My February submission, one of my best yet (w/scans)

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Sent in 20 cards on the February $8 1960s special (<$75 declared value per card). Had already submitted the best of my "big 5" (Aaron, Mays, Clemente, Mantle & Koufax) so this batch was the best of the rest of my 2nd tier '60s HOFers. Was very pleased, even though two came back unslabbed: 1960 Whitey Ford (evidence of trimming; confirmed GAI's pre-grade conclusion at the 2004 Cleveland National) and 1965 Joe Morgan RC (factory miscut). One mystified me (the first image below) but generally the grades met or exceeded my expectations. Here they are:



1964 F. Robinson bought raw off eBay (March 10, 2003). This is an unbelievably sharp card -- I actually had this one coming back a 9OC!
1964 Kaline bought raw off eBay (October 14, 2002). Beautiful card but four circular indentations on the front kept this one from grading higher.




1961 Billy Wiliams RC bought raw at my favorite shop (July 27, 2002)
1962 Gehrig & Ruth bought raw at my favorite shop (October 15, 2000)




1969 Rollie Fingers RC bought raw at my favorite shop (December 28, 2005)




1968 Rod Carew bought raw at my favorite shop (December 28, 2004)
1969 Rod Carew bought raw at my favorite shop (June 19, 2004)




1967 Ernie Banks bought raw at my favorite shop (November 19, 2004), sharp as hell, but with a tilt cut
1968 Carl Yastrzemski bought raw at my favorite shop (November 19, 2004)




1966 Al Kaline bought raw off eBay (October 19, 2003)
1966 Tony Perez bought raw at my favorite shop (December 28, 2004), highest graded example (no 9s or 10s)




1961 Brooks Robinson bought raw off eBay (February 10, 2002)
1961 Carl Yastrzemski bought raw at my favorite shop (July 27, 2002)



1963 Al Kaline bought raw at Cleveland National (July 24, 2004)
1963 Duke Snider bought raw at Cleveland National (July 23, 2004)




1966 Billy Williams bought raw at my favorite shop (August 14, 2004)
1969 Steve Carlton bought raw at my favorite shop (December 28, 2005) my fourth 9!




Here's the entire sub:

LINE # CERT # CARD CARD CO. CARD # CARD NAME VARIETY GRADE
1 90595267 1960 TOPPS 35 WHITEY FORD N/A Not Holdered, Evidence of Trimming
2 90595268 1961 TOPPS 10 BROOKS ROBINSON N/A 8
3 90595269 1961 TOPPS 141 BILLY WILLIAMS N/A 7
4 90595270 1961 TOPPS 287 CARL YASTRZEMSKI STAR ROOKIE 8
5 90595271 1962 TOPPS 140 GEHRIG AND RUTH N/A 7
6 90595272 1963 TOPPS 25 AL KALINE N/A 8
7 90595273 1964 TOPPS 250 AL KALINE N/A 7
8 90595274 1964 TOPPS 260 FRANK ROBINSON N/A 6
9 90595275 1965 TOPPS 16 ASTROS ROOKIES J.MORGAN/S.JACKSON Not Holdered, Miscut
10 90595276 1965 TOPPS 120 FRANK ROBINSON N/A 7
11 90595277 1966 TOPPS 72 TONY PEREZ ALL-STAR ROOKIE 8
12 90595278 1966 TOPPS 410 AL KALINE N/A 8
13 90595279 1966 TOPPS 580 BILLY WILLIAMS N/A 8
14 90595280 1967 TOPPS 215 ERNIE BANKS N/A 8
15 90595281 1968 TOPPS 80 ROD CAREW ALL-STAR ROOKIE 8
16 90595282 1968 TOPPS 250 CARL YASTRZEMSKI N/A 8
17 90595283 1969 TOPPS 255 STEVE CARLTON N/A 9
18 90595284 1969 TOPPS 510 ROD CAREW N/A 8
19 90595285 1969 TOPPS 597 A.L. ROOKIES FLOYD/BURCHART/FINGERS 8
20 90595286 1963 TOPPS 550 DUKE SNIDER N/A 8

Date Received: 02/09/2006
Date of Grades Posted: 02/16/2006
Date Shipped: 02/17/2006

ctsoxfan

Beautiful cards again, thanks for sharing.

I must not have gotten that PM where you were going to give me your favorite shops location...

Stone193

Paleo

Those are just fantastic! Congratulations.

I think you have a great eye for picking up raw cards.

I think the Yaz and Kaline cards look great!

Are these for a set or sale?

thanx for sharing!
mike

zef204

2 things come to my mind.

I need a better scanner and I gotta find your favorite shop.


Nice cards and thanks for sharing

wolfbear

Nice looking cards. Thanks for sharing!
Can't believe you keep track of the date and place where you've purchased every card you own.

Thought I was pretty well organized, but you take record keeping to a whole new level.

larryallen73

Beauties! Thanks for sharing.

BigRedMachine

That is absolutely some great stuff!!

Congratulations.

shawn

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Thanks for the kind words, guys. Stone -- These cards aren't for a particular set nor for sale; in 2000 I got back into baseball cards (after a ~25 year hiatus) and decided to collect every Topps card (in Near Mint or better condition) produced between 1955-1975 that featured at least 1 HOFer. This included All-Star, League Leader, World Series and highlight subsets (but not Checklist nor Team cards). There's a bit more than 1000 of them and I'm over half way there. However, this last year I decided to grade my best cards, so now of those 500+ cards I've eye-balled as NM or better, 141 now reside in PSA slabs. Not sure if I'm going to grade all of them, but I'm moving in that direction.

Here's one more card I needed that I recently pick-up off the bay:

NewJerseyMeatHook

Kudos! Very nice scans.