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Mancave pics - Tigers, Mantle, Ruth and stuff

fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 326 ✭✭✭
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Just picked up a 68' Tigers program from McLain's 30th win to go with the ticket stub I've had for a few years. Been searching quite a while for one, so was just going to post some pictures of them...but I went a little crazy with the camera.

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  • DanBessetteDanBessette Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭
    Wow that is really some sweet stuff!! I especially like the '68 Tigers display. Well done. We're buying a new house and I'm really angling to finish the basement so I can have my own man cave too.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Love it! Not only a fellow MICK collector, but I like that Schwinn! Hand brakes, banana seat, sissy bar ... I remember adding a very long fork on to the front as well ... had a couple of those growing up!
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    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.
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,487 ✭✭✭✭
    love the 1971 ASG items!

    IMF
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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great display. The bike brings back memories as I had a Schwinn Stingray. 5 speed stick shift,metalflake banana seat,metalic blue paint. Cost the folks about $70. Lots of money back in 1967. Also played many games on that baseball game in the local arcade.
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  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 326 ✭✭✭
    Thanks for the comments...took many years to finally get this space the way I wanted it. Now I'm pretty much out of space in there, but I keep finding ways to cram in more stuff. I always wanted a stingray bike but couldn't afford it as a kid...found this nice old 1966 deluxe a couple years back and added the tall sissy bar, mirrors and let my kids ride it during the summer. Still rides awesome (of course I tried it too)!
  • qualitycardsqualitycards Posts: 2,811 ✭✭✭
    Nice hangout room, like the non sports stuff like the slot machine & Hot Wheels track box image


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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    that Super Charger was great for shooting stuff across the room and scaring the crap out of younger siblings.
  • GDM67GDM67 Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭✭
    Really nice display. Gloves and vintage books are really cool items that tend to fly under the collectible radar.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,425 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanx for the tour!

    Super mancave.

    What year Sting ray? Looks around 1970?

    I especially like the mini-baseball coin op and the Nevada slot machine.

    Thanx!
    Mike
  • MrKnowthanxMrKnowthanx Posts: 322 ✭✭
    Growing up, my Grandfather had a baseball signed by the '68 team. It was super faded though, as he had it in the garage on display for years. I think my Mom tossed it cause it was so faded image
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    As a Tigers fan, that is awesome!!image
  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,539 ✭✭✭✭
    Really really nice. !!!!!!!!!

    Super collection of Mantle.

    Are the gloves Tiger player names? Game used ?

    The signed Gibson Great is awesome.

    Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets
    1948-76 Topps FB Sets
    FB & BB HOF Player sets
    1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 326 ✭✭✭
    To answer some of the questions...
      The bike is a 66' Stingray 3 speed (Sturmey-Archer thumb shift) Deluxe in Coppertone. I added the tall sissy bar and mirrors just to bling it up a bit. It's amazing how well it still rides...so much better than the newer bikes my sons have had.
        My sons and I still enjoy playing with that Super Charger...we set up a long track down the hallway with a loop, jump ramp etc. and it still shoots the cars out like a rocket. It's still a blast.
          The gloves are not game used, just regular endorsed gloves that I've picked up over the years (Mantle, Clemente, Williams, Kaline, etc.). I like to get basket cases and clean/lube them up a bit.
            The 68' display includes single signed baseballs from the entire team (except Mayo Smith). Includes Cash, Cuccinello and all the broadcasters as well.
              The signed Gibson "Great" piece is one of my favorites also...includes 34+ sigs with Lopez, so it's one of the more complete signed 84' items out there.
            • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,459 ✭✭✭
              great stuff!!!
              Fred

              collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

              looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

            • Gemyanks10Gemyanks10 Posts: 1,164 ✭✭✭
              Is that a 1974 Topps baseball factory sealed set in your case? If so that's amazing and hope to own one one day. Awesome room and only hope to have one like that someday.


              Jimmy
              Always looking for OPC "tape intact" baseball wax boxes, and 1984 OPC baseball PSA 10's for my set. Please PM or email me if you have any available.
            • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 326 ✭✭✭
              Jimmy - Yes, that's a 74' factory set, although all the cards have been pulled and either submitted to PSA some years ago or stored separately in top loaders....I posted the history of that box a couple years back and have re-posted it below for those that are interested in the back story....


              I started collecting cards in late 72' when I was 7 and collected into 1975. Not sure why I stopped, perhaps the 75 mini's turned me off (I'm from Michigan) as they wouldn't collate well with the other cards ? In 1974 though, my parents took me and my brother to Sears to buy each of us a complete 74' Topps as a reward for raking leaves one weekend. Boy, did I love that set...My parents were not wealthy by any means, so getting those sets was a rare treat. I didn't even take them out of the box to look at them as I wanted to keep them pristine. A short time after getting the sets however, I came home one day to find my 2 year old brother sitting in the middle of our bedroom with both set boxes dumped out in a big pile and he was throwing them around like a...well, like a 2 year old. Boy was I pissed! Both sets were mixed and all dinged up (not that I knew that was going to be a big deal back then)...Did I mention how pissed I was? Anyhow, from there they just got mixed in with the rest of our group collection of cards which were stored loose in a big storage trunk (with lots of dings and bends I'm sure). I'm not sure what happened to all those cards from our trunk, but I figure my brother took them when he moved away....Fast forward to 1988...I start getting the card bug again (likely due to the late 80's card surge so I start purchasing the Topps factory set each year and packing them away. During that same timeframe, I came to learn that my best friend's parents had also purchased the 74' Sears set for him and he was successful in keeping it intact. He knew that I had started collecting cards again, so at one point when he was short on cash, he offered it to me for $20. I purchased it (not really even knowing the full potential of the purchase at that time) and stored it away with my other sets from the late 80's. Fast forward again to 2001 or so (can't recall exactly) and I get a REAL card bug after seeing some things on Ebay etc. and then start purchasing all kinds of cards (vintage HOF's, 70's/80's sets, vintage lots etc. etc.). After a couple years of this and getting a little feel for what graded cards and PSA are all about, I decide to pull out that 74' set and see what might be gradeable (with selling in mind). So I sit down one afternoon and start carefully pulling each card out of the set box one by one and putting them into penny sleeves and toploaders. I then pulled out all of the stars and minor stars and sent them to PSA during one of their $5 specials. I think in all I sent in over 100 cards to be graded. These all returned as PSA 8's and 9's (no 10's ;( though) and a PSA 5 (missed a wrinkle on the McCovey). Anyhow, still wish I had my original 74' set, but was glad to be able to get one later on to replace it
            • jmaciujmaciu Posts: 1,289 ✭✭✭
              Thanks for sharing! There is a lot of baseball history in your "cave."

              Jmaciu's Collection
            • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
              Very nice collection. I particularly like the idea of displaying the baseball gloves. Do they contain any particular significance? I don't know very much about collecting baseball gloves.
              "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
            • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 326 ✭✭✭
              there's no real significance to the gloves other than they are endorsed by some of my favorite players from the 50s/60s. I didn't spend any more than 20 to $40 on any one glove so it's not expensive to collect them. I know there are mantle endorsed gloves, professional models that can get quite pricey though.. The first one I bought was a pee Wee Reese model from the 50's and it was nice and soft I actually played catch with it and it has a great pocket still. I once also purchased a mint 1960s rawlings Eddie Mathews personal model at a garage sale for $5 and thought I might get 40 or 50 on ebay and it ended at over $300. It literally had never been used.
            • 1neatstuff1neatstuff Posts: 1,156 ✭✭✭
              great stuff and great mancave..go tigers
            • rt1963rt1963 Posts: 32 ✭✭
              This is a great thread folks. Love the photos! Here are a few shots of my home office

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            • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
              Gotta love those garage sales.
              "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
            • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
              Beautiful RT. I love the Yankee Stadium façade and the Mantle and Maris lockers. I'm curious. Who signed the Green Bay Packers helmet?
              "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
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