Oversized 2 - no theme

 With as many items as I recently purchased from some bins of oversized collectibles, there is bound to be a lot of random.  This post is kind of a catch all for some of that randomness.

First are some MJs.  The scan doesn't make these look oversized, but they are.  They are each 3.5x5.  So not huge, but a pain to store anyways.

The Rare Air in the lower right is my favorite here, and if COMC.com is to be believed (hint: it isn't), then the card is worth a decent amount.  The Jumbo version of the card, which this one is, lists there for $70.  Silly COMC.  Like all the rest of these oversized items, I paid a quarter for it.

Since the previous scan was hard to tell the card size in, I decided to add a standard sized card to some of the rest of the scans for reference.  So here is a cool Derek Jeter 'Super Chrome Jumbo', contrasted with a normal sized Koufax.

This one is a 1994 Upper Deck 'Jumbo Checklist' featuring The Kid.  Pretty big, and it has a very glossy finish.  I actually grabbed 3 of this card.

These say 1991 Tuff Stuff on the backs.  They are sort of postcard like.  Just kind of fun.

OK, I apologize for this scan.  If you can't tell, the top portion of this scan is an envelope that contains 8 decent quality photos from the 1998 Dodgers.  Most of the photos are kind of boring, but the Piazza in the bottom part of the scan isn't bad at all.

8 photos for 25 cents, nice!

Oversized 1 - Mostly postcards

 All right, here is the first post specifically about the oversized pile o' junk I picked up for .25 per item.  Today, we are showing mostly postcards....

These first four postcards are all artwork by Michael J. Taylor for Legends Sports Memorabilia.

The Musial and Jackson are from 1991 and the Erving and Bench are from 1992.  Beautiful postcards that I enjoy.  I think the Reggie might be my fave, love the grin.

And here we have four more postcards from a 1978 series called "Great Baseball Players of the Past".

This postcard series was edited by Bert Sugar, he of the perpetual unlit cigar.  I wouldn't have known he got into baseball, as he was far better known as a boxing aficionado.

It's hard not to pick the Babe Ruth as my favorite of this four.

Then we have some from random sources.  The Mattingly is by TCMA, who we all know and love from their card sets in the 70s and 80s.  The Robinson was produced by Barry Cola who also did numerous card sets.  And the two Orioles look like they are a promotion to raise money for the University of Maryland Pediatric center.  

The Mattingly is my favorite here, he looks young.  That one is from 1985.

And we finish the postcards with three more from the "Great Baseball Players of the Past" series, and a bonus Kent Hrbek caricature. 

Top honors here go to the Rogers Hornsby, I always liked his weird back leg kick pictured here.

A couple of bonuses this post...These big ol basketball stars are from the 1976/77 set.  Not a set I see a lot of.

And finally, I really only grabbed these 2 matchboxes for the oversized holders they came in, but once I looked at them, they are pretty cool!  Looks like they are both from around the WW2 times.  I'm glad I parted with quarters for them!

More to come!

Show report - quarters and foreshadowing

 I made it to a card show last weekend after missing the previous show.  It was an ok show as these things go, definitely a little sparse.  But I did find one guy that had a large section of 'everything for a quarter'.  Probably 10-12 large boxes of cards, more football than anything, but I found some baseball.

The boxes of cards were pretty good, if not awesome.  Here are a few of my finds.

Black foil, red foil and sepia versions of HOFers were in my quarter wheelhouse.  And the Henderson RC was one I hadn't seen before so I scooped it up as well.  It turned out that it is a wrapper redemption, and actually sells in the $6-10 range.  Sweet!

But what I ended up staying at the table for were three large bins of oversized stuff, still 25 cents for each item.  Now we all know that there is a reason that people sometimes sell oversized stuff for cheap.  It's hard to store, right?  So many of us, including me, often stay away from it.  But this time, there wasn't much else to look at, and so I dug through.  And I ended up happy that I did.  I bought over 90 items from those bins!

I'm not going to show much here, but expect several posts with my hard to store finds.  Here's a quick taste!

An uncut, perforated panel with all of the 'Row' variations from 1997/98 Flair Showcase.  Yes, Row 3, Row 2, Row 1 and the hard to find Row 0!  I have no idea what I am going to do with this thing, but it is sure cool!

And then here are 3 uncut box bottoms, one from 87 Donruss and 2 from 86 Topps.

So silly, but I will have more in the coming days!

theMick.com

 Here is a recent card show pickup.  Not a super special card, but not bad either.  It is from 2011 Gypsy Queen.  It's not the front of the card that I want to talk about today though.  

It's the back.  Or more precisely, the text on the back:

I am both a numbers guy and a 'check your facts' guy, so pretty immediately, this sentence caught on my brain.  For two reasons...

Issue 1. Those first few distances listed, 734, 656, 650 etc.  Now the lengths of long home runs have always been tough to get real agreement on, but if you Google it, you don't see numbers in the 600s.  Some that pop up include Joey Meyer - 587, Josh Gibson - 580, Babe Ruth - 578, and yes, Mantle at 565.  But this says Mantle hit 6(!) longer than any of those!  I went to themick.com as it is cited on the card as the source of this claim, and yes, that Mantle centric site does indeed claim these numbers, along with the stories of each of them.  Some questionable math is cited to get that 734 number, and the others are only semi-supported.

Issue 2. Let's add up those numbers... 734 + 656 + 650 + 643 + 630 + 620 + 565 + 550 + 535 + 530 = 6113 feet.  That IS a long way, but it is NOT 2.83 miles.  1 mile is 5280 feet.  So these numbers add up to 1.16 miles, not 2.83.  

What a weird card!!  I wonder if I could get a fact checking job with Topps.  Or maybe one of you awesome readers can fact check my fact checking?  Did I get it wrong?