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[Wolfman]

What sports and which years?

What are some of your favourite bands then?

Baseball, basketball, football. Some rookies I have include Aaron, Banks, Kaline, Koufax, Maris, Gibson, McCovey, Reggie Jackson, Brett. Also have Mays 1st Topps card, but not his rookie, and Mantle 2nd Topps card. Basketball rookies I have are Chamberlain, West, Baylor, Oscar Robertson, Pettit, and a bunch of '69 rookies, but not Alcindor or Maravich. Football rookies include Jim Brown, Deacon Jones, Butkus, Sayers, Bob Hayes, Barry Sanders. I also have the complete 1965 Topps baseball set, and a lot of various cards across all the sports.

[Wolfman]

What sports and which years?

What are some of your favourite bands then?

Zeppelin #1 for me. Bowie, CCR, Elton John, Purple, Sabbath, Three Dog Night, The Rascals, Stones, Beatles, etc.

[Hepcat]

Baseball, basketball, football. Some rookies I have include Aaron, Banks, Kaline, Koufax, Maris, Gibson, McCovey, Reggie Jackson, Brett. Also have Mays 1st Topps card, but not his rookie, and Mantle 2nd Topps card. Basketball rookies I have are Chamberlain, West, Baylor, Oscar Robertson, Pettit, and a bunch of '69 rookies, but not Alcindor or Maravich. Football rookies include Jim Brown, Deacon Jones, Butkus, Sayers, Bob Hayes, Barry Sanders.

Do you go after the checklists and wrappers though?

When it comes to baseball, my focus is on getting more cards plus wrappers as opposed to "star" cards. I have hundreds and hundreds of baseball cards now from the 1954-65 period. Here are some scans/pictures:

Topps 1958





Topps 1959









Topps 1960





Topps 1962







Topps 1963









But I'm a Canadian. The main focus of my sports card collecting is therefore on CFL and hockey cards. Here are some scans from my present day collection. First these 1959 CFL cards which were the first cards I ever bought as a kid:















Then here are some of the Topps 1958-59 hockey cards from my collection:







I found four of those cards on the street on a grey snowy day in late 1958 or early 1959. The first three were Red Wings, but the fourth was a Blackhawk! I couldn't read yet, but that big Indian head absolutely enthralled me and I've been a Blackhawk fan ever since.

[Wolfman]

Nice cards!
I'm a big Hank Aaron fan, so I have his 1954 (rookie psa 4), 1955 (Beckett 5.5), 1957, 1959 (psa 6), 1961 (psa , 1961 (all-star), 1962, 1964 (regular version & giant size), 1965 (psa 6.5 & psa 7), 1966, 1967. Also have a 1964 or 1965 coin & mini poster that were extras in the packs of cards. And lastly, I have 2 signed baseballs by him!

JP

[Wolfman]

Nice cards!
I'm a big Hank Aaron fan, so I have his 1954 (rookie psa 4), 1955 (Beckett 5.5), 1957, 1959 (psa 6), 1961 (psa , 1961 (all-star), 1962, 1964 (regular version & giant size), 1965 (psa 6.5 & psa 7), 1966, 1967. Also have a 1964 or 1965 coin & mini poster that were extras in the packs of cards. And lastly, I have 2 signed baseballs by him!

JP

Forgot that I also have a Mitchell & Ness 1957 throwback Aaron jersey.

JP

[Hepcat]

I also have the complete 1965 Topps baseball set....

The 1965 Topps Baseball cards had a really nice design:



They were the last baseball card set I ever collected as a kid. Just like the previous three years, however, cards beyond the first three series (cards above #264) were pretty well impossible to find in variety stores in my neck of the woods.

Also have a 1964 or 1965 coin & mini poster that were extras in the packs of cards.

Metal baseball coins were an insert in the 1964 Topps packs sold in the United States:



But the All-Stars, i.e. the red coins and the blue coins, were the following year inserted into the 1965 Topps baseball cards packaged and distributed by O-Pee-Chee in Canada.

[Wolfman]

The 1965 Topps Baseball cards had a really nice design:



They were the last baseball card set I ever collected as a kid. Just like the previous three years, however, cards beyond the first three series (up to #264) were pretty well impossible to find in variety stores in my neck of the woods.

Metal baseball coins were an insert in the 1964 Topps packs sold in the United States:



But the All-Stars, i.e. the red coins and the blue coins, were the following year inserted into the 1965 Topps baseball cards packaged and distributed by O-Pee-Chee in Canada.

1965 is my all-time favorite set. Beautiful design, and great clarity on the photos. Yep, the 6th and 7th series were short prints, and almost impossible to find.

JP

[Hepcat]

Yep, the 6th and 7th series were short prints, and almost impossible to find.

Well at least the fourth and fifth series were available in your neck of the woods. We weren't so lucky. I remember only one instance between 1962 and 1965 of a fellow showing up in the school yard with fourth series 1963 cards which prompted a flurry of excitement and wonder. We never did learn where he got them. Perhaps the variety store in his neighbourhood or maybe a weekend trip with his parents to Port Huron, Detroit or Buffalo.

[CountWolkoff]

I wrote a children's novel. As well as a three-part follow-up you can read for free.

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[Mike Scott]

I wrote a children's novel.

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