Enough With The Damn Money Talk; Show A Card That Makes You Happy
 

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Sorry, couldn't resist. My entry:

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These two make me happy.
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Well, definitely not Drugged Earwig for me.

But a few that took me a long time to hunt down make me smile the biggest every time I see them.

One of those I just really like the image.

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One of many that make me happy!

Love it. My current favorite that makes me happy (again :))

One of my favorite old judges with a super bold and clear image:

A Xmas gift from my wife a decade ago...back when they were attainable
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A gift from a board member (thanks, Scott) shortly after I joined Net54. Still have 'em. They still make me happy.

Willie and Dressed Beef

Rajah
 

So young--looks like he should be with pa down by the fishin' hole.
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Some postcards

Priest
 

Not in a NYAL uni but this is really beautiful card for Johnny Priest

The one that started my journey - first vintage baseball cardboard
 

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Well, you asked for it. Not Pre-War, and not even the right sport. :D

1978 Topps Gary Green Rookie Card

4 time Pro-Bowler and 5 time All-Pro. Member of the Kansas City Chiefs Ring of Honor and Chiefs Hall of Fame.

No, I don't have any special attachment to Gary Green or the Kansas City Chiefs.

Several years ago my dad was renovating his kitchen with my mom (the house I grew up in).

He pulled out the kitchen radiator and tucked behind the panel was this lone football card from my childhood. I used to practice "Knockdowns" against that radiator as a child.

Not to brag, but I was the "King" of knockdowns and all the other various sports card games we played in Elementary and Middle school. To the point we'd get to a certain point in the school year, and nobody would want to play against me anymore. I'd take everybody else's cards, and was probably waaaaaay too competitive about it. I'd win hundreds of cards and add them to my pile every week. I was kind of an as#hole about it to be honest.

I know, it's like saying I was the fastest kid in the 4th grade at my small town school. It doesn't really mean anything.

If only I was as good at actual baseball as I was at throwing a card straight out of a wax pack, at another card set up against a wall, I might have made something of myself. ;);)

Anyways, this is the one lone card I have left from those days of trading card dominance. Found in a kitchen radiator about 40 years after my card throwing prime. My dad remembered me practicing against that very radiator enough to call me in excitement as soon as he found it tucked back there.

I've been carrying it around in my wallet ever since, just like Bob Costas carries around his Mickey Mantle card in his. As you can see, my wallet has taken much more of a toll on the card then a game of knockdowns and decades of radiator dirt and grime took on it.

These all make me happy! I'll be even happier when I can add the one missing...Cobb Green. That's my goal in 2023...get me a Cobb Green in Poor to Fair condition. Of all of these, the Matty makes me the happiest.

Bill

My happy card
 

It took a lot of emails and trade bait to get this one, makes me happy just to hold it !

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Call me odd, but the fact that this Cracker Jack card is permanently attached to the 3/4" wooden plaque just makes me smile, and I love that the back text of the card has been copied onto the back of the plaque.

Brian

BroadLeaf Wagner?

T he D381 got me one closer to the impossible set.

The Ruth gifting his teacher and mentor Brother Matthias a new car with his wife and Fred Merkle! Hard to get much cooler than that!

This my favorite card. It makes me smile when I see it. A while back, someone on the forum posted a card that printed on the back of it. Said the player run's like a sissy. The pose for this player fits that description.


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I borrowed this scan of a card someone else on the form had in their collection. It really makes me smile too.

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Just love this L.Brock rookie. Centered better than most, and for some reason (even though I'm a Phillies fan) I just like L. Brock growing up he was just a cool player.

It’s an EXTREMELY rare card! :D

It and the Plank are just fun reprints as owning either as real would require a MegaBucks lottery win tonight!

Bill

Makes me smile every time I look at this one...I'm not really even a Musial fan, but to me this might be the perfect baseball card (color, compostion, artwork, etc.):

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Old Hoss

Makes Me Smile
 

Because I played there.

I really like this card. I was lucky enough to go to my first big strongman show in August and got to see him compete. He is the GOAT of strongman and second place is closer to 10th than there are to Big Z. The Arnold Classic is known as the heaviest competition. Big Z won it 6 years in a row and 8 times overall. Second most wins is Brian Shaw and Hafpor Bjornsson(Thor) tied at 3 wins apiece.

Great variations always make me as happy as a cardboard clam...

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My One and only Wagner Card

These two make me happy for different reasons.

I've always liked the image and colors on the Fromme and I very happy to own one so I can look at it whenever I want to. And the Hannifan is the first prewar card I ever bought, and it got me hooked on prewar and Jersey City Skeeters cards.




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My father sent me this in 1986 while I was stationed at Torrejon AB Spain. Makes me smile for him and my time in the Military of which I miss and would join again tomorrow if I could..

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The first time I read about the BL460, it was here on Net54. That "Archive" guy sure did post quite a bit:

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One of my favorite Yankees.

Love this thread. So many fun cards.

Here’s my entry.

It is also reminiscent of that famous scene in Die Hard…

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am early
 

board pickup

Not a card per se but interesting. Some here will be familiar with a fairly scarce but widely seen "Chicago White Sox at Royal Gorge" postcard. It's a colorized view of all the players outside their train along a famous river gorge and bridge with Big Ed Walsh and etc. They were on their way west for spring training. Bunch of people here had a lot of fun about a decade ago when I posted mine and asked folks to ID some of the players. A wild month ensued with people intent on IDing every single player! Fun.

Anyway: this inspired me to find and purchase--at a state railway archive--an original black and white photo from the same shoot in a slightly different spot. One of a kind. Here it is. Feel free to ID players!

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Show Some Cards That Makes You Happy
 

These cards make me HAPPY !

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And strangely enough....so, does this "psychedelic" Billy Johnson make me HAPPY ! !

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T206 Reference
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Yowza! Major league card there, Jeff.

E221
 

Because of their bold colors I can look at these every day. I would love to pick up about a dozen (or 1) more if anyone has any? :)

and 1 of my favorite images on a postcard.

Happy OJs
 

Favorite OJ poses hands down.

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Because I’m happy

Not pre-war but I just love this card!

The first card I bought after I graduated college and got my first job.

Got it autographed a few years ago.

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* My first Hero growing up....
* The first set of cards I remember buying as a kid growing up were 1970 Topps....
* He hit a homer in the very first baseball game I attended.....

Love this card.....

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Carl Mays on right with cub rppc.

W519 Schang on the front and his Cast Away friend Wilson on the back.

Brian

Love me some biggie T206's

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T202 Cobb
 

Not rare by any means but I always love this card.

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In some ways, all of them.

A few favorites I have scans of.
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Here's one...you rarely see Uzit backs this bold & dark.

I just love the floating hot dog package…. Cracks me up.

The bigger the better!!

Sure I played, did you think I was born age 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you? — Casey Stengel to Mickey Mantle. Went to plenty of Yankee games back in the 'fifties. Casey could have been talking to me. Never pictured him as a young guy. This T210-6 elicits the best memories.

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Red Horner, Reg Hamilton and Bucko McDonald celebrating their semifinal victory in 1939 over the Red Wings. They look like they just stormed Vimy Ridge. Their happiness is infectious. Alas I'm still waiting for the Leafs to win the Cup.

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Who wouldn't want to be this guy?

Love the Stengel Rookie David Great Card

This thread is very enjoyable

Keep them coming

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Found locally in an antique store - makes me happy.


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'72 Topps Kaline, serial numbered in his own hand.

What makes me Happy?
My youngest boy, while opening packs of 2002 Topps Wax Box; I bought for him to hunt for Mauer's Rookie (just the base card folks; bringing back the fun of my childhood); pulls this and says, "Hey Dad, what's this?". My mouth drops open, grab my '72 Topps (that I opened from packs when I was a kid); show him my card of Kaline. I say, "This".
I still smile every time I look at it.

We went together to the Rosemont Show to get it slabbed.

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Ben

"I love baseball history backstory; especially when it involves cards."

Jimmy Wang Yu, in a 1960s card from Hong Kong:

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Better known as the One-Armed Boxer from the kung fu classic Master of the Flying Guillotine

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I think this card would make some smile, and perhaps get the munchies too.

Brian

Awesome card, been looking for that one for a while to go with my Seattle Weed.:)

I scour antique stores regularly, and I never find anything like that! Well done!

Honus Wagner 1909-13 M101-2 Sporting News Supplements. Mesmerizing card and PSA POP of only 5.

Significantly more rare than Wagner's T206 portrait card, this 8x10 paper supplement is a playing days card and early appearance by an immensely popular player, whom was among the 1st MLB HOF Inductee class from 1936, along with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, and Christy Mathewson.

It’s possible that a lot of them just haven’t been graded yet…though i sure hope it’s rare!

for me, this is certainly one.

Boner, Schmoner, he loves baseball…

Love this image also, and Paul is absolutely right, the PSA pop reports for graded M101-2s is absolutely not representative of what is out there. Most all M101-2 supplement images are fantastic and somewhat unique. PSA only starting grading these in the last couple of years apparently. And because of the size/fragility, and lack of interest by TPGs grading them previously, most serious M101-2 Sporting New Supplement collectors I've met go for these in raw shape/form.

Beckett used to be the only major TPG I am aware of that would grade these over the years. However, their graded holders for these are huge and hard to store/handle, and don't make the Supplements look that great. And to my knowledge, SGC still doesn't grade them.

These Lajoie game cards (and some more of his red friends) make me smile because they were rescued from a dumpster by the seller I purchased them from.

Brian (I guess dumpsters and dumpster diving makes me smile)

A few more that make me happy...

A couple of Mathewsons, one of my favorite E90s and a red back E79 example.


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I don't have Weed but I did get a Hickey.

Back in the day one could get you the other.:D

My 2 Favorites both from the 70's that I got by writing to them

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This cabinet from 1910 shows my grandfather in the garden at the public school he attended on the Lower East Side in NYC.

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I almost thought I was the only person that knew about that movie. Whenever I bring it up, no one knows what I’m talking about. I watched Kung Fu Theater religiously when I was a kid.

Quentin Tarantino lists MotFG as one of his favorite movies. I chased that card and that publicity photo for a long time.

On a related note, 1974 Yamakatsu

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And this:

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I am not a fan of relic cards but I know I will never own a bona fide Lee autograph, so this is as close as I will come to something Lee actually handled.

Late to the party, but just went to the safe deposit box. These always put a smile on my face ...

This Matty was part of a group of five 1910 era cards that were my first vintage card purchase. This particular card is the one that caught my eye and fancy, and helped propel my vintage collecting. As a result, it has produced many smiles...both by itself as a reminder how I felt just being able to own it, to the countless additional smiles it engendered as my collection grew from its awesome original core.

Brian