Just a couple of highlights from this weekend's Card Show at Valley Forge.
1951 Bowman Eddie Waitkus
Card collecting wasn't dead at the Valley Forge convention center this weekend. It was very alive - or at least Autograph Chasing was. Much of the large crowd was likely due to Brian Dawkins being at the show, but I would like to think that while there some of the patrons took a look at some cards and other memorabilia
For a year or two I sponsered Eddie Waitkus' Baseball-Ref page. He is better known as the subject the story Malumud's "the Natural" was based.
1961 Topps MVP Ernie Banks
Slowly working on putting together the 1961 MVP Subber. The above Banks card was an upgrade $7.
1962 Topps LL Ws Whitey Ford, Frank Larry, Steve Barber, Jim Bunning
I picked up a LOT of HoF League Leader Cards. This is thee earliest of the bunch. All went for $1 or $2, I think this was from the Dueces.
1967 Topps
1967 Topps Duos Twin Terrors Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew
Our research into the 2016 Heritage/1967 Topps led us into a couple of purchases of the original cards. Mostly Hall of Famers and Subset cards like the Special of the Killer above.
1967 Topps #103 Checker Mickey Mantle
The 1967T bounty included this Checker for $2. Little steep for a Checklist except this one features a floating head of MICKEY MANTLE - and it is UNCHECKED.
1954 Topps Johnny Podres
I have been working on 1954T at the last couple of shows. Checked about a half dozen commons on Saturday, plus this semi-star. Podres went for $5. I also picked up a more significant 1954 Card of one of a fellow Dodger teammates, which I am teasing here for a future post.
1971 Topps Johnny Briggs, Rick Wise, Jim Lonborg, Dick Drago
There was a dealer that had 1971 Topps for a dime a pop. I picked up 40 of them. The selection was solid and included HI NUMBERS, Dick Drago in the bottom right is card #752 which is the last card in the set.
1956 Topps Mickey Vernon
Local Hero and Gentleman Mickey Vernon. Just one of the many pickups I made while thumbing through cheap bins $2.
1976 OPC #500 Reggie Jackson
This is for an upcoming Phungo Pheature $2.
2015 Topps JJ Hardy
I spent a record almost no time in dime bins for current cards, We will return to this card at a future post.
1974 Topps Washington Padres
2 Bucks for a team card of club that never existed.
Card collecting wasn't dead at the Valley Forge convention center this weekend. It was very alive - or at least Autograph Chasing was. Much of the large crowd was likely due to Brian Dawkins being at the show, but I would like to think that while there some of the patrons took a look at some cards and other memorabilia
For a year or two I sponsered Eddie Waitkus' Baseball-Ref page. He is better known as the subject the story Malumud's "the Natural" was based.
Slowly working on putting together the 1961 MVP Subber. The above Banks card was an upgrade $7.
I picked up a LOT of HoF League Leader Cards. This is thee earliest of the bunch. All went for $1 or $2, I think this was from the Dueces.
1967 Topps
Our research into the 2016 Heritage/1967 Topps led us into a couple of purchases of the original cards. Mostly Hall of Famers and Subset cards like the Special of the Killer above.
The 1967T bounty included this Checker for $2. Little steep for a Checklist except this one features a floating head of MICKEY MANTLE - and it is UNCHECKED.
I have been working on 1954T at the last couple of shows. Checked about a half dozen commons on Saturday, plus this semi-star. Podres went for $5. I also picked up a more significant 1954 Card of one of a fellow Dodger teammates, which I am teasing here for a future post.
There was a dealer that had 1971 Topps for a dime a pop. I picked up 40 of them. The selection was solid and included HI NUMBERS, Dick Drago in the bottom right is card #752 which is the last card in the set.
Local Hero and Gentleman Mickey Vernon. Just one of the many pickups I made while thumbing through cheap bins $2.
This is for an upcoming Phungo Pheature $2.
I spent a record almost no time in dime bins for current cards, We will return to this card at a future post.
2 Bucks for a team card of club that never existed.
Nice cards! I don't think I've ever sen the 1974 Washington team card.
ReplyDeleteRe the 1967 checklist: See where #138 is Dick Kelley? The 3rd series checklist has 2 versions. #214 is either listed correctly as Tom Kelley, or incorrectly as Dick Kelley.
I really need to upgrade my '71 Dick Drago before his turn comes up on the '71 Topps blog.
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ReplyDeleteNice pickups. Love the vintage!
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