Mike's TTM items and other autos - Latest New Additions

Have to start this post with a thanks to pmcollectour (Marc). Truly a nice guy. I received a package in the mail last week from Marc containing the Barasso/MacLeish/Modano cards below because he thought I would enjoy them. What a cool thing to do. Thanks Marc, I really appreciate it!

Other returns are from the past two weeks. I've been a little lazy about scanning.


HOCKEY
1985-86 Topps Tom Barrasso (thanks pmcollectour!)
1972-73 OPC Rick Macleish (thanks pmcollecteur!)
1992-93 ProSet Mike Modano (thanks pmcollecteur!)
1970 Topps Phil Esposito (private signing)
1971 Topps Jim Pappin (private signing)

BASKETBALL
1972, 1972AS and 1973 Topps Bob Love (SCN help)
1971 Topps Willie Wise (eBay lot purchase) - ALL TIME ABA TEAM MEMBER - super tough signature
1971 Topps Jim Eakins (eBay lot purchase)
1971 Topps Ralph Simpson (eBay lot purchase)
1971 Topps Mack/Melchionni/Scott (eBay lot purchase)
1971AS and 1978 Topps Lou Hudson (TTM)

FOOTBALL
2005 Topps AA Bo Jackson (private signing)
2005 Topps AA William Perry (SunTimes Show - thanks jswieton!)
2005 Topps AA Dick Butkus (TTM)

I was also able to add Phil Esposito to my 1969-70 Stanley Cup Champion Bruins Media Guide. Going to a Rick Smith signing next. I also picked up Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg signed pucks for my Bruins 2011 team set. Need 9 more.

Really excited to add a new 1971 Topps hockey from a deceased player - Bill Goldsworthy who died in 1996. I was able to work out a deal for it with an SCN member after months of haggling.

All new additions:

HOCKEY
1971 Topps Bill Bill Goldsworthy (SCN purchase)
1971 Topps Pat Quinn
1959 Topps Don McKenney
1968 and 1969 Topps Paul Henderson
1970 and 1978 Pete Mahovlich'
1968 and 1969 Topps Phil Goyette
2001 Greats of the Game Bernie Parent
2001 Greats of the Game Frank Mahovlich
2001 Great of the Game John Ogrodnick
1969 Topps Red Berenson

BASKETBALL
1971 Topps Leroy Ellis (eBay purchase)
1972 Topps Lenny Wilkens (SCN help)
1970 Topps Don Ohl
1970 Topps Len Chappell

FOOTBALL
2005 Topps All American John Elway (SCN Help at Tahoe)
2005 Topps All American Steve Spurrier (SCN Help ay Tahoe)
2005 Topps All American Herschel Walker

Just back from vacationing on Cape Cod for a week with Mrs Coach. Played too much golf, got no sleep because of the damned humidity and watched way too much of the terrible Red Sox. Great vacation. And it's always awesome to return home to several returns.

Also, must mention that the best return was Sportsworld USA making good on their Charlie Burns mess up. I got home to find not one but two 1971 Topps cards with good signatures plus replacement 69 and 70 Topps. GREAT PEOPLE at Sportsworld. Pretty cool that they worked it out with Charlie to make it right.

BASKETBALL
1972 Topps Assist Leaders - completed with Len Wilkens (Chris Potter signing)
1970 and 1971 Topps Len Wilkens (Chris Potter signing)
1972 Topps James Jones (eBay)
1972 Topps Lou Hudson (eBay)
1969 and 1970 Topps Tom Meschery (upgraded my 69 Topps of this card)
1970, 1971 and 1972 Topps John Warren
1970 and 1976 Topps Dick Snyder

FOOTBALL
2005 Topps AA Randy White (ebay)
2005 Topps AA Mark May
1991 Score Aeneas Williams (private signing)

HOCKEY
1969 and 1970 Topps Ed Giacomin (w/ fee)
Bob Plager cards (low priced signing - got every card signed I could find - not an easy signer)
Charlie Burns replacement cards mentioned above

Nice to have friends. My buddy JeserOne met Jim Brown and Eric Dickerson at a golf tournament and picked them up for me on All Americans for my set. He also figured out a way to take personalizations off cards signed in sharpie and was able to remove them from my Spurrier, May and Majors cards. I don't actually have a big issue with personalization but for presentation purposes, I like them to be uniform. So I;m super happy with these now. Also added some stuff from the recent Celtics show in Boston via mail.

FOOTBALL
2005 Topps AA Jim Brown
2005 Topps AA Eric Dickerson

Removed personalization on:
Johnny Majors
Steve Spurrier
Mark May

BASKETBALL
1978, 79, 81, 81SA, 86 and 87 Cedric Maxwell
1957 Topps Jim Loscutoff
1976 Marvin Barnes

and added Maxwell on my 1984 Celtics Media Guide.

I have 3 movies in heavy post production right now and it's been tough to find time to scan and post. Quite a few cards have come in recently. Decided to send out some 70's Red Sox a couple weeks ago and they're coming back. Also have another set that I started that I'll debut in this thread in a couple weeks.

BASEBALL
1974, 76 and 76 Topps Rick Wise (w/ donation)
1976 and 1978 Topps Denny Doyle
1975 and 1976 Topps Bob Montgomery
1976 Traded and 1977 Topps Topps Tom House
1975 and 1976 Topps Luis Tiant (signing in MA)
1975 and 1976 Topps Rico Petrocelli (w/ donation)

BASKETBALL
1971 and 1972 Rich Jones
1972, 1973 and 1974 Cliff Meely
1970 Topps Walt Bellamy (w/ donation)

FOOTBALL
1973 Topps Curley Culp (may try to remove personalization. Blue on white is tough apparently)

HOCKEY
1969 Topps J.P. Parise
2001 Fleer GOTG John Davidson (eBay)
1967 Topps Gilles Marotte (eBay purchase)

BASEBALL
1986, 1987 and 1987AS Wade Boggs
1986 and 1987 Topps Marty Barrett
1986 and 1987 Topps Marc Sullivan
1986 and 1987 Topps Joe Sambito
1986 and 1987 Topps Ed Romero
1986 and 1987 Topps Bill Buckner
1966, 1967 and 1971 Topps George Thomas
1967 and 1970 Lee Stange
1967 and 1968 Topps Ed Roggenburk
1967 and 1968 Topps Darrell Brandon
1967 and 1968 Topps Dave Morehead
1967 Topps Mike Ryan

BASKETBALL
1972 Topps Gary Gregor
1994 Topps Jason Kidd

HOCKEY
1959 Dollard St Laurent
1971 Topps Red Berenson
1965 Topps Milt Schmidt
1968 Topps Ed Giacomin
1959 and 1970 Topps Eric Nesterenko
1970 Topps and 1971 OPC Tom Reid
1968 Topps Lowell MacDonald
1970 Topps Matt Ravlich

If you've noticed a trend in this thread toward some Boston stuff, there's definitely a reason for it. I was getting a little bored with some of the stuff I was doing. I even sold a couple of team pieces I had been working on for teams that I'm not a fan of. I figured if I'm collecting, I may as well push some of my collection toward teams I actually root for...and it's been fun. Plus, the letter writing is way easier because I've seen many of these guys play or even met them in the past. Don't get me wrong, the other stuff is awesome (I love the heck out of the late 60's/early 70's hockey -- and I have a huge thing to share on that in a few days) but this has been a very positive turn in my enjoyment of this hobby.

Returns since last update...

BASEBALL
1967 and 1969 Topps Jim Lonborg
1967 and 1975 Topps George Scott
1971, 1972 and 1973 Topps John Kennedy
1973 and 1974 Topps John Curtis
1966 and 1967 Hank Fischer
1970, 1971 and 1972 Topps Eddie Kasko

FOOTBALL
1963 Fleer Larry Eisenhauer
1974 and 1978 Topps Sam "Bam" Cunningham
1978 and 1986 Topps Steve Nelson

HOCKEY
1971 Topps Ernie Hicke (now 112/132 on 1971 Topps hockey)
1970 Topps Marc Reaume
1970 Topps Bill Inglis
1959 and 1968 Topps Earl Ingarfield
1959 and 1968 Topps Leo Boivin
1967 and 1968 Topps Ted Hampson
1969 and 1978 Topps Carol Vadnais
1978 and 1979 Topps Doug Jarvis
1968 and 1969 Topps Claude Larose
1968 and 1969 Topps Brit Selby
1968 and 1969 Topps Wally Boyer
1968 and 1969 Topps Val Fonteyne

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I put together a small private submission with 5 guys to Great North Road and was able to get all the Bobby Orr cards I needed for my sets done. Stoked! In a few days I'm going to post something else from 1968 Topps Hockey that is super exciting.

Also, i am now 1 away from completing my first major set - All Time Celtics Rookie Autographs. I added KC Jones in a deal on ebay and am now only missing a 1998 SP Authentic Paul Pierce signature - and I bought a PSA 10 to crack (yes, I'm stupid) for whenever Sure Shot Promotions has him again.

Also added:

BASEBALL
1950 Bowman Al Rosen (he added a 1977 TCMA)
1972 and 1975 Ben Oglivie

FOOTBALL
2005 Topps AA Bob Griese
2005 Topps AA Anthony Carter (now 69/91 on this set)

BASKETBALL
1961 Fleer K.C. Jones HOF RC
1986 Fleer Jeff Ruland

HOCKEY
1968, 1969 and 1970 Topps Bobby Orr
1968 and 1978 Topps Ron Ellis
1969 Topps Tracy Pratt
1967 and 1968 Topps Gilles Tremblay
1970 Topps and 1971 OPC Tim Ecclestone

Hall of Fame Sports did a nice job on my NBA 50 Greatest lithograph. It's now 32/50 (45 total living). A buddy of mine also picked up Bubba Watson on my Masters logo golf ball for me. I'm only missing Tiger and a 6 deceased Masters winners on golf balls. Also added the following cards:

FOOTBALL
1959 Topps John David Crow
1948 Leaf Doak Walker (from Mike Navarro) HOF RC
1957 Topps Dick Lane HOF RC
1957 and 1958 Topps Bobby Dillon
1957 Topps Jim Cason
1957 and 1960 Topps Mike McCormack
1954 Bowman Johnny Lattner

HOCKEY
1969 and 1970 Topps Stan Mikita
1968 Topps Bill White

The 86 Fleer was by far the worst of those that came back from the signing. I'm glad it was mine and not someone else's.

BASEBALL
1975, 1976, 1986, 1986 TL, 1987 and 1987 RB Topps Dwight Evans (private signing)
1973 Rookie Pitchers completed w/ 3 signatures (it's a Mike Garman for my Red Sox set)


BASKETBALL
1998-99 Finest Paul Pierce RC (purchase)


FOOTBALL
2005 Topps All American Brad Muster
1993 Heisman Collection Terry Baker
1997 Bowman's Best Danny Wuerffel
1957 and 1959 Topps Lindon Crow
1993 Heisman Collection Joe Bellino
1992 Pacific Ben Coates RC
2002 Finest Eric Crouch RC
1949 Leaf Johnny Lujack (meant to send 48. I'm an idiot)
1962 and 1963 Fleer Charlie Hennigan
1969 Topps Doug Atkins
2005 Topps AA Lorenzo White (purchase)
1957 Topps Howard Cassady RC
1993 Heisman Collection Gary Beban
2005 Topps AA Joe Namath (private signing)

HOCKEY
1959 Topps Ted Lindsay
1968 Topps Bruce MacGregor
1971 Topps Gary Smith (purchase - now 117/132 on the set)
1968 Topps Bob Baun (purchase)
1959 Topps Vic Stasiuk
1968, 1969 and 1970 Topps Gary Dornhoefer
1968, 1969 and 1970 Topps Frank Mahovlich (private signing)
1969 Topps Bill Flett (purchase)
1968 Topps Garry Peters