My targets for 2025 included including to my relatively modest collections of Manny Mota and Maury Wills playing cards. Amongst different issues, the hunt has already netted me my very first Colt .45s card, the 1963 Topps Manny Mota.
Having already accomplished my Manny Mota Topps run, the enjoyable now’s in deciding which oddball and post-career playing cards to chase. Most are extraordinarily inexpensive with transport typically costing greater than the cardboard itself. (Click on here to see all my Manny Mota playing cards.)
Finishing a Topps run for Maury Wills is way more troublesome, primarily as a result of his 1967 Topps card, which I don’t but have. The cardboard will not be solely a excessive quantity however (to some collectors) doubles as Maury’s rookie card. What’s extra, even when the Topps run is full, it gained’t look full as a result of a Topps worker’s want to save the company $5 in 1959.
With the Wills base run spanning solely 1967-1972, oddball playing cards are important if a group is to inform the story of Maury’s profession. (Click on here for my assortment’s present standing.) Whereas I usually gravitate to oddities priced $6 and below, I not too long ago had an opportunity to choose up certainly one of Maury’s harder playing cards at an inexpensive value.
Morrell Meats, the corporate behind early Dodger Canines, loved a three-year run of Dodger group units from 1959-1961. Of the three units, solely the ultimate one included Wills, maybe shocking because the entire set had solely six playing cards. This 1961 Wills card is now the one Morrell Meats card in my assortment, although I’m tempted so as to add a pair gamers in some unspecified time in the future, maybe to have one card per 12 months.
I may say the cardboard was a “steal” because it depicts the participant who would quickly turn into the primary of the Trendy Period to swipe 100 bases. Nevertheless, the title of this text refers as an alternative to a characteristic of the cardboard again that caught me abruptly.
As a child, I at all times assumed 1981 Topps playing cards have been the primary to incorporate stolen bases, however right here they have been on the again of a card from 20 years earlier. (In reality, the 1960 Morrell playing cards embody steals as properly.)
The result’s that this card will not be solely a pleasant add to my Wills assortment (doubtless my greatest card of Maury) but in addition a card I can depend towards my Cardboard Historical past assortment. Then once more, a truism within the Passion is that no matter you assume is a primary in all probability isn’t. As such, I’m anticipating certainly one of our readers to let me know that there have been playing cards with steals even earlier than the 1960 and 1961 Morrell units. If that reader is you, let me know within the Feedback. In any case, I’m at all times searching for extra playing cards to chase.
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