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Odd Ball
 

I haven't seen any odd ball stuff in a while so I thought I'd post...

Mark, nice patch!

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Star Wars and Disney ... which are now the same company!

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Star Wars & Mickey
 

The James Earl Jones card: Impressive.....most impressive.

The Chewbacca: So, that is his wookie card, right?

Those Mickey cards are very cool. Visually, they are quite interesting.

Love those Star Wars cards. Star Wars was the whole reason that I got into cards, and then Kiss and Grease cards. I was 9 and had a huge crush on Olivia Newton-John :p

I had every card available, so I thought I'd pick up some 1978 baseball cards since the 1977 Reggie Jackson World Series was still fresh in my head. :D

Thanks

Correct - he was Wookie of the Year!

Darth Vader and Chewbacca are my two favorite characters, and not just Star Wars. Star Wars cards were also the first cards I really enjoyed buying. Always have been a baseball guy, but in 1977, Star Wars blew me away!

The Mickeys I stumbled upon at a show a few years back and felt they were worthy buys.

Dan,

Nice Yaz patch as well. I think the last time I saw that patch it was ungraded. Cool that's it's a PSA 9!

OK fellers name this tune.

I'm really surprised that nobody knows this card set.

I give up :)

Baseball Comics (1993) by Will Eisner came with a set of four cards which were:
Ashburn, Woodling, Dark and Rube Rooky. The comic itself was a reprint of an early 50's issue. The four cards are unperforated and must be hand-cut.

Seems obscure enough and modern enough that I'm not surprised nobody guessed it.

You guys wanted oddball -- and I think this definitely qualifies!

Odd Ball
 

Yes; I personally wanted to view some oddball items and you're correct yours qualifies. I don't know why I like the oddball items, but I do.

Now, how bout some more...

I wasn't criticizing, just saying it's not a surprise

It is some time hard to tell what is odder in here. The stuff that gets posted or we who post it :)

I'd have to say it's both. But when you think about the Topps virtual monopoly between
1956-1980 it's not surprising. We had Kellogg's, Fleer and a bunch of regional issues that
you usually didn't see unless you lived in that region.

So you had to be an oddball to even seek out these out the non-Topps
cards. I still have some issues of "The Sport Hobbyist" from the early 70s and
like to look through them for all the oddball cards that I still to this day haven't seen.

HEY AL! I CAN DO A TERRIFIC CRAZY GUGGENHEIM IMITATION (FRANK FONTAINE ON THE JACKIE GLEASON VARIETY SHOW IN THE EARLY-MID 60S)

YEAH, I KNOW, OF COURSE YOU CAN.:D ---Brian Powell

1989 Leaf/Donruss McGwire Bluechip
 

I have been looking for one of these mcgwire bluechip cards for several years. I noticed a discussion about bluechip cards on this thread. If anyone knows of one that might possibly be for sale PLEASE let me know!

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Cool item Neal

Cool item Neal

What about Kelly?
 

No mention of Emmett Kelly in the description. :confused:

Thanks, Al. Never saw Snider play, but one of my all-time favorites. Stumbled on it years ago and thought it was neat.

No mention of Emmett Kelley is surprising actually

I've been fascinated with the foreign language Sportscaster cards of my favourite player, Mike Schmidt.

Although the translation is clearly bonkers (4 HR's in a game somehow translates to 3 HR's in a game), I wish I could find more examples of these:

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There are four athletes in the set: Durocher and Reese from baseball, and Maxie Rosenbloom and Jack Dempsey from boxing.

OK, oddball? Lately I've been picking up transparency slides for my Yaz collection. These slides were produced by MLB and released to TV networks for use during broadcasts. I own 7 of these and have another one on the way to me. I have noted the year below each slide.

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^ 1968

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1978 & 79

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1980

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1981

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1982

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1983

Good stuff guys!

Here's one the brings me back to my college days with Tetley tea. Rosenberg's
was my favorite iced tea!

aconte

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Cool looking Yaz slides... You have seven; wonder how many of these the TV networks had?

That is a very cool item! I know the Sportscaster cards have many variations, but never really got to the point of putting a checklist together on the one's available.

My source says one was made each year of each player and that somewhere around 5 copies of each were produced, definitely less than 10. Very scarce, but not a lot of demand.

Based on those I have seen available and copies that I own for Garvey and other Dodgers, I doubt they are that limited. I don't know for sure, this is just speculation. As you said, the demand isn't great, but it seems they would be much more scarce if that were true.

Thanks for the info. I bought 7 different years of Yaz at an average of $11 each, so not a lot invested in them.

Just added this post war non sport classic to the collection.

Dodgers- Don Sutton
 

Thought I would revive the odd-ball thread with something I came across while organizing some stuff. Unsure if this publication is common or not since I don't really collect Dodgers items, but thought it was pretty cool so I'll put it out there for viewing. If it's a common item please let me know. Looks like a pretty early Sutton publication.

Not something I have seen before, but that doesn't mean much. Sutton is one of those guys that I never cared much about, which is odd because he is a rare Dodger HOFer from the LA era.

Love this card I've been in the market for one but haven't been will to pull the trigger on one .

Love oddball stuff!

I got this chicken bucket lid autographed in person @ 1984

Awesome chicken lid!

Ripken
 

Love that early Ripken autograph.