Nice card unfortunately I have the common second series from a gumball machine in NJ

Yep. One of those situations where one variation is pretty common and the other is fairly rare.

1969 Nabisco Team Flakes complete sheet with my man Mays, along with Seaver, Rose, and Brock, among others. PSA has this one down as pop 4.

1959 armour coin - mickey vernon prototype
 

THIS IS ONE OF A KIND1959 Armour coin of Mickey Vernon in very dark yellow. Correct common version in pale yellow. Note the team is Senators on the dark coin and the back shows a space for pitching stats that are blank. The correct coin shows his team as Indianshis batting average as is correct since he was an infielder not a pitcher. The coin is believed to be a prototype developed to sell Armour on the idea of renewing the baseball coin giveaway, dormant since 1955. It should also be noted that dark yellow color has never been seen for any other 1959s NOR HAVE ANY OTHER PROTOTYPES EVER BEEN IDENTIFIED.
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Some Tough Variations
 

A few tough variations

The Clemens has some defective partners

Monte Irvin showing in topps Red Back pack

Lummis Peanut butter
 

A card any card from this set has been on my wantlist for a long long time. I turned over a few hundred Sealtest stickers over the past 40 plus years looking for one. Happy to add one to my collection. And all I had to do was win an auction.
One of the Truly scarce postwar Baseball card Issues. Just like the thread title says.

2013 Upper Deck Infinite Rarest of all UD cards issued
 

This is 5 of the total of 33 Upper Deck Infinite cards PSA has Graded since they were issued 12 years ago. The set was 30 cards Basketball Football and Golf subjects. They were part of a credit card Upper Deck wanted to push. I got these by signing up for a card at the Philly show in valley forge. But I never used the card as it was too difficult to earn points for the card packs.
Well I was not the only one who didn't use the card. And because there were bank regulations around this issue they destroyed the leftovers. Easily the scarcest UD issue. There are 3 Jordans in the set with a total of 4 cards graded by PSA.
Because they are so rare no one collects them ..
Sounds like something Yogi would say.

I miss Steve too. Always looked forward to seeing what he had in his showcase, displayed on the back wall or under the table!

Interesting. You never know when one of these obscure issues will catch on, once properly publicized. Someone picked up a Dorsett for $10 delivered on eBay recently, so still obscure.

Well I had only focused on the Basketball but noticed Dorsett Kelly Staubach Football subjects had been sitting in ebay so picked them up.
Matbe 5 years ago I traded emails with a guy who was collecting the Golf subjects and sold him the 2 I had. But as long as they stay obscure and inexpensive I will do my best to put a set together.