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Here is to great friends

maddux69maddux69 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Today I stopped in my hometown and called my old friend who was an avid collector like myself. He was on the way out to the airport but said stop in as he has something for me. I get there and he says that since I am the only one he knows with the holy grail of Mantles, that I deserved to have it. I offer money to him and he wouldn't take it as he says I have always been there when he needed me, truly made my day!



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Jason

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Greg Maddux #1 Master SetGreg Maddux #2 Basic Set

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    Very nice piece to add to your collection. Enjoy!!!

    STAY HEALTHY!

    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.
  • tsalems1tsalems1 Posts: 3,448 ✭✭✭✭
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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice gesture

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 11,445 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice gesture

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,439 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hiya Jason



    That's a really cool piece!



    Framed and everything. I've never seen it before - that was very generous of your friend.



    Congratulations buddy.
    Mike
  • slum22slum22 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭✭
    Great showpiece and great friend. Nice job! Love to see stories like this.
    Steve
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    Awesome piece !
  • maddux69maddux69 Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thank you all for the kind words. This is the same friend that got me back collecting in college. We would traverse all NC in search of card shops, Kannapolis, Statesville, Charlotte, and Winston Salem among a few. We busted countless boxes together and Classic Signature Rookies comes to mind as I bet we must have opened 20 boxes each! He was always one for a meticulous eye on centering and truly mint cards before TPG came along. Those were the days!
    Jason

    eBay Store


    Greg Maddux #1 Master SetGreg Maddux #2 Basic Set
  • MrNearMintMrNearMint Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭
    I like it!
  • ZTargZTarg Posts: 497 ✭✭✭
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  • bishopbishop Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭
    I have seen one of these tributes, copies of all Topps and Bowman cards on a poster, for Ripken and Ashburn and Grich, but had not seen a Mantle. Very neat item. There are a couple on eBay now
    Topps Baseball-1948, 1951 to 2017
    Bowman Baseball -1948-1955
    Fleer Baseball-1923, 1959-2007

    Al
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,544 ✭✭✭
    Nice but it is missing his 52 and 53 Bowman cards.
    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • EstilEstil Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭✭
    Say wasn't that something you had to win a contest or something to get? I do especially appreciate and dig one of a kind(ish) items like this one you see.
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    Q's: 52S,47S,46S,40S,39S,38S,37D+S,36D+S,35D,34D,32D+S
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  • BunchOBullBunchOBull Posts: 6,188 ✭✭✭
    Very cool, the back of the poster shows the reverse side of each card too.
    Collector of most things Frank Thomas. www.BigHurtHOF.com
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