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  • PaulMaul
    PaulMaul Posts: 5,024 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @mariner said:
    Here is a card that I thought for sure is a PSA 9, but it seems that PSA does not agree with me...oh well, the card is mind-blowing colorful and gorgeous.....

    Only thing I can think is that it was penalized for the slight red ink on the upper left border. Because other than that it is certainly a 9.

    My 1972 Baseball and Wacky Pack Registry Sets
  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Nice Burdette!

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • DBesse27
    DBesse27 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wow, congrats Don!

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    Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, Dwight Evans, 1964 Venezuelan Topps

  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    That is amazing!! Congrats Don

  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    My latest addition.

  • hankcaddy
    hankcaddy Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Great additions , I have 1 coming from the latest Heritage auction

    currently collecting baseball of
    2004 spx
    1989 topps psa 10
    1959 phillies
    Phillies of the 70's
  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    The centering on this card is awesome! Great find.

  • 1959
    1959 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭✭
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    Wow! those are great looking and super hard to find.

  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Thanks Guys! That Hunter is a bear of a card and the Owens is gorgeous. Congrats on both cards! I picked up the Hegan and Torgeson in the Heritage auction also. The cards all came from the Walt Bettinger set that was broken up by Heritage....he is the CEO of Charles Schwab.

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • 1959
    1959 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭✭
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    What a great Rice. Almost, (like Hunter) impossible to fine centered.

  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    That Rice card is very nice. I can't believe the prices that these cards are going for now. Anybody have a crystal ball into this?

  • Robby
    Robby Posts: 681 ✭✭✭
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    @mariner said:
    I just added this newly graded beauty to my set.....

    Beautiful card Don .......looks like a 10 ......................copied from Wiki

    Abernathy spent five years (1958–62) toiling in minor league baseball before returning to the majors as a bullpen ace for the 1963 Indians. Sold to the Cubs in April 1965, Abernathy recorded a league-leading 31 saves (again for a second-division team), along with 104 strikeouts and a 2.57 ERA. He had 28 saves, 88 strikeouts, and a 1.27 ERA two seasons later with Cincinnati. In both 1965 and 1967, he led the league in saves, and won the TSN Reliever of the Year Award. In 1968, Abernathy won 10 games with 13 saves, and had 10 wins and 14 saves in 1970. He led the National League in games pitched three times: 1965 (with 84, a major-league record at the time), 1967 and 1968.

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    1963 Fleer
    Lou Brock Master Set
  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Robby.....that is what I thought too.

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • gemint
    gemint Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 4, 2021 9:38PM
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    Nice Spencer Don. I just picked up this Sparky 8. It looked like a sure fire 9 bump but on closer inspection is has a bit of print issues around the cap and background that would likely prohibit it from bumping. I still think an 8.5 is in order since the card is otherwise so strong.


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  • hankcaddy
    hankcaddy Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @gemint that Sparky is very nice ! Congrats

    currently collecting baseball of
    2004 spx
    1989 topps psa 10
    1959 phillies
    Phillies of the 70's
  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    John, that is a great looking Sparky rookie....I agree, it is bumpable.

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    Here’s my latest pick up. Would have liked better centering but a tough card to find in this grade.

  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Shantz is one tough card....it always has some level of centering issues....congrats on your 8!

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    Thanks Don

  • markj111
    markj111 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭
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    @brick1979 said:
    Here’s my latest pick up. Would have liked better centering but a tough card to find in this grade.

    @brick1979 said:
    Here’s my latest pick up. Would have liked better centering but a tough card to find in this grade.

    Shanty, Pierce AS, and Hunter were the three toughest cards for me ro find in PSA 8.

  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    There are plenty of super tough cards but those three are right there with all of them.

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • 1959
    1959 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭✭
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    Hunter is super tough

  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 25, 2021 8:25AM
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    Another super tough card is Amaro and Wertz…..try finding one of them in an 8, but especially a 9.

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    I was lucky to find a Wertz!

  • hankcaddy
    hankcaddy Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @mariner said:
    Another super tough card is Amaro and Wertz…..try finding one of them in an 8, but especially a 9.

    Yeah Amaro is brutally hard ti find centered and without fisheyes

    currently collecting baseball of
    2004 spx
    1989 topps psa 10
    1959 phillies
    Phillies of the 70's
  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    …..and that is a great Wertz card….congrats!

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    Thanks Don

  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Here are my Amaro and Wertz cards.....


    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    Those are awesome cards!!

  • 1959
    1959 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭✭
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    THATS THE WERTZ CARD IN THE 59 SET.

  • lostinthe50s
    lostinthe50s Posts: 5 ✭
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    Hey, congratulations on the Triandos. It's a tough one and you got a beauty. My last card in PSA 8 was Wally Moon. Don't know why, just seemed that I was never looking in the right place at the right time. Now go get that Mantle!

  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Whoa!...Dan, that is one beautifully centered Triandos and that is damn near impossible to find that nice....huge congratulations!

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    nice card!

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • DBesse27
    DBesse27 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Awesome Yogi

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    #1 Gino Cappelletti master set
    #1 John Hannah master set

    Also collecting Andre Tippett, Patriots Greats' RCs, Dwight Evans, 1964 Venezuelan Topps

  • Rofles
    Rofles Posts: 763 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Wow sweet Yogi!

  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
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    Whoa......John, that is an amazing and gorgeous and beautiful Berra.....mind blown!

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14
  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    Thanks guys!

  • agr
    agr Posts: 74 ✭✭✭
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    Anyone else have one of these, Lee Walls without the bottom right border defect ?

  • agr
    agr Posts: 74 ✭✭✭
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    There is a tinge of yellow but the border is straighter than on most of the cards

  • 1959
    1959 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭✭
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    I have never seen one without the yellow. That is the least amount of yellow I have seen.

  • fiveniner
    fiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
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    @mariner said:
    Another tough 1959.....

    Man that’s a real beauty Don.

    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • fiveniner
    fiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
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    I have a raw super set now and so much wanted to have it graded however I don’t have $$$$$$$
    Right now.
    Been spending to much on my car.

    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • brick1979
    brick1979 Posts: 27 ✭✭
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    My latest addition

  • mariner
    mariner Posts: 2,605 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 21, 2021 3:25PM
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    Al....I have never seen a Walls without quite a bit of yellow....the card on the right is close to no yellow....amazing.

    Tony....thank you....and congrats on your complete raw set.

    John....another great 59 in Fitzgerald....another tough card in the set.

    Don

    Collect primarily 1959-1963 Topps Baseball
    set registry id Don Johnson Collection
    ebay id truecollector14

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