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Finally Picked Up A Card I've Been Looking For

JackWESQJackWESQ Posts: 2,133 ✭✭✭
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The first vintage card I ever owned was a 1969 Topps Denny McLain. I think a friend gave it to me back in the mid 1980s. I recall it being truly beat up, but I thought it was cool because his stats on the back showed that won 31 games in 1968. I have no idea where that card is now. Fast forward to tonight, I won an auction for a 1969 Topps Denny McLain PSA 8. Not the most valuable card and I probably overpaid for it ($27.00), but hey its cool for nostalgia's sake.

/s/ JackWESQ

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  • fattymacsfattymacs Posts: 2,581 ✭✭✭
    If you really want something and you didn't puke when you hit the pay now button, it dosen't matter how much you payed.
  • BlackieBlackie Posts: 1,719 ✭✭✭
    I second what fattymac said.........if you wanted it that is all that matters............
    1964 Topps Football
  • GonblottGonblott Posts: 1,951 ✭✭
    Congrats on your latest addition!

    =)
  • TheHunTheHun Posts: 1,690
    That's a great card !

    cards should mean good memories ... you got a god one there.

    cheers
  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭
    I'm dying to buy a PSA 10 86 Roger Clemens for the same reason. Was my favorite card when I pulled it from a pack in 86. I then lost it when we went to the beach in Cape Cod that summer. Devastated me as a child.
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  • cwazzycwazzy Posts: 3,257 ✭
    Awesome card! Congrats!

    Chris
    Chris
    My small collection
    Want List:
    '61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
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  • natetrooknatetrook Posts: 620 ✭✭✭
    Great card Jackie...

    If it brings back memories, then it's worth it.
    After all, cards are a piece of nostalgia.

    I have always wanted the Kurt Bevaqua bubble gum blowing card in high grade condition.
    That was my favorite card from my collection growing up, and my copy is still somewhere in a shoebox, all beaten up.

    Will eventually get one graded. I think it's 1976 topps.

    Nate
  • MBMiller25MBMiller25 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭
    Congrats on the McLain card.
  • slantycouchslantycouch Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭
    Congrats! That's a good story.
  • thehallmarkthehallmark Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭
    Great post. Blazer card, too.

    I'm jealous...
  • nightcrawlernightcrawler Posts: 5,110 ✭✭


    << <i> hey its cool for nostalgia's sake. >>



    Ya that's for sure.

    Sure is a nice card.

    Thanks for sharing.


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  • skilowskilow Posts: 784
    the memories are priceless! I have done the same myself, quite a few times, and never looked back.
  • mcolney1mcolney1 Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    That's what collecting is all about. I have a 76 PSA 8 Payton. The one I bought back in 76 was well used. I look at it almost everyday and don't care what I paid for it.
    Collecting Topps, Philadelphia and Kellogg's from 1964-1989
  • julen23julen23 Posts: 4,558 ✭✭
    those '60s tigers & cardinals cards sell for premiums.

    i love that mcclain card too, good find.

    j
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    RIP GURU
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    You can bring back some good childhood memories for $27.00? Then that has to be one of the best buys you ever made!

    ENJOY THE CARD!!!!!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
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