Blog post - Top 10 Mays Dream Cards
 

Here's a recent blog post that I wrote on the Top 10 Mays Dream Cards:

https://www.splendidsports.com/top-1...s-dream-cards/

Please respond and let me know everything I got wrong. Should be a long list!

Well done. An enjoyable read. Gotta love the obscure cards of The Say Hey Kid

My scarcest Mays Topps items are the 67 Stand Up and Punch Out ( that 66 you have is a great item), and the 67 and 68 Discs. I have a "almost" set of the 68 Plaqs ( including the checklsts) but am missing the actual Mays plaq.

Willie
These are all 1of ones

Fun stuff, Larry!

If I’m not mistaken, you also have the only complete Briggs Meats Mays panel that I’ve seen.

I'm sorry I sold the green armour
Only 1 known
Still have the plak and dipsy doodles

I've always had a 52T Mays on my list of cards I'd like to pick up. However, other hobby priorities always pushed my funds in a different direction.

Agreed

Good stuff!

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I really enjoyed reading that.
Here's another one you don't see every day. PSA has graded 7 copies.

Great card. This one was definitely on my short list, but had to make some difficult decisions, and ultimately it fell outside of the top 10 for me.

But now that you’ve reminded me just how rare they are, I probably need to think about raising my asking price for the one that I have on eBay. ;)

What are the populations on the 1962 Pittsburgh Exhibit, 1967-68 Topps Disc and 1968 Topps Standup Mays? Those 3 plus the 1968 Topps Plak are on my top 10 list for Roberto Clemente.

The 62 Pittsburgh Exhibit was another piece that I placed just outside the top 10. PSA has it as a pop 10 for the 6 of Clubs. There is also a 7 of Clubs that is pop 1.

On the standups, did you mean 1964? If the 68 exists, it’s news to me. But it seems like I learn about new exotic issues all the time.

For the 67/68 test discs, they are pop 6.

The 1967 Topps Stand Ups. PSA shows a Mays Proof selling in 2017, but there are pictures of a regular Mays, so I am sure it exists. My Clemente came from Woody Gelman's personal collection. He probably had a complete set.

I collect Willie Mays, and there isn't a single card on that list that I would be interested in owning. Are you intending this to be the top 10 list of oddball cards? Or is this more intended to be your personal favorite top 10 list? I suspect if you were to poll most Mays collectors, they would place his more mainstream/flagship cards above these. Part of the problem to me of many of these cards is they just lack eye appeal. That's what is so great about many of his mainstream cards. They're just beautiful! 51 Bowman, 52 through 56 Topps, 58 Topps, 60 Topps, 54 Bowman. All are stunning cards.

I'm the same way with my Jackie Robinson collection though. There are numerous Jackie cards that I don't have, and don't intend to buy. Rather than seeking those out and buying every Jackie item I can find, I instead just buy duplicates of the ones I love most. To each their own though. There's no wrong way to collect!

I think the issue is that they are intended to be difficult to acquire. Most/all of the mainline cards are pretty easy to pick up. You might not easily find one that meets your standards of perfection around centering, but you can get a mainline card in about 10 seconds on eBay, assuming you’re willing to pay the asking price.

So to some extent, it’s intended to represent cards that you might mostly have to just dream about acquiring, simply because they are difficult to impossible to find. Slightly different twist than you had in mind with your list.

Great list Nicolo

Love that stand-up, Al. I think the last one sold for about $30k, and at the time, I decided I wasn’t willing to go that high.

Many of you could guess my favorite...

Nice set of cards. Two things stand out to me:

• The condition of that 1959 Venezuelan is unbelievable. All of the Venezuelans in my collection are, shall we say, well loved.
• As is that 1958 Hires Test Issue. It took me quite a while to find the Test Issue for my Johnny Antonelli player collection and it doesn't have the tab. I am not sure I have ever seen an Antonelli with the tab.

Good stuff.

I was lucky that they both came to auction when they did. Took several years for the test set with tab to come up. Sometimes the quest is just as much fun as ultimately landing the piece.

Great thread!
I love the Packard Bell and prefer the tougher to get cards

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