Mets Ebay Baubles

[soupcan]

Couldn't find the original thread...

Check this baby out. If you've got a Met fan in your life that you want to spend some do-re-mi on, this is the item to buy...

Mets Yearbook Original 1962 & Topps Baseball Cards

You can 'Buy It....NOW!!!!!' for the low, low price of $740.00.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Twenty guys and a manager? They had bigger rosters than that, right?

[soupcan]

Yeah, its definitely missing some guys but still - a nice piece.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It really bugs me that so many of these guys on the 1962 cards are pictured without their caps.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Seems to me a few have unMetly uniform tops also.

[Willets Point]

]Couldn't find the original thread...

Try looking here, here, here, here and here.

[soupcan]

Thanks Dusty.

[soupcan]

Edgy DC wrote: Seems to me a few have unMetly uniform tops also.

Not a lot of opportunities to take pictures of guys in Met uniforms and hats in 1961 I'm guessing.

[Farmer Ted]

My brother put something very similar together (albeit not professionally done) of the '69 team including cards from each of the playoff games. It hung in our living room until a storm in '76 knocked a tree limb on our roof and caused rain to run down the inside of our walls. Ruined the whole damn thing.

I'm still pissed about that.

[RealityChuck]

The Topps first series (it was sold in series those days) was out around spring training. No chance to get a picture in a Mets uniform. Later series could get the players in uniform.

We should play Guess the Uniform:

Charlie Neal -- Dodgers
Elio Chacon -- Pirates
Stengel -- MFY
Felix Mantilla -- Milwaukee Braves
Drake -- Cubs.

[seawolf17]

Topps did a ton of airbrushing back in the day; they weren't shy about airbrushing out a logo on a hat. I guess it was easier (and cheaper?) than getting a new photo.

In response to Edgy's question; rosters were bigger, but baseball card sets weren't. The 62 set only had 598 cards for twenty teams. Throw out all the league leader and highlight cards, you probably only had 25 cards per team, and when you figure teams that actually played in '61 would probably have to have more guys represented, the Colts and Mets probably got less spots.

Your 1962 Topps Mets:
4 John DeMerit
7 Frank Thomas
26 Chris Cannizzaro
29 Casey Stengel
85 Gil Hodges
94 Jay Hook
162 Sammy Drake
183 Roger Craig
213 Richie Ashburn
256 Elio Chacon
279 Hobie Landrith
293 Bob Miller
308 Neil Chrisley
337 Jim Marshall
365 Charley Neal
408 Gus Bell
421 Ken MacKenzie
436 Felix Mantilla
464 Al Jackson
497 Ed Bouchee
572 Bob Miller

[RealityChuck]

seawolf17 wrote: Topps did a ton of airbrushing back in the day; they weren't shy about airbrushing out a logo on a hat. I guess it was easier (and cheaper?) than getting a new photo.

Both. Topps sent their photographers out once a year. They'd take two photos: one with the hat, and one without. If the player was traded, then he'd be hatless on the card and they wouldn't need to airbrush.

Also, in the 50s, they wouldn't photograph (or even sign) all players. This ended when a Dodgers official told them that Maury Wills would never make the team. Once Wills made the team, he refused to sign with Topps, so there was no baseball card of him until 1967, when he was traded to the Pirates. From then on, Topps would sign up all players to an exclusive contract. This also effectively prevented others from selling baseball cards (they were allowed for some uses, but not with gum) until a court case ruled Topps contract illegal; players could sign nonexclusive contracts from then on and the mult-manufacturer boom had begun.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Is there a story as to why there wasn't a 1972 Rusty Staub?

[metirish]

Not EBAY but I read this in the Post today.....

] A Shop at Home Network "Sports Room," segment that appeared on Connecticut My9 affiliate, WCTX, Ch. 59, last week, sold 2006 Yankee team-autographed baseballs, as supplied by Steiner Collectibles, the contracted memorabilia company of both the Mets and Yanks. The balls were being sold for $2,000 apiece. And the studio salesman several times emphasized that that the autograph that made this ball special was not Derek Jeter's nor Mariano Rivera's, but Cory Lidle's.

In bad taste?

[stevejrogers]

="metirish"]Not EBAY but I read this in the Post today..... ] And the studio salesman several times emphasized that that the autograph that made this ball special was not Derek Jeter's nor Mariano Rivera's, but Cory Lidle's. In bad taste?

Special place in Hell for that salesman.

You really gotta wonder if a huckster like that has ANY scruples, or just an editing valuve that would say "Gee, maybe I shouldn't emphasize the fact that a player who JUST died signed this ball."

Big difference between say a Lidle Yankee ball and say a 1998 Randy Johnson Houston Astros team signed ball so don't even think of coming from that particular angle!

There is a time where maybe, MAYBE you can use a "one of the last team balls Player X was a part of before his untimely death" come-on (i.e. a 1972 Pirate ball featuring Clemente) but not in the same month that the guy dies!

[nymr83]

Lidle was no Clemente, heck he wasn't even Daryl Kyle... his autograph will never have near the value that it does this month again imo.

[stevejrogers]

Nymr83 wrote: Lidle was no Clemente, heck he wasn't even Daryl Kyle... his autograph will never have near the value that it does this month again imo.

Yup. I didn't mean to compare him to a future HOFer I was just going with the first name to pop in my head. Kyle is a more apt comparision, but even then you're right, the Lidle situation pales in comparision, but sadly is more apt for jerk-wads like this particular huckter to be shamless in his exploitaion. Probably because of his brief MFY-ness

[Guest cooby]

Price has dropped...

[Guest cooby]

never mind

[Guest KC]

For whatever reason I never opened this ebay bauble's thread even though
I'm very interested in old Mets' stuff. That yearbook card thing is kinda ugly
for my taste, but then again so were the 62 cards and that kid's knees.

[Guest patona314]

$2.98

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/6711/281za7.th.jpg

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

49.99. Wham!

http://cgi.ebay.com/CA-1960S-NEW-YORK-METS-SHEA-STADIUM-WAITRESS-UNIFORM_W0QQitemZ170054655651QQihZ007QQcategoryZ50133QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Guest Edgy DC]

I love that the first questioner wanted to know the size.

Putting things like that under glass is one thing. But putting them back into play is the way to go.

You can just hear him saying, "Baby, you may kill me when I show you what I bought for you this for Christmas, but let me explain..."

[Elster88]

Seriously though....who needs Victoria Secret stuff for your girl?

[stevejrogers]

Ummm, I guess if you are a fan of the OTHER Pedro on the Mets.

Was actually looking for a Feliciano as a Met card actually

Hey Jay from FAFIF, you have any luck? Or a Michael Tucker as a Met card yet?

And on a related topic, did Royce Ring or Heath Bell ever rate getting a Metly card?

[Elster88]

I got a ring tone of Gary calling a Piazza homer against the Braves. Not sure what game it is.

[seawolf17]

For what it's worth, Michael Tucker doesn't have his own card, but he is Metly on this 2006 Topps Update card:

[stevejrogers]

="seawolf17"]For what it's worth, Michael Tucker doesn't have his own card, but he is Metly on this 2006 Topps Update card:

Yeah I guess I COULD use it...

Though I'm hoping someone will pick up the ball from The Wiz and do the next chapters in the Mega Mets Card set from 1991!

If Tucker is a Met next year I'd imagine he'd get a card, ditto with Feliciano in the 2007 UD and Topps sets. And I'd imagine Royce Ring is now destined to be in the ranks of never being on a true Metly card (cards featuring him as a Tide or whatever do not count!

[nymr83]

Elster88 wrote: I got a ring tone of Gary calling a Piazza homer against the Braves. Not sure what game it is.

i have a bottle-opener that calls one against what i think is the Giants every time you use it (or press the button)

[stevejrogers]

Thought I'd spam here before actually making them Babules on Ebay:


Pretty decent collection of 26 loose Mets from the good old days of the late 80's to early 90's.
Wear and tear on the lettering portions of the older ones and
a couple just can't seem to stand on their own.
But in all very good shape.



Again all 8 are loose, but in better shape wear and tear wise, certaintly the quality of players are better in the former grouping
(Carter, Straw, Doc, Keith, HoJo, Cone, even Jefferies, Myers and Elster) but a decent grouping with Alfonzo, Alomar
(one of those new McFarlane figures, the rest are Kenner/Hasbro Starting Lineups), Ordonez, Ventura, Hundley, Izzy and Hampton

Selling each grouping seperate, about 50 cents a figure, so 4 bucks for the mid to late 90's guys and 13 for the 80's-90's lot.

PM me if you are interested

Thanks