Yep another Hank Aaron card!!!!   1956, 59 and 60 are all in my possession now, and this is both the roughest looking and most glorious of the bunch.  An impending play at the plate makes a perfect front of the card and a look at the stats for Hank's 1955 season makes a great back as well... 105R 27 HR  105 RBI and a .314 batting average.... that aint bad production.... of course over on the right side is a scary looking number that I dont think I have seen often...  15 errors from an outfielder is some scary looking stuff.... but I also notice it shows 93 assists and that says Hank played some other position as well.... so its off to baseball reference to find out what is going on here.. turns out Hank played in 25 games at 2B in 1955... something I had not known about....   and 6 of the errors were committed there...  so mystery solved.....  
     Oh one other thing to add....  with the Hank slide into the plate and the play at, I guess, third base on the Ray Jablonski card and the ground ball situation on the Ken Boyer, I have 3 great examples of why the action drawings on the 1956 cards are so awesome!!!  Now that is why I am fond of the 56s.

Well another day and another post of a 1960 Topps completed page, which I hope is as enjoyable for everyone to view as they are for me to scan.  I am glad to have been able to knock off as many pages as I  have in such a short amount of time.  I am still enjoying collecting these vintage cards though I am not sure I am a fan of having to pay close attention to condition of cards.  Ok on to the page, this one is much better than the previous page of blah, or at least this page is much more top heavy, but first who knew Don Zimmer ever was young????  I mean he has always looked like an old fat short guy to me and I can probably remember him back 30 years.  As a player the Zimmer fits in with the rest of these cards but Don is a legend for all his non player contributions to the game.
  Kaline, who spent his entire 22 year career with the Tigers, well hell, he is known as Mr. Tiger.... so really for those folks up in the Motor City who the hell can top that.

Oh feel free to answer the question in the title in comments if its not obvious..... or read the only link as to figure out the answer....

Ok thats all for today....  I wonder if the next completed page will be better than this one?  tough to beat the top card but can it be deeper?  stay tuned to find out.

Let's make a deal.

 With a swift and hefty bid I was able to knock off the entire All Star portion of the 1960 Topps last series of high number cards.  My first ever Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris cards are now in my possession and I could not be happier!!  The Aaron is my first non 70s Hank card so all in all a great haul for me and my wantlist!  Slowly but surely I am getting this 1960 set knocked out.

Some random stuff to trade away and somehow I managed to pick out 2 Joe Nathan cards.  The Jepsen is numbered 24/100, nathan UD portraits is 12/99, Uggla auto is   45/199 and the Laporta chrome is 53/1960

Is anyone interested in any of these cards?  make an offer Please.... check out some of my wantlists or send me Ginter black minis!!!

Lets make a deal

 This makes the first true vintage set that I am collecting, well I am collecting others but, this is the first that actually have a want list for.  Something about the horizontal cards drew me to this set...not even sure why, though I must say I also really like the 56 topps set as well.  Yes, I am working on the 56 set also, so if you want to trade some of them let me know and I will see what i have for doubles there.  This is my first completed page of the the set and its not a bad first page to finish, a few future managers, a Pappa of a future manager, AND Whitey Ford AND Brooks Robinson,  who else could you ask for???  Well I suppose Mickey Mantle would be a good one to ask for, but besides that, this will do!
Of course after scanning in I realize that I am putting the horizontal cards in the wrong way in order to be able to view the backs of the vertical cards, but this is going to have to do as I have no desire to go through and change the way i have the cards in the pages.  The main thing I don't like about this set is the lack of career stats, but really that is a minor quibble.....  so what do you think of the 1960 set?
Oh I pd 90 shipped with insurance for the lot in the previous post, so looks I overpaid a bit, but I am happy with the cards and what can I say...I knocked off mays and banks so it will work.  I have a ton of doubles of these cards so I wont be putting up a list of them yet..... here are the 60s that I need.

Check out my current want list post for the 1960 topps want list!

Let's make a deal!!!

I think this is the coolest ebay lot I have ever won.  My first Willie Mays and Ernie Banks cards, vintage edition, I mean what more needs to be said, that is beyond cool.  Now make it 2 Willie Mays cards along with a Hank Aaron, a Koufax leader card, a Pudge(get drunk and wander through a corn field version) plus a Jim Kaat RC AND you get the bonus Cecil Cooper appearance.  What more can you ask for?

Finally back with another post....  and for the first time in a long time...its not baseball cards...but HOCKEY CARDS!!!!  GO PENS!!!! btw...might as well get that out there..  Seeing as how I do enjoy all things Masterpieces  it only makes sense that I would go after the Hockey set as well....I have gathered up enough of these brown border cards to give a wantlist a go...  Is there anyone else out there collecting these things????

Here are the cards I need:  7 16 19 20 21 26 28 29 30 33 34 45 46 48 52 57 64 70 75 80 81 85

Cards I have to trade: 1 5 8 9 13 23 24 35 38 39 40 42 43 51 56 60 62 68 69 72 79 86

lets make a deal!!!

Oh I should also add that it has gotten quite boring searching for the few obscure ginter minis I need to finish my sets...so I decided to branch out a bit....and decided to go after some vintage topps baseball sets.....  from 50s to the late 70s....  I have the 1960 set hardest so far for some reason...not sure why...I guess it spoke to me....I will be posting wantlists and trade list for it soon....of course the way I post soon could be in 6 months...  so yeah....

Anyone have any good advice for collecting vintage stuff? price points?  I know my ginter minis and masterpieces prices pretty darn well, but have struggled with the older stuff....  so far I haven't been too concerned about condition....but I know it has a huge impact on price....  any thoughts?  anyone else collecting 50s and 60s stuff that wants to trade?  let me know....  happy collecting all!!