1962 GREEN BAY PACKERS vs PHILADELPHIA EAGLES Autographs VINCE LOMBARDI,STARR+ – eBay (item 120643196782 end time Nov-11-10 15:37:49 PST)
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1962 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES/ CLEVELAND BROWNS Autographs JIM BROWN, PAUL BROWN, LOU GROZA and more, on 1962 Game Program cover
1953 Original SUPERMAN 3-D DC Comics Adventures VINTAGE
Unidentified Vintage Photographs
I found these old pictures in a book purchased at an estate sale a couple months ago. I have no idea who any of the people in the photos are. Click on the pic below for a BIG view. I was trying to figure out what the writing on the black-bordered card is. Obviously something on Pike St. in Port Jervis, NY…but what does it say above that? Lunderius? Dunderius? Lundenius?
2010 Celebrity & All-Star Softball Game
i watched it on ESPN last night after the home run derby.. Rickey Henderson hit a lead-off home run off Jennie Finch.. MC Hammer also got a homer. I actually didnt watch the whole game, i guess the home run derby went longer than expected and my DVR only got the first couple innings of the softball game.
RIP George Steinbrenner 1930-2010
Love him or hate him, no matter what you thought of George Steinbrenner, he is a big part of baseball history. RIP.
I owned this card once..
Yep.. unfortunately I sold it a couple years ago.
Wow.. Stephen Strasburg card @ $500,000+?
Babe Ruth and Tom Mix?
Still going through boxes of cards I haven’t messed with in awhile, I found this awesome card, dated 1985 from “Big League Cards” featuring Babe Ruth and western movie star Tom Mix as “American Heroes” for 1932.
Is Babe Ruth showing Tom Mix how to shoot? What exactly is going on in this painting?
When trying to find a connection (other than the time period) between Babe Ruth and Tom Mix, I found out that Tom Mix evidently once owned a semi-pro baseball league “composed of movie folks and competed in a league of movie people that was organized for fun, not for charity or publicity.” (link). Not that it’s a connection to Ruth at all, just a connection to baseball.
The back of the card says “The last year Babe Ruth hit as many as 40 HR was 1932. Tom Mix made his debut in ‘talkies’ the same year.”
Under that it says “Lindbergh, Weismuller, Ruth & Mix put the roar in the 20′s. No other time in history were ‘heroes’ so bonafide. When Ruth hit a HR it was electrifying. When Mix performed a stunt with his horse Tony, the world was in awe. All were ultimate heroes.”
Being Memorial Day weekend, I’m not so sure I agree with everything said on the back of the card — but it’s still a pretty cool card.
BIG THANKS TO ALL THE HEROES IN OUR ARMED FORCES WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR OUR COUNTRY AND FREEDOM.
1995 Topps Rickey Henderson Variation
Well, it’s not really much of a variation, but still, I noticed it awhile back when I was going through my stuff, and put the cards aside and have been meaning to do a blog post about them but haven’t until now..
The “variation” is just a small black print dot, but it matches exactly on two of my cards, and doesn’t appear at all on the third. It’s in the same exact spot on the two cards it appears on. (Click the photos below for a larger view)
A few years ago I noticed a similar variation on 1968 Topps #385 Jim Catfish Hunter cards, with a print dot at the top border of each card except the first one in the scan below. Not a big deal as far as variations go, but I thought it was interesting. (Click the photos for a larger view)
