Scanning my Dodger collection: more Cracker Jacks! (8/29/18)

nam812

Wonderful collection Geordie, glad you fired up this thread again.

Josephcb09

Geordie,

The cards are beyond cool.

The subject matter leaves a little bit to be desired......

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<< <i>Geordie,

The cards are beyond cool.

The subject matter leaves a little bit to be desired...... >>

Joe, seeing as you're a Giants fan, I'll take that as a high compliment. Hopefully one day you'll see the light and realize the error of your ways.

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Ugh, I think I might be done for awhile. In the past few days, I've knocked out 1956 through 1960 and I'm more than a little sick of scanning and cropping. I've created a few web pages that have things a little more organized. If you'd like to take a look, here they are:



Prewar: Turkey Red, T205, T206, 1933 Goudey

Bowman: 1948 through 1955

Topps: 1951 through 1959

Topps: 1961 through 1969

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TheHun

That is a great look at a club history ! Very cool.

I love the variations in the 1962 set ... are they rare ?

cheers

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I'm really liking the '63s - must be all the purty colors. You guys that grew up in this time period, what was it like going from the color & business of the '63 set to the pretty plain '64s? Just wonderin'.

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Man, been a long time since I've updated this thing. Just finished up the 64s. Probably one of my least favorite sets, but I do really like the World Series cards. Wally Moon's unibrow is downright scary!

bigjaco

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.

WinPitcher

Thanks for sharing this, I know I've said that before as you were showing us but it can't be said enough.


Outstanding, simply outstanding.


One of the best threads we have had.


Steve

72skywalker

Holy Cow!!! Being a Yankee fan I must admit that is very impressive. I am doing the same with the Yankees but I only the Topps sets fro now. You just got me into collecting all the other sets as well. Again, not much to say but Nice. That is what collecting is about. Sometimes I find the cards that are old look nicer in rough condition. It gives a little of its history. Way to go.

waxpack

Did you know you have a Pete Rose rookie mixed in with your Dodgers?

ssdawg77

Very nice.

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Sir, I don't know who this Pete Rose character is that you speak of. I've always wondered why Ken McMullen's rookie is so darn expensive though - it's not like he amounted to much.

SidePocket

You're 64's aren't done until you get the other World Series cards!

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You're 64's aren't done until you get the other World Series cards!

That situation is being rectified. Thanks for reminding me.


Here's 1965. Present day Sandy isn't as wrinkled as my '65!

EAsports

Is it just me or does John Roseboro have a lot of interesting poses on his cards? Maybe he insisted on it?

Also, this thread is awesome! Keep the team sets coming until 2010!

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Birth year set. When I was a sophomore in high school (1982), I pretty much gave away all of my cards to a local guy for like $20 or something - one of the worst decisions of my life, but girls had become waaaay more interesting than cardboard. At any rate, I did keep some of my Dodger cards, plus I received some '66 Dodgers along with the $20 - probably like half the team set. The only three I'm sure I received were the Brewer, Koufax and Moeller, because I remember to this day the missing corners. I've had nicer '66 Koufax cards enter and leave my collection, but the one in my team set will always stay.



Also included in the set is a '66 Venezuelan Wes Parker that I received for Christmas this year.

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kidzfund

Great cards. I grew up a Dodger fan - my friends never understood why (I live in Giants territory).

Joe

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Whew! Just finished the 1960s. I've set up four different pages that show off individual scans here:

Stone193

I'm a Brookyn fan Geordie - so you know how I feel.

Nice work!

mike

kidzfund

I've always wondered - Who's #33 getting a beer shower in the 1959 world series card?

HoofHearted

What a labor of love this must have been for you -- not just the scanning and editing, but finding which cards you needed and tracking them down. I know I enjoy the heck out researching a given set to add a Senator or Twin to my type collection.

Thanks for the colorful and enjoyable thread.

Awesome job!

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One of my least favorite designs of all time - it did provide me with an Airplane! flashback, though. "Now batting for Pedro Borbon, Manny Mota...mota...mota" For those that don't know, Borbon and Mota never played together. Not sure why the writers paired those two, but whatever - still one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

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Might have to redub the so-called 'black beauties' as the 'black bruties' - these're pretty rough!

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In OBC, we call these Psycho 72s. One of the tougher vintage sets I've ever worked on.

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I went through the entire thread and replaced every large image with a scaled-down one. I've been worried that the size of the scans has been deterring folks from looking through the thread because of either long load times or screen capacity. Hopefully this makes them easier and more pleasing to look at. Thoughts on that?

On a related note, does this forum's code allow for pictures to have a URL attached to them?

Prewar - T205, T206, 1933 Goudey
Bowman 1948-1955
Topps 1952-1959
Topps 1960-1969
Topps 1970-1979 (in progress)

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great action shots in this set!

zep33

Great stuff Geordie!!!

Clemaz

Great Collection!

Planemonkey

I see you picked up where Eric Stoltz left off in the Mask. Nice collection

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Geordie

Good stuff!

It's funny how I tend to like the designs other don't - the 70T design is not a favorite but not on my 'dislike' list either.

BTW - I had forgotten - so, I have to say - the "Penquin" is in good company on that RC card!

Thanx!

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bman90278

Geordie, great job on adding more sets to your Dodgers collection. Thanks for taking the time to have your thread.

brian

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hammered

Nice
Dodgers was my favorite team growing up in socal. Those 70s card really bring back memories, esp the Cey cards, he was my favorite.
Very nice collection. Good to see such a dedicated focus

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Dodger collection update! 1981 will always be one of my favorite sets. Ripped a lot of this as a freshman in high school. I always loved the hats and the bright green all-star strips.

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captainthreeputt

Thanks for sharing. What is beautiful in this hobby is there is no right way or wrong way to collect, as long as you are enjoying your collection. You have some great cards, and I enjoyed looking at them.

jradke4

wow, am i late to the game on this thread...i am sure glad someone bumped it.

great collection and love to see the scans. this is what collecting should be all about.

keep up the scanning...or should i say get back to it man.

purduepete

<< <i>keep up the scanning...or should i say get back to it man. >>



I concur.

purduepete

100!