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01-04-2016, 03:24 PM
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Check out RobertC's separate post on the topic if you wanna be totally blown away by Hank Aarons.
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01-04-2016, 03:29 PM
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Nice ones there JBL. Centering was a bonus. Ones i would like for sure.
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01-04-2016, 03:46 PM
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Mantle
Peter like Mickey is pretty iconic. And thanks for sharing Chris
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01-04-2016, 03:50 PM
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Campy
So, this card probably won't be a finalist anytime soon for the portrait picture Hall of Fame (Wagner?) and honestly with the benefit of the years it's probably not that great looking of a card at all by any conventional measure - but it's an important one in my personal collecting history all the same. As about an 11 or 12 year old (the late 1980's, not the 1950's...) I happened across this Campy at a local card shop and gulped. Here was not only a BROOKLYN Dodger (Brooklyn being important to prove the card older, and thus much cooler to my adolescent self) but their HOF catcher who thrice won the NL MVP in 5 years. This was my first Brooklyn Dodger card, and despite the mediocre portrait (and what must be allowed is an odd looking, bowl-shaped cap on Roy's head...is it a helmet?) has been extremely important at least in my memory ever since. At some point before going to college, my original copy was traded off, but alas. As of this morning I finally have another one!
Campanella was a huge figure in baseball history to my child's eye, although in looking back with the benefit of a little history I realize he wasn't on the level of a Mays, Mantle, or Aaron. It does have to be allowed that for the brief period of the early 1950's he was indeed an NL powerhouse. It seems that since my first romance with collecting vintage blossomed in the late 1980's - he's not quite as popular a figure as he was back then, probably because a few better catchers have come along and then Bench went into Cooperstown - but Campy will always hold a special place for me. Shun the '54 Bowmans if you must (a lot of people do...) but I love this card.
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01-06-2016, 01:01 AM
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Christmas present from my daughter
My 20 year old daughter got me these. I was so pleased my daughter put the effort in, found these, and ordered them for me. Sigh... I will miss her as she is venturing to Australia on Monday for several months.
Bob
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01-06-2016, 07:49 AM
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Bob---your daughter has a great eye for cards. Where in Australia will she be ?
Having spent some time over there I highly recommend you visit her  
Last edited by ALR-bishop; 01-06-2016 at 07:57 AM.
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01-06-2016, 08:58 AM
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Cards of Cards.
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01-06-2016, 09:04 AM
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Great Musial, Peter. I am a Gibson fan but favor his 60 card. I just can not look at him very long surrounded by pink. And that may be the last time he smiled. His stats are terrible on both
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01-06-2016, 09:31 AM
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Wow Peter, that centering on Gibson is rare indeed. I agree with Al though, it's such a tough card to look at. I collect Cardinal RCs and some of my favorite players have some terrible looking cards. Besides Gibson, Brock and Flood are hard to look at.
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01-06-2016, 04:25 PM
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01-06-2016, 09:42 PM
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Gibson
I have it, I just don't look at it
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01-12-2016, 10:44 PM
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My fist pick up share !
And my first 1955 Bowman . 👍
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01-17-2016, 05:25 PM
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Nice! I picked up the same card as my Christmas gift to myself this year. One of the most affordable early Mays cards, and one of the best looking IMHO as well.  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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01-06-2016, 02:41 PM
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She's flying into Sydney, and has no other plans except hoping to catch on with others at hostels. While I have never been there myself, I'm pretty sure she doesn't want me hanging around while she is backpacking...  . Myself, I'm happy with any golfing holiday I can manage...
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