1996 Sports Illustrated For Kids #536 Tiger Woods....
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I have had my eye on this card for a few months and finally decided to pull the trigger and get one. There was an auction for a PSA 10 that ended at $7,200 recently and I didn't want to waste anymore time looking for my first copy.
This example has a very clean surface but I do realize that the top border will hurt the grade. I did my best to take it apart and have some recent practice on other 1990's perforated cards.
The perforations look a little flat on the middle part of the left side and the lower corners look a little rough. I am not sure how much these issues will affect the grade.
I had a chance to meet Tiger Woods in 2008 and after the encounter I became a fan.
Here are the scans.
The snow in the scan are not on the card.
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This example has a very clean surface but I do realize that the top border will hurt the grade. I did my best to take it apart and have some recent practice on other 1990's perforated cards.
The perforations look a little flat on the middle part of the left side and the lower corners look a little rough. I am not sure how much these issues will affect the grade.
I had a chance to meet Tiger Woods in 2008 and after the encounter I became a fan.
Here are the scans.
The snow in the scan are not on the card.
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tiger
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
I plan to send this card in with my 15 card collectors club renewal voucher shortly.
There is no chance the card will grade higher then a PSA 8 but I think it has a shot. I sure hope so.
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This card is starting to get some momentum and if he keeps winning I think it has a chance to come back from the dead.
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I always wanted one of those signed but never found a legit signed one.
Mike
Very nice.
http://www.palmbeachautographs.com/p-15618-tiger-woods-autograph-private-signing-july-2013.aspx
<< <i>Tiger's doing a signing for 1k/signature (for small items). Pretty steep but not too many chances to get one signed:
http://www.palmbeachautographs.com/p-15618-tiger-woods-autograph-private-signing-july-2013.aspx >>
In the other private signings he has done, he wouldnt sign cards
And the most surprising thing in your post is that you became a fan AFTER meeting him. I've met him 5-6 times. The guy is a jerk and was every single time. Maybe if you're one on one in a business meeting or something he's cool, but never near a golf course.
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In 2008 my wife and I were getting married and she did not want me to have a bachelor party so instead we had a joint one and got a big group together to go out partying in
downtown Orlando. I had a friend at the time that for several years said he was on a first name basis with Tiger as he had worked at the Isleworth Country Club in Windermere, FL
which is just outside of Orlando. I thought he was exaggerating. Right when we walked into the club Vintage where we were going there is Tiger Woods and he yells hey Ryan. I was
speechless. So they chat for a moment and I shook Tiger's hand and then we headed into the little roped off area to get bottle service. A few moments later Tiger and another guy and two hot blondes get ushered in and take the table behind us which is just a handful of feet away. The word on the street at the time was that Tiger was hooking up with a lot of hot young chicks and that rumor was definitely confirmed that night. Tiger was sitting at this point with his arms around both blondes and smoking a cigar. Admittedly I was star struck and kept turning in their direction and every time I would I would catch him staring at my wife and he would quickly turn away. A few minutes later the chicks got up to go to the restroom and I walked over to Tiger. He had a very puzzled look on his face when I approached him. I said something like this "I am sure you get tired of people coming up to you and I am not even a golf fan. The guys in the office had the tournament on when you had your hurt knee and that might be one of the greatest sporting achievements I have ever seen and I just wanted to tell you. Nice to meet you". He was speechless and just said "wow thank you very much" and I walked back a few feet to where I was. Less then 10 minutes later I see a photographer coming into the club with a big camera and he sets up shop to try and take pictures of Tiger with the two chicks. I quickly alert the bouncers and the guy with Tiger and position myself in front of Tiger's table. He bee lines it out of the club in seconds. The guy with Tiger thanks me and says we have these two bottles of Grey Goose you guys can have them if you want them. We said hell yeah and got two 1.75 bottles and saved $500 bucks on liquor. After that night I was a fan. The funny part about the story is I told a few people that Tiger was cheating on his wife with lots of women and they didn't believe me. When the news came out a few years later they said wow Dave you weren't lying.
I am rooting for Tiger to make a comeback. He certainly isn't the first pro athlete to have a lot of women outside of their marriage and he won't be the last. He just happened to get caught.
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
Great card, D - and even better story. I think that looks fantastic in the 8 holder, congrats on the pickup.
Jeff
Also, the new photobucket copy paste feature for IMG double pastes the link. You need to edit out the dupe so it does not make the picture slide all the way to the right. This looks like crap on a desktop but really screws up the format on a smartphone.
Thanks for the tip I will try it next time.
This is a very nice looking Tiger Woods. I have this on my watch list and I am interested to see if it clears the reserve and if so how it finishes.