MARCH Pick Up Thread
 

Let's kick off the start of spring with some Ruth pickups!!!

Complete 1934 Quaker Ask Me card game including instruction sheet and super tough Ruth envelope!!

1942 Pride of the Yankees Ruth photo with Gary Cooper

1930s Babe Ruth Underwear bag

1940s Ruth Pep ring!!!

FedEx just dropped off my REA goodies!!!
Trying to work the 150/350 players into the T206 HOF backs line is rough, but after landing this P150 Chesbro, it will be possible to only have one duplicate back in the line, while representing all of the HOFers. Just one more card to go, but it’s a monster and I know it’s out there.

T3 Merkle because it’s fun!

T216 Kotton Nap Lajoie with Philly. Does anyone know how hard this Philly version with the Never Go Out back, really is? This card checked three different boxes in the collection, so it was a must have.

Happy Saturday!
Bob

I had to laugh at the Ruth underwear item. It still doesn't top Brett Favre's pubic hair that was sold.

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Nice cards Bobby.

A real life Mike Healer sighting!! Happy to hear from you Mike, it’s been too long!
Hope y’all are good,
Bob

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Nice pickups everybody...Jeff I like that Cobb and Chase...Bob nice Lajoie...Jerry

+1 to that. That Hal Chase is in extraordinary shape, including a sharp back. Seems like it should be a higher grade, judging just from the scans.

Great cards Jeff. The Cobb is especially stunning.

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+1 as well. Beautiful Boston Store.

Jim,

Awesome pickups! I've seen many underwear boxes, but never one of those bags before.

Jeff,

Wow, Boston Store Cobb, eye dropping pickup!

I actually got the postcard on the right a while back, but just recently sent it for grading and got it back. I know that I am really pushing it on the variations, but if you look at Gehrig's elbow on the left border, they are slightly different on the two postcards. I know, I know, probably just a trivial change.

BTW, in the description for both postcards, it is stated that Ruth is holding a baseball that was used in a game from June 23, 1883, supposedly the oldest known baseball. Does anyone know if this baseball still exists?

One more E98.
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................. It is interesting (at least to me :)) that both Chance and Tinker have 4 cards each, while good 'ol Johnny just got one ....... ;)

.................. Mitchell got one also .......... :p

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

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and another Fast Start to the month

Special Congrats to Gary and Jeff L for some sweet items

Nice Gary. They are variations but probably just different photo croppings. Here is a 3rd type.... (not a new pick up)

AND a new pick up not posted in a new pickup thread yet. Lections...

Thanks, Leon. At first, I thought your card was the same as the second variation. However, after closely examining the "windows" in the background, you are right in that the photo cropping is slightly different in your card.

Does anyone know if this different photo cropping is common for real photo postcards? I had just never paid attention to this before, but I guess it may be due to how RPPC's are created.

Mister we could a man like John Boyd Thacher again...Jerry

April may be the cruelest month, but March has been okay.

Just added from BST, Thanks Brian

Sweet Pickup Erick

Looks like your making progress on this set

Thanks Jeff!

Yea I only need the Walter Traggesser for sure, and the Hugh Jennings ( if it exists), both only in Ferguson.

But I'm always on the lookout for upgrades such as this one. I had a tabless one, adding more with the tabs is always sweet. Also always looking for cropping and spelling variations of which there are tons of in the set!

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Bf104
 

1937 ..BF104....Shown once but just added to my collection. I almost never see these for sale and am always in the market for more! :)

I just added a NY Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers program scorecard from April 18, 1947. This was Jackie Robinson's first home run and RBI's. I was so thrilled that I watched the movie "42" again and this home run was featured in the movie.

There seems to be something magical to me when you have something that was present during such an historical event. At the time, I'm sure there wasn't a second thought given about a scorecard, picture, line-up card, autograph, etc. Sure, for some people there were but for the masses I don't think so - at least as significant as it ended up being. It makes you wonder what the person who kept this score (they did a great job also!) thought after watching Robinson's first home run and recording it in this program - only to be looked at again 75+ years later by someone such as I who is envious of what they bore witness to.

I guess that's one of the reasons we collect!

Picked this up in a trade at The Philly Show tonight…

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Wow, another very nice Wagner Batting from The Philly Show. Sometimes I wish I lived up there closer to some of these great shows. Congrats on the pickup, Rob!

Thank you Daryl.


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M101-3 Ty Cobb Post Card
 

Very excited to have finally picked up a M101-3 Ty Cobb Post Card. Tough to beat the close up image of Cobb

What a pickup. Congrats!

A card I’ve wanted since I started collecting as a kid. The Red Cobb isn’t a rare card, but when I started diving into the condition sensitivities like image registration, color, etc it became harder to find one I really liked. Very happy with this copy

Beautiful red Cobby!!

Re: NYYFfan63 - Talk about eye appeal! These E cards have really grown on me

Picked up from a board member. Anomalous sale last year on Memory Lane at over $14k for a PSA 3. Any thoughts about that? Love this card.

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Picked up the Scorecard back at The National and just picked up the Blank back in the mail.

Thank you sir. You picked up a very nice red Cobb which has great eye appeal. Congrats!


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Wow

Cobbs, Collins, Mathewsons, Wagners

Cards Programs and more

LOVE IT LOVE IT

Keep it coming

Agreeed, all kinds of fun pickups on the board this month!

I love it when they’re some goodies that I have never seen before.

Enjoy,
Bob

Great day at the Philly Show. Picked up a card I wanted for a while being a PA resident.

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Terrible photos, but I was finally able to pick up the Jimmy Phelan SC350/25 for my Providence team set. This is a low pop card that was much harder to find than I thought it'd be.


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Awesome pick ups this month, love the Sporting news Cobb and Pinkerton Mattys, congrats Joe and Sammy.
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Thats a beauty Rob. Congrats!

Hard to beat a Red Cobb like yours. Well, done sir.

Thank you Dean.


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Many thanks to Elm for trading this '60s retail regional gem to me. The East Hills Shopping Center became a ghost town by the late-'70s due to the modern, indoor Monroeville Mall, where the horror masterpiece Dawn of the Dead was filmed in '77-'78.

Poor Roberto couldn't even get a hometown business to call him by his real name.

When I got home from work today, my wife asked me if I was more excited to see her or my Hooker. I begrudgingly had to admit, that I more excited to see my Hooker today.

A big thanks to Jay for helping out of this one by taking some trade to knock it down a little! Also thanks to Ryan for gathering and turning loose a few of the centerpiece cards in the run!

I’m happy to have a Hooker and a Shag holding down the two Old Mill slots in the backs line! I still have some of my 12 year old sense of humor!

I didn’t plan on adding this back to the run because I never thought I could land one, but knew it would bother me if I didn’t. One more monster checked off!

Enjoy the evening,
Bob

Shag, Hooker, and a happy wife. Things have changed!

That's funny!

e94 Overprint
 

e94 McGraw Overprint

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Nice Sam.

E94 overprint
 

That's cool Sam...Jerry

That is a great looking, dark and focused, overprint. Congrats.
Generally, I don't collect too many cards with creasing in the facial area, but this would be a definite exception.
And it's a difficult overprint. As I recall, it was the last one I needed to finish the known set at that time (long gone now). I think 1 more different one has been discovered, but my brain is always a bit foggy...the '70s and all....:o
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E94 Overprint
 

Thanks Phil, Jerry & Leon!

Sam

Crossed 2 more E98s off the list.
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LCS pick up today… probably the least desirable or valuable in this thread but I love it.

Nice orange Lajoie, Andy.


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................ A GREAT result from a grand trade with Joshua (The Great Wazoo) ....... Hindu No. 132 ................. :)

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

Nice Hindu Scott...Andy, I agree with Andy...nice Lajoie orange...Jerry

Cecil Travis is a great player whose cards can normally be picked up at a reasonable price...congrats.


Brian

Congrats Bob!! Such a tough back.

Big Thanks to Ed Hans for some nice Coupons, including one of my new favorites ....... :)

Had to have this Kruger --- It has everything !!!! Typewriter front / way cool redemption punch / Buck Barker scribbling ............. ;)

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Babble time -- It's the St. Patty's parade in Savannah today. That's when all the tourists come and get sloppy drunk, and all the locals (like me) stay away:

Rudolph / a self made man -- He was a very successful pitcher (spit baller) in Toronto, but was annoyed he never got a major lg. chance. Often claiming he'd quit. So he wrote to many team presidents asking for try out, no responses. One day he recognizes a Braves coach on a train and corners him. He pestered the coach enough that he got a try out -- successful -- made team. The team was the 1914 Miracle Braves, which he did very well. In the WS, where Braves swept Athletics, he won both his games: Both complete, giving up only 1 run in each. So here we have a T206 player, who most (including me) just glance over turning into a very interesting Coupon player.

Kruger -- The most interesting aspect being that Baseball Reference shows he never played for Columbus (this may have been discussed before). During those years he played for Kansas City in the American Assoc. For those who care ....... :p

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Fun, fun, Scott :rolleyes:

New member here. I am very impressed with the cards posted in the thread, especially the Cobb card. Well done, gents.

I was away from the hobby for close to 18 years and decided to get back in.

I picked up a few cards off eBay to jump start me again, after coming to deals with the sellers.

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Clyde Milan b18. Paid $5 at an antique store. Don't think the seller knew what it is.

MARCH Pick Up Thread
 

Went to the Philly Show & sold a bunch of 56-69 Mantles, 2 MJs, & a few other cards.

My 2 key March pick-ups were a 1914 CJ WaJo & 1915 CJ Wagner.

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Beautiful postcard thanks to calvindog

Scored another SL.

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Been looking low and high for this
 

Finally found a copy. Muchinsky's "Baseball Pinback Buttons" book. Looking forward to going thru it.

It is one fine card, sir! I am a BIG Cecil Travis fan. One of my all-time favorites, and one of the most underrated, IMO.

+1 Agree

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March Pick Ups
 

Picked these up at white plains today. I owned that same signed 33 goudey Grimes years ago, funny how cards sometimes make it back to your collection!

All in 1 day!
 

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I haven’t been posting my T206 HOF pickups but had to post this one for Leon.

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Awesome Matty, Adam. I dig big bordered T206's.

Full panel of 1912 La Azora Detroit Tigers schedule cards.

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Here are the other two poses -- separated here -- in the set:

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Very cool Jeff

Very cool - had my eye on that Cobb, never seen it before.

Sorry to break up the Pre War Pickups, but I picked this Mays item up!

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Fantastic addition to your Cobb oeuvre Jeff, congrats.
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