St. Louis Cardinals Collectors Thread

[SINFULONE]

Wow. Makes me glad I sold mine a long time ago for $150!

Yeah, years ago those easily sold for that all day.Only gave around $50 for mine, didn't think they could go any lower when I bought it.Wrong on that.

 

[SINFULONE]

The bats go from $100 (Schumaker) -$400 (Freese, Molina)

Think the most expensive of mine was the Berkman which was $300.

Decided its so much more gratifying to have something like this that i can hold in my hand knowings its actually game used then buying a box of high end cards .

I hope to get all but the Berkman one signed at the Winter warmup.

Very true about the bats over some other expensive box with junk.Will Berkman not sign at Winter Warm Up, or he will retire/sign with someone else?Are the bats all cracked?

 

[SINFULONE]

They made alot of the Cardinals, you can pick them up on ebay if you would like some.

They only make them in Japan?Have to deal with overseas sellers?

 

[PujolsCollector]

They only make them in Japan?Have to deal with overseas sellers?

Yeah, none are over here. I dont think it is too hard though to deal with most overseas sellers. There is a guy on Blowout that actually plays the game and has been amassing quite the collection of them, which is who I got mine from. He sent it to me free so chances are it is not too costly to ship and such

 

[smapdi]

Never noticed this thread before, some great stuff here. If anyone gets the opportunity to buy the first issue of Baseball Cards Magazine, from Spring 1981, there's an article in there on team collecting, and specifically the Cardinals. Great photos and good writing about what it means to collect a team. You can see some of it here.

 

[PujolsCollector]

Never noticed this thread before, some great stuff here. If anyone gets the opportunity to buy the first issue of Baseball Cards Magazine, from Spring 1981, there's an article in there on team collecting, and specifically the Cardinals. Great photos and good writing about what it means to collect a team. You can see some of it here.

Lol the cover has 52 Mantle $1100 what is that now with inflation and increase in cards popularity haha

 

[Benson]

Friend of mine gave me this locker plate.

 

[PujolsCollector]

Friend of mine gave me this locker plate.

Very cool! I have 2 Descalso locker plates and an Anthony Reyes plate! They are awesome when signed

 

[Krangry]

off topic a bit, but they have played this the last couple nights at the game. Gives me chills, and almost makes me cry like a girl every time that i see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oopo5oPlYas

 

[PujolsCollector]

I think being at game 6 and 7 of the 2011 World Series is my most underappreciated moment of my life. It has still not sank in that i was there. I don't smile when I see the replays I just shake my head like I did when it happened. I was and still am in disbelief of how miraculous that whole season was. Anyway it is fun to walk into our sports room each day and grab the baseball that Josh Hamilton hit in the 10th inning of game 6 look at it and laugh that I thought it was the end of the Cardinals chances that night. What an awesome event to say I was a part of. I will never forget the exact spots I was standing in when the triple happened (i had no clue what was going on, I was in SRO and everything went crazy. ) I saw the HR and I went crazy. The next night game 7 I was SRO also and down the first base line when the final pitch was thrown......then it started raining Haha. The streets were covered with so many people it was insane. Sorry for the long story.

 

[rookieaddict]

I think being at game 6 and 7 of the 2011 World Series is my most underappreciated moment of my life. It has still not sank in that i was there. I don't smile when I see the replays I just shake my head like I did when it happened. I was and still am in disbelief of how miraculous that whole season was. Anyway it is fun to walk into our sports room each day and grab the baseball that Josh Hamilton hit in the 10th inning of game 6 look at it and laugh that I thought it was the end of the Cardinals chances that night. What an awesome event to say I was a part of. I will never forget the exact spots I was standing in when the triple happened (i had no clue what was going on, I was in SRO and everything went crazy. ) I saw the HR and I went crazy. The next night game 7 I was SRO also and down the first base line when the final pitch was thrown......then it started raining Haha. The streets were covered with so many people it was insane. Sorry for the long story.

Whoa, hold up there a second. You have Hamilton's home run ball from the tenth?

 

[Krangry]

Whoa, hold up there a second. You have Hamilton's home run ball from the tenth?

Was thinking the same thing. Do tell.

 

[cards01fan]

I think being at game 6 and 7 of the 2011 World Series is my most underappreciated moment of my life. It has still not sank in that i was there. I don't smile when I see the replays I just shake my head like I did when it happened. I was and still am in disbelief of how miraculous that whole season was. Anyway it is fun to walk into our sports room each day and grab the baseball that Josh Hamilton hit in the 10th inning of game 6 look at it and laugh that I thought it was the end of the Cardinals chances that night. What an awesome event to say I was a part of. I will never forget the exact spots I was standing in when the triple happened (i had no clue what was going on, I was in SRO and everything went crazy. ) I saw the HR and I went crazy. The next night game 7 I was SRO also and down the first base line when the final pitch was thrown......then it started raining Haha. The streets were covered with so many people it was insane. Sorry for the long story.

We were down the first base line by the foul pole for game six. The feeling when Hamilton hit the homerun was gut wrenching. The feeling when freese hit his hr was unbelievable ! The stadium went nuts freese freese freese. Lol the ladies next to us left in the top of the ninth

 

[PujolsCollector]

Yes we own Hamilton's 10th inning HR. We bought it from a guy who bought it from the guy who caught it. It has with it 2 notorized letters 3 newspaper articles about the guy who caught it. That guys ticket stub from the game. Copy of his drivers licence. A picture of him and his wife right after he caught it. It is a rubbed up game used baseball no MLB hologram (since it went into the seats and no varification) so i think with all of that I am 99% certain we have the ball. I thought I had posted before that we have it, guess not. It was fairly expensive.

 

[rookieaddict]

Yes we own Hamilton's 10th inning HR. We bought it from a guy who bought it from the guy who caught it. It has with it 2 notorized letters 3 newspaper articles about the guy who caught it. That guys ticket stub from the game. Copy of his drivers licence. A picture of him and his wife right after he caught it. It is a rubbed up game used baseball no MLB hologram (since it went into the seats and no varification) so i think with all of that I am 99% certain we have the ball. I thought I had posted before that we have it, guess not. It was fairly expensive.

That's pretty cool, glad they went to the lengths they did to prove the authenticity for you.

 

[PujolsCollector]

That's pretty cool, glad they went to the lengths they did to prove the authenticity for you.

Yea. It is pretty cool. I will try to post a picture of it when I get home from school today. I call it the ball that silenced Busch Stadium

 

[rookieaddict]

Yea. It is pretty cool. I will try to post a picture of it when I get home from school today. I call it the ball that silenced Busch Stadium

Are there any discerning marks on the ball that are documented in the statements?

 

[PujolsCollector]

There are not any marks on it really, you can tell where the ball hit either the bat or the seat because he did not catch it on the fly. I have watched the video, the guy who grabs it is the same guy (same clothes anyway) from the picture and the guy in the picture is the same as on the drivers licence and the guy on the license is the guy that is talked about in the article and the guy talked about in that articles eBay name was in there the guy that bought the ball showed us records of buying it on eBay from the other guy. Hahaha so no it doesn't talk about any marks but the evidence that has been provided is more than enough for me to believe in its authenticity. The guy we bought it from allowed us to make payments over 4 months. He placed the ball in a bank vault thing and sent us pictures of it while it was in there to prove he had not swapped baseballs. Lmao it is crazy how well handled this ball has been since it was caught.

 

[rookieaddict]

There are not any marks on it really, you can tell where the ball hit either the bat or the seat because he did not catch it on the fly. I have watched the video, the guy who grabs it is the same guy (same clothes anyway) from the picture and the guy in the picture is the same as on the drivers licence and the guy on the license is the guy that is talked about in the article and the guy talked about in that articles eBay name was in there the guy that bought the ball showed us records of buying it on eBay from the other guy. Hahaha so no it doesn't talk about any marks but the evidence that has been provided is more than enough for me to believe in its authenticity. The guy we bought it from allowed us to make payments over 4 months. He placed the ball in a bank vault thing and sent us pictures of it while it was in there to prove he had not swapped baseballs. Lmao it is crazy how well handled this ball has been since it was caught.

As long as you guys are comfortable with all the info, that's all that matters. It's a huge part of that game 6 story, that you guys will always have.

 

[SINFULONE]

Yeah, none are over here. I dont think it is too hard though to deal with most overseas sellers. There is a guy on Blowout that actually plays the game and has been amassing quite the collection of them, which is who I got mine from. He sent it to me free so chances are it is not too costly to ship and such

Who is the guy on Blowout?I want to contact him.Did he send yours from here or overseas?