December pick up thread

[rats60]

Originally Posted by jchcollins

I've never understood why there wasn't a '72 Ryan card with the Mets, and then a Traded card. Jim Fregosi (the player he was traded for...) got both.

He came out in a later series, the 5th, that wasn't printed until after the trade. So, Topps put him with his current team at the time of printing. The traded cards were players who were traded after their cards were printed.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by rats60

He came out in a later series, the 5th, that wasn't printed until after the trade. So, Topps put him with his current team at the time of printing. The traded cards were players who were traded after their cards were printed.

True, the Fregosi non-traded was in an earlier series.

[ASF123]

Some highlights from my flurry of activity over the last few weeks.

[Noy]

Wow, nice batch of cards, ASF!

This one will look good in my raw '73 set.

[ASF123]

Thanks Noy! Beautiful Schmidt - I’ve been looking for one of those as well, but it’s hard to find a nice one at a reasonable price.

I assume you’re not my friend Noy from Chicago, right? As far as I know he doesn’t collect cards.

[DeanH3]

Originally Posted by ASF123

Some highlights from my flurry of activity over the last few weeks.

Nice Andrew! Fantastic gathering there.

[SPMIDD]

Good looking Schmidt rookie Noy.

I picked up a 73 and 74 set this month.

[Exhibitman]

[JollyElm]

Holy cow, there was actually a show out here today!!! Finally got to relish in the redolent air of musty old cardboard. The 'problem' was it was almost entirely new, shiny stuff (and all of those tables were pretty busy, which is nice), with really only a pair of vintage guys. One of them had what I refer to as a museum curator type table. Every single price on his slabs was just flat out ridiculous (think Dean's on steroids), so you just knew all of his cards were for display purposes only.

The other guy had a beautiful run of 1966 high numbers, and he was all too happy to negotiate, because the lack of a National this year has really f*cked him on the baseball card selling front (his words). I took that info to work out a sweet price for a bunch of stuff from his table, including a 1962 Lou Brock rookie card upgrade, a very decent 1966 Topps high number #591 Grant Jackson/Bart Shirley RC, the lovely Mr. Rose, plus a beautiful but O/C Choo Choo and other pretty sharp '66 highs...

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