MrMopar's New Dodgers Autograph Thread (and other interesting items on a slow mailday)

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Madlock /25
Newcombe /10

Strawberry /5
Wills /56 & /96
Roe /450

Davis

Buckner
Thompson

 

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Garvey /99


Garvey 6/25 Bazooka back !!


De Leon /5

 

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This ranks up there as one of the odder items I have added. A primary ballot from CA showing Garvey as a candidate for Senator.

It was $4...was not sure what I'd be willing to pay when I first saw one, as the other one I saw listed at $9.99 OBO and that was too much. Free shipping helped too.


May 2024 Big League. I like these cards each year. Fun designs. Reminds of days gone by with simpler designs and such.

 

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O'Connell large print with hand coloring/sig by O'Connell 28/500

Padre Brochure, 85/86 time frame approx

Dodgers brochure from 1977. This unfolds to 16" x 20" approx.

Gonsolin /88

Kemp /199

Kendall Refractor /499

Pepiot

 

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A good mail day today.

Sporting Life custom Garvey/Ryan/Rose 1/1

Garvey mini A&G back.

A paid of Dodger Lofton cards. His first, I believe, other than possibly an Archive buyback. one is /199 the other /25. Couldn't win one to save my life. i had an offer in on the /199 and as soon as I won the /25, the offer was accepted. It goes that way for me quite a bit, but I can life with that. I don't mind dupes.

It appears the /25 is a jersey # match to boot.



Reese auto print


A pair of Gonsolin Archives. One /56, the other /99

Gonzalez /51


Vargas /18


5 Russell Martin autos

 

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Garvey /15 /50 /99

Pepiot /50
Garciaparra /20.

Craig /25. Too bad it's a Giants card.

This qualifies for the Garvey/Dodgers thread. 1974 Topps checklist sheet.

 

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Garvey /22. A newer insert card, cards your mom threw out or something similar. Don't like those quite as much as "vintage" buybacks, not that 85 would be vintage though.
76 Topps team checklist sheet

Can't get enough of these more obscure Dodger archives. This particular is a dupe too. /18.

Ishii.

Interesting photo with Wills and Willie Davis

1959 Dodgers record with Vin Scully Full size, 33 1/3 rpm, I think. I didn't take it out to try to play.

 

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Sheff /200.

Alston.

This literally showed up today, the day I read that he is leaving the Dodgers after a very short tenure! It's a new one for the list, but with new roster ads this year and a few stubborn older players, I am up to needing 9, possibly 10 to complete the LA run. Landon Knack makes 10, but I may have a card of his already. I forget.

 

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Murray /10.

LoDuca /15.

 

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This is a continuation of my great mail day share, started at the monthly pick-up thread. The Dodger part of the mailday was equally exciting...

Sheehan Heritage is the first from the set for me. Still hope to land an Outman at a decent price.

A pair of Garvey /25.


Scratched TWO off the Dodger wantlist today. I can't remember the last time I added 2 players in one day. Feyereisen and Covey.


The big news in Dodgertown is the discovery (for me at least) of a previously unknown Pepsi Dodger item, this one is a Don Sutton application from 1974! I absolutely love this stuff and hope to still find more in the future.

One day I will get a picture of everyone in one shot, but I have grown quite a nice little collection of this former kids club memorabilia. I always appreciate new Line Drives, but compared to the application, they are garbage!!

 

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Garvey /150


I had a few of these, but ended up winning it for $5.50 plus shipping. /70


Green /15. Another out of it's case, but it was cheap enough to not care too much.

 

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Garvey /25 (again)


Newcombe /99

 

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Garv 199 x2, but the Chrome blue is 66, a double uni number card and one I collect when I find them.


May


Vargas /50.


Couple TTM/IPs

 

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Garvey /150
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I had a few of these, but ended up winning it for $5.50 plus shipping. /70
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Green /15. Another out of it's case, but it was cheap enough to not care too much.
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I picked up a couple "out of case" Green Archive Signatures recently. Up until now, I only got encased from Archives Signature Retired edition.
I'm trying to figure out if people opened up cases, or if they were pulled like this, "leftovers" slated at ARchives Signature retired,
inserted into Archives and Archives Signature [not retired] without the case.

 

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Big D. Can never have enough of these at bargain prices.

 

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I picked up a couple "out of case" Green Archive Signatures recently. Up until now, I only got encased from Archives Signature Retired edition.
I'm trying to figure out if people opened up cases, or if they were pulled like this, "leftovers" slated at ARchives Signature retired,
inserted into Archives and Archives Signature [not retired] without the case.

I assume people have opened them, but I don't know this for sure

 

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I assume people have opened them, but I don't know this for sure

There are a lot of new people in the hobby that aren't beholden to the way things "should" be done...it used to be that nobody would dare take an uncirculated/encased card out of the original holder, no matter how beat up it was. Now I see plenty of people removing them for whatever reason, including making it easier to ship. I'm in a Facebook group where it seems like the majority of the people see nothing wrong with "doctoring" cards (including soaking them and rebuilding corners/edges) when that type of talk would have gotten you run out of town on a rail 10-15 years ago. We are now the old fogeys, people.

 

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There are a lot of new people in the hobby that aren't beholden to the way things "should" be done...it used to be that nobody would dare take an uncirculated/encased card out of the original holder, no matter how beat up it was. Now I see plenty of people removing them for whatever reason, including making it easier to ship. I'm in a Facebook group where it seems like the majority of the people see nothing wrong with "doctoring" cards (including soaking them and rebuilding corners/edges) when that type of talk would have gotten you run out of town on a rail 10-15 years ago. We are now the old fogeys, people.

Yes, I see a very distinct difference in hobby interactions now on both facebook and ebay. The sites like this still seem to be fairly traditional, for now at least.

I got into an argument recently with a seller on ebay who charged over $6.50 for shipping of a single card. I take that with a grain of salt, as I know costs have and keep going up. I believe a basic poadded mailer is over $5 cost now to ship! However, I was irritated to see it show up via standard trading card in a regular envelope. Postage cost was $0.64! I asked for a reasonable refund, because for $6+, I was expecting that I paid for padded/first class. The offered me a full refund to send back the card, which i didn't want. i just wanted a fair shipping fee charged. As we went back and forth, eventually I got the excuse that they have to not only pay for supplies and postage, but also pay for their time, gas, vehicle insurance, new tires, rent, property taxes, meals, a new computer, clothes (because you can't go to the PO naked), etc. Obviously I exaggerated there a bit, but that is what it sounds like to me in this type of case to justify what is essentially stealing from your buyer. When in reality, they probably bought postage thru ebay, printed the label on their printer, slapped it on a 10 cent envelope and walked it out to their mail box. The auction also went quite low, much lower than I expected. Apparently that is also another reason to take advantage of an overcharge of postage by sending it the cheapest possible way.

Surprisingly, in the end, they issued me a full refund. I really don't get that, but I am done arguing over it. I would have been happy with a few bucks knocked off to reflect what I actually paid for, but I guess they showed me. I may be blocked now and that would not bother me. I actually suggested, even requested that they block me if they felt what they had done was fair. This is just another example of what is sucking the fun out of collecting these days.

 

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Quite a nice Dodger mail day today...

Garvey 8x10


Andruw Jones Archives /14


Thome Archives /18


Babe Herman /99. Not to be confused with HOFer Billy Herman, who played around the same time. Babe was quite a hitter. Check out his 1930 season for example. He didn't play quite long enough to rack up the numbers, otherwise he might have been a HOFer himself. I actually don't know the story and will be looking it up, but he was essentially done by age 34 in 1937, but then he came back in 1945 for 37 games with the Dodgers and then was finished again!


Outman /25.


Konerko /500

 

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Another great mail day. That means i am spending too much again!

Garvey /5


Quad GU /25


Beltre /5


LaSorda


LoDuca Buyback /20


Muncy /50


Gonsolin /99


Liranzo. Hopefully beating the rush on this guy, and he eventually makes the team, although it is Leaf. If he gets a Bowman, I'm sure it will be stupid $. This one /6


Going to include this guy, because I can!


Wong /24