on December 22nd, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Steve Carlton turns 65 years old today.
Steve Carlton is one of the game’s greatest pitchers of all-time. And one of its most under-appreciated as well…
Carlton had a dominant 24-season major league baseball career. A first ballot Hall of Famer, Carlton’s resume boasts some incredibly impressive accomplishments:
4 Cy Young awards
10-time All-star
329 career victories
4,136 strikeouts
1 Gold Glove [...]
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on December 22nd, 2009 by White Sox Cards
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on December 22nd, 2009 by T.S.
Let’s face it: for the average schmo, chasing down suitable Christmas gifts
can pose a real challenge. It helps a bit if the intended recipient has a hobby that
might offer recurring themes, etc., but even then there are pitfalls that need to
be avoided.
For one, there’s always the concern that if someone is a serious collector,
it might be difficult to find something that they haven’t already snagged. In the
same vein, finding gifts for big-time collectors can also be harrowing because the
more serious the collector, the greater chance that whatever is still on the want
list might be pretty expensive.
Mix in the difficulty – in our hobby, for example – of knowing where
to turn to in buying something in terms of finding a reliable and reputable seller,
and you can see that the execution might be fraught with hurdles.
I’d be curious about what were the best hobby-related Christmas gifts
that our readers had ever received. For me, it’s an easy call.
After I got married in 1983, my wife was as good at Christmas shopping
as she was at everything else. This is not a Henny Youngman aside: she got me great
Christmas presents.
And the hobby helped in that regard. Throughout the decade she got me
a number of Gartlan statues that I always coveted but probably wouldn’t have
bought for myself. But the very best Christmas present was in 1983 when she picked
up the entire set of Perez-Steele Hall of Fame Art Postcards.
It’s hardly a shameless plug to say she purchased it from an advertisement
in SCD. The cost at the time was $100 to get all of the Perez-Steele Series
up to that point, along with being registered for the subsequent issues down through
the years.
I could add, and have mentioned in a number of times, that her purchase
of those cards represented perhaps the best investment of cards ever done in our family.
Since I rarely ever buy anything with an eye towards reselling it down the road, I
also rarely ever hit on any accidental winners. That ditty about the blind squirrel
doesn’t really apply to me.
But my now ex-wife did just fine playing Santa Claus 25 years ago.
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on December 22nd, 2009 by JRJ
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on December 22nd, 2009 by Captain Canuck
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on December 22nd, 2009 by 30-Year Old Cardboard
Steve Garvey turns 61 years old today!!!
Garvey was a monster during the mid-to-late 1970’s while with the Los Angeles Dodgers. From 1974 to 1981, Garvey finished in the Top 25 in the MVP race each season which validates how solid of a player he was during the prime of his career. While winning the award in [...]
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on December 22nd, 2009 by Dan
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on December 22nd, 2009 by chemgod
Player’s Name: Colt McCoy
Player’s Current Team: University of Texas Longhorns
Player’s Current Address: Sent to Sports Director at UT
Date Sent out: 9/1/09
Date Returned: 12/21/09 (110 days)
Why go after this autograph: This card is one of my favorite customes that I did using the A&G 2009 template. I sent out four Heisman Hopeful cards and only Max Hall (BYU) [...]
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