October 2020 Pickup Thread

[Eric72]

I was looking through my modern cards recently. Unbelievably, I had never bothered to pick up a Frank Thomas Leaf rookie before. Fortunately, I was able to pick up this copy for $30 (all-in, after taxes and shipping) from eBay. So, I have filled a glaring hole in my modern collection.

[snider4prez]

I have been picking up a few rookie cards of Tatis Lewis and Lux. I love to Topps refractors. Tough series coming up for the Dodgers and Padres! Such a great class of young players in today’s game. Fun to watch them play.

Go Dodges!
Trevor

[sbfinley]

Great stuff. That Dodgers/Padres might be the best matchup of the entire playoffs, especially if SD gets their starting pitching back.

[slidekellyslide]

Picked up a 2020 Topps complete set from Walmart and managed to get the Gold Star Parallel set.

[invest]

I haven't bought much, but I was very happy to add Rickey to my collection!!!

Troy

[Mike D.]

#10 on the all-time WAR list for second baseman.

[irv]

Just purchased this Leaf Nate Pearson RC 1 of 7 the other night from COMC. (Thanks again, John, (Swarmee) for the help/walkthrough )
Due to covid and slow shipping, I'm not suppose to receive this card until Dec 11th, however.

I lost out on another, non 1 of anything, so I was real happy to find this one.

[irv]

I was kicking around the idea of grabbing one myself recently but Eric72's post made me commit as I just grabbed this one off a CDN seller for very similar money.

Not in hand yet, obviously, nor a 9, but I'm glad to also check this one off the list.

[RayBShotz]

Just received this back from PSA.

[sbfinley]

Awesome Stanton! Here's what has arrived the last week.

[bnorth]

Added another 1989 Fleer no dot Wade Boggs card to my hoard.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Added another 1989 Fleer no dot Wade Boggs card to my hoard.

I'm going to look through my 89 Fleers tonight and pull all the Boggs. If I find any no dots they are headed your way.

[TedWill1939]

Originally Posted by invest

I haven't bought much, but I was very happy to add Rickey to my collection!!!

Troy

Great card!. I finally picked up a graded example after years of having it on the back burner.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

I'm going to look through my 89 Fleers tonight and pull all the Boggs. If I find any no dots they are headed your way.

Thank you Dan. I appreciate the effort to feed my hoarding disease.

[Statfreak101]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Thank you Dan. I appreciate the effort to feed my hoarding disease.

I was thinking to myself - I have opened a TON of 89 Fleer and I probably have a few more of these. I would just need to go through them ALL. Plus, I would have to determine which ones would have this, as I have it figured out where the Boggs no dot is in terms of dates/runs.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Thank you Dan. I appreciate the effort to feed my hoarding disease.

I searched my 89 Fleer and found 6 Boggs, but they all have that nasty dot on them. I pulled all of the errors and variants cards while I was doing this and had quite a few of both the Heath/Brookens cards, but none of the other variant cards. This was a 4 box lot I opened a year or so back that had the "F" Face Ripkens. I was able to pull 4 of those out of the 4 boxes which I thought was low considering I found 6 each of Griffey, Biggio, Randy Johnson and Smoltz.

[clydepepper]

I had to go cheap, but had to get two I didn't have on his birthday:

Happy 89th Mickey - You are missed.

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[bnorth]

Received this awesome Roger Clemens TCMA Minor League card in the mail today. It was a very easy/smooth trade with a fellow member.

I also got a box of the nice holders it is in from Rick yesterday.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Picked up a 2020 Topps complete set from Walmart and managed to get the Gold Star Parallel set.

I got one as well! I was completely shocked they even had card sets, seeing as how they can't keep packs on their shelves. So I bought it last night, opened it up and thought - hey, I just read about this on the October Pick-up thread!

[todeen]

Mail day yesterday! I was kicking myself for not buying the auto when it came out on Topps Now for $79.99. A blue parallel came out on ebay, and I got it for half the Topps Now price! Very happy.

[TobaccoKing4]

Picked up a raw 1983 Topps Tony Gwynn rookie card that came with some light surface damage so I was a little disappointed since I was planning on sending it out to be graded, and I also picked up a 9.5 SGC 1987 Topps Traded Greg Maddux Rookie card. I thought the Maddux was a really nice SGC 9.5 that would have a chance to crossover to a PSA 10.

I tried posting pictures from imgur but it isn't working.

[bnorth]

Picked up this nice Mark Whiten error this morning thanks to a trade with a fellow member.

[Statfreak101]

Originally Posted by bnorth

Picked up this nice Mark Whiten error this morning thanks to a trade with a fellow member.

Nice! I have 23 random packs of 1991 Topps on the way. Hoping to hit some of these errors in them. Or have them all be Desert Shield packs. LOL