I'm really just "phoning in" this blog update; shame on me. I'm just giving you a link . . . but it's a dandy!
With no further ado:
Showing posts with label baseball card collecting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baseball card collecting. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2015
Friday, April 25, 2014
76 Reasons to Love Collecting Sports Cards
Reason 77: Finding cards you have never seen before that belong to a set you collected as a child.
Reason 78: Learning the grim reality that you are lucky to get 20% of what Beckett guides say your cards are worth; but looking on the bright side, maybe that knowledge somehow gives you some kind of an edge in some of your card dealings.
Now here's the cool link promised:
Friday, March 28, 2014
Fun baseball cards link
Just turning you on to a really cool baseball cards page. It's full of fun stuff! Introducing: Heartbreaking Cards
It'll make you smile like this guy:
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Birthday Boy!
Who knew that old Monte Irvin was still around to enjoy my birthday shout out to him for his 95th?!
A bit of trivia now. Who led the league in RBI in Willie Mays' rookie year 1951? Monte Irvin did.
The card is a 1953 Bowman color.
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Happy birthday Manny Mota
What a crummy-looking card for a guy who maintained a .300 career average over a twenty-year career. The card featured a quite realistic-loooking cap, jersey & undershirt. Not! Good grief, they even fired a total blank on the back of this sad speciman of a baseball card. Happy birthday to Manny, anyhow.
The card is a 1973 Topps. Shame on 'em.
Friday, January 10, 2014
A happy birthday, to mighty Willie McCovey, old "Stretch" himself. He nailed down first base for the San Francisco Giants for years and nabbed Comeback Player of the year later for the Padres.
I had his 1960 Topps rookie card (yes, one of those awful horizontal 1960s Topps), but it didn't auction for much because, on the back, taking up nearly all the surface, some dunce had scrawled "1960" in thick marks a lot. Boohoo.
Card shown is a 1970 Topps All Star card.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Does the World Series Mean It's all about over?
It's always sad when the baseball season is about to come to an end, but kids like me who never grew up realized a long time ago that the season never ends when you collect baseball cards.No telling what I have on my auctions
Monday, June 13, 2011
Monday, December 28, 2009
My First Exposure to Baseball Card Collecting
In my garage when I was a kid was this wooden toy truck my grandfather (a really handy guy!) made for my brothers and sisters and me. It was about 4 feet long and 1.5 feet high, and the back lifted up so as to "dump" stuff out of it. (Really, it was so big, we kids could ride in the back!)
Anyhow, one hot summer day, I was playing in there and found in the back of the truck a couple 1970 Topps baseball cards which I suppose my older brother must have bought and stored there in the truck. The only card I recall specifically was a nondescript portrait card of Chicago Cubs outfielder Al Spangler, who had had a few fair years earlier in his career w/ the old Houston Colt 45s. (See old pal Al's stellar career stats here.) Oh, some dudes have it up in their ebay stores here.
Well, I admired that nothing card, turned it over and found the blurb and stats on the back, and I was hooked. I went to the 7/11 and bought my first cards. The cards had been in that toy truck for a while, so the first cards I bought were now the 1971 Topps baseball cards w/ the tough black borders. I was off and running!
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