Great cards, better story. Beautiful artwork - looking at a moment in time. Very nice!!
Great looking collection. I look forward to following this thread and seeing all your great cards. I am fairly similar to you, I have been collecting for the past 41 years however my main collection is hockey cards. I do dabble in baseball and basketball, I love vintage and oddball minor league and food issued cards.
Nobody even commented about that '53 Mantle?!?!?! Jeez, people, are you awake!
Unbelievably awesome card Mark! Did you pick that up for $10, too? Sheesh!
Is it's condition as amazing as it looks?
(02-05-2020, 09:39 AM)DrMitchJ Wrote: [ -> ]Nobody even commented about that '53 Mantle?!?!?! Jeez, people, are you awake!
Unbelievably awesome card Mark! Did you pick that up for $10, too? Sheesh!
Is it's condition as amazing as it looks?
No, it's not as nice as it looks. It's probably VG due to a couple of creases that are not visible in this scan.
I never thought of collecting pocket schedules and then one day at a convenience store I saw a stack of them by the register and thought, "Man, that looks a lot like a baseball card. It's the same size, it's picturing a great player, it's not a design I've seen before and it's FREE!" I now have thousands of them in my collection. My favorites are the ones that depict the players that I collect. Worthless? Maybe. Cool? Oh yeah! Here are nine from my collection.
1990 Seattle Mariners Season Schedule Ken Griffey Jr. (The Mariners second year with Griffey on the roster. Touting themselves as The "New" Seattle Mariners.)
1992 Texas Rangers Season Schedule Nolan Ryan
1994 Atlanta Braves Season Schedule Greg Maddux
1995 Boston Red Sox Season Schedule Jose Canseco (Jose's debut season with the Red Sox. We Sox fans couldn't wait for him to take aim at that Green Monster.)
1997 Los Angeles Dodgers Season Schedule Mike Piazza (I have three different variations of this one. One features a beer company on the back, another features a bank and a third features a TV station. I love the comic book artwork that makes him look like a Superhero.)
2003 Atlanta Braves Spring Training Schedule Chipper Jones (This one is just for Spring Training 2003.)
2007 Seattle Mariners Season Schedule Ichiro Suzuki (I have one of these in English but this one is all in Japanese.)
2012 New York Yankees Season Schedule Derek Jeter (Classy of New York to commemorate a classy player's milestone hit.)
2013 Los Angeles Dodgers Season Schedule Clayton Kershaw (I also have an English version of this one. This is all in Spanish.)
What an awesome niche in this hobby, totally awesome! I collect minor league ticket stubs so I get the interest, not nearly as cool as these though!
I have a few pocket schedules as well and think they are a underrated collectable. They not only have a great picture on their fronts, but also have quite a bit of info folded inside. Mine are mostly local for the Rays and Spring Training teams, however whenever I travel and see any at a gas station or store I always grab 1 or 2.