From Love Of The Game......
Billy Herman 52T high
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Joe Page error to go with my recent Sain
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52 Mantle
 

So excited to get this one today! Definitely a holy grail for me.

A special thanks to chris (pawpawdiv9) for emailing me the listing. I would have never seen it otherwise.

Incredible Mantle! Please post a bigger scan once you get it in hand. Nicely done, Jesse!

I've got it in hand, but can't get my scanner to work right. That picture actually looks better than what I took on my phone. It looks better in person than in the scans, despite the grade.

Sweet '52 Mickey! Love the centering on that beauty. Congrats Jesse!

Looks good to me.

Congrats on the 311!

Congrats on such a beautiful card! I don't know how Chris (PawPaw) does it, but he has a way of tracking down gems for people :)

I do what i can do here, when i'm just waiting for a item and saving some money. I only have a few items on my radar, so it allows me free time to looks at other items and some times i do find things that other people need or offer advice on a card.
Overall i am pleased to help you both Pokerplr and Bestdj777 on those gems you added recently. In return, i was given a lead from e107collector on a card. Good Karma.Net54 is a great place.

Thanks everyone.

No Mantle. Just another nice '56 Topps Dodger.

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Picked this up at a local flea market. Not in the best of shape but at $22.00 I thought it was a good deal.
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Nice Furillo. Congrats

Duane

That's the best $20 bucks you'll ( or any of us ) ever spend. Well done.

Schmidt PR Sticker and 69 Topps
 

Picked up this Mantle to hold me over until I can find a nice centered PSA 8 with no tilt. Also, just received the Schmidt PR Sticker.

Great pick-up on the Schmidt rookie, Dan.

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You make a great point!

First off, love that Schmidt sticker. Not one you see every day, let alone with that centering.

Been a busy couple weeks on the card front ;) Many of these strike me as under graded-- so much so I might actually wind up running a few of them through the system again one day down the line.

Wildly stoked about some of the nuances to this crop, from there being no dot on the 67 to the lack of PD and blurriness on the 60, to the centering of the 53B and 65T, to the mitigated tilt on the 69. Very, very happy :)

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WOW, awesome pickups MattyC!

Yea very nice Mantles. The color on that 1960 makes it look like it was just pulled from a pack yesterday.

Thanks-- yes, that is what blew me away on the 1960 card. Pulsing vibrant color in hand, bright white borders, no PD like so many, and a focused Mick :) :) :)

Wow, pretty much all of them look straight from the pack! What a haul!

MattyC,

Now that is a nice batch of Micks. The 60 Mantle really pops when you look at it. Hard to imagine any better color and clarity on any card even a 9. That 53 Bowman is a real keeper and that 54 Bowman has got to be under graded for sure. Congrats.

Nice job as always MattyC.
Drew

MattyC Fantastic Mantles keep em coming.

Two thumbs up on buying the cards there. Hank looks 8 to me. And the focus on that Ryan is insane. As if that card didn't have enough in Topps or OPC to make it impossible to find a nice one, the image if often a tad bit blurry.

Thank you, kindly. And yes, Sir-- I shall oblige. The Dude Abides...

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MattyC,

BAM!!! Not a homerun but a Grand Slam Homer with that 58 Mantle! I cannot find anything off on the centering. Looks to be perfect centering. Wow!

Gone for a week and MattyC blows up the week with Mantles up the wazoo!!! Awesome job indeed.

Added over the summer: two old-label SCD's
 

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...Got lucky and added some centered ancient old old SCD-graded 1952 Topps to the glacial-paced dream collection of centered 1952 Topps......at the rate I'm finding centered 52's , my granddaughters will still be working on it , long after I've rolled snake-eyes.

..The subgrade for " Centering" on the Hank Sauer is "8.5" which is damn high praise indeed , coming from the old curmudgeons at the old Beckett .

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I don't collect these at all, but I was a huge fan of Thurm's, so I grabbed it up…
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Bob, beautiful! Congratulations.

Haven't received it yet but very excited about obtaining my 3rd card from this Jackie Robinson rookie set.

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Cole,

Great pickup! Aside from this one and the portrait, what's the 3rd card you have so far?

This sliding one!

gorgeous everything guys!

Got these in the mail yesterday. The 2 little kids in BB uniforms are RPPC(Real Picture PostCards).

For one reason or another, I am prone to drift and lose focus but I am back on my Teddy Ballgame focus and plan to stay on point for a while. The photo is crisp, unlike the somewhat blurry scan but you get the idea.

1976 Kelloggs Sutton Pack
 

Just added this 76 Kelloggs Sutton to my Dodgers sealed food pack collection.

Still looking for the following unopened Kelloggs packs:

1970 - Singer, Haller, Crawford
1972 - Willie Davis, Wes Parker, Osteen
1973 - Sutton, Willie Davis
1975 - Garvey, Messersmith, Buckner, Marshall
1976 - Garvey
1983 - Valenzuela, Guerrero

Picked up a few Willie Mays cards.
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Upgrade for mental health reasons.....
 

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...the outstanding registration and focus and centering on my new one just beckoned me like the Sirens flirting with Odysseus....since I wasn't tied to a mast , I succumbed .

...at least now you can make out the numbers on Mickey's bats....The old-label BGS card ( subgrades: 9 , 3 , 6 , 5 ) looks much better in person than in my scan---Beckett slabs don't do so good in antique first-generation scanners...must get one with that " CCD " thing I keep hearing about..

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You guys are closing the month out with style. Congrats, all!

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New addition to the collection and now one of my favorites:

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#375.... Three more to go!

Wow, what is it?

This was part of the packaging for a 1963 Transogram item. It included a rectangle image of Mays and Mantle. I'm not sure if the intention was for them to be cut out--I don't think there were dotted lines to cut along and it is backed with corrogated cardboard--but the original owner thought it was a card and it reminds very much of the Topps Giant Standups. Either way, the image on this slightly oversized card is striking and I could not be happier to have it in my set.

Picked up these two recently. I have gone a while without buying anything and decided to start again. Am trying to focus on lower grade with decent centering and nice eye appeal.
I think I did well with these two:
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Love that '54 Jackie, very sweet "4"!!!

Thanks! Very solid centering and the white border is very clean

That is a great-looking Robinson '4'! Nice job!

Gorgeous Robinsons! My question is, how the hell did that '54 get a 4 from PSA? What am I not seeing?

Grading "Rules"
 

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...any wrinkle on the front , no matter how hard it is to find ( for us ) is an automatic technical "4"...there's a lot of beautiful "4"'s out there..

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Thanks! I'm really really happy with it.
There is a light wrinkle along his upper lip. It is a beautiful card and that brings the grade down.

Man, would I love to have that 57 Mantle! Wouldn't we all!!

You guys have opened my eyes to the potential hidden in any PSA 4 slab. The '54 Jackie is a great card. The '57 Mantle is the best centering I have ever seen on that card. Excellent additions and probably easy on the wallet. Well played all around.