Junior Griffey
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Ylaf used to have an awesome Griffey collection. If that's real, he'd be the one to have it. But I've never seen a patch on that card before.
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GriffeyFan
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Finally landed one of these.Havent picked up tp many cards lately,last one I bought was a Sport Kings number patch a few weeks back.
magicpapa
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for the Right Price, I MIGHT Be Willing To Let Theses 3 Beauties GoThanks to Bruce I was able to add more to a couple of my buyback sets and a nice 2002 Upper Deck. Thanks to Bruce and good luck over seas. @LaneyB
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2003 Ultimate Collection BuyBacks
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GOES WELL WITH
2004 SP Authentic BuyBacks
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GOES WELL WITH
magicpapa
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anyone else own one of theses?
Juan Gris
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anyone else own one of theses?
Is that an autographed finger puppet costume?
FriarG
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Pretty sure Ylaf got taken for a ride on that one. No way that's real.
for the Right Price, I MIGHT Be Willing To Let Theses 3 Beauties Go
Well the first born is already 8 so I don't think that will work..............
Next up on my list is a 93 Finest Refractor
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AK11
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Grabbed this on ebay even though there was maybe a little shilling. I really wanted the card and if you can get a decent Griffey 90s insert under $200, I will take it.
For those guys here who still buy the 90s inserts, how often do you run into cards being stuck in the sleeve? It's usually a combination of the original owner and a little moisture possibly, but I got it out and the surface looks intact. I had an 00 Topps Chrome Allegiance Ref Ripken lose its surface coating after trying to remove from a stuck sleeve. It's dangerous when there's money involved.
For those guys here who still buy the 90s inserts, how often do you run into cards being stuck in the sleeve? It's usually a combination of the original owner and a little moisture possibly, but I got it out and the surface looks intact. I had an 00 Topps Chrome Allegiance Ref Ripken lose its surface coating after trying to remove from a stuck sleeve. It's dangerous when there's money involved.
Junior Griffey
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What's a good price for the Griffey 93 Finest refractor right now?
magicpapa
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1993 Finest Refractor Ken Griffey Jr Card 102 Beautiful Card Mint | eBay
I'd say around 300-400 ungraded ones
So who hit the $2499 Buy It Now on the 1997 Finest Gold Embossed Die Cut Refractor yesterday? I cannot believe it sold for that much. Does anybody else on here remember a couple years ago when ylaf listed two of them at auction? They ran all the way through and sold for $700-800 each.
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magicpapa
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I just sent my 97 Finest Gold Ref and Shining Stars Pulsar off to BGS. I'm holding my breath for a 9 on both. It's amazingly hard to find raw 90s inserts in great condition a decade later. I had to remove the peel on the Finest because it had those pesky bubbles that BGS would downgrade the surface for. I know there's probably a trick to it, but it was tough removing the peel. I couldn't send the Brilliants Gold /99 into BGS because after further examination it had surface spots probably from sticking to the card in front of it in the pack.
magicpapa
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Good Luck, Thoses Shining Stars Pulsars are Sweet!!
magicpapa
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Snooze Ya Loose.............:-(
Zonked out before it ended.............. Damn 10hr Work Days!!!
1995 Pinnacle Pins 14 Ken Griffey Jr Tough 90's Insert | eBay
Zonked out before it ended.............. Damn 10hr Work Days!!!
1995 Pinnacle Pins 14 Ken Griffey Jr Tough 90's Insert | eBay
AUTaxMan
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He's been selling some nice stuff.
budvandall
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I didn't set my snipe high enough. I thought for sure it wouldn't go that high. Did anyone here win the auction?
magicpapa
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I wish it was me, my bid prolly would have ben Trumped anyways........
So recently I had an interesting turn of events that I thought I would share. A few weeks ago a long time Ozzie Smith collector decided he would sell off his collection on eBay. There were four truly rare cards in his collection that I still needed for my PC. The nice thing he did on his eBay listing was actually list the rarer cards and followed that up the next day with videos of himself flipping through the cards in their binders.
While I was reading his description of rare cards I noticed a particular card he listed as,
"1995 Pinnacle Pin Card, possible 1 of 1. David Justice single copy only other one known to exist. Check out the SCD book."
After collecting Ozzie for over 25 years I am rarely surprised anymore to come across a card I don't have, let alone one I've never seen or heard of. My first reaction was this was one of the two 1995 Pinnacle pin related cards issued that year and he must be mistaken. I quickly reconsidered this because I had become familiar with this knowledgeable collector over the years via email correspondence and didn't think he'd make this sort of error. So I waited until the next day and watched as he flipped past the card. That is when I started to get excited.
I emailed the seller and asked him if he had more information on this card and he sent me this copy from the SCD Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards listing:
The seller wasn't really interested in piecing his collection out and wants to sell it as a whole but he is asking way too much in my opinion (believe me Iunderstand and would start high too). So I just accepted this was a card I would just have to know is out there and never own...
Act II of the story.
One of my favorite websites is a baseball card blog written by Bob Lemke (check it out). For those of you that aren't familiar with that name, Bob was the long time editor of the SCD Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards and is literally one of the most knowledgeable sources on baseball cards on the planet. I frequent his blog often, and just a couple days after I had given up on the Ozzie I probably would never own, he had an interesting article about that very card. My assumption before reading the article was that he was going to reference the card from the above mentioned eBay auction but my assumption was incorrect.
See blog here: http://boblemke.blogspot.com/search?q=ozzie
To sum up the article, Mr. Lemke was contacted by a long time dealer who had purchased a large collection. In this collection were a few of these Ozzie Smith cards and he wanted to know if, (because Bob had actually done the write up for SCD years earlier), he had any new information about this set. Bob did not have any new information but theorized that all of the players in the Pinnacle pin promotion probably had cards like the David Justice card pictured in the SCD, but no others had ever surfaced, until now. He also went on to write that these were most likely released out the back door after Pinnacle’s bankruptcy in 1998.
Again, I started to get excited.
I decided to contact the dealer who owned the Ozzie cards and see if any or all were for sale. He wrote me back and said that if he hadn't decided to sell them but because I was the first person to respond to Bob's blog he would sell me one and I was able to work out a deal for one of them.
Because I focus my collection only on the years he actually played it is very rare that I get to add a card to my checklist/collection. To add one that is 18 years old is very gratifying. My only regret is I only had a few weeks to pine over, and search for, the newly discovered card. Sometimes the search is the best part.
For those of you who have players in the '95 Pinnacle Pin set keep an eye out,evidence suggests they very well may have a card from this set. Sorry.
*Interesting side not*
After I had sent payment out I received and email from the dealer (who is out of San Diego, CA) and he commented that he had grown up and went to school in the same small town in Illinois I live in. In fact, my kids go to the same school he did a number of years ago. Sometimes I think we're just meant to own certain cards. Extremely happy with this new card!
Here it is. The scan does not do it justice. I tried multiple times to scan this so the gold lettering at the top would stand out to no avail.
Thanks for reading.
