yeah i know this site is “rickeyhendersoncards”, but whatever.. i also collect Ron Gant cards and a few others, so i might feel like posting about those sometimes too..
i picked up this bgs 9.5 1997 Pinnacle “Mirror Gold” #65 of Ron Gant.. only cost a few bucks..
i also got Chachi Arcola’s autograph on the cheap.. dude has banged like half of the chicks in hollywood..
cheap, but one i didnt have.. i’m pretty sure this card came out of one of those little drug store box sets that were everywhere in the late 80′s.. they usually contained like 44 cards or something, i had sets from Revco, Kmart, everywhere..
1994 Finest Refractor #223
1996 Finest Silver Refractor #229
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damnit, two weeks in a row i missed out on the Beckett grading special on Rickey Henderson cards.. oh well.. i have a few i would have submitted, had i gotten them postmarked by today.
while i was going through some of my “extras” i came across a variation card i never knew about before.. coincidentally, this was the same day that i got an email from ManOfSteal (RickeyHendersonCollectibles.com), and he’s compiling a list of known Rickey variation cards, and he probably already knows about this one.. (as for me, i probably won’t know about most of them, i can’t name any Rickey variations off the top of my head)..
i have two 1992 Score #441 “Dream Team” Rickey Henderson cards, and i noticed the backs were opposite of eachother (see scans below).. i’m assuming the reason for the error is something like the old Donruss factory set variations, where the backs were printed in opposite directions for factory sets compared to the cards pulled from packs..
of course, he won’t get in, but it’s still nice to see Ron Gant’s name on the HOF ballot.. i met him back in the 1988 pre-season when I was 12 years old and he was just a random rookie for the Braves..
i was at an exhibition game in Florida during spring training, and i got dissed by Dale Murphy when I tried to get an autograph.. Ron Gant saw me get dissed, walked up to me from behind and put his hand on my shoulder and offered to sign my program.. awesome, although i had no idea who he was.. i had to try and match the signature to the player names in my program when i got home..
anyway, after that i really wanted to see Gant be successful, and he was, with several 30+ homerun seasons before getting injured in an ATV accident..
