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

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Posted By: sean

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 Lets see how fast kenner refuses my deadball era starting line up collection. ahh to dream

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Posted By: Jimi

Hey Sean,

I think I have an Ozzie Smith and Don Mattingly I can sell you!

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.

Jimi

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Posted By: sean

I think they musta made a billion mattingly's as I remember buying 5 when they came out lol
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!
Sean + idea = dork alert

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Posted By: Jodi Birkholm

They actually made Starting Lineups of classic players, and I think there was a Cobb in the set.

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Posted By: sean

yup,
they have cobb, ruth, gehrig, dean, speaker, alexander for sure.
I guess they figured an ed reulbach starting lineup wouldnt sell very well

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Posted By: jay wolt

SLU's in the late 80's & 90's were huge
Nowadays McFarlane is the top dawg and they
have a few vintage players incl as well.

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Posted By: sean

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

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Posted By: Jimi

OK, so I know nothing about starting lineups, but that Cobb is pretty cool, Jay.

Jimi

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Posted By: sean

Team sets would be cool too! I want the 1908 cubs

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Posted By: jeffdrum

I picked these up out a dollar box @ a past National. From L to R: Ruth, Alexander, Sisler, Johnson and Speaker.

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Posted By: john/z28jd

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: sean

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
lol

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

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: george gogol

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: Darren

Starting Line-Up Legendary Issue or McFarlane

Cobb Steals Third -- famous Conlon Photo
Babe Calls His Shot
Tinker, Evers, to Chance
Murderer's Row
Eight Men Out
Merkle's Boner
The Flying Dutchman

and that's just the First Series

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Posted By: sean

darn darren! for a second I thought that was an official announcement!
That would be great! Id love for starting lineup to do that.
can we add the $100,000 infield and the miracle braves?

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Posted By: John H.

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!!!

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: Darren

Sean,

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!