What was your favorite pickup during 2014?

jpruitt2 · Dec 24, 2014

This is always a fun thread to look through. With the year coming to an end in a week, what was your favorite pickup during 2014? This doesn't doesn't have to be the most valuable addition. Try to limit this to no more than 3.

Here are 2 of mine:

2002 Signing Bonus Phil Rizzuto # 9/10

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2002 Signing Bonus Greg Maddux (white) # 19/31

devin · Dec 24, 2014

here are mine
16x20 buxton and sano got ip

morneau 16x20 with mvp psa cert

justin morneau 8x10 with mvp ttm with donation

Topnotchsy · Dec 24, 2014

I've shown these a few times recently. From a sheer "impossible to find card" the Banks was one I had never even seen a picture of before and is numbered lower than the others. Aaron is actually one of the "easiest" to find from the set because it is numbered the highest, but it's Hank Aaron! And I've always liked Mathews a lot. To me he's an underrated all-time great.

finestkind · Dec 24, 2014

1932 NY.Giants Team Schedule

CollectorsCorner · Dec 24, 2014

PC wise I guess it would be this card. Didn't find much this year I guess

http://www.comc.com/Cards/Football/2000/Donruss_Elite_Aspirations_Die-Cut/110/Cris_Carter/7582791

What could have been pickups that I needed to return for obvious reasons.

Can't imagine what it would be worth now. I paid $32 ish on auction for it.

joey12508 · Dec 24, 2014

This one took a six week trip in the mail.

WCTYSON · Dec 24, 2014

Topnotchsy said:
I've shown these a few times recently. From a sheer "impossible to find card" the Banks was one I had never even seen a picture of before and is numbered lower than the others. Aaron is actually one of the "easiest" to find from the set because it is numbered the highest, but it's Hank Aaron! And I've always liked Mathews a lot. To me he's an underrated all-time great.

I completely agree, but why is that? He played in just 15 full seasons and his numbers are up there with the top 20 best players to have ever played. I collect only Topps certified autos and he has very little available. Those that are available are cheap in comparison to most with similar numbers in the game and limited autos on the market. Are you missing any for set completion?

gt2590 · Dec 24, 2014

[MENTION=1770]Jaypers[/MENTION] hooked me up

Topnotchsy · Dec 24, 2014

WCTYSON said:
I completely agree, but why is that? He played in just 15 full seasons and his numbers are up there with the top 20 best players to have ever played. I collect only Topps certified autos and he has very little available. Those that are available are cheap in comparison to most with similar numbers in the game and limited autos on the market. Are you missing any for set completion?

I wasn't around in his playing days so I don't know, but I imagine he may have been overshadowed by Hank Aaron his whole career. (Interestingly on Baseball-Reference he's rated as the 13th best hitter of all time, 2 places higher than Aaron at the time I'm writing this. Of course they have Charlie Gehringer at #20 , so I wouldn't put much stock in it.)

As for his signed cards, he passed away in 2001, so there's not a ton of cards out there for him (and since he had on-card sigs his cuts are not particularly attractive to most people.)

A personal favorite is this card (not from Topps though)

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On the set, I'll never come close to finishing it since the cost is prohibitive for most of the bigger cards (a Ted Williams /9 recently sold for roughly $9000) but it's a fun quest...

WCTYSON · Dec 24, 2014

Topnotchsy said:
I wasn't around in his playing days so I don't know, but I imagine he may have been overshadowed by Hank Aaron his whole career. (Interestingly on Baseball-Reference he's rated as the 13th best hitter of all time, 2 places higher than Aaron at the time I'm writing this. Of course they have Charlie Gehringer at #20 , so I wouldn't put much stock in it.)

As for his signed cards, he passed away in 2001, so there's not a ton of cards out there for him (and since he had on-card sigs his cuts are not particularly attractive to most people.)

A personal favorite is this card (not from Topps though)
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On the set, I'll never come close to finishing it since the cost is prohibitive for most of the bigger cards (a Ted Williams /9 recently sold for roughly $9000) but it's a fun quest...

Very nice card above and a fitting franchise dual. Here is what I have, though this scan is from Ebay.

Good luck on the rest of your set and I can see how completing that certainly would be cost prohibitive.

u2me57 · Dec 26, 2014

I don't know how to post pics but my favorite pickup this year has been 65 1998 Topps Tek Thome base cards and 3 Thome Tek diffractors.

shadowking86 · Dec 27, 2014

This should be a bigger thread.

Anyway, here is mine:

I picked back up on my Sandy Alomar Jr. collection this year to do something a little different. I have been solely focused on the Red Sox for years now. This is easily my favorite Alomar in my collection. It is the 2005 Topps Rookie Cup Original Relics card, serial-numbered 3/3. A terrific-looking card.

AmishDave · Dec 27, 2014

MrMet · Dec 27, 2014

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Those are my two faves that I can think of right now

Yankees48 · Dec 27, 2014

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heavy_hitter · Dec 27, 2014

yankeefan231 · Dec 27, 2014

Man, that Zimmerman is sweet! ... Here are two of my favorites

The Jeter Credentials actually graded a 9.5.

magicpapa · Dec 27, 2014

Not too many pik ups since I've retred from collecting, But Was Honored with theses Very Nice Gifts..........
regular sized cards

and this Personalized Oversized

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JoshHamilton · Dec 29, 2014

Zan · Dec 30, 2014

Pick up of the year from August, haven't had much since

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