Got cards in the mail from a few different sources today, helping it shape up into a pretty nice Friday afternoon. Let's whip up a quick post out of 'em.
As mentioned a couple weeks ago in the Tony Clark post, I'm working on a set of 1998 Bowman refractor reprints. Here we see a couple young sluggers from 1990 Bowman, secured from different ebay sellers coincidentally showing up at the same time.
Here's the rest of the TCDb trade. I reached out to user ejholmes76 because I was after the '72 Traded Cardenal he had available, and our trade matching shook out nicely to a PWE swap of cards changing hands, to which he agreed, and that also netted me a '64 need (108 cards left, 81.66% complete on 1964 Topps). The '75s I already had in my set (surprisingly still down to only needing only a Reds team card [Sparky Anderson] but out of spite I haven't bought one yet, choosing to hold my breath until I get one by sheer luck), but I needed this pair of '75 dupes for PCs. (Thanks for the trade, Eric, if you're reading.)
And finally, here's the rest of the Greg Morris spoils: a double blast of Hoyt! I realized the other day that I should make a point of completing his Topps run. Well, the '52 Topps high number rookie card is unlikely to ever grace my collection in non-reprint form, but otherwise this goal is within reach, especially after landing this '62 Topps. Now really just need 1958 Topps and 1960 Topps (An extra '72 Topps for the PC would be nice, but it's a dang high number, so I might be content to "share" with the setbuild because who cares at the end of the day as long as I got one in the greater collectionscape.)
Oh, and the other card is my first 1953 Red Man. Looks good! I don't normally go after oversized pieces such as this, but ya gotta stretch outside your comfort zone for your top PC guys sometimes. And hey, does anyone have a running list of baseball cards where they put eyeliner on the player? You can put this one on it along with Dave Winfield's 1980 Topps plus several of the 3-player prospects at the end of 1979 Topps. Seriously, have you taken a close look at them? It's kinda weird, right? But yeah, whatever. Neat card and nice addition to the Wilhelm PC.
Enjoy the weekend, all!
a. Just read Crocodile's post where he showed off 10 72 high #'s. One of them was the Joe Morgan... which is such a cool card. Best of luck with your set build.
ReplyDeleteb. I only have a handful of them, but I'm a huge fan of the 50's Red Man cards. Love the illustrations.
c. Never noticed the eyeliner thing... until you pointed it out today. Not sure I'll be able to unsee it whenever I see the 80T Winfield again.
Nice vintage-ish post!
ReplyDeleteI don’t remember when the National was in St. Louis, 1994? Whatever year it was I was mainly picking up cards for my 1973 Topps set. I do remember coming across a table that had almost all of the ‘72 Traded cards. I picked up a few and in retrospect, wish I had gotten all of them.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your “race” with Crocodile.
I hate that Bowman set and I hate reprints, but I really refractor reprints of junk wax. I guess it's because it's a modern spin on ugly cards, and they are different enough from the original to feel like new cards.
ReplyDeleteThe race is on!
ReplyDeleteI might have a 75 Reds team card for you but it might be marked, I'll have to check.