I never knew my wife was a serious card collector...please read

bman90278 · January 14, 2009 9:03AM

Hi everyone,
Here is the original title for this thread, "New finds of HOF auto cards & other cards I didn't know I had", but I'm changing it...

Seriously, I knew my wife bought cards as a youngster, but I never really checked out her card collection until this week.

I'm very impressed!!!!!

Well I just dug out my wifes card collection we had stashed away in storage for many years and brought them home.

I wanted to post a couple cool finds. These 2 autographed cards also include the COA cards with them. My wife was a better collector than me and was very organized. I think I might have to post some picks of her albums too.

Edit: Added COA cards for above cards

lawnmowerman · January 14, 2009 9:10AM

I think Randy may be interested in that Yogi

BigRedMachine · January 14, 2009 9:14AM

Where'd you find those? Let me guess. Inside the box of winter clothes.

Seriously, cool find. Love the cards.

shawn

zep33 · January 14, 2009 10:36AM

a wife collecting hall of fame autographed cards - now that's hot

BassPro77 · January 14, 2009 10:55AM

<< a wife collecting hall of fame autographed cards - now that's hot >>

thats awesome. my wife yells at me when i buy cards

bman90278 · January 14, 2009 11:10AM

<< 

<< a wife collecting hall of fame autographed cards - now that's hot >>

thats awesome. my wife yells at me when i buy cards >>

My wife's cousins tell me that she was very tight with her cards and never traded anything away. So far I've found 4 card albums with some nice mint cards in them and lots of rookie and hof cards I didn't have.

benderbroeth · January 14, 2009 11:14AM

i love it....many a moon ago i was at a high school dance i looked in my inside coat and i found $40 that was great....
i at first thought this thread was started by rube...cause he is always finding stuff he didnt know he had...lol

bman90278 · January 14, 2009 11:27AM

Some more finds in my wife's stash of cards.

5 decks of 1994 sealed / unopened playing cards, 1 was Rookies. I ripped open the Rookies...lol

A few CocaCola packs..This one has Nolan Ryan on front and Santos Alomar Jr.

bman90278 · January 14, 2009 11:31AM

Gotta keep this Beckett mag as it has Cal on the cover...one of my favorites. Dang my wife was a packrat. lol

slantycouch · January 14, 2009 11:31AM

Cool stuff!

bman90278 · January 16, 2009 1:11AM

I'm still slowly going through my wife's cards and thought these were interesting and worth posting some pics.

Lakers cards...

bman90278 · January 16, 2009 1:14AM

I was also noticing my wife had many, many Sportflics cards. The cards look much better than they scanned. Most of them were all in sleeves, but I'm changing them to newer ones.

Here are some of the ones I really like.

Alfonz24 · January 16, 2009 1:15AM

Jack Haley RULES!

bman90278 · January 16, 2009 1:22AM

Here are some more HOF Sportflics cards.

bman90278 · January 16, 2009 1:25AM

These Jimmy Dean cards are cool. I'm always glad to add another Eddie Murray, Griffey Jr, or Moose cards to our collection.

larryallen73 · January 16, 2009 1:26AM

Yo Bman, is your "wife" a guy? Not that there is anything wrong with that.

justmichael · January 16, 2009 1:30AM

In hindsight it probrobly made more sense for your wife to collect pictures of men then for you to do it.Us card guys are weird.

Mike

bman90278 · January 16, 2009 1:31AM

<< Yo Bman, is your "wife" a guy? Not that there is anything wrong with that.

>>

My wife was actually a cheerleader in high school, but growing up in San Pedro, CA (small and tight community) and living close to her cousin's, my wife collected with her cousin's Andy, Mike and her brother. I can tell the players my wife really liked cause they are all in protectors. She had the hots for Steve Sax, Mike Piazza, Shawn Green....to name a few. Thanks for the poke at me.

I can honestly tell you that I seriously overachieved in my marriage....Beautiful, very smart and educated, religious, great personality, and did I mention the most important thing......................

She loves the Dodgers,or at least has the hots for good looking athletes. lol

Brian

bman90278 · January 16, 2009 1:32AM

<< In hindsight it probrobly made more sense for your wife to collect pictures of men then for you to do it.Us card guys are weird.

Mike >>

You couldn't have said it any better!!!

I wonder if Mrs Lawnmowerman collected before or after they were married???

Brian

IchiroDeported · January 16, 2009 3:12AM

I was expecting that she collected CREDIT cards

slantycouch · January 16, 2009 3:18AM

<< These Jimmy Dean cards are cool. I'm always glad to add another Eddie Murray, Griffey Jr, or Moose cards to our collection.

>>

I love cards that they had to remove mlb logos from. Always looks so weird.

bman90278 · January 16, 2009 3:20AM

<< I love cards that they had to remove mlb logos from. Always looks so weird. >>

I've been so busy getting all of my new cards organized I didn't even notice that...Good point. I like em too.

pujolsintheminors5 · January 16, 2009 6:45AM

gotta like those unlicensed sets....

making money illegally.....gotta love it

NickM · January 16, 2009 6:53AM

The Jimmy Dean set was licensed by MLBPA, so they had the right to use the players' pictures. They didn't buy a license from MLB, so they couldn't use team trademarks/logos. There's nothing illegal about it, and many food issues over the decades have done exactly the same thing.

Nick

DrJ · January 16, 2009 7:00AM

<< 

<< These Jimmy Dean cards are cool. I'm always glad to add another Eddie Murray, Griffey Jr, or Moose cards to our collection.

>>

I love cards that they had to remove mlb logos from. Always looks so weird. >>

I think I have a few uncut sheets of this series laying around. You had to eat Sausage biscuits and send in the UPC if I remeber correctly.

bman90278 · January 17, 2009 7:36AM

Still going through my wife's cards and found a couple of packs of NFL cards that she opened, but still had them wrapped in the wax. Here are the highlights.

Ironmanfan · January 17, 2009 9:26AM

<< gotta like those unlicensed sets....

making money illegally.....gotta love it >>

there is nothing illegal about this; they just paid a license fee to the Players Associaton (and not the teams); therefore the team logos are airbrushed off (nothing unusual).

bman90278 · January 20, 2009 4:13AM

Some more finds in my wife's card collection.

Nothing great but it brings back good memories of the Dodgers before they went downhill.

bman90278 · January 20, 2009 4:20AM

Here is one of the pages from my wife's 4 albums she had filled with cards.

The yellow stickers were the current price value of the cards back then. My wife used to buy Beckett's book and check the values every month. Also, when she ripped the cards they always went right into the albums or card holders.

lsutigers1973 · January 20, 2009 4:23AM

No one mentioned that there was a Marino rookie?

artistlost · January 20, 2009 4:24AM

Nice Marino...

mathew

bman90278 · January 20, 2009 4:29AM

<< No one mentioned that there was a Marino rookie? >>

Holy crap guys...I've been under so much stress being out of work for the last 4 months I didn't even notice the Marino rookie card.

brian

P.S. This deserves it's on thread.

I never knew my wife was a serious card collector...please read

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