BB Cards as Xmas presents

[Fred]

Well, another year has passed and that fat old fart still hasn't brought me an Anson in Uniform (N172) . If another year passes without that card then I'm gonna stop believing...

Just out of curiosity, does anybody ever receive vintage baseball cards for Christmas? I can remember about 25 years ago my brother gave me a T206 Matty and an N28 Mulvey without me even telling him what I wanted or liked. I opened the package and needless to say that was a huge surprise. My best source of cards could be my wife but she wouldn't know the difference between a T card from a lipton tea bag...

Oh yeah -

Merry Christmas to All

[Leon]

Almost every day I get 1-3 cards in the mail. Santa comes year round......and Hanukkah Harry too!! Hope everyone is enjoying the season!!

[sbfinley]

My wife gave me a half dozen graded t206's for Christmas a few years ago, but the rest of my family wouldn't have a clue as to what to purchase.

[sayhey24]

We were always a collecting family, so I would get a lot of baseball items over the years. One of my favorites I remember would have been when I was in high school in about 1975 -- my parents got me a complete 1962 Topps set, minus the high numbers. They were stacked in a small cardboard box --every card looked like it just came out of a pack. About ten years later at a card show, I bought the complete run of high numbers in equally amazing condition to complete the set. I still love that set!

Greg

[4815162342]

Do eBay gift cards count? Oh yes!

[Edwolf1963]

Under the theme of "it's the thought that counts", my sister got me a block (opened from packs then stacked/plastic sealed about 100-150 cards) of Stadium Club 1991 Cards from a local Atlanta Sports Memorabilia Shop. She said "I knew you were collecting and I thought these would go good with your set".

Didn't have the heart to go into this, left it at "these are great, thank you" .. she wouldn't get it, most likely think "E-Series" was something internet based like eBay or eTrade

[bbcard1]

I got the T206 book...and an ebay card. Quite happy with it.

[rdixon1208]

Originally Posted by Edwolf1963

Under the theme of "it's the thought that counts", my sister got me a block (opened from packs then stacked/plastic sealed about 100-150 cards) of Stadium Club 1991 Cards from a local Atlanta Sports Memorabilia Shop. She said "I knew you were collecting and I thought these would go good with your set".

Didn't have the heart to go into this, left it at "these are great, thank you" .. she wouldn't get it, most likely think "E-Series" was something internet based like eBay or eTrade

That's awesome! Let me know if you decide to go after the set. I think I have a million or so of those in my father-in-law's closet.

He helped me move a few years ago, and he saw the cards after I left with the last load. He called me later and said that I almost "accidentally" left thousands of baseball cards in the old house. Lucky for me, he scooped them up and took them to his house so I could come get them. That was in 2002.

[donmuth]

Well I didn't get any baseball cards for Christmas. So, I'm looking on the B/S/T boards now. However, I did get two good sounding baseball books in addition to the 2011 Standard Catalog. The first book is "Fifty-Nine in '84" the story of Hoss Radbourn. The second one was "The Last Boy" a Mickey Mantle book. Got them both from my wife, so she did a pretty good job picking them out. I also found a book about Don Larsen (called Perfect I think) at Books-A-Million for $2 the other day. So, I'm set for baseball reading for awhile.

[Tim Fritz]

My wife normally buys me something every year. This year was a '61 Bart Starr. Some year I'll get that Goudey Gehrig or Ruth. She's learned how to read my wantlists and listens to me blab on about cards.