Mystery Vintage Cards

Here are the rest of the mysterious vintage Cardinals cards found in my laptop bag. There other five were Cardinals team cards. Let’s start at the most recent and go backwards…

1969 Lou Brock World Series Home Run

1967 Curt Flood

1961 Curt Flood

1960 Curt Flood

1959 Curt Flood

The Flood streak ends with a 1959 Ken Boyer

And the stack ends with a 1952 Enos Slaughter!

Not a bad haul for $11.53! I just wish I could remember where I got these so I can go back on my next trip for another raid.

Mystery Vintage Team Cards

Ever find a stack of cards and wonder where they came from? I found a dozen vintage Cardinal cards ranging from 1952 to 1969 in my laptop bag and can’t recall how, when or where they came from. Well, that’s not entirely true, they were in a snap case with a generic receipt totaling $11.53 and an April 2010 date. According to my expense reports, I was in Atlanta GA, Wilmington DE, Phoenix AZ and of course here in St. Louis that month.
Anyway, the stack had five Cardinals team cards…
1960

1961

1962

1964

1968

1960 Topps

#291 Bob Keegan. According to the cartoon on the back says Bob threw a no-no for the White Sox in 1958.

Isaac still refers to these as Heritage cards when he sees them.

Gibby

Its official. Between Isaac’s enthusiasm, the random cards from Winter Warm-Up and The Checklist, I’m hooked. I stopped by a hobby shop and went through their Cardinals box & display case and picked out HOFers and older cards in general. The prices seemed reasonable but I’m not really sure what they “should” be priced for anyway. Owner said he had everything priced to move, discounted cards as we spoke, and then discounted the whole stack another 25% at the register. In total, I bought over 60 cards and ended paying less than a dollar a card. Still not sure what I’m doing but that just makes it more interesting. I’ll post the more interesting cards starting with the Gibsons

Creased 1960

1968 All Star

1969 All Star

1969 Deckle – Not sure what that means aside from the edge cut. Just going by what the owner told me.

1973 Base