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BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,067 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 2, 2025 12:49PM in Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum

It looks like nobody started a May acquisitions thread yet so here goes.
I just got this 1973 OPC Mike Schmidt rookie card. Not the greatest left to right centering but nice corners. This will be a nice compliment to the SGC graded Topps Schmidt I acquired last month:

Daniel

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  • 82FootballWaxMemorys82FootballWaxMemorys Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2, 2025 1:26PM

    Agree regarding corners but you clearly named the thread "May Purchases" yet you state in your post A last month acquisition.

    It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)

  • 82FootballWaxMemorys82FootballWaxMemorys Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭✭✭

    If you had Trading Card Combining Machine you might have a 9 :)

    It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)

  • BBBrkrrBBBrkrr Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Ron Cey's mom might have a problem with how you describe her son's rookie card.

  • 82FootballWaxMemorys82FootballWaxMemorys Posts: 1,816 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 3, 2025 7:29AM

    @BBBrkrr said:
    Ron Cey's mom might have a problem with how you describe her son's rookie card.

    Good ol' John David Hilton, may he RIP, proudly proclaimed for years his was the most sought after and valuable Rookie Card in the 1973 set.

    It's the singer not the song - Peter Townshend (1972)

  • BBBrkrrBBBrkrr Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BaltimoreYankee said:

    @82FootballWaxMemorys said:

    @BBBrkrr said:
    Ron Cey's mom might have a problem with how you describe her son's rookie card.

    Good ol' John David Hilton, may he RIP, proudly proclaimed for years his was the most sought after and valuable Rookie Card in the 1973 set.

    Here's my copy of the true Ron Cey rookie card, which will actually set you back a few bucks as it is a high number. And no, that's not THE Bernie Williams (this Bernie also has a 'rookie' card in the 1971 Topps set).

    Oglivie was quite the player too. Dude had some pretty great years.

    Nice to see him show up on that new doc they just released about the ‘82 Brewers team.

  • brad31brad31 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just once - you can’t because of the autos - I want someone to ink up the plates and show us what happens when they put it to paper!!

  • Chicago1976Chicago1976 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @redlegs said:

    Great looking card, but again PSA seems to be having problems mounting cards in their holders.

  • BBBrkrrBBBrkrr Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love a good Blyleven. That one is awesome.

  • Chicago1976Chicago1976 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Supershriner said:

    Working on a ‘48 Bowman set SGC & trying not to break the bank. My OCD, I have to have all variations in a set build. Thankfully only Feller in this set & finished that out today. Too bad the variation wasn’t Sid Gordon 🤷‍♂️.

    Nice pickups! I was not aware there were 3 variations. I wonder why SGC didn't annotate the differences on the label?

  • SupershrinerSupershriner Posts: 24 ✭✭✭

    @Chicago1976 said:

    @Supershriner said:

    Working on a ‘48 Bowman set SGC & trying not to break the bank. My OCD, I have to have all variations in a set build. Thankfully only Feller in this set & finished that out today. Too bad the variation wasn’t Sid Gordon 🤷‍♂️.

    Nice pickups! I was not aware there were 3 variations. I wonder why SGC didn't annotate the differences on the label?

    I don’t know, I’ve never seen them noted thru SGC or PSA. I’ve wondered myself.

  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 12,082 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BBBrkrr said:
    Love a good Blyleven. That one is awesome.

    Thanks! He's a bargain in my opinion.

    There's another 9 out there now.

    Seller might take $60.00! I thought this one was a LITTLE nicer.

    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,067 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yankees70 said:

    Just purchased this today. My all time favorite player and the heart and soul of the great Yankee teams from 1976-1978.

    you can tell from my avatar that I am partial to Munson myself. Great card!!

    Daniel
  • brad31brad31 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 7, 2025 5:14PM

    What are the three Feller variations. Maybe I am just unobservant but they look the same to me. Seem cropped the same. Couldn’t spot any differences in uniforms or cap. Is it something on the back? Thanks for the education.

    EDIT - kept looking is it the two squares at the top above his head — none on the first, big on the second and small on the third - or those could just be reflections.

  • SupershrinerSupershriner Posts: 24 ✭✭✭

    @brad31 said:
    What are the three Feller variations. Maybe I am just unobservant but they look the same to me. Seem cropped the same. Couldn’t spot any differences in uniforms or cap. Is it something on the back? Thanks for the education.

    EDIT - kept looking is it the two squares at the top above his head — none on the first, big on the second and small on the third - or those could just be reflections.

    That’s the variation. I’ve never heard why it was, I guess just a printing glitch.

  • Chicago1976Chicago1976 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Supershriner said:

    @brad31 said:
    What are the three Feller variations. Maybe I am just unobservant but they look the same to me. Seem cropped the same. Couldn’t spot any differences in uniforms or cap. Is it something on the back? Thanks for the education.

    EDIT - kept looking is it the two squares at the top above his head — none on the first, big on the second and small on the third - or those could just be reflections.

    That’s the variation. I’ve never heard why it was, I guess just a printing glitch.

    I did find a blog on line that suggests it was a printing glitch that was corrected over time, hence the stages of "squares".

    "The variation on the 1948 Bowman Feller relates to 'windows' at the top center of the card. Most of the time when you see the card it has no white shapes, like card #1 above. Due to some sort of printing problem, the card can also be found with two white windows at the top. The windows also come in different sizes, as can be seen in the other cards shown, and this is probably due to the problem increasing in size gradually, as can be seen in cards #2 and #3, and then stopping at a point like card #4.

    The Trading Card Database recognizes three variants.

            5a      Bob Feller      VAR: no white slashes or boxes on front
        5b      Bob Feller      VAR: Two White Slashes on Front
        5c      Bob Feller      VAR: Two White Boxes on Front
  • brad31brad31 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the info. Will have to look at mine and see which variation it is. Love learning about this stuff.

  • yankeesmanyankeesman Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yankees70 said:

    Just purchased this today. My all time favorite player and the heart and soul of the great Yankee teams from 1976-1978.

    Love the Thurm!!! My favorite player as well.

    Don Mattingly, Yogi Berra, Thurman Munson, Brian McCann and Topps Rookie Cup autograph collector
    www.questfortherookiecup.com
  • balco758balco758 Posts: 1,441 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very nice centering on the 79 Thurm.

  • mintonlyplsmintonlypls Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Is that Willie McCovey in the background at Candlestick Park?

    mint_only_pls
  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 3,067 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @smallstocks said:

    Pretty stoked about this one. POP 7 with none higher.

    Oh my, that card is a stunner!!

    Daniel
  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭✭✭

    After being inspired by @JoeyCoins and his many successful rips, I thought I'd try my hand and purchased a Target Heritage blaster, pulling this card.
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    With a little taste of my own success, I purchased another Heritage blaster and a Heritage mega box, striking out on both of those.

    Not to be deterred, I then picked up a blaster of Bowman from Target, and my persistence was rewarded. Bingo!

    Ichiro's signature looks like Billy's path home in the Family Circle comics, if you remember that. Lol
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