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Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 23 2009, 03:10 PM

OK so here is where I will put some of my Fave cards from my vast never ending collection. First off in my TCC BLOG I usually mention the latest cards I have gotten from Group Breaks, Ebay, Trades etc. I also try to mention those cards in the Mail Day board. I have some of my cards in My TCC Gallery but not very many and I don't think there is much traffic there. I think SHOW & TELL is the highest traffic area to show off part of my Collection.

I'm a life-long fan of both the WASHINGTON REDSKINS and the LOS ANGELES/ST. LOUIS RAMS. Why the REDSKINS? Easy I was born and raised in the WASHINGTON DC area, they are my Homie Team. Why The RAMS? Well it maybe because I was born under the astrological sign of the ram. Anyway that is my story and I'm sticking with it. So Thus is why I am a RAMSKINS Fan.

I've been collecting cards for most of my life, During my 20s-30s it was mostly off and on, so I have some gaps during the 80s-90s overproduced years. I think that was what turned me away from the hobby for a little while. Over the years my trading tastes have changed, I used to do the typical try to get the whole set, but with full sets being 100s of cards, plus a 100 or so inserts, you need to have access to more money than I have. My Signature has my want lists (I'm not sure how current they are, I need to update them I think) and main areas of interest.

My main interests (in case you want to trade, sell or give me something) are:

Current and Vintage (especially 60s & 70s), heck almost all years.

NFL: Rams (L.A. & St. Louis), Redskins, HOFers (Mostly 1970s and back)

MLB: Nationals (Thus Expos, heck I was into them in the early 70s because of the Red/White/Blue Logo), Senators, Orioles, some Mets and Rockies, - Vintage Teams: Senators, Pilots, 45's

NHL: Capitals mostly with some HOFers.

NBA: Not much into it but Bullets/Wizards is about it. If I can score some good MJ in Wizards or vintage Bullets Unis then great.

I DON'T collect Letterman cards, and I'm going to phase out my GU eventually, it's mostly the concept of the things. That doesn't mean I won't admire the things. I collect Rookie cars, but I try to stay away from Sage and the College Only Products. I have some college cards, some of which I will keep of players I like, but I'm not going out of my way for them.

Anyway one of my absolute fave cards I've had since way back when. I think it must have originally belonged to one of my Brothers when we were kids. It is one of my faves because it is my Birth year 1965:

Another fave is:


Around 1973-1974 there were rumors the San Diego Padres were going to move to Washington DC to fill the gap that the Senators who skipped off to Texas to become the Rangers had left behind. Well we all know it took 33some years for Baseball to return to DC. So Topps produced about 15 cards marked with Washington NAT'L League using the Padres colors and regular photos. The only difference in the cards are the Team name, the card numbers on the backs are the same as the regular issue. The full set of both "Teams" is difficult to do, but not impossible. Somewhere I've got some dupes of a few of them since I had tried to build the team sets one-by-one but then when I reconnected with my local card shop one of the owners built a set for me. Next stop is to finally get the entire 1974 Topps Baseball set together. I used to be into the 1975 set back in the day, but now I'm not.

NOTE: This first post is subject to updates. I hope you enjoy viewing this thread and occasionally track it.

Posted by: road_runner_1964 Jan 23 2009, 03:14 PM

Let me be the first to say.... and thanks for sharing, keep 'em coming...

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 23 2009, 03:32 PM

Ah Inserts. Some of my fave inserts are the Vintage inserts from the 1960s - 1970s. The Topps coins, the mini posters, the 4in1 mini booklets, the card games.

1968 TOPPS BASEBALL GAME INSERTS

In 1968 Topps put out a card game as inserts to the regular set. Each card has a star player, many of whom are now Hall Of Famers on the front with the result of an at bat.

NOTE: I may edit this post later to add some more Baseball here, I thought I had a scan of my Frank Robinson Game insert card, I guess I haven't yet.

NOW ONTO FOOTBALL:

As long as I can remember I've been a fan of both the Rams (I guess because I was born under the sign of Aries) and the Redskins (My Homie team).

1971 TOPPS FOOTBALL GAME INSERTS

One of my fave Insert sets is the 1971 Topps Football Card Game Inserts with the Mini Posters, the backs of which have the field for playing the game. Similar in theory to the 1968 Topps Baseball Card Game Inserts each card in this set has the end result of a play. I never played either game because I never had enough of either type of card, in fact I don't think I had more than one or two of those cards when I was little. I don't know what happened to them if I did. I am trying to build both sets, and also the Football Mini Poster Set.



1971 TOOPS FOOTBALL MINI POSTER INSERTS
Here are a couple of the mini posters, of my 2 All-Time Fave QBs, Sonny Jurgensen - Redskins (Originally with Eagles) and Roman Gabriel - Rams (Ended career with Eagles). Oddly enough I'm not an Eagles fan.


Here is probably the rarest card from the batch, but with the internet, it isn't difficult to track down.

Posted by: IronMonkey Jan 23 2009, 03:56 PM

Wow these are incredible. That Joe Namath card is pretty cool.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 23 2009, 04:14 PM

Thanks Guys,

Road Runner,
I will certainly try to keep them coming. That was partly why I started this thread, that and to get some more exposure for my PC. I'll keep a lookout for #d 264s, but I really haven't been thinking about that lately.

IronMonkey
Thanks. I'm trying to concentrate on finishing out these sets, the mini-posters maybe difficult. The Namath Card I think I got from Ebay. I missed out on a Roman Gabriel card just a few days ago, I was watching it and let it go because my Paypal was getting low, even though the opening bid was only $0.99 D'OH!

Posted by: road_runner_1964 Jan 23 2009, 04:17 PM

WoW...those mini posters are pretty unique...very nice stuff...

Not thinking 'bout my 264s???? Whats wrong with you....

Don't worry, I have been thinking for the both of us...

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 23 2009, 04:21 PM

Time for some fun.

MASCOT CARDS
I'm still looking for some of these guys, LMK what you got. Once someone told me they had the set from 2007 Topps but I didn't have anything they needed to trade, so like many other sets, I might have to buy them.

2007 TOPPS BASEBALL:

Posted by: Merv3278 Jan 23 2009, 04:29 PM

Cool stuff. We dont see enough vintage stuff around here. Keep them coming.

Posted by: ronaldinho0003 Jan 23 2009, 07:38 PM

Nice stuff, do you collect more recent things as well as vintage or no?

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 24 2009, 12:17 AM

Trent,

Yes I do collect more recent things:
[From the Original Post: (emphasis added) "My main interests (in case you want to trade, sell or give me something) are:

Current and Vintage (especially 60s & 70s), heck almost all years."]

Thanks for looking. I'll get more stuff up eventually, even newer things. I should do it in a sort of organized way, but it might not end up that way.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 24 2009, 08:41 AM

Here is the rest of the 1968 TOPPS BASEBALL GAME INSTERT CARDS that I have scanned from my PC. I have a few more from the set but haven't scanned them in. UGH! I really really need to organize all my junk, my move from last August has really messed up my already disorganized collection.

Posted by: RGBII Jan 24 2009, 08:44 AM

Nice collection, I love the eclectic stuff.

I actually remember pulling a couple of the Roman Gabriel
posters. Lord, I'm gettin' old (I guess it beats the alternative).

I wish you continued success on the collection.

Collect Hard!,
RGBII

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 24 2009, 08:53 AM

Thanks Richard,

I remember as a kid we had a ton of the 1971 Coin inserts.

A few years ago I scrounged up the remaining 1 or 2, and about two years ago got about 1/2 dozen from Ebay. So of those I might have a dozen.

Man it seems that the insert stuff was more fun back in the days before the Hobby reached maturity in the late 1970s.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 24 2009, 09:28 AM

Some of my collection of:
FRANK HOWARD

LOS ANGELES DODGERS (1958 - 1964)

WASHINGTON SENATORS (1965 - 1971)

TEXAS RANGERS (1972)
As many who follow MLB History know in 1971 The WASHINGTON SENATORS left Washington DC to become the TEXAS RANGERS, leaving our Nation's Capital without Baseball until 2005 when the MONTREAL EXPOS moved and became the WASHINGTON NATIONALS


DETROIT TIGERS (1972 - 1973)

NEW YORK METS (1982 - 1984, 1994 - 1996)

Posted by: Stlouisrams1600 Jan 24 2009, 09:31 AM

Very nice stuff, let's see some of them Rams!

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 24 2009, 09:43 AM

Patience Young Skywalker

OK here is a little tease:


and

Posted by: Stlouisrams1600 Jan 24 2009, 09:48 AM

Nice way to start! I have Henry Ellard like the Youngblood but Its a Chrome Refractor.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 24 2009, 04:34 PM

Some CUBIES!

I already posted my favorite Chicago Cubs card at the start of this thang, The 1965 TOPPS - ERNIE BANKS

A CUBS/NATIONALS Connection.



Jerry was, until the 2008 Grand Coaches Firings, the Nationals 1st Base Coach.



Another Cub in a different Uniform, This time The Washington Nationals. The NATS suffered a bit when they traded Alfonso away to the CUBIES.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 24 2009, 04:39 PM

DON SUTTON
- The Voice of Experience, and the WASHINGTON NATIONALS.

Don is one of the color commentators for Washington Nationals games on the cable TV station MASN (Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.). MASN also covers The BALTIMORE ORIOLES & RAVENS.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 27 2009, 05:10 PM

One of my fave all-time REDSKINS quarterbacks is good old NUMBER 9
SONNY JURGENSEN

Sonny started his NFL career on the EAGLES and was traded to the REDSKINS for Norm Snead and Claude Crabb in 1964.

When I was a kid I had a very nice #9 Jersey. It was comfortable and I wore it a lot, over the years I had to save it from going into the goodwill pile or the pile of old shirts to be used for rags. Sometime during the '80s (late 80s I think) I lost track of it. Perhaps my mother finally gave it away then. Well at least I have memories of it, and a picture or two with me in it.

EEK! I don't have any more SONNY J cards scanned at this time. WHY? Bummer because there are a few of his cards that are up there as my faves with the 1965 TOPPS ERNIE BANKS

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 27 2009, 05:24 PM

Now for the other end of my fave all-time quarterbacks:
ROMAN GABRIEL - #18 RAMS
(then later EAGLES)

Here is an interesting bit of Trivia for Mr. GABRIEL. He appeared in an episode of Gilligan's Island as a Headhunter (Episode 10 of Season 3 Topsy-Turvy 1966 - Thank you imdb.com for specifics). I don't think he had any lines, unless they were ughs and grunts.

Again I don't have enough of his cards scanned. UGH. Me lazy and bad.

After his playing career Roman coached. One of his gigs was for the early 1990s WORLD FOOTBALL LEAGUE for the Raleigh-Durham Skyhawks


Interesting personal story about that card. For the longest time I thought that it was a strange picture, because he was getting Gatorade thrown on him, well that was because the card I had has some sort of stain or something on it. I wasn't aware that was anything wrong with it until many years later when I found the card on Ebay.

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 2 2009, 03:41 AM

HOKEY Smokes it's been ages since I've added stuff here. Part of that was for the longest time after my move (a year ago at the beginning of Aug) I cluttered up the table I have my laptop on so much I didn't have room for my scanner. I kept procrastinating. I finally hooked it back-up a week or so ago.

I don't know where to begin...

At first I was trying to keep this thread organized. Hmmm I'm not sure how much more I can keep it that way.

Well my signature has one of my more recent fave cards the dual auto of Frank Howard and Nick Johnson Here it is for when I end up changing my sig pic again:

2005 Upper Deck Dual Signature Reflections - Frank Howard/Nick Johnson


That reminds me I need to scan my Frank Howard 1960 Topps RC and add it to my Frank Howard section here (on page 1 or just link back to that part of the tread). And in football I think there are some more Sonny Jurgensen and Roman Gabriel cards I can add. Ah a collectors work is never done.

Just today (well yesterday 01Oct2009) I got this vintage beauty:

1963 JELL-O Ernie Banks 169


Switching quickly to Football for a second. I pulled this in my Target 2009 Donruss Classics Blaster

2009 Donruss Classics Franco Harris Classic Singles

Posted by: Stlouisrams1600 Oct 2 2009, 08:38 AM

R-A-M-S! RAMS! RAMS! RAMS!

Posted by: WHyFLy Oct 2 2009, 10:39 AM

A PM has been sent. Nice vintage collection!

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 3 2009, 05:28 AM

Friday 02Oct2009 Mailday:

Got a couple of my sportlots.com auctions to help with my 1963 building.

1963 TOPPS BASEBALL

94 Bob Schmidt
(Hmm looks a little bit like Brian Schneider or does Brian look like him?)


95 Larry Jackson


I've got a long way to go with my 1960s sets buildings so if you have any '63s or other years to send my way let me know.

Posted by: jaderock Oct 4 2009, 03:08 AM

great thread ... kept the updates coming

Posted by: Gadsden86 Oct 4 2009, 08:09 PM

Great thread.

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 5 2009, 01:29 AM

Alex,
You say you want Rams?

I've been trying to keep this from being one of those mishmash threads, but I guess it has already become one.

2007 Donruss Gridiron Gear Performers MERLIN OLSEN #/500

(I also have one of the GUs of this I believe somewhere)

I think some have seen this one 'round here:

2007 Donruss Classics Classic Singles #/1000


Then there is my two most vintage Rams from 1955 BOWMAN
Paul Younger and Tom Fears


And probably my most prized Rams card of all....


.....


...the card is only from 2007 Donruss Leaf Limited.....


....


... a Limited Cuts....

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...a guy a few people might have heard off....

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....No it's not my Fave QB Roman Gabriel.....

...

....this guy played many years before him....

.....

...back when all the players had nicknames.....

....

.....Oh I'm driving myself crazy right now with this delay tactic.....

.....

....It does keep the suspense up a bit though....

....


...and That player (and the card) is:

....

....

Elroy "CRAZYLEGS" Hirsch

And the best part it's numbered 40/50

I've got another Rams Limited Cut waiting in the wings. It isn't as exciting (but it is #d/25) and I have a Rosey Grier GU that will be one of only a few GUs I will keep as a permanent PC (I never have been too keen on the GU concept of slicing up memorabilia into little 1" square pieces). It's two color and super sweet. It is a lower number still and is an Ebay 1/1. OK that's all the tease you'll get right now you Rambunctious Rams fan.

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 5 2009, 11:09 PM

FRANK HOWARD

OK since there is a limit to the number of pics you can put in a single post I have to put these HONDO as a DODGER cards here.

His RC card. I've got 2 copies. I think the other one might be slightly better looking. I need to get them together to compare.

Posted by: Stlouisrams1600 Oct 6 2009, 08:59 AM

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 8 2009, 11:37 PM

Today got some:
1974 Toppps Football
from sportlots.com an auction of 25 for $0.25 plus $2.50 postage. My http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=240&cmd=showentry&eid=1209 gives the full list most were common players. I will just show the few I scanned.

Posted by: faulkrules Oct 9 2009, 09:11 AM

Very interesting collection!! Love the Crazylegs cut (I am a Badger). One of my favorite PC cards is a Jurgensen 06 NT with some really unique pieces of shoe.

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 11 2009, 11:40 PM

A fun set that I had started back in the day as a Kid. I only had two for many years, then in the last couple started looking for the rest on Ebay. Well that goal was accomplished a few months back. I just hadn't scanned any of them till this weekend. anyway the set in question.

This set is only 24 cards of All-Stars from that era. They came packaged at the end of the regular packages of Wonder Bread, so many separate cards from this set you may find will be yellowed from contact with the bread (even though I think they had been packaged in plastic cellophane wrapped packages).

Most of the cards in the set are fairly easy to find separately on Ebay and other places, however for some reason the two that eluded me for quite a long time were cards # 1 and # 15 with card #1 being the final straw to get. I didn't want to have to get a full set just to get one or two cards, but I came close a couple of times and I think I was outbid on a set once.

Here are the first two cards that I have had since they were first released. Note the "white" areas are yellowed. This is mostly due to the contact with the bread product, not necessarily natural aging from being about 35 years old.

Posted by: road_runner_1964 Oct 12 2009, 10:51 AM

Awesome vintage set, Kirk. Congrats.

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 14 2009, 10:17 PM

A few posts ago I mentioned I had another Leaf Limited Cuts Signature... well lookie here it is this one:

It's a cool signature, but kind of a lousy photo to use for a card, but it beats no picture like some cards have done.

Shaughnessy was a coach for several Colleges and then the Rams in 1948-49. Check his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Shaughnessy page for all the details.

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 14 2009, 10:43 PM

Soon it will be Halloween, scary eh kids? With that note let us flip back 15 years with Coca-Cola and The NFL...

Coca-Cola, and the NFL Player's Association using Pro-Line Classics cards. Produced this unique set of 30 cards:

Each NFL team is represented by one of its big named Starter Stars, and each player is dressed up in some sort of Monster or Creature Costume and some sort of silly monster nickname. The two new expansion teams that would begin their histories with the NFL the following season in 1995; The Carolina Panthers and The Jacksonville Jaguars are represented by "Mascots" that didn't quite become the official logos. The backs of the cards say 1994 Edition which seems to indicate that there were plans to make the concept a regular annual series. That never happened.

The cards were included in the 12 can pack cases. If I recall correctly I think 2 cards may have been included or 1 card and a scratch off game card.



15 years does effect ones memory so I really don't know unless there is some website out there on the internet that gives all the distribution details.



As you can see the entire set was also made available later in a hanging cardboard backed blister pack.



If you read my TCC Blog you would have seen this set several months back with the description worded differently but reaching the same conclusions.

Thanks for Looking.

Posted by: cardcrazed Oct 15 2009, 09:19 AM

this thread is awesome! Nice Colts cards!

Justin

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 17 2009, 11:21 AM

I've gotten in a few Ebay Auctions recently.

First from a brand new series of BASEBALL cards, with multiple sports in it because it is a retro tobacco era series. I got my first 2009 Upper Deck GOODWIN CHAMPIONS card. It's not a baseball one its a Hockey.

Now moving on to FOOTBALL.

First from The 1974 FLEER Hall of Fame (The Immortal Roll) series. Now these cards are a little bit thinner (skinner width-wise not paper stock wise) than the standard, but are just a tadd taller. The 1974 cards are very similar and often mistaken for the 1975 cards. The main difference is the 1974 cards are not numbered the '75 are. I think the 1975 set is a larger set.



And the Price of Resistance one of my white whales for my PC. From one of two of my fave QBs and for only $12.00 plus $2.00 shipping....

1958 Topps #90 of Mr. Number Nine SONNY JURGENSEN. It's in very nice condition the dealer listed it as fair. Looks a little better than that to me no creases, but rounded and slightly frayed corners and a little bit of a pinhole sized chunk taken out of the bottom right near the corner.

Posted by: osufan2383 Oct 17 2009, 01:54 PM

sweet stuff man keep them coming

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 24 2009, 01:19 PM

It's been a little while. I've been slow in scanning some stuff, slow in organizing. wait in some areas I haven't been organizing. Sigh. I also recently started a card blog at http://captkirk42.blogspot.com

OK here are some stickers that I got recently from Ebay. Before America got attacked in 2001 there was an attempt to have a rival football league to the NFL by the owners of the WWF Wrestling League. It failed Miserably, but was immortalized in the opening scenes of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The 6th Day (with one "expansion team" that never was) they had some cool helmet-cam footage though. Anway Oh it was the XFL I was talking about.

The set contains 10 stickers here are just a few since there is a limit of 10 pics per post, I won't push the limit

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 24 2009, 01:34 PM

So WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

Earlier in the week I got a Hockey card from Ebay which was the O-Pee-Chee version of a Topps card I have. Collectors that specialize in Hockey know very well that the Canadian printed O-Pee-Chee cards have always paralleled the Topps cards from that year. Now a days it is easy to tell the difference because of the branding on the front, but for many years the only way to tell was information on the back. If there was French writing anywhere on the back it was the OPC version. Sometimes only the copyright line let you know if your card was from Topps or from OPC. Now if your card was off center like my Topps card is on the back (without the copyright line) then you would have ether have other cards from that same set, or do some research to find out the differences. Usually there is a card stock difference as well.

Any way....

The first one on top the one that is slightly darker (at least my copies) is the OPC the second one Topps. From that front you can't tell which is which. Now looking at the back you can tell right away.

Posted by: jaderock Oct 24 2009, 02:26 PM

Now I got a headache! At least you can see the fine print...I need a magnifying glass to read all the stuff on modern day cards

Posted by: captkirk42 Oct 24 2009, 04:35 PM

I hate the fine print on these modern cards. I also hate all the embossing and shiny printing that may look pretty but you can't read for carp (to put it nicely). That is one of the reasons I hate the chrome stuff, you can't read anything because it's all reflecting and refracting in the light.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 9 2010, 12:46 AM

OK I've shown a couple of my Cut sigs, but the most recent one was from one of Webbgems group breaks.

2009 Leaf Limited Football Limited Cut 21 Sammy Baugh Redskins #d/25


And last month from my Secret Santa I got this sweet Auto card, now one of my all-time fave autos

2005 UD NFL Legends Legendary Signatures LS-RO Roman Gabriel Rams


Moving onto Baseball I don't think I've shown this one yet.

2001 Donruss Signature Series Milestone Marks No Number Steve Garvey Dodgers #d/175

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 9 2010, 02:15 AM

Upper Deck for the 2008-09 MVP Series created a sub-set of eight cards commemorating Alexander Ovechkin's career. Here is that set Alexander The GR8. I will post both the front and the back of each card as the back pictures on each card are different. The cards are numbered A01-8 (or AO1-8)

AO1


AO2


AO3


AO4


(continued next post)

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 9 2010, 02:20 AM

AO5


AO6


AO7


AO8


Thanks for looking.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 17 2010, 09:05 PM

And Now for Some Vintage Non-Sport From 1953 Topps.

This Non-Sport series is made up of classic cars, sport cars, military vehicles and futuristic looking cars. The designs remind me of the pictures on the boxes of old model car kits.

I got 4 of these from Ebay a little while back. Took me a while to remember to scan them and then come up with something to say about them.


My favorite of the four is the first one card #38 Kenz Twin Ford.

It reminds me of the cars the bad guys like Snake would drive in the Speed Racer Cartoons.

The basic low-down on this set is Topps released series one cards 1 - 160 in 1953 they have info about the subject car in the picture on the back. There is another little trivia box on the back that talks about something else entirely.


Series two contains cards 161 - 180 and were released in 1954 I don't have any of those yet. Cards 161-170 have the same Red Backs like series one and cards 171-180 are the Blue Backs. At least that is what my research on these has shown me so far. I'll know for sure if I ever get the rest of the series.

I say more about this set on my http://captkirk42.blogspot.com

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 3 2010, 12:07 AM

ROMAN GABRIEL AP Wire photos from the 1960s

From Ebay I got 2 photos of Roman Gabriel by AP Wire services. I got them for $14.00 Delivered.

I also show the backs of them in my http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=267697 thread.

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 5 2010, 11:59 PM

GLADIATORS AUSTRALIAN STYLE

From Ebay I got 4 promo cards from the Australian "Gladiators" TV show. I'm not sure of the number of cards in the set but it's the Australian version of the show which those of us in the USA would know as "American Gladiators"

I give a brief explanation on my Cards Blog http://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2010/03/american-gladiators-umm-australian.html Post. The most attractive one is this first one:

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 11 2010, 08:34 PM

I have more Merlin Olsen cards around, but these seem to be the only ones I scanned.

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 14 2010, 11:34 PM

One of my pet projects is to get the set of these sweet 1960s/70s cards. A little back history on them. In 1965 Photographer and Artist http://company.uspresswire.com/davidboss.aspx made a series of paintings that would become the first set of NFL team posters. These paintings were then put on the game programs the following season, and either then or in the next year (1967) put on playing cards. At the time the NFL just had 16 teams. The AFL was a different entity so those teams are not part of this set.

The blog http://fleersticker.blogspot.com/2010/01/you-got-to-know-when-to-hold-em.html has most if not all of the pictures of these paintings. He has a link to a http://www.thecowboysguide.com/1966stancraft.html collector who pointed him out to these card decks. I've known about these decks since around the time they came out as my brother had (and probably still does have) a deck of the Washington Redskins. We played with that deck about as much as we did with all the other playing card decks we had in our house which meant we wore them out.

In recent years I have gotten the Los Angeles Rams deck. Still sealed but without a box. I am on the hunt for a deck with the box.


More recently I got the Green Bay Packers deck complete with box.


There are two types of Jokers that were produced. Now according to Mr. Cowboy they are different because one is the Poker Sized Version and the other Bridge sized He calls "Nu-Vue Style" (I think "Nu-Vue" actually referrers to the plastic coating or possibly the manufacturer). However his explanation doesn't quite work because His "Poker" style image clearly says "Bridge" on the Ace of Spades card he shows. The joker from that style is what my Rams deck is, I don't know about the Ace of Spades because my deck is sealed and only the Joker is showing in the back. My Packers deck which I got open with the box and both jokers has the style of Ace of Spade and Joker he calls "Nu-Vue Style". Now both of my decks are the same size card. The box for the Packers deck says "Bridge Size" on the bottom side. So both of my decks are Bridge sized. Until I get a Poker sized deck I won't be sure they had that size. If they do then my quest is doubled.

I think it is more likely that this Joker:


Is the original version and decks that come in boxes should have that style joker and the similar Ace of Spades. The other Aces are regular styled playing cards.

While this Joker:


Is either a later version, or the version for decks sold just in the plastic shrink wrap. These decks would have been displayed in a special display box or bin about 50 or so decks in the display depending on the size of the display box.

It is interesting to not that for the box, at least in the case of my Packers Deck, the card design on the box is an actual card glued to the box (The 9 of Diamonds for my box). I'm trying to remember if my brother's deck was the same way. I think his had been bought with the box, and it might have been the same kind of deal (pardon the pun).

So I am on the hunt for the other 14 teams (and a Rams deck in box). My requirements are they must be a full deck complete with both jokers and the box. I prefer the cool Joker version like I have with the Packers deck. I might consider some decks without a box (which will probably have the boring joker) but they must be complete and with both jokers. To fill in the gaps I might get some of those "single" cards that pop up every once in a while on Ebay just to have one of each kind of back. That will not complete the quest for 16 full decks though.

Posted by: jaderock Mar 14 2010, 11:41 PM

Those are cool...I have 2 Decks of 1963 Stancraft Playing Cards <<< Had to get back my childhood memory after "our" cat pooped in the shoe box fulled with them!

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 14 2010, 11:45 PM

Those are cool also, but I've noticed they are very expensive and out of my price range, due to having the players on the cards. There are two styles of the card backs on those.

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 16 2010, 12:57 AM

Not sure if I've mentioned these in my Mail day threads or not (It is in my TCC Blog but not with scans). Their backs are similar to the regular Topps release that year:



Right now I have 3 of these cards.


There are only 35 of these puppies, I've got 32 to go. When I was a kid I had several of these. I thought I had one or two left, not sure where they went. These 3 I had gotten from Ebay I think a few months back. Just getting around to scanning them.

Posted by: Nine Mar 16 2010, 05:54 AM

Cool Topps Super cards! I especially like the Deacon Jones card. He was such an awesome player and an entertaining guy in interviews.

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 20 2010, 01:37 AM

I already mentioned this set on http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=202406&view=findpost&p=2257030 when I got the Sammy Baugh card. Way back in 1974 when I first got a handful of these cards (The four I had were: Bill Hewitt, Robert "Cal" Hubbard, Sid Luckman and Pete Pihos). I think they were packaged by themselves and only came the four per pack, or they were packaged 1 or 2 with 2 cloth stickers. I'm not 100% sure. They might have been alone because I also have some "Pioneers of Baseball" cards which were produced around the same time that I had only had four of. Either that or I bought the same amount of packs of both series. Which would have been weird for me as a kid. I have since gotten that full baseball set so I have dupes of my Original four)

I have 17/50 of this unnumbered set. The 1975 set is very similar but they are numbered, plus their borders are all brown more like the baseball set.

Anyway: here are some of my faves from this set , other than the Sammy Baugh card which I had previously shown in post #38. The striping effect is my scanner, or the effect of shrinking the scans down from the original size.

Posted by: Nine Mar 20 2010, 07:15 AM

Very cool looking cards! The design of the cards look even older than the 70's. Awesome!

Posted by: captkirk42 Nov 10 2010, 08:18 PM

I've started getting maildays again lately, they can be found in the Mail Day section. A few of the highlights include:

1982 Topps Baseball #21 - Baltimore Orioles Future Stars Bob Bonner - Cal Ripken - Jeff Schneider for $12.24 delivered ($10.25 + $1.99 standard shipping)



This card is often considered to be Cal's Official RC, as well as the usually more expensive 1982 Topps Traded #98T

Good/Great just a tad less than Excellent condition (a little corner flaking)

Bad delivered in PWE (with a forever stamp) and in an UltraPro "Cardsaver" (Like the pic below) no penny sleeve UGH. I gave only 3 stars (I wanted to give only 2.5 or less) for shipping on the feedback I said I expected a little more than a PWE for the shipping charged.



I transferred it to a penny sleeve and toploader.

Posted by: yankeesjetsfan Nov 11 2010, 01:22 PM

Awesome stuff Kirk. I love, love, love the vintage cards. Keep up the great work.

Mike

Posted by: captkirk42 Nov 11 2010, 01:34 PM

Thanks Mike.

I'm glad the vintage has some fans. I think some of these modern collectors who are only digging for the $$$ GUs and Hot Rookie Chromes are missing out on a lot of card appreciation.

Posted by: Nine Nov 11 2010, 02:47 PM

Great looking Merlin Olsen card! I always liked the "Fearsome Foursome" nickname for the defensive line he was a part of.

Posted by: captkirk42 Nov 22 2010, 12:18 AM

1967 Stancraft NFL Playing Cards Teams
Latest addition to the collection and the pursuit of all 16 teams.

Got a boxed version of:

Since it was boxed the Jokers look like this:


The box is in pretty good shape. It is so good I can't tell what card they used to paste onto the box to identify the team. My Packers Box used the 9 of Diamonds, and my Rams deck is sealed so no box/no card glued to box.

On My Card Blog in this entry http://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2010/10/stancraft-playing-cards-nfl-teams-circa.html I mention some of the details of these playing cards from the late 1960s. They are no older than 1967 because of the inclusion of the New Orleans Saints in the "set". I first remember seeing them when my brother had a Redskins deck in the late 60s early 70s.

Set completion: 3/16

Posted by: captkirk42 Nov 22 2010, 12:22 AM

Some 1954 Bowman:

Posted by: captkirk42 Nov 22 2010, 12:27 AM

A 2007 Donruss Gridiron Gear Performers Sonny Jurgensen Gold serial numbered with Riggos Number 244/500

Posted by: Nine Nov 22 2010, 07:26 AM

Wow! Those 1954 Bowman cards are amazing looking!

Posted by: edgerrin32 Nov 22 2010, 08:20 AM

WOW, I cant believe I have never seen this topic before!

I went through and looked at every post and read all the stuff about them. Very sweet collection, many different places you have went with it. Some cool items. The mascot card were pretty funny, I remember when they used to do those and the were kinda cool to pull.

But great collection and I hope to see more cool stuff.

Posted by: captkirk42 Nov 22 2010, 11:48 AM

Thanks guys!

Thanks I love the team logos. I also like the colorizing thing going on. I think they were b&w photos hand colored but I could be wrong they could be very early color photos.


Guess you were too busy concentrating on your own collection.


Again thanks. Yeah I go all over the place. Right now I'm concentrating on Vintage 50s-70s and my Homie Teams.

There will be more stuff added to this thread as I find time to scan stuff and come up with how to present them. My biggest problem lately has been trying to remember what I've posted here, and what I have posted at my blogger/blogspot blog http://captkirk42.blogspot.com/. As I post to one I try to post to the other as well, but I like to switch up the presentation sometimes. I'm not just one of those Orioles/Cal Ripken collectors or Redskins/Whoever the current QB is collectors.

Posted by: osufan2383 Nov 22 2010, 03:14 PM

sweet cards

Posted by: captkirk42 Nov 26 2010, 01:33 PM

ORIGINAL "OLDEST CARD" IN MY COLLECTION.

I give a bit more detail on this card in my Blogspot Trading Card Blog so I'll be a little brief here. This 1960 Topps Football 123 Ralph Guglielmi card holds the distinct honor of having been the oldest card in my collection. For many years this card was the oldest. For sometime now I have had some Football and Baseball cards from the 1950s and some non-sport tobacco cards. One from the 1930s of a "Girl of the World" and some reprints of some 19th century or early 20th century military type tobacco cards (that might be 1920s reprints) I have to double check on those I thought I blogged about them here at TCC but I searched my entire TCCBlog and didn't see mention. UGH.

Anyway here is the "Poor Old Football Card" that served the longest as my Oldest card. As you can see there is a nasty tear/crease in the bottom half that is taped to keep the card together.

Posted by: captkirk42 Nov 26 2010, 05:12 PM

Today (Black Friday 26NOV2010) RamSkins Mail. First from The Bay and then from Sportlots (1-2-3 Auction)

That photo of John Paluck reminds me of actor David Leisure AKA: Joe Isuzu.

Posted by: edgerrin32 Nov 26 2010, 06:09 PM

Cool stuff thanks for sharing! And the first one might grade gem mint! The tape will for sure get a 10. I'm just messing with you, I have some cards that are pretty ruff, non with tape but some that kinda need it!

Posted by: Nine Nov 28 2010, 11:55 AM

I really like that Ralph Guglielmie card! Call me crazy, but I think it adds something to the look of vintage cards when they're all beat up like that.

Posted by: Cool_Hand_Flash Dec 4 2010, 06:10 AM

Sooo many cool cards man! Great collection

Posted by: captkirk42 Dec 4 2010, 08:54 AM

Wow thanks. A lot of folks say nice cards or cool pickups but that is the first time I recall someone saying "Great Collection".

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 6 2011, 11:54 PM

I've got a pretty cool latest entry on my card blog http://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2011/01/mystery-of-cut-signature-solved.html

Long story short I figured something out about this card:

I originally wasn't going to pursue this mystery but as I say in my blog entry I saw something on Ebay that got me to thinking about it.

Through a little detective work I found out what it was cut from, and was a little disappointed and slightly disgusted in the same way GUs disgust me by the fact that it was cut from older memorabilia. I don't know the exact origins of the post card it came from but it came from one of these post cards signed in about the same place:



I would love to find one of those original post cards and others from the series, even without any signatures. Unfortunately the ones with signatures are pretty expensive when they are around.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jul 12 2012, 12:42 AM

Not cards but memorabilia. I made a ustream video of my Nationals/Senators Caps collection.

My Nats Hats <- was a link to Ustream.

NOTE Updated 11Jul2017: A few years back U-Stream did some policy changes and any videos older than 30 days automatically get deleted. I never got a chance to save the videos I had there so I had several videos deleted including this one. I might have had maybe a dozen videos saved there? I have since forgotten how many of my now dozen or almost dozen "Nats Hats" were featured, or how I even showed them.

It isn't great but at least it shows the general idea of each hat. I might try to do a screen capture on them sometime or figure out some way to snap better pictures, not sure if my cell phone will be any better or not. I've got a digital camera if it still works and if I remember which cord is the right one to use for it, it's been ages since I've used it.

(Ustream turns me into rainman, definitely rainman)

Posted by: captkirk42 Jul 12 2012, 01:07 AM

In case you missed my post in the "steals" section. I got two sweet Willie Mays Post Cereal cards the 1961 and 1962.

http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=311408&view=findpost&p=2732887

Posted by: captkirk42 Dec 27 2012, 10:30 PM

Made a short video showing off my Christmas Haul
Xmas 2012 Haul video short <- UStream deleted the video as it was older than 30 days old when they made some site changes a few years ago (Updated and Noted 11Jul2017)

I got a few more things than I showed but only a few and they were not interesting to folks here, who likes reading about the jams and jellies I got from my Bro and his wife in NC (the bro and wife I mention in the video is my other bro). Its basically stuff my SinLaw picks out and sends while my bro may or maynot even know what was sent. LOL.

Then today I got some vintage stuff (and some of it looks it) from Ebay for $7.99 + $4.15 shipping

It was mostly for the Senators pictures (4.25x7) that look like they came from a magazine? yearbook maybe? Very yellowed and all have pushpin or staple holes. they are from 1970 (since there is Aurelio Rodriguez and it looks like he was only a Senator in 1970):
Dick Bosman
Ed Brinkman
Paul Casanova
Joe Coleman
Mike Epstein
Frank Howard (main reason I picked up this lot)
Aurelio Rodriguez
Ed Stroud

1970 Topps Scratch Off Inserts none of them have the back scorecard written on but one of them has a square on the inside scratched off. These even have some pin holes someone must have had a bulletin cork board.
Luis Aparicio White Sox
Sam McDowell Indians
Claude Osteen Dodgers
Willie Stargell Pirates (on inside second square top row scratched off to reveal "Double Play")

Then two 1970 Topps Story Booklets
8 Tony Oliva Twins
18 Rusty Staub Expos - Only the "cover" page missing the inside page (pages 3-6) I might have to use it as some kind of decoration or find a huge Rusty Staub collector who doesn't really care its incomplete.

Posted by: redwing40 Dec 28 2012, 08:36 PM

Nice stuff Kirk!

Posted by: captkirk42 Dec 30 2012, 05:06 AM

Months and months ago I got one of those Fairfield Repack boxes from Target. I finally opened the sucker this weekend. (Friday Night 28 Dec 2012) I made a video when I opened them you can look for them at my Ustream page (I'm captkirk42 there as well). I've opened up 2 or 3 of these things before.

Fairfield Repacked Baseball Box of 4 Packs, 100 cards + 1 Bonus Pack

PACKS
2007 Upper Deck Series Two 8 card pack
831 David Wright Mets
769 Elmer Dessens Brewers
601 Michal Wuertz Cubs
756 Dustin Moseley Angels
898 Jason Bay Pirates
971 Ben Zobrist Devil Rays
848 Josh Phelps Yankees
818 David Newhan Mets

2007 UD Goudey 8 card pack
170 Johnny Estrada Brewers - Green back
146 Hudson Street Athletics - Green back
8 Alfonso Soriano Cubs - Green Back
71 Khalil Green Padres - Green Back
132 Ramon Hernandez Orioles- Red Back
108 Ryan Freel Reds - Red back
19 Brian Roberts Orioles - Red Back
82 Paul Lo Duca Mets - Red back

2007 Fleer Ultra 5 card pack
82 John Buck Royals
22 Josh Beckett Red Sox
109 Torii Hunter Twins
190 Roy Halladay Blue Jays
189 A.J. Burnett Blue Jays (gold variation)

2004 UD Power Up! 9 card pack
39 Ivan Rodriguez Tigers (shown in Marlins Uni)
74 Preston Wilson Rockies
25 Ryan Klesko Padres
91 Kevin Brown Dodgers
66 Jose Reyes Mets
1 Austin Kearns Reds
76 Mike Mussina Yankees
31 Eric Chavez Athletics
Shining Through ST-70 Hank Blalock Rangers
Insert rules card

BONUS PACK
2004 MLB Showdown: Trading Deadline 11 card pack
036 Tim Worrell Phillies
071 Ted Lilly Blue Jays
004 Jeff Weaver Dodgers
013 Bobby Kielty Athletics
081 Curt Shilling Red Sox (Foil)
035 Fernando Vina Tigers
055 Todd Walker Cubs
072 David Wells Padres
Strategy Cards:
S16 Insult to Injury - Defense
S20 Robbed! - Defense
S19 Punched Out - Defense
8/8 Checklist Card Strategy cards list S1-S25

100 Cards - Various Brands 1986-2008 (Some of these I already had but a lot I didn't)
[I counted 101 cards this time]
1986 Topps 716 Rickey Henderson Yankees AS
1986 Topps Traded 57T Mike LaCoss Giants (dupe)
1987 Donruss
222 Tim Burke Expos
223 Curtis Wilkerson Rangers
1987 O-Pee-Chee 342 Bob James White Sox
1987 Topps
4 Dave Lopes Astros '86RB - Most Stolen Bases Season 40 yr old
78 Tim Foley Expos
189 Joe Hesketh Expos
213 Randy Myers Mets
287 Dave Von Ohlen A's
357 Steve Fireovid Mariners
397 Greg Walker White Sox
447 Bill Almon Pirates
492 Mike Heath Tigers
529 Alvaro Espinoza Twins
644 John Denny Reds
699 Ken Landreaux Dodgers
711 Ken Griffey Braves
761 Greg Pryor Royals
781 Atlee Hammaker Giants
1987 Topps "1986" All-Stars 17 Dave Winfield Yankees
1988 Donruss
227 Greg Swindell Indians
324 Rafael Palmeiro Cubs
1988 Topps
3 - '87 Record Breakers Mark McGwire A's Rookie Home Runs
110 Teddy Higuera Brewers
159 Brad Arnsberg Yankees
264 Les Straker Twins
277 Alejandro Pena Dodgers
302 Jose Uribe Giants
407 Steve Bedrosian Philies AS (dupe)
467 Don Aase Orioles
477 Jamie Quirk Royals
568 Chris Brown Padres
1989 Donruss
246 Roberto Alomar Padres
MVP BC-21 Wally Joyner Angels
1989 Score 344 Bob Brower Rangers
1989 Topps
37 Bob Stanley Red Sox
250 Cal Ripken Orioles
356 Kevin Elster Mets
405 Roger Clemens Red Sox AS
421 Kirk McCaskill Angels
467 Jim Walewander Tigers
525 Chili Davis Angels (dupe)
583 Paul Gibson Tigers
603 Frank Tanana Tigers
663 Turn Back The Clock 1974 Hank Aaron Braves
770 Alan Trammel Tigers
787 Dave West Mets
1990 Bowman 315 Ozzie Guillen White Sox
1990 K-Mart Super Stars
2 Ryne Sandberg Cubs
5 Tony Gwynn Padres
8 Craig Biggio Astros
10 Doc Gooden Mets (3)
20 Cal Ripken Orioles
28 Chuck Finley Angels
29 Dennis Eckersley Athletics
33 Managers Tony LaRussa Athletics - Roger Criag Giants
1990 Score 95 Jeff Treadway Braves
Young Superstars 28 Omar Vizquel Mariners
1990 Topps
747 Randy Bush Twins
778 Mike Jeffcoat Rangers
1991 Bowman 433 Mark Grace Cubs
1991 Donruss 767 Scott Erickson Twins
1991 Fleer
422 Mark Grace Cubs
526 Jack Clark Padres
1991 Topps 583 Tony Phillips Tigers
1992 Classic Best (Minor League) 171 Ivan Cruz London Tigers
1992 Fleer 287 Tino Martinez Mariners
1992 Fleer Ultra
288 Royce Clayton RC Giants
486 Reggie Sanders RC Reds
1992 Leaf 434 Cliff Brantley Phillies
1992 Score
505 Frank Thomas White Sox
884 Dream Team Cal Ripken Jr. Orioles
1992 Topps 157 Keith Miller Mets
1992 Upper Deck 385 Kevin Elster Mets
1993 Classic Four Sport 281 Ryan Hancock BYU Cougars (College)
1993 Donruss 706 David Hulse Rangers
1993 Topps 68 Omar Vizquel Mariners
1994 Score 250 Steve Frey Angels
1995 Leaf 352 Dennis Eckersley Athletics
1995 Topps 235 Ellis Burks Rockies
1995 Topps Emobssed 21 Ryan Klesko Braves
1995 Topps Stadium Club: Virtual Reality 193 Robin Ventura White Sox
1996 Topps 315 Deion Sanders Giants
1997 Upper Deck 544 Dante Powell RC Giants
1998 Fleer Tradition 252 Ted Hansen Royals
1998 Score: Rookie Traded RT161 Chris Hoiles Orioles
1999 Fleer Tradition 354 Dave Berg Marlins
1999 Topps Traded T53 Choo Freeman Rockies
1999 Upper Deck: MVP 86 Mark Kotsay Marlins
2000 Pacific Omega 80 Richie Sexton Brewers
2001 Fleer Ultra 119 Edgar Martinez Mariners
2001 Upper Deck Legends 61 Kerry Wood Cubs
2003 Donruss Champions 243 Jim Edmonds Cardinals
2003 Donruss Team Heroes 307 Gary Carter Expos
2005 Fleer America's National Pastime 50 Adrian Beltre Mariners
2006 UD SP Authentic 21 Carlos Zambrano Cubs
2006 Topps 403 Brandon Webb Diamondbacks
2008 Upper Deck Spectrum 5 Chipper Jones Braves

Posted by: captkirk42 Apr 28 2013, 05:15 AM

Got some cards from a group break over at TCZ (a sort of younger cousin of TCC cause there are loads of TCC folk there). I'll only show two of the cards from the break I got about 14 more I had Rams/Ravens plus draft teams of Bears/Vikings. Pruducts were:
2012 Panini Absolute
2011 Donruss Elite
2010 Panini Plates & Patches

I got at least 2 cards from each product, most of it was Elite base.

Here are my two fave cards. I'll let the cards do the talking both are from the 2010 Panini Plates & Patches.


89 Danny Amendola Rams Base #d 016/499


And the Sweet one:

Mardy Gilyard Rams Auto (blue sharpie on cut card) 3 color GU (Gold, White w/stitching, Blue) #d 470/699

Posted by: aceecards Apr 28 2013, 07:01 AM

dang the rams just didn't produce..lol

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 31 2014, 01:43 PM

It has been a long time since I've shown stuff here in this thread. Forgive me if I repeat something from an earlier post in this thread. It is hard to keep track of what I have shown when and where. Now-days I do most of my showing off on my blogs (links to both are in my sig) so I tend to forget to mention things in other places. I do keep track of my maildays on my blog here and mirror it on TCZ in my mailday thread there.

OK so years and years ago I first showed the basic version of this auto card in this tread on page 2 http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=202406&view=findpost&p=2240883 I have since gotten at least one of the 2 serial numbered parallels that were made:



When I checked my blog for that card I forgot I had only posted it to my http://curlywcards.blogspot.com and not my http://captkirk42.blogspot.com. You see since my CWC blog is just DC Baseball I don't post them to my regular catch-all blog. I usually just make a notation and sometimes later add a link but lately I have been slacking in posting the links.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jan 31 2014, 03:51 PM

These 8 cards are from my photobucket, which I rarely update anymore. Some of them I have shown while others I haven't. The sizes are not consistent because many years ago I didn't know how to adjust for my scanner, then at one point I was only editing the size down to 35% of the original scanning size, now I scan at 45% scanning size which is at a medium quality setting.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 1 2014, 01:54 AM

Think I'll show off some more stuff from my photobucket. It's kind of fun doing it this way. My only problem is I will have to make sure I still have PB card scans saved somewhere other than PB in case I move any around. It is sad when a link gets broken up and you don't have a back up of the info anywhere. Another downside is most of these I never scanned the back. I was sacred of running out of memory at the PB site and also at first I didn't even think about showing backs. Now days on my blogs I like to show the backs.

OK how about some more:

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 4 2014, 03:37 PM

I've shown this next one on my http://captkirk42.blogspot.com but it doesn't look like I've shown it here anywhere that I can recal (unless I mentioned it in the steals board). If you want to read the full story on this http://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2012/04/1969-basketball-ruler.html

1969-70 Topps Basketball Ruler 22 Wes Unseld Baltimore Bullets

Posted by: aceecards Feb 4 2014, 08:55 PM

I remember those.. think I had two or three probably got sun bleached and pinholes from hanging on my wall

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 6 2014, 01:44 AM

I got some cards from the Official Football group break on TCZ I http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=240&cmd=showentry&eid=1776 (here on my TCC blog). and here are what the "Hits" look like:

2013 Panini Limited GU 35 Fred Davis Redskins all maroon swatch #d 58/99


2012 Panini Prime Signatures Football
Bronze? 246 Brian Quick Rams On-Card Blue Sharpie 102/199
Gold 202 Kirk Cousins Redskins On-Sticker Blue Sharpie 18/25
160 Barry Sanders Lions On-Sticker Blue Sharpie 5/5

Posted by: hugeeaglesfan Feb 6 2014, 04:13 AM

Nice Cousins... AMAZING SANDERS

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 6 2014, 10:25 AM

Thanks.

Posted by: artyman60 Feb 6 2014, 01:53 PM

great stuff kirk, keep the pics coming

Posted by: bravesfan09 Feb 6 2014, 02:26 PM

Good thing i dont see any Adam Jones autos on here!

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 6 2014, 03:01 PM

Who?
I'm not sure if I have any... I might, or I might not. Seriously I'm not sure.

Posted by: bravesfan09 Feb 6 2014, 03:21 PM

Im up to 15 (if you count the Five Star /25 and the Five Star Auto 3 Clr Patch /5 that are incoming).

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 7 2014, 09:36 PM

Since it's Hockey Season and well since I dig Mascots:

2010 Upper Deck Dasani SS-1 Slapshot Washington Capitals Mascot

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 9 2014, 07:09 PM

Here is a card that I had scanned but never talked about anywhere that I know of. I probably mentioned when/where I got it on my TCC blog, but I'm too lazy to hunt for it. I've got it in my http://captkirk42.blogspot.com blog queue for posting on Tuesday.

Posted by: aceecards Feb 9 2014, 10:41 PM

an oldie!

nice stuff

Posted by: bravesfan09 Feb 9 2014, 10:51 PM

I'll give you a bryce harper rookie card for that barry sanders

Posted by: VSGSavedMe Feb 10 2014, 12:09 AM

quality stuff brother~

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 10 2014, 09:05 AM

Thanks John. Yep some of them are the sweet sauce.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 10 2014, 09:11 AM

I have some of the Harper RCs. It is only tempting if you have the SuperShortPrint 2012 Topps Archives 241 Harper RC or the Harper RC Auto from that set (I think it has the same number, but has a different picture).

Posted by: bravesfan09 Feb 10 2014, 04:32 PM

If i had a bryce harper auto do ya think my avi would be adam jones?

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 10 2014, 05:26 PM

Here is some Non-Sport for ya. I mentioned it on my blogger blog but not round here in the forums (maybe I mentioned how much I got it for in the old TCC blog)

A nice cool auto that doesn't need any long stories I'll just show it:



Now the back:

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 11 2014, 03:39 PM

Hmm How about some Riggo!

2002 Donruss Gridiron Kings (Bronze) 165 John Riggins Redskins

One of those frame things.

2006 Donruss Classics: Legendy Players LP-20 John Riggins Redskins #/250


1975 Topps Football 313 John Riggins Jets


Jeez I gotta get more of these cards scanned.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 12 2014, 12:47 AM

Got this card in early January this year for just $5 from round here. Just got it scanned.


To see the back side you gotta go to http://captkirk42.blogspot.com after Noon Wednesday the 12th (it posts at Noon.)

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 14 2014, 01:20 AM

IN keeping with my current trend of showing a card from my blogger blog that will be posted later here is a cool mid 1990s card in one of those retro HOF type sets:

1993 Ted Williams Baseball 66 Johnny Mize Yankees

Posted by: aceecards Feb 14 2014, 08:20 AM

nice stuff.

loved that ted williams set

there is a couple nice jeter rookies in there

Posted by: redwing40 Feb 14 2014, 09:40 PM

Sweet stuff Kirk! Nice Sanders #5/5! It would look better in my collection thou

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 16 2014, 03:29 PM

Recently posted on my http://curlywcards.blogspot.com Blog:

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 17 2014, 12:55 AM

How about a sweet artifact? Now I'm not much into GU, and artifacts mostly because of the concept of them, but every now and then a very sweet looking one will come into my hands. This one I got from a group box break it was a random hit from a team that wasn't taken. I won the randomization of the card.

2013 Topps Tier One: Legends Relics TORL-GB George Brett Royals GU Bat #d 49/99


These bat cards are starting to grow on me.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 18 2014, 01:11 AM

Got this card in the same group break as the George Brett bat above.

2013 Topps Triple Threads 82 Jimmie Foxx


Man I hate that scanners don't show off these Triple Threads cards like they should. All the scans I've seen and have done look awful but the card in real life looks sweet. Another reason to hate all the gold leaf and chrome stuff they put on cards now days.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 19 2014, 01:43 PM

Cool action card from a recent bust of a repack:

Posted by: tj4eck Feb 19 2014, 10:13 PM

Awesome thread!
Love the Carrolla AU and Cousins AU
and wish I had something for the Barry Sanders AU, haha

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 20 2014, 09:11 AM

Thanks,
Yeah there are a lot of people who wish they had something for the Sanders AU or that I would just go insane and give it to them.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 20 2014, 03:37 PM

Nats New Skipper (in his playing days)

2000 Fleer Tradition 40 Matt Williams Diamondbacks

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 21 2014, 03:03 PM

Yeah the "Junk Years" didn't have any cards worth keeping.

Just scrubs like this guy:

Posted by: jaderock Feb 21 2014, 03:35 PM

Still like that border design tho!

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 21 2014, 04:18 PM

I do too, a throwback to the '62 design.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 22 2014, 10:45 PM

Should have shown this one ages ago. Today I got the full 5 card set (still individually sealed) from Ebay for $8.99 +$2.00 shipping.

1995 Stouffers Legends of Baseball: Pop-Ups



I've had the Yogi since '95 when I got it from whichever frozen dinner package it was in. I have never "Popped" it open to see how they display, but I removed the clear plastic wrapping ages ago. I have seen some of the other cards opened in photos on the internet. The player stats are hidden on the inside. I don't know if I am going to keep the extra Yogi or send him away to someone else.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 23 2014, 11:04 PM

This thread needs something classical.

Posted by: captkirk42 Feb 27 2014, 01:48 PM

Here is a card from a set that I plan to at least get the rest of my Homie teams (Nationals and Orioles) and possibly build the whole set. I love the look of this set it is simple yet detailed. The coloring and the overall design gives it an art-deco look.

2005 Donruss Zenith 162 Nick Johnson Nationals

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 10 2014, 09:05 PM

*sigh* add another set to try to complete of the zillion I am already "building".

2004 Upper Deck Play Ball Baseball 101 Luis Matos Orioles

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 21 2014, 10:27 PM

Pretty cool sliding into base pic. Could do without all the gold leaf/imprinting though.

1995 Pinnacle Baseball 188 Brady Anderson Orioles

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 30 2014, 06:04 PM

A much needed upgrade to complete a Team Set (almost 50 years later). IN my effort to complete the 1965 Topps set (http://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2014/01/strive-for-65-set-build.html) a few weeks back I had technically finished the Team Set for the Washington Sentators, however one of the cards was in major need of an upgrade:

1965 Topps Baseball 21 Don Blasingame Senators


especially because of the back:

ICK glued paper debris, yuck.

So thanks to a trip to my LCS and $2 later...


and the back:


That is MUCH better. So now I have the Complete http://curlywcards.blogspot.com/2014/03/strive-for-65-senators-team-set.html

Posted by: captkirk42 Apr 22 2014, 09:23 PM

This one speaks for itself:

Posted by: captkirk42 Apr 24 2014, 12:54 PM

OK how about some eye candy?


To see the other two gal cards I got check out my blog http://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2014/04/soccer-no-way-i-dont-hit-women.html post.

Posted by: aceecards Apr 24 2014, 02:43 PM

dear capt

are you teasing us..

I see nothing in the last two posts?

Posted by: captkirk42 Apr 25 2014, 04:01 PM

Oh Pooh. Is anyone else having this problem? Is my link bad or is Steve's eyesight just being selective?

Posted by: aceecards Apr 25 2014, 08:52 PM

I can see clearly now!

Posted by: captkirk42 Apr 26 2014, 09:31 PM

How about Hammerin' Hank for my Strive for '65 Set build?


Got it from the bay for $17 delivered. Not bad for one of the Big Fish from '65

Posted by: aceecards Apr 27 2014, 10:57 AM

never owned the 65 aaron.. im jealous

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 15 2015, 03:33 PM

Time for the semi-annual post. or as I say on my blog "The Card of Whenever". Here is a semi-recent post from my reguler http://captkirk42.blogspot.com


1942 Play Ball 1983 Reprint 32 Mel Ott NY Giants


I got it as part of a surprise PWE package from a blogger many months ago sometime last year. The technique that this guy uses for sending stuff in PWEs is pretty cool he cuts up regular 9 pocket card pages horizontally and fills the 3 pocket "mini sheet" with cards sometimes going to the limit of about 4 cards per pocket. The PWE is a standard business sized #10 envelope. The 3 pocket sheet row keeps the envelope from having that one or two card sized bump in it. Of course he has to use 2 stamps instead of one but hey so far I haven't had any problems with his stuff.

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 16 2015, 12:24 PM

I posted this card and its story on my Washington http://curlywcards.blogspot.com Blog today.

1956 Topps 49 Pedro Ramos Nationals

Posted by: captkirk42 Apr 10 2015, 08:37 AM

A few weeks back in checking to see what I still needed in the team sets for my 1974 Topps Baseball set build for the Orioles I noticed I need one of those annoying multi-player rookie cards. They are annoying in the fact that often times they are hard to find just because one of the players went on to superstardom making the card difficult to find inexpensively. I made a http://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2015/03/continuing-set-build-1974-expos-os-and.html for my http://captkirk42.blogspot.com about some of the team sets I had completed or almost completed to help with my overall '74 set build. While scanning a few cards to show off. I chose the Brooks Robinson card to represent the O's.



While looking at the card getting it ready for scanning I noticed the back and the paper loss damage. EEEEEKKK!



**Sigh** Now I need to get an upgrade copy. Yep paper loss and the part with the top of the AVG column is barely holding on to the rest of the card.

Posted by: jaderock Apr 10 2015, 08:42 AM

Did you get it like that or did it happen over the years I storage?

Posted by: captkirk42 Apr 10 2015, 08:48 AM

I think I got it like that but didn't notice at the time, or noticed but soon forgot it was damaged.

Posted by: captkirk42 Jun 13 2015, 08:23 PM

Need to try to remember to update this often with whatever. Not sure if I should start some posts, I mean threads, of specific players or not, those always seem to be popular if the player is a superstar and other fans want to see them. I don't do the trendy popular stuff though.

A fairly recent (from March) showing on my http://curlywcards.blogspot.com blog:

1956 Topps Baseball 49 Pedro Ramos Washington Nationals


EDIT: Eek this is a repost of post http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=202406&view=findpost&p=2787849

Posted by: captkirk42 Jul 11 2017, 11:35 AM

Been a few years since I've added a new post. As usual let me link to a recent post from my main http://captkirk.blogspot.com.

This card is from my Niche PC specifically my "names" niche (people with my name or similar names)

2013 Leaf Ace Authentic Grand Slam Tennis Autograph: BA-JK1 Jessica Kirkland

From this https://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2017/06/niche-pc-001-some-tennis-lovin.html.

Posted by: aceecards Jul 11 2017, 12:42 PM

whozit? or even better whozher?

lol

Posted by: captkirk42 Jul 17 2017, 11:03 PM

ACK the earlier part of this thread (and the early part of my TCC Blog when I posted images on it) has been ravaged by the recent Photobucket "YOU haven't UPGRADED to the NON-FREE MEMBERSHIP so We will block your photos from 3rd Parties" Image. I had recently looked over some of those older posts to see what I had shown way back when. UGH Fortunately it looks like I can still access my Photobucket account at its source so I might be able to "save" some of my Photobucket only images. Also in recent years I have mostly relied just on blogger (blogspot) to share photos/images. I held onto photobucket mostly because it had been the first and easiest site to use with Ebay.

What a nightmare reminds me of several years ago when Yahoo got rid of their Photo Album and later their "briefcase", when they did away with the Album I lost tons of images fortunately most of "those" were not very important and were obtained from other sources not my own original photos.

Whoever says "If it's on the internet it is there forever" does not use any of these free image hosting sties that go under after 5-10 years.

I've got a lot of work ahead of me.

Posted by: aceecards Jul 18 2017, 07:05 AM

I GAVE UP.. ill wait out photobuckets ploy

Posted by: captkirk42 Jul 18 2017, 09:20 AM

I rarely even think about photobucket anymore. It cracks me up now days when I see posts on forums when the old saying "Check my Bucket" is used.

Posted by: redwing40 Jul 18 2017, 09:00 PM

I'm converting to Flicker this weekend and will slowly try to upload what I can on it, maybe this is my chance to really have a organized gallary Lol!

Posted by: aceecards Jul 18 2017, 09:11 PM

i had most of my high end scans on a pc that died.. I am not going to rescan

Posted by: redwing40 Jul 18 2017, 09:47 PM

Thats a bummer, I downloaded what I couldnt find in my PC folders but I started putting all my pictures on USBs storage sticks since the last time that happened to me, I had alot of family pictures that I lost from my PC taking a poop along with scans of cards I had.

Whats bad is you will probably have to download every scan in your bucket to get them, that would be a pain too....

Posted by: captkirk42 Jul 19 2017, 08:51 AM

That really stinks big time.

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 24 2018, 11:43 AM

Just a reminder to anyone who follows me and my collection updates. I usually don't post here in "Show and Telll" since photobucket made its stupid 3rd party rules changes. For several years, however I have been posting mail days in my blog here at TCC http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=240& I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who regularly uses the blog area anymore.

Oh got the latest issue of "The Wrapper" Non-Sport card magazine in the mail.

Posted by: aceecards Mar 24 2018, 04:55 PM

i cannot get it to open

Posted by: captkirk42 Mar 29 2018, 09:37 AM

Hmm guess you have to go the long way with the blog community links
http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/forums/index.php?automodule=blog