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Baseball card collection - photo from 1972

fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 327 ✭✭✭
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Found this press photo for sale on ebay and thought you all might get a kick out of it...Gotta love the rubber bands.

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  • thirtytwothirtytwo Posts: 125
    Someone go back in time and tell this guy icksney on the rubberbanderey image Cool pic !
  • mattinglymint23mattinglymint23 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭
    Is that a 52 mantle in the album he's holding in right hand aggressively?
    Looks like the mantle first card for left with the glare
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    looks like the dude who got into the National on a Tuesday.
  • Beck6Beck6 Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭
    That sure looks like a mantle. I think those are Connie Mack all stars in the middle. Maybe a full set of 1948 leaf on the right. Wow!
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  • shu4040shu4040 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭
    meh Mantle looks O/C top to bottom


    j/k very very cool. shows how it's amazing ANY high grade cards are available now from even the 50s when "collectors" back then still kept them in big rubber band stacks.
  • tsalems1tsalems1 Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭✭
    I don't think that is Mantle.

    I do see a 1970 Clemente and 1963 Spahn though
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  • psychumppsychump Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭
    It's Patrick Wilson from The Conjuring!

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  • lahmejoonlahmejoon Posts: 1,751 ✭✭✭
    Looks like a wet dream!
  • tsalems1tsalems1 Posts: 3,444 ✭✭✭✭
    1948 Leaf cards in the binder - upper right.

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  • 19541954 Posts: 2,902 ✭✭✭
    That is the 1951 Topps Connie Mack set in the middle for sure. Wow that makes me sick seeing those cards rubber banded together.

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  • mattinglymint23mattinglymint23 Posts: 1,261 ✭✭
    I imagine this may be the last reported sighting of a card dealer in a suit and tie.
  • lseeconlseecon Posts: 318 ✭✭
    Cool picture.

    But imagine how many corners he "dung" on those 1952 topps as he was inserting them into those corner sleeve holders in that album or how many rubber band marks are on thoss 60's cards. In fact, I think a number of my 1960s cards may have come from this guy as they have notches on sides.

    Dude is a little creepy looking, but that may be the result of the 70s suit, hair, etc. Looks like his other hobby could be a serial killer.
  • LarkinCollectorLarkinCollector Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great pic! My only question, clip-on or do you think he actually tied that tie?
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  • rcmb3220rcmb3220 Posts: 1,108 ✭✭✭✭
    From what I hear this guy currently represents the average age and pigmentation of a National attendee.
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,839 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Love it!!!! The way collecting should be.

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  • tomgrowtomgrow Posts: 3
    I believe this is the father of Wes Spece.
  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
    Those cards in the middle and right look to be stuck to a photo album - and probably still are

    Awesome pic!!
  • dtkk49adtkk49a Posts: 2,489 ✭✭✭
    Too bad they are in the photo album, getting that sticky stuff all over them.
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  • flatfoot816flatfoot816 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭
    love the jacket pocket--nice to hide the pencils and pens invariably there
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,713 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>love the jacket pocket--nice to hide the pencils and pens invariably there >>



    Manny, I thought you had told me this was your pic in the senior yearbook?? LOL..


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  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭


    << <i>love the jacket pocket--nice to hide the pencils and pens invariably there >>



    I bet it's full of condoms for all the chicks those baseball cards scored him
  • PSASAPPSASAP Posts: 2,284 ✭✭✭
    He's got a 1970 Roberto Clemente on the top of a stack, getting all the rubber band abuse.
  • heritageheritage Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭
    Cool pic I like it but those poor cards.
  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 9,429 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Was there a caption or explanation attached to the photo explaining the purpose/significance of the photo?
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  • FINESTKINDFINESTKIND Posts: 374 ✭✭✭
    But what is he hiding in his other hand ?
  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 327 ✭✭✭
    The back of the photo only says that his name is Eric Lange
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,488 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The back of the photo only says that his name is Eric Lange >>



    I wonder if Eric Lange is the same one mentioned in this 2012 article from The National Convention?

    Eric Lange

    Edited to also show a newspaper buying ad from 1975

    Lange 1975 Ad

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  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 327 ✭✭✭
  • fmclaug11fmclaug11 Posts: 327 ✭✭✭
    Think you may be right IMF...I saw that article as well and especially the line:

    "Eric Lange, who’d run a long series of large-lot auctions of off-condition cards back in the day"


    With 'off-condition' perhaps meaning 'with rubber band marks' image
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