u/randskarma

Who knew in nineteen fifty two

Man, these sports kings are so much fun, the write up on the back tells a great story. I really love the mini graphics of their sport on the front. I should have built this set back in 2005 when the cards were so inexpensive. The sports king ruth never got the financial respect the 33g did. Same with 48 leaf (ruth). Way undervalued.

Any-hoo, the moral of the story here is tremendous value for wonderful eye appeal. I cant beat these for 99 bucks, the seller had a little potpourri of items, the 1970s lesney London bus with passengers had to come with it. (I have a small group of these )

Its easy to spend a lot of money on a card, its pretty great to buy them for less than grading fees today.

How about that Fleer Dragster!! Eventually im gonna have a display and ive been picking up "art work" along the way. This is just sick gorgeous (in my humble opinion)

The Willie Kamm, the autograph, its all about the autograph. (That is my 3rd copy, im done, its just right)

The pair of 1933 sea raiders....in order to collect the master set, there are 4 different reverses on the first series (1 - 24)

I usually do not buy "non" signed cards, I do add to my greater goudey collection of type cards for display. I bought both of these for a total of 75 bucks. Look at the eye appeal.... today with shipping and a 6 month wait, it would cost 75 just to grade one of them. I love the sports kings shadowed imagery of the athletes profession on the bottom, really neat design touch. The write up on the reverse is well authored.

Who doesn't love a deal.....

Sent in raw, just received. Thanks for looking.

1934 - 1936 the diamond stars series was issued. The 1934 cards all had green reverse. The 1936 cards had blue. The 1935 issue had both in the printing process from #73 - #84. This card (#84) was the last in the 1935 series and had both back varieties.

Ed Brandt died in 1944

Bill Knickerbocker in 1963.

I bought them raw, they survived till 2026 exposed. These are the first entries onto the psa/dna pop report.

These are all the 33/34 critz goudey offerings. Idk why, but was an elusive signor. There are a total of 15 psa slabbed examples (of which i have 3) between all three examples! The red #3 and my 1934 were found raw and submitted. The 1934 critz was just the 3rd copy entered into psa pop report.

He won a world series with the giants in 1933.

For sale or trade. Net to me $375. Thanks for looking. Psa 6.5 pop3 , tough card that gets expensive quick.

He passed in 1969, notorious alcoholic, won 2 world series with the Cardinals. 1926 the Cardinals beat the Yankees in 7 games, to win their 1rst championship!

Grades just popped....these were raw submissions sent in together.

The Fonseca is the highest graded example of 3 now (both 34 & 35 variations)

The trosky is the 3rd on the pop now.

The prices are on the front photo, individual photos are following.

These are net to me, ill cover shipping (through pirate ship app)

The entire lot is $1575 or best offer.

******PLEASE keep in mind the minimum psa grading fee now is $105 per card + shipping both ways, approx $125 per and 4/5 months wait time.

These are getting very expensive to grade. All of these were raw submissions, its really incredible to me in 2026 there are still so many collections coming to market. Im really honored to add these to my set. The Henry Johnson autograph is magnificent. Thx for looking.

This card is particularly special, if i remember correctly, 20 years ago he was my first signed goudey. How terribly short sighted I was to sell everything. I promised myself I would do my best to get another......

The consistency of grading is all over the board, even though they were all sent in together. Nevertheless, eye appeal will always be better than a random numerical evaluation.

If anybody is wondering which card is the most difficult to obtain....its "The Polish Wizard" Pete Joblonowski (err Appleton) he legally changed his name to Appleton in 1934 they were crucifying the pronunciation of his given last name....side note, as a youth he was an accomplished classical piano player. He broke his mother's heart when he told her he was gonna play baseball. He didnt have the best career....however he was recognized as being the "finest piano player" in the major leagues(lol) .

I paid $17.95 for the card, the seller thought some kid just wrote all over it and had no idea about it. ☆ You have to know things that others may not ☆ The Dick Coffman card was from the same collection , i paid $16.00 for that one. All kidding aside, that may be the only opportunity for me to obtain a Pete Joblonowski/Appleton twice signed card. Im thrilled.

There are a lot of great cards in this group that are not coming around often.

I have been asked why I dont go to the National. Its finances and time, or the other way around. What it would cost me to go, that money can buy a significant card. Here it is. This is a trip to the National in a nice hotel and dinners.

Uncle jimmy had one, the nicest on record, that is in one of the top collections, only 2 others for us to squabble over. I was very fortunate for a fellow collector/friend (whom lives clear across the country) offer this to me. All I had to do was run up the credit card.

This man was considered the most successful Cuban born MLB player until the 70s? Why is his goudey autograph so impossibly difficult? He stopped playing after 1934 (majors) went back to Cuba to play/coach, etc etc.

Ill put this is perspective, there was a collector (at the time) had the most signed cards, he didnt get this one until he was around 219. This was his example.

Off to psa for a red dual label, a measly extra $300 for the honor, even though they already did the leg work.

I posted the bridges earlier, the Waite Hoyt showed up and those 2 cards showed up together at a local card shop in Iowa, I wound up with them. The Hoyt isnt my favorite autograph as he used 2 initials , however, most of his signing are in black sharpie and literally ruin the card and its sloppy. Im thrilled to have a period signature on a nice background for a quarter of the price they sell for.

Al Spohrer is not an easy pick up, this is the first in two years I've seen available.

Glenn Myatt, passed in 1969, psa has 5 on the books, this is a tough get.

Lastly, I went to do my submission and psa minimum crossover now is $199 each, I find that tough to digest especially when its already in a psa holder. Raw cards are now 105 minimum price. I cracked those sums-of-btches. Know whata i mean.

The signature is period and clean. He was not an avid signor, Tom had an outstanding pitching career in the 30s. He went to war in the 1940s, came back completely changed man and alcoholism was now apart of his life. I was very fortunate to catch this card, the front surface is a lovely pallette and a well placed, nice sized signature.

Remember the seinfeld episode about Festivus and Frank's dinner with the airing of grievances......heres my contribution:

After all these years, why would the decision makers at cgc use clear slabs, have you handled one? Fingerprints all over it. Yes , you can sleeve it, thats not the point. See the reverse, JSA slaps a friggin sticker on the back of the card....ffs how stupid!!! I wont even go into the moronic idea that there wasnt a better way. Smh!!!

This is one reason why im an autograph collector first and goudey collector second on this journey. Itll go to psa for crossover, itll be graded A and whatever the auto is ( my opinion an 8) .

There are only 4 on the psa pop report, now there will be 5.

I have (pretty reasonable prices posted) on photos. If you'd like to buy a couple will see if theres some wiggle room. I will send back scans for any interested cards. I want to make sure you see the card well before purchase. Pp f/f + $6 shipping. G/s please add 3 % + $6 shipping. Thank you

A sincere , very sincere thank you to a very seasoned member here for the opportunity to obtain the two graded examples. Very much obliged.

The Hugh Critz card mini set is now complete (2) . Whats interesting: he is the 3rd card from the beginning of the set & the 3rd card from the end of the set.

The Bluege (raw) card is actually a great pick up. Yes, its a (1) the signature is very strong, clean background, ive seen a few of his felt tip autographs and theyre smudged, this one is actually quite clean. This mini subset is complete as well.

First off, this is NOT about PSA , its about an ingredient in the hobby overall, and its evolution. I digress:

Uncle Jimmy said he never spent more than a couple dollars on any one card, yall know that outcome.

In Jefferson Burdick days....the Wagner was around $50, obviously the rest were relative nickel and dimes

I got jumped back in 2005, I owned all the goudey ruths, grading was in full swing then. Basically psa 1 gehrigs were $300 ish, ruths $400 - $500 (yellow always more) you could get a nice psa 2 under $1000. A psa 8 #144 was $25,000, psa 7 mantle $35,000, same with lajoie.

Wagners psa 1s were under $100,000, am sgc 40/3 sold for $960,000.

I cant speak for yall, but I dream of finding a great stash (i buy old houses and its possible, though unlikely) imagine if I did find a great collection and wanted to keep as many as I could, my grading fees today would literally be impossible to pay.

When i was a kid growing up in the 80s a new mustang gt 5.0 was $13,000. Grading a psa 4 ruth would cost more than that.

Imagine those pioneers in the hobby being told this is what it costs to do business in 2026. Ol Mr Mint would have a turrets episode.