are my three of my oldest cards.
I have had a sucessful string of bidding on ebay recently.
I was able to complete some of my objectives for collecting.
In a post from January I tried to define my goals. I'm still tweaking that list (in my head). Here's a portion of that post...
What I want...
* Cards that are meaningful to me (yeah, that's vague)
* Game Used and Autographed cards
* Hall of Fame players
* A T206 card
* A pre-1900 card
* Cards that are meaningful to me (yeah, that's vague)
* Game Used and Autographed cards
* Hall of Fame players
* A T206 card
* A pre-1900 card
I can cross that one off the list.Then I was able to get a Mickey Cochrane. A 1948 Exhibit Baseball's Great Hall of Fame.
The same seller had a 1936 Goudey "Wide Pen" of Mickey Cochrane. This is the card that I wrote about for the Fourth Blog Bat Around.
Now for the fun part. I work in the IT field. I do many things, but helping people get their PCs back working is one of them. A friend brought me their horked PC. I was able to unhork it quickly. She was very appreciative and brought me an ebay/paypal gift card. The gift card covered all three of these cards.I'm a happy man.
I mentioned that these three are three of my oldest. The other card that is one of the four oldest is a T205 card. Another card for another post.
Holy smokes. I've got to stop what I'm doing and get a job in the IT field. The only thing I've ever gotten on the job when someone appreciates my work is a thank you letter.
ReplyDeleteI hope I never get a horked computer. It even sounds painful.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on picking up some cards that are meaningful to you. That's the only downfall to me as a set collector. Sometimes I have to pick up cards that aren't meaningful (checklists, etc.) in order to accomplish the meaningful objective of completing the set.