June Pickups

This should count since its Jackie Robinson , I picked this up today at a Mooresville NC Food Lion, which a portion of the puchase is being donated to the Jackie Robinson Foundation

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by rgpete

This should count since its Jackie Robinson , I picked this up today at a Mooresville NC Food Lion, which a portion of the puchase is being donated to the Jackie Robinson Foundation

Great pick up Ron, I think that particular issue has a lot of upside potential. And if I'm wrong, hey, at least you got a can o' nuts.

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Great pick up Ron, I think that particular issue has a lot of upside potential. And if I'm wrong, hey, at least you got a can o' nuts.

My wife thinks Im nuts

[butchie_t]

Originally Posted by rgpete

This should count since its Jackie Robinson , I picked this up today at a Mooresville NC Food Lion, which a portion of the puchase is being donated to the Jackie Robinson Foundation

A heavenly coffee.

[JollyElm]

Very elated to have found this epic card from my youth, 1974 Topps #1 Hank Aaron - All-Time HR King, at a very decent price (not eBay), and decided it was time to grab it before the prices continued to climb...

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And the centering is actually better than it appears, as the shadow cast by the plastic thing on the left obscures some of the white there.

[Vintagevault13]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Very elated to have found this epic card from my youth, 1974 Topps #1 Hank Aaron - All-Time HR King, at a very decent price (not eBay), and decided it was time to grab it before the prices continued to climb...

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And the centering is actually better than it appears, as the shadow cast by the plastic thing on the left obscures some of the white there.

Nice Aaron! That card brings back tons of memories for me. 1974 was the first set I collected and the Hank #1, along with the Aaron Specials cards, are super memorable since I grew up near Atlanta and enjoyed following the home run record chase.


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[irv]

Originally Posted by Tom S.

Dale, congrats on snagging a few more nice looking '52 Topps high numbers! The finish line is getting a little closer for you.

Originally Posted by Tom S.

I was able to add a few more cards to my 1952 Topps set this month. Still have miles to go though...

Thanks, Tom.

Those are great looking cards you've picked up, and if that is the standard you're after, you're going to have a great looking set come completion.

Good luck the rest of the way!

[JollyElm]

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I meant to ask, what stadium was the 1974 Topps #1 Hank Aaron taken in? The 1973 All Star game was held in Kansas City, and the scoreboard has the same trademark shape, but no crown appears atop it (which would've added that much more pop to the card had it appeared looming over Aaron's head, but I digress)...unless Topps airbrushed it out for some reason, although it doesn't really look like they did. There seems to be a couple of Reds(?) warming up in the background. Searching for footage of the game didn't really provide any help or answers.

Any idea if it was definitely KC?

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Any idea if it was definitely KC?

I think the crown is there and maybe just difficult to see? That would definitely appear to be the base of the KC scoreboard and the green structure underneath that supported it.

[JollyElm]

It's possible that the scoreboard has a detachable top section? Or did? Maybe when events other than Royals home games were being played, they removed the Royals' crown? Just speculation, but it might make sense.

Here are three shots of it. The first is sometime during the 1970's, I imagine? Native son, Harry S Truman, passed in December, 1972, so perhaps this pic was taken in 1973? He is adored out there, so it could be from any year, but the pic seems to be 1970s-ish.

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This is obviously a recent picture, but someone must have sprayed it with 'Corona-B-Gone,' because there's no crown up there...

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And this is a screenshot taken after the narrator stated that Kauffman Stadium hosted the 1973 All-Star game. The lower part of the huge crown is very evident, so it was obviously there. This is quite puzzling...

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Perhaps, it is an airbrushing job by the Topps art department, after all? We're so used to seeing their godawful 'retouching' work on caps and uniforms, that maybe this was a much easier job, just cutting and pasting parts of the bluish sky around to mask the area? Who knows why...but it could be?? What further points to that is the fact that all (or any) of those prominent, white, vertical support beams are nowhere to be found (or just faded into the sky) on the Aaron card.

[rugbymarine]

Another Kaline! (14 down, 8 to go)

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by rugbymarine

Another Kaline! (14 down, 8 to go)

Sweet, one of my favorite Kaline cards.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by rgpete

This should count since its Jackie Robinson , I picked this up today at a Mooresville NC Food Lion, which a portion of the puchase is being donated to the Jackie Robinson Foundation

very cool collectible

[bnorth]

This awesome 1969 Topps blank back Hank Aaron arrived today.