Awesome T206 mailday today. Added 3 more Southern Leaguers to the set build and an Old Mill Brain as well. Then we’ve got a nice Hooker from the South that @lolbrarian.bsky.social asked me to find for him. 😁
1960 is one of my most favorite sets and it’s really underrated. The All Star Subset that year is one of the best that they did. The 8 pocket pages are great for a horizontal set. No neck cranking😁
He’s been claimed, along with a few other Southern Leaguers I needed. I’ll message you later this week when it arrives.
Does this Hooker look good to you? 😂 sounds hilarious typing it out. A seller in a Facebook group has it for $65 plus shipping. If you’re interested, I’ll grab it and we can work out the details when it gets here.
I’ll keep a look out for another. Ironically Hooker is one of the 6 southern leaguers I’ve got and is the only Old Mill Southern Leaguer. This copy is actually pretty fragile, which is the only reason I was able to snag an old mill one not brutally trimmed. 😂
Long way to go on that one but I’m gonna give it my best effort!
Hahahaha. Hey corners aren’t always important with the way we’re collecting but if you can get them, that’s a plus.
Thanks!
Today’s T206 mailday brings me HOF’er Eddie Collins. He’s beat up like his non related HOF Collins brethren Jimmy in my set. I’m up to 156 cards out of 520 but Eddie brings me up to 41 Hall of Famers out of 74 obtainable ones, (I’m not counting the two requiring the lottery😂)
Wait, they did two versions of that Riley? Off to look in my Daughter and I’s Riley collection now..lol
But do you have the yellow letter version? I haven’t bit the bullet on that one for my Kaline PC yet.
Lou thought these cards were the coolest thing when my buddy and I met him a few years ago at a signing. When my friend explained the card to him, he grabbed it and had the biggest smile on his face, showing it to everyone behind the table. I still need to get Tram to sign my card to complete it.
Not yet but my oldest daughter and I collect Riley Greene and now I’m gonna have to snag this card. That’s a great image!
You can even count another Tiger here with Heinie Manush. 😂
You made me get out my set binder. Lol. Here’s your non-Tiger coaches and managers in 54 Topps.
Yesterday crossed off a big name T206 for my set build. My newest T206 HOFer is one I didn’t think I’d cross off this year. It’s one that also helps with the Tigers team set. This stunning Red Cobb joins his stellar bat on brethren. Anyone got a Green Cobb or bat off Cobb that’s just his nose up?😂
I can’t say I’ve heard that before. At the same time, I’m not surprised that Bill Veeck would have been that owner who would try to pull this off either at that time. Pretty cool factoid here.
It is a pretty decent core of guys. 😁
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They really are outstanding! My oldest daughter will pull up a lot of newer SNL sketches on YouTube and some of them have been her sketches. Celine Dion singing about MMA and the UFC had me rolling! 🤣
Thanks! Compared to a lot of other HOFers, his Venezuelan cards aren’t too terribly expensive. His 60 Topps and 64 AL Bombers card are probably his two most expensive. I haven’t spent more than $50 on a card of his outside of 1960 so far. The Venezuelan Topps Facebook group has them often for sale.
My wife and I watch this every year and we always talk about the ridiculousness of the movie. For one, the reason you stated. But two, my brother was in the Peace Corps and met his wife while doing that. And there is no way barring a family emergency, that he could have came home after a month. Lol
The Green Cobb in that grade is just bonkers, knowing that you’re doing two of each to keep your Tigers and T206 sets separate. Awesome pickups!
My Venezuelan Topps Kaline collection has grown in recent weeks. Today’s mailday brings me to 8/14 Venny’s he’s tied to and 3 of the remaining are team cards. So 5 of them won’t be bad $ wise but the 6th is the 64 Bombers and there’s 2 Yankee power guys on it that make it $$$😂 #cardsky
I’ve got some low grade double vision after today’s mail arrived. My newest T206 addition is the dark cap variation of HOF’er Christy Mathewson. This one’s awesome as it’s a polar bear back. Those backs are one of my favorites! He pairs nicely with his white cap brethren. #cardSky
Been a year since I’ve purchased a T206 HOFer for my build, I was overdue😁. Couldn’t pass up a cheap price on a slabbed HOFer. This is card #120 for the set. It will not be my final HOFer of the year. The coming weeks will have a lot of PC additions and a 1936 HOF inductee😏🐻❄️
I’ve heard of its existence but have never brought myself to watch it and I’m happy with that. It’s like there is an actual “Christmas Story 2” that came out like 12 years ago. Watched it once, became enraged, and have chosen to forget it. Now “A Christmas Story Christmas”, that’s a nice movie.
Haha there’s a Broadleaf and Drum back. Won’t be completed by me 😂😂😂😂
I’m a fan of the throwing image of Wild Bill Donovan. So a back run of that card would be fun!
