Baseball Card Thread, Relaunched

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'd hate to see what they have posted at unfunny.com

[Benjamin Grimm]

You can see for yourself: http://www.unfunny.com/

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'd hate to.

[stevejrogers]

Two Wagners, uh thats Billy, not Honus


The one on the left is Wagner's regular issue #109, the second can be found in the Mets factory set of 14 (numbered NYM9) It's highly possible Topps just wanted to replace all horozontial cards in those factory packs since every other card is exactly the same as the regular issue, well save for being numbered NYM1-NYM14.

The guess probably comes from the fact that the "infamous" Jeter card is not in the Yankee factory set

[stevejrogers]

Oh, In case you were wondering, here is the listing of who is in that Met factory set, which can be found at Shea, hobby stores and other places where cards are sold, great for a starter set:

Wright
Reyes
Beltran
Valentin
Green
Hernandez
Martinez
Milledge
Wagner
Lo Duca
Alou
Delgado
Glavine
Humber (RC)

[seawolf17]

Not a fan of what we on the baseball card boards call "band-aid" or "sticker" autographs, but at least Endy's got his own card. Selling for decent dollars on eBay, which is too bad, because it would be nice to own. I got outbid on an autographed 8x10 photo of "The Catch" at a silent auction a few weeks back. I'm such a cheap bastard.

[stevejrogers]

The Catch shows up nice on Endy's Upper Deck card, #381

Well it does on the actual card!

Well Upper Deck doesn't want photo stealing, but ebay doesn't mind

[DocTee]

Zvon's montage is better. By far.

[Benjamin Grimm]

[seawolf17]

Well, I bit the bullet and I have one of those autographed Endys coming my way. It'll be a neat piece to add to my collection.

Speaking of collecting, I've just been selected to join the mod team over at The Bench, so if you're a card collector and would love to talk about it, there's a very large, active, and open trading community just waiting for you! Make sure you list me as a reference!

[seawolf17]

Hey! I'm surprised that nobody's jumped on the chance to own a piece of game-used bat from a guy who's 0-for-6 in his career! (Yeah, he has two career RBI, but they came as groundouts against Braden Looper and some guy named Jose Cabrera, so they don't count.)

[G-Fafif]

Collecting 1972 Topps...in real time.

(Forgive the two self-links in one day.)

[seawolf17]

Finally, Topps has answered the call of Mets fans everywhere and produced a Rick Peterson card.

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The Peterson -- and the other coaches (there's a Jerry Manuel too) are included in a new 55-card box set (available for $19.99 at your local baseball card shop). Not a bad idea; I do wish we had a better season to commemorate, but whatever.

Picked this baby up a few weeks ago for fifteen bucks:



There's something so wrong about a Tom Seaver Red Sox autograph, but hey, for fifteen bucks, I have a Seaver auto in my collection. Picked this one up for less than five bucks also:



Not that you need to have a Brian Cole auto, but he is dead and all, so it's an interesting historical footnote. Besides, didn't the Mets name some sort of minor league award after him?

[seawolf17]

Work on my autograph collection, part one, is nearly complete:



Row 1: Kevin McReynolds, Jim Rice, Pete Harnisch, Tom Seaver, Bud Harrelson, Sid Fernandez, Frank Catalanotto
Row 2: Jim Bouton, Ryan Freel, Nick Capra, Ed Kranepool, Whitey Herzog, Howard Johnson, Rusty Staub (signed "Le Grande Orange" Rusty Staub)
Row 3: Dave Righetti, Duke Snider, Endy Chavez, Joe Nathan, Gary Carter, Bobby Jones, Bruce Sutter
Row 4: Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Juan Encarnacion

Kind of a motley collection. Some are superstars (Seaver, Snider), some are personal favorites (Mac, Mex, Kid, El Sid), some are guys with whom I share a birthday (Freel, Encarnacion, Bouton, Capra), some are hometown guys (Harnisch, Catalanotto). Some in person, some certified card company autos. Still looking for a Wright to plug in there, and I'll probably replace the Bobby Jones with someone better eventually.

Already working on frame #2.

[seawolf17]

A lovely baseball-card related holiday gift for the card lover on your list: the "Rated Rookie" shirt. Love it.

[seawolf17]

Anyone have any idea who this is?

[Guest Edgy DC]

This may seem goofy, but I think it's a pre-moustache Craig Swan.

[seawolf17]

Swan was actually my guess too, but he was a nobody in 1975. (Or was he a top prospect?)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think its an actor. It's not Shea he's pitching in yet he's wearing a home uni.

[DocTee]

Fifteen cents per pack and mouth slicing gum to boot-- thems were the days.

[metsmarathon]

A lovely baseball-card related holiday gift for the card lover on your list: the "Rated Rookie" shirt. Love it.

[seawolf17]

A lovely baseball-card related holiday gift for the card lover on your list: the "Rated Rookie" shirt. Love it.

[Methead]

"the "Rated Rookie" shirt"

That. Is. Awesome.

[DocTee]

The Jewboys logo is classick. Love the Strawberry tee, too. Amazin' Mess, not so much.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

$32. Dude.

[seawolf17]

Yeah, for a T-shirt. Not happening.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The 'bucket family had the misfortune to run into a guy Mrs. Bucket knew from the local new-parents group last weekend.

He'd launched his own baby-clothing line and as a good-neighbor gesture, I picked one out while they got reacquainted. Twenty fucking eight dollars. Happy holidays you f-ing crook.

[seawolf17]

I'm going to throw this out there, since I haven't tried it here. I spend a good amount of time on a baseball card trading site, but I've tapped most folks there dry. Any chance anyone around these parts has some extra old Mets cards laying around that they don't know what to do with? I'm putting together a Mets collection for MiniWolf, and I'm done with everything from 1962-1979, except these:

1962 Topps
29 Casey Stengel
572 Bob G Miller

1963 Topps
292 Pumpsie Green
316 Norm Sherry
393 Ken MacKenzie
419 Tracy Stallard
469 Jay Hook
495 Frank Thomas
511 Charlie Neal
528 Carl Willey
550 Duke Snider
566 Cliff Cook

1964 Topps
527 Larry Bearnarth
536 Elliot/Stephenson
556 Dillon/Locke
582 Rod Kanehl

1966 Topps
385 Ken Boyer
402 Jim Hickman
421 Roy McMillan
464 Larry Bearnarth
480 Dick Stuart
534 Eilers/Gardner
561 Choo Choo Coleman
574 Hepler/Murphy
589 Lou Klimchock

1967 Topps
470 Bob Shaw
522 John Stephenson
533 Jack Fisher
537 Chuck Estrada
555 Don Cardwell
561 Sandy Alomar
568 John Sullivan
574 Jerry Buchek
593 Wes Westrum
606 Ron Taylor

1968 Topps
45 Tom Seaver
486 Cal Koonce
503 Al Jackson
536 Bill Short

1970 Topps
575 Cleon Jones
712 Nolan Ryan

1971 Topps
513 Nolan Ryan
596 Mike Jorgensen
725 Gary Gentry

1972 Topps
445 Tom Seaver
655 Jerry Grote
673 Dave Marshall
707 Tim Foli
722 Bill Sudakis
755 Jim Fregosi
781 Jim McAndrew

I'm not looking for anything in mint condition -- really, anything but, as I'm looking to do this on the cheap -- but I'd be interested in whatever anyone might have.

[bmfc1]

To those in the know, what is this card? Thanks.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l165/poozer14/86%20Mets%20PC%20NFT/10273.jpg

[Guest AG/DC]

Looks like fabric swatches.