something!

    JS
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>they would probably send me Steve Karly or something!

    JS >>



    It's Steve Kraly, picked one up for my 55 set. They probably would send him , or Frank Leja who pitched one major league game EVER and topps gave him a card!
  • WarHoundR69WarHoundR69 Posts: 564
    That quote of "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain" is from the 1948 season when the Braves were still in Boston.
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  • Lothar52Lothar52 Posts: 2,664 ✭✭✭
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  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    Kevin, think of how long that 2/55 Yogi you've got in your collection sat at Topps while it waited for me to pull the redemption! image

    All things considered, I'd much rather have the Sain. I can't recall Bill Glynn ever being in a cool saying.

    Geordie

    Dodgers collection scans | Brett Butler registry | 1978 Dodgers - straight 9s, homie
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    yeah I would of loved a blue ink Yogi or even Whitie Ford..oh well

    Kevin
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,407 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kevin
    If you are going to sell the card, then you may be OK with the 1/55 auto but if it's for your collection, I would rather have a Braves/Yankee player - Sain had a winning record as a pitcher and of course is a Yank.

    What are your plans? If it's to keep the auto - how about contacting Topps?

    On stuff left over? I wouldn't put it past them to put it up in the vault in 10 years?

    mike
    Mike
  • mudflap02mudflap02 Posts: 2,060 ✭✭
    Have some gin and go with Glynn.
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