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This thread has surpassed 10,000 views! Thanks to everyone who has been checking out my collection thus far as I continue to celebrate my 50th year of baseball card collecting by scanning and showing off my favorite players to collect and other oddball items from my collection. It's been fun selecting cards to scan and reliving my collecting experiences along the way. I appreciate all the posts.

Jim Bunning's MLB career spanned from the mid-1950s through the early 1970s. He was a seven-time All-star who led his league in victories once and strikeouts three times and is one of only five MLB pitchers to throw a no-hitter in each league. At the time of his retirement in 1971, he was second on the all-time strikeout list just 145 short of 3,000. Bunning was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1996. After his baseball career, Jim went on to become a successful politician representing Kentucky in both chambers of the United States Congress and to this day is the only MLB player to have been elected to both the U.S. Senate and the National Baseball Hall of Fame. I currently have 87 unique Beckett recognized cards of Mr. Bunning including these nine.

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1957 Topps #338 Jim Bunning RC (Jim's rookie.)
1958 Topps #115 Jim Bunning
1959 Topps #149 Jim Bunning

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1960 Topps #502 Jim Bunning
1961 Topps #490 Jim Bunning
1964 Topps #265 Jim Bunning

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1965 Topps #20 Jim Bunning
1966 Topps #435 Jim Bunning
2005 Absolute Memorabilia Autograph Spectrum Silver #135 Jim Bunning/150