My Beloved 1950 Bowman Ted Williams Goes for $41 & Change

When a mere lad, I always used to place my baseball cards in plastic sheets to protect them. One day, removing some from sheets, I clipped the corner on my 1950 Bowman Ted Williams card a friend of my Dad's gave me. Finally auctioned it off here. Oh, well.

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What sports cards am I getting rid of?

The cards I have been auctioning off on Ebay lately are:

1954 Bowman football

1967 Topps Baseball

1972 Topps baseball

1974 Topps Baseball

I auction a big-time premium superstar whenever I feel like it.

Slowly, slowly getting rid of all my cards because I need the money and space. Will later concentrate on amassing complete sets of some of my favorite years.

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People have been bery, bery good to me with their trading cards

I have been lucky in my collecting in that people have always been generous with me about giving me cards. For instance, a couple of my older brother's friends gave me some good stuff when I was a kid: 1969 Topps football cards (though Charlie C. liked to draw mustaches & beards on some of his cards); an inch-thick stack of 1964 Topps Giants cards loaded with Hall of Famers, many in duplicate, even quadruplicate; and a nice 1968 Topps Nolan Ryan rookie card, upon which Jerry Koosman plays eternal second fiddle to Nolan (sorry, Jerry!).

My real score was when a colleague of my dad's at my dad's office learned that I collected baseball & football cards. He gave my dad to give to me a stack of about 200 cards from the 1950, 1951, 1952 & 1953 Bowman baseball sets. Among these were Ted Williams & Stan Musial (the fate of which can be read in earlier blogs), a Whitey Ford rookie card, two 1950 Roy Campanella & many other superstars. I still have the vast majority of these cards.

Yes, I need to thank those people for their generosity. So, thank you - but you can't have your cards back!

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Old Baseball Card Nightmare !

When I was a teen, I stored my old baseball cards in plastic sheets into which you had to staple your cards (stapling around the cards, not through them).

Always wanting to do something different with my cards, one day I decided to take all my cards back out of the plastic sheets, to arrange them in teams, or by number, I don't recall. I took scissors and smoothly trimmed the cards out of the sheets . . . until I got to my boffo 1950 Bowman Ted Williams card.

That card was one of some 150-200 cards a work colleague of my dad's had given to me upon learning I collected baseball cards. Anyway, to my sorrow, I accidentally clipped off one of the corners of that big-time card. I recall my reaction decades ago - one of disbelief, and I could feel my face go red and the temperature rise in my face, and I sensed an overall breathlessness I can still conjure up in memory (similar to when your best girl dumps you). God, what a fool was/am I!

Here's the card, which I still have (it's so nice otherwise):

Doesn't my camera suck?!

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