I love 88 starting lineups! too bad they didnt make these in 1910 :(

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Posted By: <b>sean</b><p>Id like to say I have literally no interest in post 1970 baseball but I cant help but love the 1988 starting lineups. They are super cool and super cheap! Granted most dont look like the player but their are a few exceptions (The Pete Rose is perfect!). They are pretty worthless right now but I honestly believe they are a good investment cause every cool baseball item sooner or later (in this case MUCH later) becomes valuable. Wouldnt it be great to have starting lineups for every year! I personally a Hughie Jennings doing his famous eeyah! OR Frank Chance getting beaned, or do a starting lineup playset of fred merkle NOT running to second <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> Lets see how fast kenner refuses my deadball era starting line up collection. ahh to dream <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Jimi</b><p>Hey Sean,<br /><br />I think I have an Ozzie Smith and Don Mattingly I can sell you!<br /><br />They were pretty cool, I'll give you that, but unless I had a Cobb stealing home, or Ruth "calling the shot", I probably won't be collecting any anytime soon.<br><br>Jimi

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Posted By: <b>sean</b><p>I think they musta made a billion mattingly's as I remember buying 5 when they came out lol<br />Remember, they sell cheap so you can have ruth AND cobb plus have matty mcintyre too boot! Relive the friction between McIntyre and cobb all over again!<br />Sean + idea = dork alert

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>They actually made Starting Lineups of classic players, and I think there <i>was</i> a Cobb in the set.

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Posted By: <b>sean</b><p>yup,<br />they have cobb, ruth, gehrig, dean, speaker, alexander for sure.<br />I guess they figured an ed reulbach starting lineup wouldnt sell very well <img src="/images/sad.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>jay wolt</b><p>SLU's in the late 80's & 90's were huge<br />Nowadays McFarlane is the top dawg and they<br />have a few vintage players incl as well.<br /><br /><img src="http://i16.ebayimg.com/04/i/000/de/6e/df94_1.JPG">

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Posted By: <b>sean</b><p>the macfarlane ones looks great but I prefer the old slu's. The new one almost have too much detail and like the star wars figures, they have too much muscle. Plus I wanna be able to play with them <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Jimi</b><p>OK, so I know nothing about starting lineups, but that Cobb is pretty cool, Jay. <br><br>Jimi

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Posted By: <b>sean</b><p>Team sets would be cool too! I want the 1908 cubs <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>jeffdrum</b><p>I picked these up out a dollar box @ a past National. From L to R: Ruth, Alexander, Sisler, Johnson and Speaker.<br /><img src="http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s172/hrbaker/slus001.jpg"><br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>john/z28jd</b><p> Since when did Ed Asner play for the Indians? or is that guy on the end Ernest Borgnine? I always get their eyebrows mixed up

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Posted By: <b>sean</b><p>love it! Hopefully theyll have them cheap at this national. i hate buying them off ebay cause with shipping you end up paying almost as much as they cost NEW<br />lol

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>I purchased a huge lot of the Cooperstown series at an auction last year...I got probably about 40 of them still in the package for $25. I think there were about 7 or 8 Babe Ruth's and 4 or 5 Ty Cobb's. When they first came out in 1988 I bought a lot of them and tried to put a set together, but found out real fast that many of them never made it to my area of the country. At one point I think I had over 300 Starting Lineups, but I sold them all when you could still make money off of them. Nowadays you'd be lucky to get a buck each.

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Posted By: <b>george gogol</b><p>Some have more details than others, but you gotta love the split grip on the Speaker. Great photo. I am sitting on 150+ in my attic. I went to every National SLU convention when it was in Cincy, back in the mid-90's. I love the "Cooperstown Collection." A little off topic, but a great post, thanks for bringing up good memories.

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Posted By: <b>Darren</b><p>Starting Line-Up Legendary Issue or McFarlane<br /><br />Cobb Steals Third -- famous Conlon Photo<br />Babe Calls His Shot<br />Tinker, Evers, to Chance<br />Murderer's Row<br />Eight Men Out<br />Merkle's Boner<br />The Flying Dutchman<br /><br />and that's just the First Series

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Posted By: <b>sean</b><p>darn darren! for a second I thought that was an official announcement!<br />That would be great! Id love for starting lineup to do that.<br />can we add the $100,000 infield and the miracle braves?

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Posted By: <b>John H.</b><p>Oh, man! I collected SLU's like a rabid dog from '94 to '97 and it wasn't easy as we only had hockey and a few scattered baseball pieces up here in Canada, eh. I had to buy up all of the hot pieces, mostly goalies, that I knew American dealers wanted and send them down south. I made some massive trades to build my collection of about 300 which now sits in storage. Great fun!!!<br /><br />A couple of things from previous posts; I don't recall a George Sisler piece ever being made and there is a 1995 Cooperstown Collection Babe Ruth "called shot" piece.

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Posted By: <b>Darren</b><p>Sean,<br /><br />Sure, that's a start to series 2.

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I am still a huge starting lineup collector. I love them and can never get enough! So many great figures, poses and stories!