January pickups

[Robextend]

[bcbgcbrcb]

Nice MLB rookie card of Irvin, Rob. Of course, now you just need to come up with his El Indio card from '48-'49, good luck with that one.

[Robextend]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Nice MLB rookie card of Irvin, Rob. Of course, now you just need to come up with his El Indio card from '48-'49, good luck with that one.

Haha yes!! The 1951 bowman is good enough for now!!

[almostdone]

Bob, great Rizzuto for the grade. Such deep color red on it. Great card. Congrats!
Drew

[Robextend]

Originally Posted by almostdone

Bob, great Rizzuto for the grade. Such deep color red on it. Great card. Congrats!
Drew

Thanks Drew!

[MattyC]

Cannot resist nice Micks. Just simply cannot stay away. A nice clean image of The Mick with good centering, color, and focus...it just makes my day sunny.

[Yossarian]

Matt - as always, great pick ups.
I am usually not much on the 'floating heads' league leader cards, but I am a fan of the '62 HR leaders card for what it represents from a historical/significance perspective. I picked one up last month. Tough one to find with good centering and absence of print flaws.

No one remembers, but Jim Gentile had a hell of a season in '61 as well. Those other 2 guys completely overshadowed him, however

[Exhibitman]

I had a 1974 Seaver OPC but sold it. Nice card too.

That Mantle exhibit is probably not from a poster. If it is on slick thin paper and machine cut it is more than likely made for attaching to the machine headers. The company printed cards on that kind of paper, probably because it was cheaper and lighter than card stock for the advertising pieces, which were offered to vendors as freebies. Many times more difficult to find than a regular card. If it is on thicker cardboard but not like a typical card and is handcut or of a dimension different than a standard card, it may be some kind of interim production item. I have a few of them from the early 1950s.

[robsbessette]

Just picked this up from a fellow board member. I think this looks way better than a 4. Not perfect centering, but not too shabby either.

The Ryan rookie holds a special place in my heart. When I was 10 or 11 years old my best friend and I used to play "tag" with his younger sister. "Tag" consisted of, try to catch us, but you'll never be able to since you're five years younger than us. We used to say "if you can catch us, we'll give you a Nolan Ryan rookie card". Of course, which we didn't have. Now I do.