When I was in San Antonio on vacation with the family, I met up with a guy on the way out of town, on our way home and picked up these beauties:
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We will forget the fact that on the way, I backed into a concrete wall. It’s ok – I was only going a few miles an hour, and besides, I didn’t buy the cardboard-mobile for her pristine looks! The back fender was disjointed, and I was bummed, but decided to take a knee to it, and it popped back in place. Now, she has a matching scar next to what my wife did to her a few years back.
Anyway, back to the cards …
I flipped them pretty quickly, which was kind of nice because it helped pay for a bit of the vacation! Plus, I don’t know why, but I always have some sort of satisfaction in having owned some of these cards before – I don’t always have to own these items myself to feel fulfilled. If only I can be that way about eating! You know – take a bite of cheesecake, then spit it out instead of swallowing.
Jordan Brown, a baseball player for the Marlins called me up and talked to me about the USA autographed baseball I had. He said he was interested in trading for it, and mentioned he was talking about it with his hitting coach … Tino Martinez! How cool is that? Martinez resigned today, apparently, due to some internal problems.
Anyway, I ended up selling it to someone else, but thought it was cool that I got to talk to a ball player for a while about it…who called me … AND who spoke to Tino Martinez about my ball.
With my family out of town this weekend, I found myself doing a lot of buying … and talking to my dogs, but that is neither here nor there.
I was trying to clean out my office a bit, and remembered a purchase from January’s card show that was overshadowed by meeting Jose Canseco. A 1986 Mother’s Cookies promo with Jose Canseco and Will Clark that was signed by Canseco!
It has just been sitting behind an always open closet door of mine, so I decided to get creative. A month or so back, I grabbed a framed movie poster of Mandy Moore that was autographed. I took it out, rolled it up, and put the Canseco item in its place. it was much smaller than the poster, so what I did was I ended up pulling a few Mother’s Cookies cards from my collection, and put them in at the top! These cards were obtained by me as a child by trading with neighborhood friends, a kid from my little league team and opening Mother’s Cookies boxes with my dad. With all that said, here it is!
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This may just be Canseco’s biggest rookie card ever! The cards I put in there will serve as a reminder of how fun it was collecting cards as a child. My Canseco collection are the only cards I have left from my childhood. Nothing else is off limits when it comes to selling!
So, back to my buying spree. Here are a few other items I bought this weekend!
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Autographs of HOF’ers Lefty Gomez, Steve Carlton, Don Sutton, Lefty Gomez and Billy Herman. The Herman has an AWESOME inscription. I’ve never seen one like it! |
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Yogi Berra Autographed Baseball |
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Jim Palmer – An inscription that I think has something to do with his alma mater. |
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Don Drysdale! |
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Sandy Koufax!!! |
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Pee Wee Reese |
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1996 Orioles team signed baseball with Cal Ripken Jr. |
I was most excited about the Drysdale / Koufax autographed baseballs. Truly iconic and dominant pitchers for the Brooklyn / LA Dodgers.
I also picked up nearly 10,000 cards which are mostly 2013’s. This is a bit of a gamble here, because I don’t know too much of what is in them.
I am still waiting for my autographs and cards to come in. I can’t wait! I may possibly check out someone’s 75,000 card collection this evening or week. Apparently it is supposed to be all stars, rookies, inserts, etc. So we’ll see what happens.
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