<< <i>Is your plan now to expand to the entire post war HOF RC set, not just first ballot guys? >>
When I first started, I was collecting every HOFer, but it was getting expensive as some are extremely high priced (Mathews) and others I didn't even know who they were. The first ballot set was fun... I might upgrade a few like the Banks and Robinson...or upgrade my Clemente set... Or start a low grade (but nicely centered) Mantle set.
Also posted in the July pick-up thread on the main board, but I closed out the month with Ernie. Happy with the top to bottom centering here, and I actually prefer this card shifted to the left a bit so that Ernie's ear and rear are about equal distance from the edge of the card. Excited to have this one.
Thanks, Dan. I'm finding the 75s tougher than I thought they would be. Passed on a centered Rice last week because of a weird discoloration on the bottom, but card still went for well more than VCP so I probably wouldn't have gotten it anyway. And the 76 Eckersley is really tough to find reasonably centered and without print defects in a 7 or 8.
Finally upgraded a few of my rookies and added a few. Here are some of my recent pickups! I am also looking for a 1964 niekro psa 7 and a 1975 carter psa 8 if anyone has one to sell or trade please let me know.
and picked up a future hall of famer
What I Collect:
PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 80.51% Complete)
PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.80% Complete)
PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
really dig that frank robinson card. been looking myself and have come to understand the issues w. that card in general and certainly looks of a better deserving grade than a 5!
From the National: (To be honest, I thought I'd eventually own these in at least PSA 6 but even mid-grades are soaring out of reach (for me) at this point. I was happy to be able to add these to my collection in decent-looking "5's".)
Aaron and Clemente both look great! I hear you on rising prices. My plan is one big card (for me, $1000+) per year and a lesser-priced card or two per month on this set, but I'm starting to think I'll have to buy the big boys (especially Mantle and Mays) pretty soon or I'll never be able to finish.
Paleo- I especially like the looks on the Clemente. Congrats.
I don't do this set, but love to follow the thread and see the great pick ups you guys make. I'm more a football guy and can attest to what graygator said. Price are going through the roof for HOF RC cards. Especially for those from the 80's. Just to use round numbers, PSA 10 RC's of J. Montana, J. Rice are bring over $12,000 each. Elway, Marino over $7,000 each. And even a Walter Jones 1997 SP Authentic RC in PSA 10, brings $500- $1,000.
I believe this is due to a slightly better economy as well as new money looking for "alternative assets" to invest in. Saw this article from one of my investing websites about the recent Mantle prices in the Goldin auction Record 1952 Mantle price
When Wall street starts printing articles about card prices, you know the market is heating up.
On the Robinson, there's an indentation up around his cap about the size of a fingernail. Not sure it rises even to the level of a crease. Can see it, but really only if you are looking for it. According to the previous owner it happened while cracking out of a 7ST holder to wipe off the wax. Without that indentation it's an easy 7. But I guess it's accurately graded. An instance where the grading standards work in favor of the collector in my view.
On Murray, I finally gave up on centering and looked for one that was decent but had no PD, since the PD is just as bad as the centering on that card.
That Frank Thomas, and the Bird, Erving, Magic, are ridiculous.
Kille centering on that Billy Williams 7. Very nice.
"My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
will admit, she was kind of a toughie to find centered...most were significantly oc or beaters >>
It's hard enough to find a lot of these cards with reasonable centering anyway. Throw in a requirement that they are autographed as well and I'm amazed you've found as many nice ones in as short a period of time as you have.
i love that 66 palmer card. he was never really my guy growing up, but it's just something about that card and pose that I've just come to appreciate more and more as i age...great score!!!
i appreciate the comments and the realization of the signed part as well.
it really is difficult but extremely gratifying to finally nail one down that i'm content with!
Now, that Mathews is sweet, and pop report says only 4. Wow. Very nice! (And I hope Bob doesn't know where you live because he's going to be beating down your door!)
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<< <i>Is your plan now to expand to the entire post war HOF RC set, not just first ballot guys? >>
When I first started, I was collecting every HOFer, but it was getting expensive as some are extremely high priced (Mathews) and others I didn't even know who they were. The first ballot set was fun... I might upgrade a few like the Banks and Robinson...or upgrade my Clemente set... Or start a low grade (but nicely centered) Mantle set.
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/pdub1819/othersets/6204
I did notice that I need to scan my Smoltz and Puckett.
Thank you for looking.
PDub
1948 BOWMAN 36 OR 1948 LEAF 4 STAN MUSIAL
1948 BOWMAN 18 OR 1948 LEAF 32 WARREN SPAHN
1948 LEAF 79 OR 1949 BOWMAN 50 JACKIE ROBINSON
1951 BOWMAN MICKEY MANTLE
1951 BOWMAN WILLIE MAYS
1954 TOPPS ERNIE BANKS
1954 TOPPS HENRY AARON
1954 TOPPS AL KALINE
1955 TOPPS SANDY KOUFAX
1955 TOPPS ROBERTO CLEMENTE
1957 TOPPS FRANK ROBINSON
1957 TOPPS BROOKS ROBINSON
1959 TOPPS BOB GIBSON
1960 TOPPS CARL YASTRZEMSKI
1960 TOPPS WILLIE MCCOVEY
1962 TOPPS LOU BROCK
1963 TOPPS WILLIE STARGELL
1965 TOPPS JOE MORGAN
1965 TOPPS STEVE CARLTON
1966 TOPPS JIM PALMER
1967 TOPPS ROD CAREW
1967 TOPPS TOM SEAVER
1968 TOPPS NOLAN RYAN
1968 TOPPS JOHNNY BENCH
1969 TOPPS REGGIE JACKSON
1973 TOPPS MIKE SCHMIDT
1974 TOPPS DAVE WINFIELD
1975 TOPPS ROBIN YOUNT
1975 TOPPS GEORGE BRETT
1976 TOPPS DENNIS ECKERSLEY
1978 TOPPS EDDIE MURRAY
1978 TOPPS PAUL MOLITOR
1979 TOPPS OZZIE SMITH
1980 TOPPS RICKEY HENDERSON
1982 TOPPS TRADED CAL RIPKEN
1983 TOPPS TONY GWYNN
1983 TOPPS WADE BOGGS
1984 FLEER UPDATE KIRBY PUCKETT
1990 LEAF FRANK THOMAS
1987 DONRUSS GREG MADDUX
1988 FLEER UPDATE JOHN SMOLTZ
1988 SCORE TOM GLAVINE
1989 UPPER DECK RANDY JOHNSON STAR ROOKIE
1991 UPPER DECK FINAL EDITION PEDRO MARTINEZ
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/pdub1819/othersets/6204
here is what the mail lady was nice enough to bring today:
and
afternoon ground package:
I love that 61 Santo one of my fav players all time.
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
<< <i>That Spahn is bad@$$ >>
thanks dan! I think so as well. she has been on the desk ever since she arrived!!!
brett has jsa sticker on back.
and this card doesn't look like much, but he was one of the color barrier breakers w/ cincinnati.
never had an official rookie card produced and while technically not in the hof...
anyone enduring such a situation during those times is always welcomed in my collection of hof'ers!
auto is authentic and not a facsimilie:
and picked up a future hall of famer
PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 80.51% Complete)
PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.80% Complete)
PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
the rest aint too shabby either!!
Looking forward to Atlantic City already!
I don't do this set, but love to follow the thread and see the great pick ups you guys make. I'm more a football guy and can attest to what graygator said. Price are going through the roof for HOF RC cards. Especially for those from the 80's. Just to use round numbers, PSA 10 RC's of J. Montana, J. Rice are bring over $12,000 each. Elway, Marino over $7,000 each. And even a Walter Jones 1997 SP Authentic RC in PSA 10, brings $500- $1,000.
I believe this is due to a slightly better economy as well as new money looking for "alternative assets" to invest in. Saw this article from one of my investing websites about the recent Mantle prices in the Goldin auction
Record 1952 Mantle price
When Wall street starts printing articles about card prices, you know the market is heating up.
***not sure why this text was removed below. maybe it happened to strike a nerve w/ said "advertiser" but will repost again and remove the prob-lem:
btw: and just fyi to whoever consigned those hof signed rooks w/ a consignor....
i made you an extremely fair offer on a few of those. maybe it was fwd'ed to you. maybe it wasn't.
just know that i will not be participating in any of them once they go to auction...
no coincidence they all of a sudden just appeared for sale.
best of luck when they get shilled up and don't end up getting paid for...
not by me as i simply do not participate in his problematic auctions. haven't for years!
just saying and best of luck.
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Awesome pickup! Loving the inscription!
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/pdub1819/othersets/6204
is there a crease...she deserves a much better grade!!
and speaking of centering beasts, realizing what the eddie murray card is like....
On Murray, I finally gave up on centering and looked for one that was decent but had no PD, since the PD is just as bad as the centering on that card.
That Frank Thomas, and the Bird, Erving, Magic, are ridiculous.
Man alive !!!! those signed beauties are phenomenal.
I bet it's not easy getting all 3 BK greats signing on one card.
1948-76 Topps FB Sets
FB & BB HOF Player sets
1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 80.51% Complete)
PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.80% Complete)
PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
passed on a ton of banks cards due to t/b centering. finally settled on her. i'm a fan of the early ball point pen as well....
will admit, she was kind of a toughie to find centered...most were significantly oc or beaters
<< <i>today's addition:
will admit, she was kind of a toughie to find centered...most were significantly oc or beaters >>
It's hard enough to find a lot of these cards with reasonable centering anyway. Throw in a requirement that they are autographed as well and I'm amazed you've found as many nice ones in as short a period of time as you have.
i appreciate the comments and the realization of the signed part as well.
it really is difficult but extremely gratifying to finally nail one down that i'm content with!
here are a few more back from psa: