Not sure if most of you know, I am completing the 1951 Bowman Set. Currently I have 176 of the 324 cards. My father started the set when he was a child and never really was a collector, these were sitting in his war chest until we found them in 1990 after he passed away. He had about 90 cards. Well...Whitey Ford had the unlucky position of being on top of the pile that was wrapped with a rubber band (probably for about 30 years.) One day when I have more time, I will scan the cards I have.
Ouch!
I must say, when I first started collecting, I had all of my 1986 Topps cards tediously organized by teams, wrapped in rubber bands and neatly aligned on a shelf I had cleared off in my closet.
I thought that was the best looking thing in the WORLD!!
Just think back on it now and chuckle, all I can really do.
Ouch! Wish it could have been a common like Ted Gray instead of a HOFer like Whitey, if it had to happen at all.
51 Bowman. I have #266 Harry Dorish ans #162 Larry Jansen. Need em?
ps- Thats a shame on the Whitey.
I guess thats a "No". Cant even give cards away anymore.
Yes, I am interested. Didnt see your post earlier.
yikes! too bad the Whitey was on top.
Too bad about Ford, at least he did not paste them into scrap books - have a 1956 partial set that way - I cry lookin at Mantle - knowin I'll never get it off to see the back.
I use the thick filler card board and other pack insert stuff to pad all my cards in boxes etc. None of my cards are in contact with anything but the next card - even that hasn't always been successful, some of the newer high gloss cards get 'sticky' over time - also any card with foil can end up on the back of the next card if u pack them too tight.
