My three newest cards

 
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

I was able to win a T206 card.  Cy Barger.

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.

  

1936 Goudey 'Wide Pen' "Mickey" Cochrane follow up

 

I was encouraged to see that several of the 1936 Goudey 'Wide Pen' "Mickey" Cochrane cards available once again on ebay.

Thirteen to be exact. They are all of the "Buy It Now" variety. But not the card I was bidding on. In fact, ten of the cards for sale right now are graded. Lowest graded price is $45.00. Too rich for me.

I emailed the seller of one of the most expensive offerings asking for any details regarding the Bermuda Triangle that the cards flew into Saturday.

I have not yet received a response. I'm hoping for one but I'm not holding my breath.