A Penny Sleeve for your Thoughts recently had an extensive giveaway as Jon has been thinning out his collection. I ended up with a lot of really nice cards. Each time the giveaway was posted I claimed a few cards, a lot of which were Yankees which no other bloggers like anyway. Then at the end of the giveaway I claimed a lot more which nobody else wanted. It ended up being a really nice package, with a heavy emphasis of vintage players on modern cards, but a lot of other good stuff too.
This was the card I was most excited about. 1970 Topps Super Mel Stottlemyre. I am really enjoying the Topps Supers more and more, so to get a Yankee was really terrific.
Not a whole lot of action on these Action Packed cards, but three pretty great photos of the legendary Roberto Clemente.
These three stood out to me for the focus on the fans, which I really liked.
Some various fun photos, too from recent Big League sets, and one of Carl Hubbell doing something to a baseball. (Smelling it? Kissing it? Drinking from it?)
Some new-to-me '80s TCMA designs, and a somewhat rare image of Mickey Mantle from later in his career, wearing a batting helmet.
So much shiny!
One shiny card that I like more than I expected is this Frank Assertive card. Nice shiny foil on the front . . .
. . . great Chicago skyline photo on the back.
I took this photo of all the other cards Jon sent, to show just how generous the package was . . .
. . . then I realized I forgot a whole lot more, including some more shinies!
Thank you Jon!
Nice Koufax. The 1959 Bazooka design is so simple and fantastic.
ReplyDeleteFunny thing about that Super, I tried to trade it to a guy on Twitter a few years ago who ended up flaking out. Then I offered it up for free on there and the claimer end up flaking out as well. In retrospect, I should of just sent it to you and saved my self the hassle of having to try and deal with those flakes.
ReplyDeleteJon had a great giveaway! You got some good stuff!
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