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07-03-2021, 09:33 PM
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It's the 4th of July! Happy Independence Day! For the holiday I've scanned in nine of my cards that feature "Old Glory".
1990 Pacific Cards #NNO Ken Griffey Jr. (This unlicensed card sports Junior in front of the red, white and blue stars and bars.)
1991 Fleer Pro-Visions #4 Mark McGwire UER (I was a huge fan of Fleer's Pro-Visions cards when they came out. Next level for their time.)
1995 Topps Cyber Season in Review #1 Barry Bonds (This Bonds card came as a bonus in my 1995 Topps Factory set. I have three sets of these and each card has a different configuration of the background stripes. One of my other Bonds cards only has one red stripe above the top blue stripe and the other Bonds card has three blue stripes.)
2002 Fleer Maximum Americas Game Jersey #13 Greg Maddux (This card has a swatch of Greg's road jersey embedded in it.)
2002 Studio Spirit of the Game #6 Mike Piazza
2003 Stadium Club Born in the USA Relics #NG Nomar Garciaparra Bat (This card features a chip from Nomar's bat.)
2003 Upper Deck 40-Man Red White and Blue #327 Derek Jeter (A Mets trader from New York threw this card in as an extra in a trade I made with him many years ago.)
2005 National Pastime Grand Old Gamers #14 Albert Pujols (These Grand Old Gamers inserts are one of my favorites from that year.)
2012 Bowman International #163 Buster Posey
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07-04-2021, 09:19 AM
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Happy 4th of July! Thanks for showing the patriotic cards. That Pujols is really nice looking card. I always liked the Bowman Internationals with the American flags also.
Collecting 2010 Bowman, 80s oddball rookies, and '89 Griffeys.
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07-06-2021, 07:18 AM
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07-10-2021, 03:23 PM
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07-12-2021, 07:10 AM
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We're headed to the toy store today for an oddball selection of cards.
1988 Kay-Bee #25 Cal Ripken (This is from a 33-card boxed set produced by Topps exclusively for Kay-Bee Toy Stores.)
1989 Toys'R'Us Rookies #28 Gary Sheffield (Here's Gary Sheffield before he had the gold caps on his front teeth removed. This set was also produced by Topps and was released as a 33-card boxed set through Toys 'R' Us Stores.)
1989 STC Box Cut #NNO Don Mattingly (This card was never meant to be a card. I had arrived at my weightlifting partner's house to lift and as I walked through his garage, I saw a box on top of his trash can with this picture of Don Mattingly on it. It was a box for a whiffle ball set produced by a Japanese company called STC Toys. It is the size of a standard baseball card and is made of soft plastic with a blank cardboard back. I figured I probably would have the only one of these but I have since seen one on eBay.)
1998 Protalk Talking Cards #5 Ken Griffey Jr./Grand slam homer (This card contains a small battery so that when you press the button, you can hear about 45 seconds of actual highlights being played.)
1998 Topps Etch-A-Sketch #ES2 Barry Bonds (I was pretty good with the Etch-A-Sketch as a kid. I could make some cool landscapes and the like until my younger brother would come along and slap it out of my hand and send it skidding across the floor. This insert set featured actual drawings by artist George Vlosich III done on his Etch-A-Sketch.)
1999 Fleer Tradition All-Star Kite Card #3 Ken Griffey Jr. (Unrecognized by Beckett, this card looks identical to the 1999 Fleer Tradition Ken Griffey Jr. card with the only notable difference being that it is numbered 3 of 6. Thanks to magicpapa for his help in identifying this card as being one that came with an All-Star kite.)
1999 Hasbro Starting Lineup Cards #10 Nomar Garciaparra (Famous toymaker, Hasbro issued this card with one of their Starting Lineup dolls back 1999.)
2000 Fanatics Talking Baseball #25 Mark McGwire (Like the Protalk Talking cards, this card also contains a battery and plays an audio highlight from McGwire's 500th home run. This card was distributed by Fanatics Toys and came with a stand-up of Big Mac that stands about a foot tall.)
2001 Donruss Class of 2001 BobbleHead Cards #15 Roger Clemens (Serial numbered to 2000, this card was included with a bobblehead doll produced by Donruss.)
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07-12-2021, 10:43 AM
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Nice!!!! Thank You!
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07-14-2021, 07:14 AM
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Well I'm running out of years but I guess that's true of all of us. Moving up to 2019 today and what a life-altering year it turned out to be for me. I started the year on crutches with a swollen knee and after a complete physical in January I was told those three words no one ever wants to hear. "You have cancer." I had a biopsy on Valentines Day that confirmed it and on my birthday in June, I had surgery to remove it. After four and a half weeks of recovery, I went back to work. During a follow-up appointment that fall, I learned that the cancer had spread further than they had thought and they weren't able to remove it all so they scheduled me for radiation treatments the following spring. To all of you men reading this, I implore you to get a PSA test done with your physical. Early detection is key. Here are nine cards from my collection from 2019. I think it's rather sad that five of these nine cards do not have Beckett values listed in the OPG.
2019 Diamond Kings Masters of the Game Masterpiece #7 Francisco Lindor (Back in post #380 of this thread, I showed you my 1/1 Pujols card and mentioned it was the only 1/1 card I ever pulled. I completely forgot about this one. Pujols was the first 1/1 I ever pulled and this was the last one to date. I don't collect Lindor so if anyone wants this and has something comparable to trade, let me know and I'll mark this for trade.
2019 Panini Ascension Blue #3 Fernando Tatis Jr. (No logos on this card but you wouldn't be able to tell anyway from this pose. Is this not a beautiful looking card?)
2019 Stadium Club Members Only #132 Rickey Henderson (Two Hall of Famers on this card. I have no idea what it's worth.)
2019 Stadium Club Photo Variations #38 Ryne Sandberg/Batting
2019 Topps #410 Fernando Tatis Jr. RC
2019 Topps 150 Years of Professional Baseball Red #150110 Albert Pujols (I love it when I find something like this in a 10 for $1 box at a card show which is where I picked this up. It's serial numbered 2/10.)
2019 Topps Allen and Ginter Rip Cards Mini #380 Mark McGwire (Another pickup from duck6700j.)
2019 Topps Base Set Photo Variations #410 Fernando Tatis Jr./White jersey RETAIL (One of six rookie variations included as a bonus in my factory set. The others were Alonso, 2 different Guerrero Jr., Jimenez and Kikuchi.)
2019 Topps Factory Set Greatest Chrome Reprints Orange Refractors #TGCR12 Stan Musial (I got five different refractors as a bonus in my factory set. This is the only one that was orange. It's numbered 17/25.)
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