August Pickups
 

Happy to have recently picked this up.

A sweet looking Mick to kick off the August pickup thread. Congrats.

Did the seller tout the card as being "undergraded"?? Because on first look that one actually seems to be. Awesome pickup.

No he didn't, but I agree with you. It looks like it could grade up 1/2 step.

As Frank Barone might have said, "Holy Crap!"

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July purchase, August delievery.

Just curious, slightly off topic... what ballpark is Mantle posed in for his 1955 Bowman? He is in road gray, but I can't imagine it being the Polo grounds (and it doesn't look like the Polo Grounds.) Thoughts?
kevin

Griffith maybe?

It looks like Shibe Park's outfield wall.

Found this info online from an SCD article
By John McMurray

Because of its distinguishing horizontal design showing players as if they were appearing on a large, brown-bordered color television set, the 1955 Bowman baseball cards are among the most recognizable ever made. Apparently inspired in part by the 1950 Drakes baseball cards, which also employed a television-set presentation, the ’55 Bowman baseball cards represented an obvious departure from the understated styles which both Topps and Bowman generally used throughout the 1950s.

With many images of catchers about to field a pop up, Stan Lopata (No. 18) being a good representative example, and pitchers from the waist up about to begin their windups, such as No. 152 Johnny Klippstein, the 1955 Bowman cards are sometimes remembered for their consistently similar player poses, ostensibly all from photographs taken at Shibe Park in Philadelphia.

Picture of Shibe Park:

This Tom Terrific has the obligatory small gum stain on back, but it doesn't bother me a bit...

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Nice centering on that Seaver, Darren.

Aaron, Berra, & Mays
 

I picked up these cards the other day. I haven't sent in any cards to get graded in a long time. To me these look like a good candidates. Can anyone tell me what they might grade?

Thanks,

Joe

No PC sticker on this one, but good enough for me and much less $$$.

Pretty card, Peter. '71 as a whole has grown on me. However, I am afraid my OCD might be the death of me if I delved too far into it. :eek:

Hey, Joe.
One of my favorite words is "Yowza," so allow me to enthusiastically throw one your way. YOWZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have no idea what grades you will get, but look at how beautiful those cards appear in their magnificent state of 'overmagnification.' I never see anything even remotely similar. Holy heck and good luck indeed!!!!!!

I have never sent a card in for grading but judging by the scans, (which never tell the whole story) and the condition of those corners, I'd guess at least 7's.
Your Mays surface looks a little hazed so maybe less for him?

Good Luck if you decide to send them in.

Today everything changes
 

Today is the day I added a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle to the PC. The card arrived via FedEx 20min ago. I am not one for hyperbole but this is the single biggest day of my hobby life. People have written about what it is like to own one of these cards and I can tell you that the feeling is real. It is unbelievable. Actually seeing one in your hand is an experience.

In the pantheon of life experiences this is at the table with the birth of my daughter, my wedding day, and my first kiss. The Mick's arrival may not outweigh those but it is absolutely moving.

I have been the under bidder a few times and/or could never find the right combination of price and condition. However, I saw this example and went for it. Saturated color and perfect registration. The only flaw is a crease in the upper left corner and some chipping that does not impact the image.

Also, I am very happy to have this place to share this experience.

If you ever have the opportunity to add one of these go for it.

Kris

That's a really nice "2" Kris. While I guess the grade is technically correct, it's eye appeal is so much better than most cards of that grade. I know you're really excited to add that to your collection. Congratulations!

I hate to be the bearer of bad news... however in my opinion form the scans I believe The 56 Aaron is trimmed top towards the center right :-( I’d like to look more closer at the grain of all cards. Were these all bought from the Same Seller ?

Congrats! :)

Thanks John. There is no bad news, life is good and if the card is trimmed it won't change that.

Yes. They came in the same lot. The seller was not a dealer in cards. He was liquidating his father's collection. The cards that I bought from him were in those heavy screwdown holders that sometimes damage the cards. I don't know about the upper right edge of the card. I see what you mean about the picture. There is a slight indentation on the edge just above the "AA" in Aaron. But I don't see under magnification any curl or change in the grain of the paper, or any difference from the top edge on the left side of the card. The registration of the picture is tilted, but if you measure the width of the cardboard on both ends it is a perfect 2-5/8 inches.

I guess that I will just send the cards in and hope for the best.

Thanks so much, I really appreciate that you took the time to study the pictures and provided your opinion.

Best regards, Joe

Congratulations Kris on the great pick up. Your Mantle looks awesome.

Best regards,

Joe

Grain of the cut is the number one thing I look for when checking for trimmed.

Any time Joe :-) enjoy the cards !!

52 Mantle...dayuummm!

Added this to my PC at the National:

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A card I have long wanted. Not so easy to find. I had a good show at the sales table and decided to splurge.

Picked this one up yesterday. A card that has long been on my want list.

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Awesome pickup, Adam. love this card

Aaron
 

Adam, that is a great Aaron. The Topps supers are underrated in my opinion.

Plus the 1969's are particularly tough to find. Pretty card!

While not a high profile card compared to others in this post, it's significant nonetheless.

This is the last card I needed to finish my 1951 Bowman set. It took years to complete but now it's done. I'm moving closer to my full run of Bowman sets with only 1949 and 1953 left to finish

Nice pickups everyone! Lots of good cards.

Ricky Y

A couple of the cards I grabbed up with the latest 15% off ebay coupon arrived today.

This Mick is an upgrade to the one in my recently completed (99% ungraded) set...

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And this guy cost me less than a third (less than a quarter?) of what straight 8's go for, and the centering doesn't bother me at all. I can easily live with it. I'll take that trade off any day of the week...

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Not as centered of a copy I had hoped for, but this one was a toughie for me.
I threw in a quick last minute bid expecting to get outbid like I usually do on this card but surprisingly it held up. :)
Black back #28 Jerry Priddy for my 52 Topps collection.

Down to 14...

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Was happy with this pickup...looks great for a 5.

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Was also looking for one of these for awhile. In my biased opinion, the greatest 3rd baseman ever.



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I wasn't really looking to add to my small 1962 CDN Post collection, but hey, its Willie Mays afterall. :)

Sterling auctions
 

That's a beauty Dave!

Post National pickup
 

Picked these up at a local show last weekend (post National). The fronts are just as nice as the backs, and vary from well centered to off-centered. The trimmed Martin is just for comparison. :)

Thanks to the recent ebay coupon code, I am really psyched to add this beautiful #21 to my collection (but I just wish Topps could've gotten a closer shot of Roberto's face :rolleyes:)...

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Picked up this guy. Really nice colors:

Making my way toward 60 of the 80 cards in this set. No plan yet for when I get to 79 cards!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c61b8054c4.jpg

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beautiful pickup

Congratulations! Any hyperbole would be fully understandable here. And that must have been some first kiss to even be mentioned in the same breath as your Mantle. Mine was more like a 1983 Donruss Manny Trillo.

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Taking advantage of the 8% EBUCKS and 2% EBATES to pick up two RCs:

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All gray backs! Wow. One heck of a pick up!

Yep. Bowman was based in Philly, so used Shibe Park as the convenient location for many of the AL photos. Kind of like Topps being in NY - if you look particularly at the 1970 Topps set - almost all the National Leaguers were photographed at Shea Stadium.

To go with my NNOF Rizzuto.
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My favorite card of one of my favorite players.



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Picked up ten 66 high numbers, including toughies, for cheap at a show today. The White Sox Rookies at .75 was the cheapest, and Clarke at only $8 in VG/EX was the most expensive. Clarke, Norhtrup and McFarlane are listed as SP's and Snyder has a rep as a tough one, or at least it used too. Love the design of the 66's, but man these 7th series cards take a long time to find at reasonable prices!

Did you pick these up at the Sacramento show?

Great card, Topcat!

When I got back into collecting in early 2016, that was the number one card I pursued.
It took a bit to get my copy but I was pretty happy when I did. :)
(PSA 3 older flip)

Thanks irv. I just got back into it as well and had to be patient to find a copy that looked good and was actually affordable. Now I just need a nice black back to put next to it.

Nice card. I always wondered what the little flesh colored nodules were in the background, especially the one seemingly coming out of Warren's neck to make him resemble Frankenstein. Just something on the wall behind him?

I had this card as a kid (probably in the early 90's) but traded it somewhere along the line. Mine was in much worse shape, with heavy creasing across the length of the card horizontally near the bottom.

Yep! First time going to it, pleased there was a decent amount of vintage post war

Jason, very cool that you're collecting the 59F Ted set! It took me about 2.5 years to slowly complete 79/80 of a "collector grade" set. Then I sold some stuff and bought a PSA 1 of the #68 short print. I really love that set and it's the biggest I've ever completed. (I'm not usually a set guy).

I had been sitting on about 25/80 since college. What got me going almost 30 years later were three things--

1. Unexpectedly stumbling on 5-6 more at my local card shop.

2. Having a couple years to kill before I'm ready to throw down on Ruth and Gehrig.

3. The awesome PBS documentary that just came out.

Am getting to around 70 shortly if a couple current bids hold up.

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Did you know David Ortiz owns the production company and commissioned that documentary?

I did not!! Saw Big Papi name in credits at the end but didn't know the connection.

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I picked these up over the last couple weeks. The 56s are for my 56 HOF set that I will never complete. The 62 AS and 63 Fleer are upgrades for those sets. The 58 AS is for my 58 AS subset

Been wanting a nice lower grade. Finally found one i was happy with.


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Clemente
 

Congrats on the Clemente rookie, David. A classic! That is one on my list for sure.

Nice other pickups, gentlemen.

I'm late to the party, so congratz on your '52 Mantle! The mother load of all cards.


Thanx Kris for the Clemente comment.

. I'm not even bothered by the (MC) either as it is a common issue with these. Don't see too many card shops anymore and to have a shop here in town have one is pretty rare in its own context.

Now up to 71/80 with yesterday's mailbag. Some creases and soft corners but am happy to be building this set on a very small budget.

A bit of an oddity. My binder has 9 pages, and each is missing exactly one card.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...1afda39d2e.jpg

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Grabbed this up from a fellow board member. Slight tilt aside, it's centered pretty nicely...

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Clemente
 

Been working on the Clemente basic the past couple of weeks. I've always admired him and picked up his RC from a board member in the Spring and decided to grab all the basics.... have three more that should be arriving soon, but here is what has arrived:

Very nice looking PSA 7 Koufax. Congats.

Love the Clementes!!

me too!

Jack Morris RC. I'll never forget the 91 WS where Jack ptiched ten scoreless innings against the Braves. WS MVP. Loved him when he played for the Jays as well.
Deserving HOF, imo.