May pickups 2013

[Brianruns10]

Here's my big one for May. I was bidding on three high number '52s up for sale on Heritage Auctions. Wound up getting beat out on two of them. But the one of the three I wanted most, I won. This card is a winner, fantastic colors, near perfect centering. I plan on cracking and crossing to PSA, and I think it has excellent upgrade potential, 7 maybe even 7.5 on good day.

[Big Six]

Was going to head down to Westchester to see Pete Rose but when he canceled, decided to save time and money and just hit my local Stratford, CT show...walked out with a Jeter auto (Steiner) and 8 Bowman commons at about $8/each. These fit right in with my set which is now 35% complete...

[ALR-bishop]

Very nice Matt

[Bestdj777]

Just picked these up.

[David W]

Not much lately. 1 daughter heading off to college and braces for 2 younger kids have the wife watching the check book a little to closely.......

But over the last month managed to get another Carousel back disc, an off focus 71 Lou Brock, and Leo reasonably enough.

[DanP]

Moving slowly trying to find nicely centered HOF RC's.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Very nice, Dan.

[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by Brianruns10

Here's my big one for May. I was bidding on three high number '52s up for sale on Heritage Auctions. Wound up getting beat out on two of them. But the one of the three I wanted most, I won. This card is a winner, fantastic colors, near perfect centering. I plan on cracking and crossing to PSA, and I think it has excellent upgrade potential, 7 maybe even 7.5 on good day.

VERY sharp card! I'm jealous. Good Luck on the crack and PSA submission. Let us know how it goes......

[CobbSpikedMe]

David,

Are you going for a Carousel disc set? I've been thinking about going for a back run of all of these discs for just Jim Wynn in PSA slabs. I have one now and really like it. Of course it's the very common Isaly's back but when I got it in hand it really grew on me and made me want try for all the backs.

Thanks.

AndyH

[mintacular]

Awesome '52 high, picked up this card raw on eBay, looking to submit and maybe get a 7.

[39special]

Originally Posted by mintacular

Awesome '52 high, picked up this card raw on eBay, looking to submit and maybe get a 7.

Awesome card Patrick!!!

[CW]

Yeah, I know, not a baseball card but they don't have a pickups thread over on the football side, and I didn't want to start an entire thread for one card. I thought about posting this in the lacrosse forum, as Jimmy was one of the greats in that sport as well, but I can't seem to find it.

[jthorst75]

Sharp Brown rookie! That's a tough one to pick up centered let alone perfect like yours!

[David W]

Originally Posted by CobbSpikedMe

David,

Are you going for a Carousel disc set? I've been thinking about going for a back run of all of these discs for just Jim Wynn in PSA slabs. I have one now and really like it. Of course it's the very common Isaly's back but when I got it in hand it really grew on me and made me want try for all the backs.

Thanks.

AndyH

I've got Lou Brock with every back. Relatively easy to do on E Bay. The toughest will be by far the cup lid, with Red Barn and the MSA ad back also somewhat scarce.

As for Carousel, I've got about 10 I think, I have no idea how many Carousel backs are out there, but they don't come up often, and frequently the same backs come up. I suspect many of the blank back ones were supposed to get a Carousel stamp but never did.

[Gmrson]

Originally Posted by David W

I've got Lou Brock with every back. Relatively easy to do on E Bay. The toughest will be by far the cup lid, with Red Barn and the MSA ad back also somewhat scarce.

As for Carousel, I've got about 10 I think, I have no idea how many Carousel backs are out there, but they don't come up often, and frequently the same backs come up. I suspect many of the blank back ones were supposed to get a Carousel stamp but never did.

I think I had 18 diff Brooks Robinson Carousel backs (unfortunatly sold them 10+ years ago). A good resource for a list of those would be to track down Mets collector Dave Berman from NY. He had a pretty comprehensive list. His contact info shows up in SCD every once in a while.

Collecting in the 80's I found the Saga back to be most difficult for me with the MSA ad back second. Being in the great lakes region, I would occasionally find Red Barn in "misc" or $1.00 boxes from Wisconsin dealers, but agree that those are one of the toughest. For me, collecting MSA discs was one of the really fun parts of my Brooks Robinson collection.

[pawpawdiv9]

NOT MINE, but is on Ebay...I never seen one of these before..
1967 topps test disc
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-Topps-T...item4d08a34aec

[pawpawdiv9]

just won this..seems to be at a great bargin

1965 push/pull Mantle/Berra

[KCRfan1]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

NOT MINE, but is on Ebay...I never seen one of these before..
1967 topps test disc
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-Topps-T...item4d08a34aec

Is there any reason why Topps would have the discs printed in Japan?

[Bestdj777]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

NOT MINE, but is on Ebay...I never seen one of these before..
1967 topps test disc

Cool piece. I made an offer but no luck. I believe a board member or two have an example of this card in their collections.

[cammb]

Originally Posted by Brianruns10

Here's my big one for May. I was bidding on three high number '52s up for sale on Heritage Auctions. Wound up getting beat out on two of them. But the one of the three I wanted most, I won. This card is a winner, fantastic colors, near perfect centering. I plan on cracking and crossing to PSA, and I think it has excellent upgrade potential, 7 maybe even 7.5 on good day.

That is one beautiful card!!!!!!