March Pickups

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Hammerin'Hank

Upgrade for my 75 Topps set. Already had a PSA 7 specimen but this SGC 7 is centered better.

When I first saw a copy of this card as a kid, I thought that the black thing on Nolan's sleeve was an errant Sharpie mark...

[Lgarza99]

Bob, nice Mad Hungarian cards! It reminds me of watching baseball with my grandfather in the 70's. My grandpa would just bust up when Al would wind himself up to make a pitch. Great baseball days! I thank my grandpa for introducing me to baseball. I miss him!

[begsu1013]

Originally Posted by Lgarza99

Bob, nice Mad Hungarian cards! It reminds me of watching baseball with my grandfather in the 70's. My grandpa would just bust up when Al would wind himself up to make a pitch. Great baseball days! I thank my grandpa for introducing me to baseball. I miss him!

thanks luis! ironically enough, my grandpa lives in st. pete, fl where the cardinals used to do spring training and he himself was a decent minor league pitcher. anyways he loved him as well and later in his career he ended up in Atlanta where I got to seem him play. anyways, he was quite the character on and off the mound. we used to get kicks on his pre-pitch physic-up behind the mound. can see it in this clip here around the 52 second mark...love the fact that the batter thought the straight heater was coming and the mad Hungarian just lobs a hanging fork ball in there! HYSTERICAL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09R5JKA1Md0

[jb67]

That was an epic video. Thanks.

[judgejules1]

Picked this up earlier this week...
1959 Topps Salesman Sample Front.jpg
1959 Topps Salesman Sample Back.jpg

[jb67]

Very cool pickup! Never seen one before. Thanks for sharing.

[begsu1013]

focused on another great moment in baseball history the other night. as usual, it involved a pitcher and a batter. however, this was no ordinary batter. this is eddie gaedel (uniform no. 1/8) and the rookie of the only man to pitch to him bob cain. fittingly enough, both cards arrived today!

another thing I liked about this story is that bob cain was the only person in mlb to attend gaedel's funeral, who suffered a terrible death/tragedy.

side note: eddie gaedel is one of the few autographs that actually meet or exceed babe ruth's!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gaedel