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  • balco758
    balco758 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Canadian Raines and Rickey, eh

  • Chicago1976
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    edited January 6, 2024 11:04PM
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    Gale Sayers alternative rookie?

  • RonSportscards
    RonSportscards Posts: 1,225 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I had a sealed 1986 Star Canseco Sticker set I ripped and subbed some of the better, centered ones.
    Blank backed, same front as the same year yellow bordered Star cards.
    Very low POP, typically 5-10 total graded each of 15 stickers.

    Here are a couple:

  • JolleyWrencher
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    @erikthredd said:
    This thread definitely needed some alternative MJ rookies...





    You have most the Jordan's I was after. I picked up a half dozen raw schedules with various rear covers. I've seen them graded whole and also cut so Jordan is showing...not sure what to do with mine but I'm glad I got them when I did.

  • Crashingwaves
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    MMA/UFC Collector here.... Despite UFC 1 having been held in Nov 1993, the 1st lic release was not until 2009... so lots of the big names had earlier, un-lic cards.

    Few examples below...

    • 1995-96 Japanese magazine cards of the Gracies
    • 2008 Donruss Americana II Ring Kings - George St Pierre promo auto /5

  • erikthredd
    erikthredd Posts: 9,864 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @JolleyWrencher said:

    @erikthredd said:
    This thread definitely needed some alternative MJ rookies...





    You have most the Jordan's I was after. I picked up a half dozen raw schedules with various rear covers. I've seen them graded whole and also cut so Jordan is showing...not sure what to do with mine but I'm glad I got them when I did.

    That first year schedule has Orlando Woolridge on the front but BGS allows you rearrange the folds so that you could MJ on the front. I wouldn't cut them, just lay it out to where you get the full length of the schedule laying flat then figure out how you want to have MJ facing up. Be careful though not to crease the paper if you plan on grading them. Good luck!

  • GroceryRackPack
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  • DBesse27
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    Chad, your collection was incredible!

    Yaz Master Set
    #1 Gino Cappelletti master set
    #1 John Hannah master set

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

  • hyperchipper09
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    @eagles33 said:
    I sold my collection a while ago but these were a few of my favorites that fit the subject













    Garcia, Warner and Moon. Love those.

  • 1951WheatiesPremium
    1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • Chicago1976
    Chicago1976 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    His officlal rookie is a 1951 Bowman. This may have been released around that time? Not 100% sure when these exhibits were printed.

  • ReggieCleveland
    ReggieCleveland Posts: 3,863 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    JD McCarthy PCs are great for pre-rookies.

    Arthur

  • Hidhoe
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    @CMKL said:
    1974 San Diego Padres Team Issue Dave Winfield

    That’s cool. Never saw this.

  • bswhiten
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    Mickey Mantle #6

  • 1951WheatiesPremium
    1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,613 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @bswhiten said:
    Mickey Mantle #6

    That pretty SWEET!!!

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  • GroceryRackPack
    GroceryRackPack Posts: 4,182 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @RedHeart54 said:
    1985-86 Provigo puffy sticker Patrick Roy. When I got it over 12 years ago PSA would not grade them.

    hey RedHeart54...
    That's Cool... :)

  • erba
    erba Posts: 345 ✭✭✭✭
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    1994-95 Tucson Police Tedy Bruschi

  • gorilla glue 4
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    1986 Mother's Cookies Will Clark SGA

    How much did it sale for is one of the funniest and most ignorant things I've ever heard.

  • DBesse27
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    @erba said:
    1994-95 Tucson Police Tedy Bruschi

    Oh man, this is AWESOME! Bruschi is one of my 2 or 3 favorite players ever. I didn’t know this card existed.

    Yaz Master Set
    #1 Gino Cappelletti master set
    #1 John Hannah master set

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

  • erba
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    @DBesse27 said:

    @erba said:
    1994-95 Tucson Police Tedy Bruschi

    Oh man, this is AWESOME! Bruschi is one of my 2 or 3 favorite players ever. I didn’t know this card existed.

    He's one of my favorite players too! There is another card from 1993. It has the same picture but the back is a little different.

  • shagrotn77
    shagrotn77 Posts: 5,644 ✭✭✭✭
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    Double dipping because I already posted these in the hockey pickups thread:


    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • miwlvrn
    miwlvrn Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nice Stastny!

  • daltex
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    @smallstocks said:

    That's a really attractive card. Damage on the back?

  • smallstocks
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    @daltex said:

    @smallstocks said:

    That's a really attractive card. Damage on the back?

    No. Definitely one of the nicest Caramelos I have ever seen.


    Late 60's and early to mid 70's non-sports
  • erba
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    Picked up some college cards of some Patriots players. Hope to get them signed at some point.


  • 1951WheatiesPremium
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    1951 Rookie Publicity Postcard

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  • mintonlypls
    mintonlypls Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 6, 2025 10:21AM
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    I like the Johnston Cookies Aaron RC better than Topps'...
    I never knew Aaron wore #5 during his rookie season.

    mint_only_pls
  • erba
    erba Posts: 345 ✭✭✭✭
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    Really jealous of that Cheevers!

  • shagrotn77
    shagrotn77 Posts: 5,644 ✭✭✭✭
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    @erba said:
    Really jealous of that Cheevers!

    The image on yours is much nicer!

    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • erba
    erba Posts: 345 ✭✭✭✭
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    Got the first of the cards signed. Added Coach Vrabel on his college card.

  • Geoff76
    Geoff76 Posts: 203 ✭✭✭✭
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    One of my favorite cards in my collection. I got a small box of these Toys R Us cards as a kid.

  • Geoff76
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    @rtimmer said:
    The first James Worthy rookie

    Awesome card. I’ve never seen it before. Dr. J in the shot makes it even better.