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WhiteTornado
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WhiteTornado
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WhiteTornado
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My new website www.lowgradegems.com
Tim
<< <i>Great looking card Phil. I have done a bunch of trades with Phil and now I know even more of what he likes. Be ready for some more stuff. >>
Music to my ears
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Tim
Real nice looking Payton Rookie! Presents VERY well for the grade. Great pick-up. Congrats and enjoy.
PS You are not going to be looking at the back of the card anyway!!!!!
PPS Good thing Mrs. Manning didn't marry one of Walter's relatives.
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.
Doug, yeah, can you imagine what a super freak player a Manning-Payton player would be?
Congrats on the addition, Phil... what's on the top of your want list next?
Snorto~
Congrats!
Jim
<< <i>what's on the top of your want list next? >>
For Payton, I hope to get graded examples of his regular issues, from 1977 and up. I hope to get 1977 through 1980 in PSA 8 (I already have the 1979 in PSA 8), and from 1981 and beyond in PSA 9. Don't see myself paying the crazy money for 10s.
For LaDainian Tomlinson, I've just begun focusing on his cards. I did pick up a 100-card lot with mostly base cards. I have a few inserts but don't have any of his RCs. That will probably be where I start. May try to get some raw examples since his are modern compared to Payton, and the raw ones are more budget-friendly for me for now.
(Edited to correct my year range for PSA 8s and 9s).
<< <i>Congrats on the Payton RC pickup. I added one recently as well. I do have an extra 1981 Payton in PSA 8 if you want it. $13 dlvd via paypal gift. >>
PM sent, thanks.
2 1 23776671 VERY GOOD 3 1970 Topps 290 Rod Carew Card
3 1 23776672 VERY GOOD-EXCELLENT 4 1973 Topps 220 Nolan Ryan Card
4 1 23776673 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1976 Topps 400 Rod Carew Card
5 1 23776674 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1980 Topps 700 Rod Carew Card
6 1 23776675 MINT 9 1983 Topps Stickers Insert 24 Walter Payton Card
First-time poppage for me. Normally I would have posted scans ahead of time and asked for opinions first. But, with the exception of the Walter Payton sticker, all are cards I've had since I was a kid. Slabbing them was mainly done for preservation purposes, as I intend to keep them until my kids get them someday. They came out a bit lower than expected. I'll try to post scans in a separate thread when the cards arrive. Thanks for looking at the ugliness LOL. Still happy about the Payton sticker, though.
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Tim
<< <i> A scan of the Payton would be sweet, >>
I see what you did there lol
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
I examined the 1983 Payton sticker pretty closely before including it. I figured if it didn't have a reasonable chance at a 9, I wasn't going to include it. Glad I did!
I haven't been too active on the forums lately. As you might say, "life got in the way". I did want to share a couple of my most recent pickups. Some of you may have seen the 1983 sticker before; I posted it among a group of cards I subbed. Anyway, the 1983 was obtained raw from DanBessette, while the 1982 I purchased as-is from MikeLeamer. Thanks to both of those gentleman
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Tim
<< <i>Love both of those. Nice pick ups. >>
+1
<< <i>Received the following from lawnmowerman (Matt), and it was a freebie to boot! Much appreciated, love the fact it's a purple jersey swatch, too. >>
It would be a lot cooler if it was an elite QB
<< <i>It would be a lot cooler if it was an elite QB
I'll just pretend it's Playoff Joe, not Regular Season Joe
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
Although I mainly collect football, I've branched out a little into baseball. Got these two Rod Carews recently. A bit of a story about the Kelloggs....
This is the card that got me liking Rod Carew. I would have been 6 when we found it in a box of cereal. I remember my sister getting a few since she usually opened a new box first. She gave them to me since she had no interest in them at all. In addition to the Carew, I remember a Tom Seaver and I think a Bobby Bonds. I'm not sure I even have them any more. Don't recall finding them among my cards in recent years. I do have another box or two of mostly non-sport keepsakes so I will have to look in there, too.
Anyway, I'm not sure why I liked the Carew so much. Maybe it was interesting because he was AL and I grew up in an NL market, St. Louis. Plus, you can see even by then he had compiled impressive stats. One of my childhood friends I made later around age 12 was a big Reggie Jackson fan. We'd eagerly watch him and Carew each year in the All Star Game. We were both thrilled when he and Carew landed on the Angels, along with a lot of other superstar vets. It was tough seeing them go down in the playoffs in '86 to the Red Sox.
One time many years ago, before computers made it easy, a group of baseball stat geeks and writers compiled a bunch of stats of all-time great players into a computer program. Then they ran a simulated All Star Game. They used the results and broadcast the "game" on the radio. I seem to recall Jack Buck was one of the announcers. My friend game me crap because in Carew's only simulated at-bat, he struck out on three pitches, I think to Walter Johnson. Meanwhile, Reggie Jackson hit an easy fly that the normally sure-handed Stan Musial dropped! The broadcast even describe Reggie standing on first base smiling about it.
Anyway, I was glad to add a GEM-MT copy of the Kelloggs to my collection. I also like the design of the Topps '74 cards and this one was very affordable in PSA 8. It jumps about 2 1/2 times the price in PSA 9.