Do you collect any oddities?

[steve B]

I collect cards of the one player with my last name. Not many cards, and I've run out of inexpensive ones years ago.

I also collect unlicensed cards, ad posters for some sets, like the MSA discs, and any strange cards. Like a bazooka box with 1978 baseball backs printed inside. Neat way for them to use up some leftover or misprinted backs.

I've got a few dynamite magazines with the card panels.

I don't recall any other magazines having card panels like that. Which ones were they?

Steve Birmingham

[theseeker]

What Lemke/Topps big book are you referring to?

[ALR-bishop]

Originally Posted by theseeker

What Lemke/Topps big book are you referring to?

The Sports Collector's Digest Of Baseball Cards.The 2010 edition is the 20th edition and is, I think, 1834 pages. Great checklist resource for old and modern sets, with picture examples of most mainstream card sets. You can find it on Amazon

[Bob Lemke]

The actual title is Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards.

[hunterdutchess]

Mine has been Juan Berenguer. We collect all of his cards at work and have a mini tribute to him there because he protects us from "re-runs". Whenever we have a job that goes bad we throw a Juan Berenguer Baseball card in with the job and it always goes threw. I recommend trying this at your work aswell.

http://cgi.ebay.com/1987-Donruss-616...item3eef01bc56

[Exhibitman]

Isn't there a card from 1990s with a player in the background adjusting his cup that was later airbrushed out? I think it was by Score.

[seablaster]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Isn't there a card from 1990s with a player in the background adjusting his cup that was later airbrushed out? I think it was by Score.

1989 Score Paul Gibson

[bh3443]

In 1981 I was fed up with the entire error craze so I decided to hoard all the 1979 Topps Wayne Nordhagen cards. I'd buy every card of him available from everyone I saw!
People were convinced that I knew something they did not and that any day this card would be the next hot error!
Even when I started hoarding his 1978 Topps and all his other cards it was hard to convince anyone it was not an error in some way!
I eventually filled a vending case and a half and have over 20,000 of his cards somewhere in my storage! It was fun, but the best part is that on opening day one year I gave Wayne Nordhagen a huge box of his cards for his fans fans and friends!
I still buy all of his cards when I see them. This hobby is fun and this story is one of the examples of the fun times I've had over the decades!
Bill Hedin