July pickups

[jchcollins]

99% of everything I post is vintage, but here is a rare modern one - a card I always wanted as a kid, but never had. Growing up when I started collecting, Donnie Baseball was “the” player people were collecting, and at least to my child’s eye was the 2nd coming of Mickey Mantle. (As I got older I became more aware of the differences between Mantle and Mattingly...) Topps and Fleer copies of his RC’s were always plentiful, it seemed - but this one, the Donruss version was the high-priced card that nobody seemed to have. Thankful in that regard it’s cheaper now than it was in say...1990. :-) Don isn’t a lock for the HOF by a long shot yet, but I still don’t think he would be totally out of place there. In any event, he will always be a reminder of my youth and the days when I first started collecting cards.




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