January Pick Ups

[markf31]

Difficult pickup for my 1925 Pirates - World Series set

[JimStinson]

Love the Billy Martin letter ! I got to watch him manage the Yanks day in and day out and have to say he was the BEST manager I ever saw. Just raw genius and he got it from Stengel.

Funny story ..but true , Back when Billy was managing the Yanks and had just gotten canned

I was living in Ocala Florida (where George Steinbrenner owned a hotel and had a house). Well a car pulled in and there were two young girls driving and their tag said "YANKS 2" and I asked them if they were Yankees fans and they said "Oh yes our whole family are Yankees fans"

So I said "The Yanks would be alot better off if that idiot Steinbrenner would just let Billy manage instead of firing him all of the time !!!"
They both looked at me, one of them said something unpleasent ... , they got in their car and drove off. A friend of mine said "There you go pissing people off again"....lol, and he asked what I said and I told him and he told me that was George Steinbrenner's DAUGHTER !!!!!
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jim@stinsonsports.com

[r2678]

I picked up a couple of things from the frame shop I'll post later but Jim's story reminds me of what happened to me at a Charlotte card show.

Leo Durocher had recently passed away. A young lady and another girl came to my table and said, "I'm looking for Leo Durocher." Being the smart alec I can sometmes be, I replied, "He's dead." The girl got a strange look on her face and said, "I know. I'm his grand daughter."

[mr2686]

I decided to start this year off by finishing my 1934 Cardinals project, so of course my first pick up is 3 1969 signed Topps Cubs cards of Don Nottebart, Willie Smith and Randy Hundley. Yep, different year, same 'ol me.

[bender07]

Originally Posted by mr2686

I decided to start this year off by finishing my 1934 Cardinals project, so of course my first pick up is 3 1969 signed Topps Cubs cards of Don Nottebart, Willie Smith and Randy Hundley. Yep, different year, same 'ol me.

Funny. I read that twice before finishing. We've all been there before!

[Scott Garner]

I picked up three terrific older signed no-hit pitcher GPC's from Jim Stinson's recent sale of the Stanley Lippincott collection from 1948-1950.

It really seems to me that this kid's collection was tremendous after looking through all of the names that were part of it. I'm glad to see that some of the others on net54 picked up some of the rarities out of this collection.

Jim Tobin and Don Black's signatures are really toughee's and I've been looking to add GPC's of these guys as well as a nice Nap Rucker GPC for many years.

I love the Nap Rucker personalization surrounding Ground Hog Day.
Cool stuff!

[mr2686]

Outstanding pickup Scott. Nice additions to your collection.

[bender07]

Great stuff Scott. That really was an incredible collection and I'm happy to get one from it too.