1959 Bazooka Complete Box

[rhettyeakley]

Originally Posted by raulus

I guess this is proof that no one bothers to read the footers in our posts…

It’s right there!!

1) M118 Mays. PSA labels it as “1963 Baseball Magazine”, even though it was from Baseball Monthly. Since it’s a jumbo piece, PSA has only been grading them for a few years. At present, the pop count is only 1. Although given the relative abundance of most M118s, I expected this one would be a lot easier to find.

2) 1968 American Oil left side. This was the money card if you pulled it, so I suspect almost all of them were turned in for the $10 cold hard cash. PSA pop reports just 2 ever graded. Of the major Master Mays collectors in the last 20 years, none of us have actually ever found one, which probably further hints at the difficulty in finding them. I’ve never even seen a picture of one, but I have it on good authority that they exist.

A bit off-topic to the original post but if you were to find the Mays American Oil card in panel form it would likely be both halves showing Mays. I am not sure how many exist but I own a "winner" panel of Ruth ($1 winner) and have not ever seen another.

I attached scans of my Ruth $1 winner panel with my other Ruth and Mays pages in my album.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

A bit off-topic to the original post but if you were to find the Mays American Oil card in panel form it would likely be both halves showing Mays. I am not sure how many exist but I own a "winner" panel of Ruth ($1 winner) and have not ever seen another.

I attached scans of my Ruth $1 winner panel with my other Ruth and Mays pages in my album.

Interesting!

Obviously since I’ve never even seen a picture of even the Mays left side on its lonesome, I’ve also never seen it attached to its sister right side card. But definitely cool to see your Ruth left side piece attached to the corresponding Ruth right side.

[JollyElm]

This is the kind of stuff on the site that really puts the asses in the seats! As I've never been a part of the box-cutting crowd, I find that Mays and other cards from the set fascinating, because they pop up so infrequently that you'll never tire of seeing them, unlike the overabundance of each player's regular Topps offerings.

Cool stuff!!!

[ValKehl]

Nicolo, I just had a very enjoyable look at your spectacular Mays collection. Being an aficionado of scarce/rare, oddball/unusual cards, my favorites are your 1953 Briggs (nicest I've ever seen), 1958 Hires Test w/tab, 1959 HR Derby, 1961 Topps Dice, and 1961 7-11. Hope you are able to find the very few item you are missing.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Nicolo, I just had a very enjoyable look at your spectacular Mays collection. Being an aficionado of scarce/rare, oddball/unusual cards, my favorites are your 1953 Briggs (nicest I've ever seen), 1958 Hires Test w/tab, 1959 HR Derby, 1961 Topps Dice, and 1961 7-11. Hope you are able to find the very few item you are missing.

Thanks Val! Those are definitely some of my favorite pieces too. If I’m being honest, when I first started collecting again, the oddball items drove me nuts. I didn’t understand or appreciate them. Now that I’ve spent so much time questing for them, I’ve grown to appreciate and value them much more, even if they still drive me a little nuts sometimes.

It’s definitely a marathon and not a sprint. If history is any guide, it might take another decade (or more) to track down the last 4 down. And in the meantime, I’m sure new items will be added to the checklist. Hopefully they won’t be as hard to find as these last 4.