Sweet, Mike! Congrats.

jeff

Slingin Sammy
 

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Baugh's
 

Awesome cards Jason! Two of my favorites.

Like this y.a
 

Paid one dollar today at garage sale😀😀

Can't have just one
 

I went on a Staubach spree.

Those Sammys are bitchin'!!

I now need just 23 cards to complete my 51-81 Topps football run!
('51 Topps need 2 cards)
('57 Topps need 2 cards)
('62 Topps need 3 cards)
AND (16) MORE 1972 TOPPS HIGH NUMBERS:mad:

1972 Topps High numbers? I seek "collector" grade cards, but they always seem to be priced a few dollars more than I am willing to pay. Recent ebay arrivals #279 Alan Page, #310 Rich Jackson, and #320 Bob Wallace cost me $25.60 total delivered. I'll be happy to put this set to rest!
Larry
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Courtesy of the good folks at Sterling:

Larry, congrats on knocking out some more 72 highs!

I like that set, but it falls in the narrow window between my 2 vintage player collections; Cappelletti's last Topps card was 1970 and Hannah's first Topps card was 74. 71-73 is kind of a no man's land in my collection. But I know the 72 set is a bear to collect.

Nice pick-ups Adam! Love the Kemp rookie, I had to talk myself out of that one, but glad to see it ended up in good hands.

I picked up the lot of (20) 1962 Post Football from Sterling's last auction, one short print Dick Nolan. Received it in the mail in less than a week. All of these nightmare stories I read of auction houses, and Lee's single man operation keeps kicking butt!

Just picked up this Joe Gibbs football card in San Diego. The backside has the 1962 San Diego State Aztecs football schedule and mentions it was distributed by the university bookstores and cafeterias. There were a total of 11 players in the lot that I picked up. They appear to be all offensive players, perhaps the starters? Although, there were only 4 linemen in the set and 3 halfbacks. The quarterback was Wayne Sevier, the longtime Redskins special teams coach during the Joe Gibbs I era. The only other player I recognized was Dave Lay, the longtime SD State and Colorado State offensive coordinator.

Any other information anyone may have about this set would be appreciated.

Especially curious whether this is the earliest known football card of Joe Gibbs.



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Thanks, Ty. The Kemp has been high on my want list for a while, plus for a 5.5 it's pretty nice. Congrats on getting that Post lot! I was watching it too and I think you got a great deal. Sterling is simply the best. I can't wait to see what's coming in their next auction.

Love that Joe Gibbs and have never seen it before!

jeff

Some Dandy Dons

I've gone a little crazy on the Staubachs this month. I posted 3 already now these. More on the way. I think I have a problem.

Well, as far as this old Staubach fan goes, that is one fine problem you have there. I do feel better about my collecting habit when it comes to my old Cowboy favorites: the original I pulled as a kid, one for an album, one really nice raw copy, and one graded copy. Keep 'em coming, no such thing as too much Staubach.

Very pleased with the mail today.

Surprise surprise. More Cowboys
 

Cowboys

was in buffalo for the opener and found a few items for my collection - don't normally collect player items but the price was too good to pass up

1966 Philadelphia Chuck Howley RC arrived today via eBay purchase. Just one more card to complete my 64 65 66 and 67 Philadelphia football sets, and it's also a '66 (Dick Butkus RC).
The Chuck Howley RC is very popular and it took me awhile to find one in my price range. After reading up about him I can see why, He was a great player!
Larry
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Isnt Howley the guy who punched Staubach?

No, that was Clint Longley who sucker-punched Staubach.

eBay win arrives today 1967 Philadelphia. Only his '66 Philadelphia RC stands between me and my 64 65 66 67 Philly set run:)
Larry
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Had my Namath RC put into this display.

Nice Dan! I always enjoy seeing displays, so many items in safes etc. these days, glad a few are out to enjoy.

My local card shop picked up a small collection of late 70s & 80s wax. It was mainly 80s non sports, football and some baseball. I was able to pick up a nice 1981-1985 Football wax run for a good price along with a 1977-78 Topps Hockey pack. The 1982 pack has a Kellen Winslow showing on the back, a Hall Of Famer and a local guy!



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Boston University's multi-talented and ill-fated All-American QB Harry Agannis.

10.2.1952

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I picked up a lot of six "Risque Football Postcards" including these two. I like that they have messages on the back, postmarks and stamps. I know nothing about them.
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Card Show acquisitions
 

Attended the card show at the County Center in White Plains, NY yesterday. I picked up a couple of Kenny Washington 1954 Leaf RC's. SCG was setup for on site grading. Never used them before, but for convenience, gave them a try. I'm very pleased with the presentation.

Front & Reverse
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herbc, those Kenny Washington cards look great in the SGC holder. Some cards just pop a lot more in the SGC holder than PSA or BVG. Very nice pickups. Congrats.

Very Nice! I also really like his 48B because of the significance of the coliseum in the background. Here's some video of him wearing #13 with the Rams: http://www.thirdandlong.tv/the-tal-project/video/

Some pick ups from the last couple weeks.

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Purchased this "puppy" off of COMC.com a few days ago:

1966 Philadelphia Dick Butkus RC eBay win. Finishes off my 64-65-66-67 Philadelphia sets:)
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Congrats Larry! Wow, is that all the Philadelphia football cards? And will I always be left to wonder what "Intercepting 143.8" means?

John: Yes 64-65-66-67 Philadelphia sets complete. And what does "Intercepting 143.8" mean? It means I could afford this card!
Larry

Great reply! Congrats luckylarry on finishing off those sets. How long have you been working on them?

Here is my latest addition. I have been slowly putting together a Unitas run.

http://www.collectorfocus.com/images...adelphia-psa-7

Great Unitas, really like the run of Philly Unitas cards. Congrats.

JB: I got serious about my football sets at the Baltimore National in 2012. Glad to knock off the Philadelphia sets and need just 20 cards for my Fleer run, and 23 cards for my Topps run. How about my Bowman sets? THAT is another story as the '48 (need 23) '50 (need 17) '51 (need 12) '52L (need 54) '52S (need 54) are TOUGH!
Larry

Jos willy
 

😇😇😇😇

Wow, what a great thread! Really love the Philly Unitas and Butkus cards and the Kellogg's Sayers and Mackey cards too.

My latest. The first of a few Tarkenton and Alworth I plan on picking up over time, and the latest addition to the Unitas SGC run. Thanks for the look.

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"Chipping" away at the 1952 Bowman Small set:
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Larry

1952 Bowman Large hits:
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Nice Bowmans!

I know a lot of you are still getting to know me. I introduced myself by way of a thread showing most of my Gino Cappelletti collection. Well I also collect HOF lineman John Hannah. Here is a link to my PSA master set, right now in its very early stages:

http://www.psacard.com/PSASetRegistr....aspx?s=199048

Two years before his '74 Topps rookie card, Hannah was included in a deck of playing cards put out by the U of Alabama. To me, this is the #1 Hannah card to get, a really cool pre-rookie. In the master composite, it's given 5.0 weighting, equal to his Topps RC and the '77 Topps Mexican. However, a quick perusal of the PSA pop report plus 6 months of scouring eBay and other websites all make it pretty clear that his '72 Bama playing card is much tougher to locate than the other 2. There are a grand total of 3 PSA graded copies of the card.... for now. Soon there will be a 4th; I got this in the mail today:

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Besides the Hannah, the other key card is of his legendary coach, Bear Bryant. Both of these will be in the mail on Monday, to eventually land at PSA.

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I'm really excited about this purchase!! It came from an amateurish listing, ending on a Wednesday afternoon, that neither showed nor mentioned the Hannah. I won it for about 15% of my snipe. STEAL!!

Great snag! It's always cool to find something for a good price and things are often misclassified on ebay.

jeff

Roll Tide!

Very Nice - and I really like your write ups in the "About this set" section - I do the same thing - most collectors leave it blank.

Great Hannah card! Love the image, looks like he's got bad intentions.

Upgraded my beater '59 Brown with this example, very pleased:)....

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.... and a guilty pleasure, local sports history, 1992 & 1995 CWU Media Guides (Jon Kitna's freshman and senior year, 1995 NAIA National Champions). A special thank you for the heads up on the 1992 media guide to Hot Springs Bather (Mike) :

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Perfect!

Nice pick-up!
Larry

This strays from my Texas born player collecting, but as a kid in the '70's reading about all the greats from the early days of football "Blood" was a favorite. Probably had a lot to do with his nickname. One of my favorite pickups
in quite a while.
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That is a nice example of the McNally matchcover!

I have this letter from Art Kiely, PR guy for the Steelers, relating some comments about McNally from Art Rooney to a author -

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Great letter and thanks for sharing. McNally certainly was one of a kind.

Very nice Johnny Blood! Love his Walkers Cleaners too.

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jeff

That story is tremendous. I have an early NFL Films VHS that interviews some of the early stars that were still around in the 1960's & 1970's, Johnny tells great stories and looks like someone you really wouldn't want to mess with!

I believe that title from NFL Films was "Old Leather."

One less I need for my '55 AA set.

Thanks Ty, I like your comment about "bad intentions." Like your Brown even more! I don't have a lot of vintage football cards of non Patriots, but landing a Jimmy (any one) is on my to do list.

Really digging that matchbook too!

Very nice Walker's Jeff. I like it too.

Awesome matchcover Mike! Do you mind my asking where you got it? I've never seen one come up for auction, but its definitely on my want list.

I recently finished Vagabond Halfback by Denis J. Gullicksen - I highly recommend it - a very well researched book (but maybe don't read it if you don't like myth busting). It was so good, I was tempted to jump to his "town team" book about the Packers, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

John, I got the Mcnally matchbook maybe six weeks ago in a Heritage weekly auction. Thanks for the heads up on the book.

Thanks Mike - I appreciate it. Heritage seems to have a lot of good football items, but because they don't send me catalogs and because the website is different than the other AH who all seem to use the same software which makes it so easy to sort by sport, I tend to lose track of them - I'm going to have to change that.

Heritage has great material, but I agree their end user interface needs an overhaul.


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Picked these up from Rich at the Plano show. Looks like I'm doing a '51 Magic set.

really nice - great pickup

Broadway Joe
 

I always wanted one of these. Arrived today....

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namath
 

very nice looking card, especially for a 4. think about doing the set?
jim

Very nice Namath!

Yes, it does have great eye appeal. No, I'm not doing the set. Namath has always been a favorite of mine. Him playing for the Jets got me interested in watching football.
He was not only one to watch on the field. His style and off field activities were interesting to follow in the newspaper. I wanted to be Broadway Joe.

His card is part of my NY sports characters collection. A collection within my collection. Athletes who are not only good at their game but also different, sometimes controversial with a style all their own.

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I've been viewing for awhile now and decided that I should probably go ahead and share. Mine likely won't be high dollar items, but it's all about fun, right?

I write a blog, so if you ever want more info about it, feel free to click the link. Usually there's a backstory or something to go along with it.

I won't post everything I've acquired all at once, I'll spread them out.

At our local card show on Saturday, I picked up my submission from Beckett Grading. I submitted three for a friend and went ahead and put this one in.

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If you want, you can read the blog post on it here. It also has a link to my first Beckett submission, which had a 1955 Bowman Frank Gatski in it.

-kin

Picked up this Thorpe for my set. I couldn't pass on this Lansford.

I definitely want to pick up one of those Lansfords, just so I can say that I have one.

Wow, there's some amazing stuff here; I gotta visit this thread more often. I have a few acquisitions of note:

Payton Team Issue

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Red Grange:

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Rebuilding a childhood collection:

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I picked up several eBay wins here recently, and the first arrivals came yesterday. I really don't know anything about these guys but like to read what Wikipedia has to say about them.
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1952 Bowman Large
#130 Dom Moselle enlisted in the US Army after his High School graduation in 1943 and played four years in the NFL returning kicks and acting as a back-up. Taught PE at The Univ of Wisconsin-Superior for 25 years and died in 2010.
#126 Steve Romanik is the most expensive card in this group ($350 NM) it's one of the high numbered SPs. Played six years in the NFL with 13 TDs and 36 INTs, but led the Bears in passing in 1952 under George Halas. Became Director of Parks in his town and died in 2009.
#57 Wayne Millner elected to the Pro Football HOF in 1968 and was a WWII vet. In the 1937 NFL Title game he caught two TD passes from Sammy Baugh (55 and 78 yards). Died in 1976.

Hi Larry, Love the cards and write ups. I had Millner as the 3rd End off the board behind Hutson and Hewitt in the 30s fantasy draft thread. I think the card of him as a coach that you show is probably his 1st mainstream card, but I'm pretty sure he appeared on at least one matchbook in the 30s. The last interesting point is that he mentioned taking the job of Bull Tosi (whose 35 Chicle card is a condition rarity) in an interview.

Nice input John, THANKS!
It's 10:25 AM and my "mail-lady" has already dropped off todays mail!
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1952 Bowman small #122 James Phelan QB Notre Dame 1915-17 and WWI vet. College and pro coach from 1920-1951, elected College HOF (as a coach) in 1974. Died in 1974.

1952 BowmanLarge #13 Tom Fears of Mexican-American descent Pro Football HOF 1970. A WWII vet, his Dad was a Japanese prisoner of war? Played in the NFL '48-'56 and coached '59-'75. Led all NFL receivers his first 3 years in the league died in 2000.

1948 Bowman #22 Sammy Baugh RC the most "expensive" in this group NM $450. Two time All-American college TCU. NFL Washington Redskins 1937-52 Pro Football HOF charter class 1963 and coached '55-'64. Raised by a single mom they moved to Sweetwater Texas when he was 16. I WAS IN SWEETWATER LAST WEEK MY SISTER LIVES THERE LOL! One of the greats, he died in 2008.

1948 Bowman #107 Sid Luckman RC Chicago Bears QB '39-'50 Pro Football HOF 1965. Bears owner and coach George Halas convinced the Pittsburg team to draft Luckman and trade him to the Bears. Luckman didn't seem to want to play pro ball but would rather work at a trucking company. That was until Halas visited Luckman and his wife in their small apartment with a $5,500 contract (he signed it). At the end of the 1943 season he volunteered and served stateside with the Merchant Marine and although he wasn't allowed to practice with the team he was allowed to play on game day. Died in 1998.

Going back through my blog posts to find my pickups since I decided to start back in the vintage world. Nothing too spectacular on this one, but I still enjoy posting.

There were two shows in Dallas that day and at the first show (which is a twice-a-year show) I picked up these pieces, along with a vintage hockey card. If you're interested to see the hockey one, or read the blog post, you can click here. It's hockey, so I didn't want to post it on this thread.

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Bosley played at my alma mater (WVU), so when I get the chance to pick up something at a low price, I don't pass.

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I picked these beaters up because I'm working on the All-American set. I want to just complete it first, then will work on the upgrades. I've actually already upgraded the Hickman.

I was going to post a thread to update with my progress on the 55AA set, but didn't know if people might find it overkill.

Have a great evening, everyone!
-kin