Baseball Cards

[Tenacious D]

Started this at the old place.  Feel free to share your prized possessions or favorite cards. 

[Tenacious D]

I collect autograph cards, much to my wife’s chagrin.  Here are a few:

 

 

Edited January 6, 2022 by Tenacious D

[Biff Mayhem]

I have two George Brett rookie cards....mini and full size. The mini one was generously gifted to me by a person on this site 20 years ago who went by the name "Buck". I have hundreds of GB cards but those two are my favorite along with the Bird rookie card.

[Dan Gilmore]

Do any of the cards have pine tar on them? Asking for my friend, Billy.

[Biff Mayhem]

4 minutes ago, Dan Gilmore said:

Do any of the cards have pine tar on them? Asking for my friend, Billy.

To my knowledge, no, however when you collect the whole set you get a free hemorrhoid donut.

[casimir]

3 hours ago, Biff Mayhem said:

To my knowledge, no, however when you collect the whole set you get a free hemorrhoid donut.

One of the few things worse than the gum that was in a pack of cards.

[Jim Cowan]

1 minute ago, casimir said:

One of the few things worse than the gum that was in a pack of cards.

I love that gum!  So hard it would cut the inside of your mouth.

[casimir]

5 minutes ago, Jim Cowan said:

I love that gum!  So hard it would cut the inside of your mouth.

Big League Chew was the stuff.  But that was out of our price range, so we got stuck with Bubbalicious or something like that.

[RaceDog]

The Hall Of Famers

[RaceDog]

Hall Of Fame Autograph

[RaceDog]

Future Hall Of Fame Autograph

 

[RaceDog]

2 in, 1 to go

 

[RaceDog]

His day is coming.

 

[RaceDog]

Forgot this one

 

[Tenacious D]

More (all autographed)

 

[Jim Cowan]

There's southpaw Mark Fidrych

[alex]

12 hours ago, RaceDog said:

Hall Of Fame Autograph

To boot this card was of the last series of Topps 1970 (7th) when there were less prints. I remember kids would collect cards all year, ex series 1-5 or 6 as they came out respectively, then the last series  came out always much later, ex August/Sept and NOT dispersed nearly as much and so many kids/collectors would get upset. Then you had to find these lesser printed cards to complete a set somehow (maybe go to a card show) only to pay $1 even for a common player because of the scarcity!

[Tigeraholic1]

There is a great facebook group "Detroit Tigers Collectors Cards and memorabilia". People buy sell and trade, alot of cool stuff and fans.

[Tenacious D]

A few more Tiger autographed cards…

[Jim Cowan]

I had an aunt who would have happily killed someone to get that Rocky Colavito card.  He was the major heartthrob of the 1950s for female fans.

[Tenacious D]

52 minutes ago, Jim Cowan said:

I had an aunt who would have happily killed someone to get that Rocky Colavito card.  He was the major heartthrob of the 1950s for female fans.

Please don’t share my address with your aunt.

[Tenacious D]

The closers…

[davidsb623]

On 1/7/2022 at 8:16 AM, alex said:

To boot this card was of the last series of Topps 1970 (7th) when there were less prints. I remember kids would collect cards all year, ex series 1-5 or 6 as they came out respectively, then the last series  came out always much later, ex August/Sept and NOT dispersed nearly as much and so many kids/collectors would get upset. Then you had to find these lesser printed cards to complete a set somehow (maybe go to a card show) only to pay $1 even for a common player because of the scarcity!

The reason there were less of the last series or two is because no one hardly bought them.  By that time of the year, it had turned to football season and all the kids were buying football cards instead of baseball cards.  

[Biff Mayhem]

On 1/8/2022 at 2:53 PM, Tenacious D said:

The closers…

Kent Tekulve. The human scarecrow.

[Jim Cowan]

49 minutes ago, Biff Mayhem said:

Kent Tekulve. The human scarecrow.

Even his name sounded like some sort of insect.