May Pick Ups
 

Just received (thanks Howard) 1968 Topps Disc Tommy Davis

Congrats. You don't see those come up for sale very often.

These are really April pickups but just got them in scanned tonight.

1971 F. R. Woods All-Star Photos - This set looks great in person!

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1966 Dodgers Team Issue Don Sutton

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First Rose RC I have owned in years.

The 1970 Kellogg’s cards are just fantastic...

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Beauty

I love those Kelloggs cards.

One more...need to stay off the Bay for a few days..

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T. Davis
 

The Topps Test Disc looks amazing!

Peter - That 6 is stunning! WOW! Nice pick up.
RayB

Nice one Peter!

May birthday month plus 15% off means bigger purchases than I’m used to. Grabbed a low grade Brooksie rc for TTM and a couple of HOF RC’s. Saved over $60 off the Banks/Kaline. Got the Brooks a couple days ago.

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Wanted to grab a Rose RC as I’m less that 30 cards from the 63 set but with nothing in my range at a good value it will have to wait. Really wanted to take advantage of the 15% coupled with gift cards.

Thanks Mark, Im happy to finally add it to my collection.

Nice cards guys
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So happy to add this piece of Say Hey deliciousness to the mix...

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just arrived .... one of the greatest PSA 3's I have ever owned. Asked the seller, and he said there is the slightest surface wrinkle under his neck area ... moving the card at an angle you can see one, but it is barely there.

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Zounds-a tough one for sure!

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Sweet Willie. That is the best 3 I have ever seen. Congrats.

A PWCC-HE sticker would look nice on Willie. :eek:

Holy Toledo! That is a beautiful 52 Mays. Congrats, Neal.

Anyway, I added a few cards to my growing collection recently. Kalines and Killebrews are always welcome additions, and this is my first Clemente, so that's exciting.

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Sweet look Mays guys!

Lol

Thanks fellas
Great pickups all over this thread

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Picked up some duplicates at our local monthly show this past weekend. The “collector” grade Mantles cost $45 total for both. The difficult to find Choo-Choo Card was stickered at $30 but all the dealers cards were 50% off plus discounted 10% if you bought more than one card. So the ‘66 hi number short print tough to find “Choo-Choo” was $13.50 a bargain I think!
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I also found 36 “trashed” 1972 Topps Hi numbers in the dime box. HELP!
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Wow! Incredible Mays/3, Neal.

Congrats! :)

I posted this on the Mantle thread but after a hiatus, it feels good to be adding this classic piece of cardboard to my meager collection.

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72 Hi numbers in a dime box? How could you not buy them all Larry!?

Nice.

Ummm I did lol

My sole REA win

1976 Hostess Twinkies

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Very nice pickup Dave, a Classic!

Added a bunch of sweet HOF'ers, 3 of them coming from a fellow boardmember through the B/S/T...

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Love the 61 Clemente. Really nice!

Using the recent ebay coupon code, I was able to grab up this beautifully centered 1961 Mays high number at a good price, bringing me incredibly close to finally finishing off this nightmare of a tough set...

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1947 Bond Bread Jackie's
 

Fully Bonded

Not really the grade/condition I was after, but this card was a tough one to obtain.

Fantastic Mays Neal! I'm jealous -- still need that one.

Here's a mixed batch of my April and May additions.

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Thanks to Pete Gustafson for this beauty. Always a real pleasure working with him.

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Awesome card Jarrod! Wait, Mickey isn’t wearing a bow tie?? :D

May Pick Ups
 

eBay splurge, now I need to sell some things...With due respect to the card with burlap borders, this is my favorite early Ryan. Still with the Mets, a bit of an awkward pose, and a high-numbered card in one of the last sets where that would matter.

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The 1952 Topps Set:
 

Also known as the impossible dream (completing it anyway)

Some months ago, I decided to take on the easier portion of the set, cards 1-280. With the two cards shown here, I have completed that.

Next are the next thirty cards: #'s 281-310. I just purchased ten of those thirty along with six others I already owned. So, I need just 16 more to have the first 310 cards of the 407-card set.

Everyone knows who #311 is and I don't see ever landing one of those. Goes against my principles (and bank account) to grossly overpay, even an essential card like that.

I only own three of the remaining 97 cards in the set and may not manage to get much closer...so, the 310 will most likely be my 'farthest on' point.
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Awesome Jackie Robinsons!!!

Troy

Thank you sir!

I took a Chance...

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Ha! Maybe I'll draw one on him, Curt. I'm sure it wouldn't hurt the value much. ;)

Some 65Ts.

Nice cards, Raymond. I am fairly close to completing my #1 to #310 run as well, but with some pricey cards still needed to complete that run, I am not so sure that will happen let alone the #311 to #407 run.

I'll keep picking away here and there but there currently isn't any rush to complete it. I enjoy the challenge/chase anyways, so as long as I am having fun, that is all that matters. :)

Working on a Fergie auto run like my Brooks run posted in the April thread. Also gonna work on Ryne Sandberg soon. I’ll probably get these cased up eventually when SGC has another special as I really like the look.

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Nice collection/run of the first Canadian elected to the HOF. :)

A Bond Bread for me as well.

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Peter, the 65 Yaz is my favorite of his base cards. Nice one!

The 1968 Cepeda is an upgrade for the PSA 9 in my 68 All Star subset. I now have 16 of the 20 card set in PSA 10. The Cepeda is a tough one to find in a 10 as there are only five. Only Clemente and Gene Alley have lower pops at four each.

I picked up a couple 1958 All Star cards a couple weeks. These two just arrived. I guess this will be my next project set.

James

Finally got my Schmidt RC
 

This was a tough one to find for me since I really wanted a clean back with minimal chipping. Happy to add it :-)

Troy

Very nice Schmidt RC. Congrats on the pickup.

Duane

I'm stoked to have won this in the recent REA Auction for my Pete Runnels collection:

Picked up a few 70s Topps at an antiques mall over the weekend; nothing crazy, but a few of my favorite stars. I once saw Dave Winfield at a card show in the late 80s. I was just a kid, and he walked right in front of me. I swear, I've never seen anyone as big and impressive as he was. Like a Greek god or something. I'm still after his 74 rookie, but I really like his 75 card.
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Only Need Three More 1952s...
 

To finish my abbreviated set - the first 310.

Why am I having to deal with all these managers so close to the 'finish' line?

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Pretty much completing my post-war rookie run.

Ended the month on a high note. (The line on the right is glare from the holder)

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Mickey and Nellie
 

Finished the month out with some really nice additions:

Trying to complete a mid-grade 50s Mantle run, so I was happy to add this 1959 Topps example. Great centering and color

1951 Bowman Nellie Fox goes into the HOF Rookies collection.

Had a separate “guess the grade” contest thread for this. I’m pretty proud of this one. :p It’s a beauty. Great gloss and color! Got it raw from original owner, first submission to SGC. :D

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That Yaz is SHARP.

nice pickups fellas!

A couple of low grade Mantle's with decent eye appeal this month

Almost centered well enough for Matt. :eek:

Wow, interesting how similar these two photos are! Yeah, I mean I know it’s his stance, but still...

Congrats to all of those getting closer on hitting their goals for their 52 Sets....the difference between the 52 set and almost every other "mainstream" post war set is the amount of patience required to complete this set (within your own budget).

Down to 31 to go after another ebay bucks promo.....pretty much just tough hi#s left.

Great cards, again, SFMS.
You sure have a knack for finding great looking/centered cards! :)

Thank you Irv.....my knack is better at posting the nicely centered cards versus finding them (I have not posted some of the less appealing pickups)......I do have some purchases I regret for this set and hopefully will upgrade them at some point. Overall, over the past year, I have passed on many cards that lack visual appeal for their grade.

Finished my Abbreviated 1952 Topps Set (1st 310 Cards)
 

I was so pleased with my achievement that I couldn't wait to post it...to the wrong thread. :rolleyes:

These are the last for me for a while:

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Bravo Raymond

Pray for rain! I have not bought a ‘53 in a long time, but the qualifier (I guess?) made this one affordable to add to my postwar HOF collection.

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I have as well. I was just overly eager to add to my collection without giving the cards themselves much thought. :o

Like you, I have also been, or have tried to be, much more picky, so to say, that what I was before.

I have also upgraded a few cards due to creasing/condition, but since I collect mid or lower grade mostly, not many more will be upgraded at this point.

During the late 80s when I first began collecting cards, my old man bought me a Topps binder that had facsimiles of a bunch of famous cards on the cover. Of all of them, I was most fascinated by the 56 Richie Ashburn. I thought it was the coolest card ever printed, and I actually ended up getting his biography from the library shortly after that. After all these years, I finally got the card, and I love it.

I also added a couple Yastrzemskis to the collection, including the glorious 73 Mutton Chop Yaz.
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I remember that album too. At various points I had the '52 Spahn, the '55 Aaron, and the '60 Snider. Sadly NOT the '52 Topps Mantle, lol.

Adam,

I had that same binder but had completely forgotten about it until just now. I kept my 1988 Topps (the set that first got me hooked) collection in that binder. Great memories and great market penetration on their part.

Kris