May pickup thread
 

Beautiful cards this month; especially like the Cracker Jacks! Was able to add this Ruth in a recent trade:

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Thanks Phil!

Nice Sport Kings Ruth Matt

Thank you, Sir - I was pleased how well it presented in the SGC holder with the black background of the holder and the black nameplate for the Babe on the card.

Peckinpaugh
 

Picked up a nice Holsum Bread card of Roger Peckinpaugh from Ed Hans

Not the most expensive cards, but I picked up first T205 and added 2 more 1916 Zee Nut's

I realize it's just a common; however, I really like the look of this card. Interesting structure in the background, slight color shift (especially around the cap) and a sky filled with the colors of sunset.

Picked this up from a fellow board member. Thanks, Bill...much appreciated.

Eric,
I appreciate your ability to recognize baseball cards as small pieces of artwork, especially enjoy your 56 Topps thread.

Cool BST pick up.
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Wow - love that T205, Gary. It looks like Chas is about to jump out of that card...great clarity and detail on that card!

Yeah, this is a nice one.

My first Duffy card, his last star season was his age 30 season in 1897, but Duffy is a "real HOFer" in my book. Won it for $60, seemed like a good price as I work through the low-end T206 Hall of Fame cards.

Nice Duffy and agreed that's a pretty good deal on his card.

T3 Big Train
 

member pickup. Finally a T3 for my Big Train collection. :) Thanks Matt!

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1930 W554 HOF Cards
 

Picked up these four 1930 W554 HOF cards. Low grade but tough cards to find. I previously had a low grade Lou Gehrig SGC 10 in my collection.

Plank
 

I know it's a low grade card, but I've been looking for this card for awhile and finally found one.

Plank
 

Iconic card Frank!!...Jerry

Who cares about the grade?! Congratulations!

That’s an awesome card!

My oddball May mix. The McGann is a PB back.

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Got this guy! I have owned 3 of the 4 different versions of the Cobb T206 (signed). Currently, I have both of the bat on and off signed now.

Drool.....amazing card!

Congrats!

congrats! what a card.

Wow! Congrats! I was really happy to pick this up.

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I really like that Lajoie card.

Hard to pass up on baseball currency and one of my white whales of the American Pub Detroit PC which is 1907 and not 1908 as advertised from the AH.

Another type card...

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Picked this amazing Dooin w/Nelson Tisdel stamp up from a fellow board member (thanks Scott). Here is a link to all of my Tisdel stamped backs.

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Can't wait to keep reassembling the collection!

Nice Tisdel stamp bro. I've added it to my online project.

Great Evers Leon!

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Chad, awesome Standard Biscuit (and not a bad player on front either)

The 1916 Ruth Sporting Life was a Chantilly Show pick up; The 1914 CJ Bresnahan No Number on Back was a Goldin Pickup

Picked this up in REA last night. Looking for the Blue to complete the four.

Also from REA last night. Somebody took a bite out of it but I'm happy to get it.

My white whale has finally came in. I have been pursuing this card for over 10 years and now can move on.
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Awesome Ruth piece Ryan, been looking for one myself.

pickups
 

Nice pickups guys...like the E98 Cobb and the Kotton Bender...Jerry

It was a great mail day! Long time since I did a trade…
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REA Pickup and EBay. Going for a back run, but I "think" the ungraded one is a scrap, so I treated it differently :)

Bill

Nice pickups! You can't do much better than that with three 1's.

1912 Home Run Kisses Win Noyes
 

My first card from the 1912 Zeenut Home Run Kisses set. This completes my Win Noyes checklist.

Another catcher position Pin
 

Picked up another catcher position pin.


Patrick

My first ever "pick-up" post.

These cards were, literally, the ones that got me interested in vintage cards back in 1983. I was visiting a dear family friend with my parents...the adults were doing their adult things and I was sitting on a porch ripping into some '83 topps packs, watching the Braves play on TV. The friend saw what I was doing, and went to retrieve his childhood collection to share...we talked for what seemed like hours about the players, baseball and his fandom of Heine Manush. He was a super cool guy...WW2 vet, Ohio State track guy...just a good dude
I was hooked...

Fast forward almost 40 years. I re-connected with this gentlemen's daughter after finding a birthday card he had sent me years ago with a '33 Goudey Jesse Haines inside. All of our parent's recently passed, we were catching up and baseball came up...and I asked whatever happened to that wonderful collection.

Long story short, I was honored to be able to add these cards to my and my dad's collection.

The Ruth has a couple of creases, but overall pretty nice in hand. Certainly not high grade, but presentable. All of the Diamond Stars are actually very nice...again, not high grade but no creases, just corners and surface wear. The '33 Foxx, Bengough and Grove are pretty rough...but "intact" and look look just like I remember them. I had even saved the piece of paper where I had "catalogued" these back in '83.

sorry for the ramble...I love this site and have enjoyed talking with some of you
hope y'all have a great Memorial Day...I'll be watching baseball, looking at these cards...and I think i have a couple of old '83 topps packs to rip into

Mike

I love that story! So cool

Out On A Limb.......
 

..Even though there's several days left in the month , I'm gonna go out on a limb here and pronounce your post of that ''pick-up'' as the winner of May 2021......thanks , great story , the stuff from which dreams are made..

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Man. That's fantastic! My parents' friends were useless.

Great story Mike, those cards couldn't have found a better home.

I love that story, Mike. So glad they made their way to you.

I have nothing like that to share, but I made a friendly trade here on the forum and sent this to SGC (graded and mailed back in 5 days!) when it arrived. A really nice card I'm happy to own.

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Thanks guys...how can you not be romantic about baseball