#Vintage Baseball Cards

[cryptocollectibles]

Team Stadium Club Angels Premiere Edition (1993) by Topps

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Vintage poster from 1952 - Enjoy Red Man America’s Best Chew.

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"all stars" by Jenifer Prince

[retropopcult]

1978

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Jim Palmer, 1967 Topps

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Folded poster insert, from Topps Chewing Gum, features baseball cards that highlight members of the 1954 New York Yankees, August 23, 1954. The poster originally appeared in issue number two of Sports Illustrated magazine.

Photo: Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Not unlike, perhaps, the frustration of younger generations at not being able to buy cheap during the post-2008 housing market collapse, or not launching that podcast/Youtube channel/twitter account/instagram account at an earlier and less crowded time, my father, who lived through a staggering explosion of the guitar and musical instrument market and many missed opportunities to speculate in that market, is now desperately prowling to find the next guitar or amp that's going to take off. Not infrequently he'll send me a Reverb or Facebook Marketplace ad to see if I think it's gonna be a good investment, since I have accidentally bought things that became valuable a couple times in the past because I thought they were cool at the time. I keep telling him the "secret" is to buy well-made things that he likes and then if it doesn't take off at least he has a cool well-made thing that he likes but this seems not to be satisfying investment advice.

I suspect he is banking on this being my inheritance.

[vintage-tech]

Eeeeed-gaaaaar!  1992

Edgar Martínez, the greatest designated hitter to ever play the game. A lousy baserunner, though, and passable third baseman when he had to take the field to be in the batting lineup, but he is a freaking legend in the PNW.

Best remembered for helping the international rookies take their geoducks to Puyallup.

[pretty-little-fools]

[nick]

Today's pile photo. '53 Topps Baseball Cards

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[cryptocollectibles]

Tony Perez (1971) by Topps

[chris-joseph]

My ever-growing Dana Kieker card collection!

I started collecting on my trip to the States earlier this summer, I walked out of there (well, flew) with only 5 cards. It all started when my grandparents visited a vintage store in Bangor with my mom & I. I was hanging around the sport cards area, as I spotted a card lying atop one of the many boxes. I really wanted to purchase one, because I thought they were quite pretty, so I nabbed it (with 'nabbed' I mean bought it for 10¢, because I hate both stealing and being dishonest). That card happened to be a Dana Kieker card, and I fell inlove with how awesome it looked. I spent the next few days wanting to go back to the store, desperate to find some more cards of him. I remember my grandparents said I had a curfew (did I use that word right?) of an hour or so, and believe me, I made every minute count. I broke off my thumb nail (which was quite long then!) while desperately going through the baseball card bins (traumatizing, I tell you. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack!!).

It meant a great deal to me because I only rarely get to visit the United States, and I knew I'd probably never find Dana Kieker cards again in the wild. We just don't have a market for that sort of stuff in Germany. I have to order the cards off ebay, which is super pricey because of the additional shipping cost. But all the money spent is worth it to me, because holding the cards in my hands brings me so much joy.

It's unfortunate that not too much of Dana's (is calling him by his first name too personal? But at the same time, calling him 'Kieker' is far too formal) career has been documented on sites that are available to me here.

Too bad I never got to experience the original Dana Kieker hype since I was very much non-existant at that point in time (the years during which he was active). Maybe I was simply born too late. Jk, I'm just playing.

Anyway, I now own 14 cards! I know it doesn't look like much, but I'm working on it!!

[retropopcult]

Alpha-Bits cereal box, 1961

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Steve Garvey, 1980 Topps (via PSA Auctions).