Anyways... today's post isn't about the Revering. It's actually about one of the other cards in the set. My favorite Oakland Athletic of all-time... Mr. Rickey Henley Henderson:
This morning, I decided to do a quick search for the Revering and I noticed that the Henderson has become a pretty pricey piece of cardboard. Now I'm not talking about triple digits kind of expensive... but I was surprised to see these recently closed listings on eBay:
January 25th ($50 + $3.25 Shipping)
March 11th ($66.01 + $3 Shipping)
March 22nd ($25 + $3.50 Shipping)
I realize that these were only distributed regionally and Rickey Henderson is pretty popular among collectors, but that doesn't really explain the sudden interest in this card. If the trend continues, I might just need to send in the stack of Rickeys I've slowly accumulated over the years to PSA to get graded... especially since someone is currently asking $2,806.40 for their PSA 8 copy:
But until I do end up cashing in on these Granny Goose cards, I'm going to consider this Gossage to be the true Golden Goose of my A's collection:
2014 Leaf Best of Baseball
1992 Leaf Buyback Autograph
I picked this up sometime last year on COMC for $7.62. It's my first and only Gossage autograph where he's featured in an Athletics uniform.
Well that's all I have for you today. Hope all of you are enjoying your weekend.
Happy Saturday and sayonara!
14 comments:
LOVE that auto Fuji, great grab at $7 and change. I don't collect Gossage or the A's and would've happily shelled that amount out for that on-card beaut'!
Have never heard of the card. Pretty cool Granny Goose card you have. I wonder how the chips tasted?
Thought you already had that Revering...I'll bring one for you to Tri-Star next weekend (going Friday and Saturday). I was watching that Henderson PSA8 on ebay too...it can't be that rare of a card in that condition!
Lookie lookie, you got your Revering. Too Cool!
If I ever manufacture cards I'm going to destroy most of my stock and make bank off of it somehow.
Duck duck Gooooooose!!!
Man, Goose's autograph is nice!
That Gossage is a fantastic card. It’s tempting me and I don’t even collect him.
Man, didn't realize how many teams Goose ended up playing for (9). I saw a spot with David Ross showing off all the jerseys he's kept from the 7 teams he's played with. Goose must have quite the collection (if he was able to keep them). As you know I love when players take the time with their signatures. He's in the top tier.
Gossage spent 1990 in Japan with the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. I've never seen a card of him with them but I keep hoping it happens.
shoeboxlegends - Thanks. Love that you can see each individual letter in his signature.
SumoMenkoMan - Living in the Bay Area... I grew up eating Granny Goose potato chips. I'm sure I'll take a lot of crap... but I'm pretty sure they were like Lay's potato chips.
mr haverkamp - lol. i actually do own it. caught that white whale years ago. but i have a few more sets that need the revering. that card is way too rare for me to accept as a gift. and sadly... i won't be able to make it to tristar this weekend. my mom is having her heart surgery. truly appreciate the offer though. you're such a generous guy!
john miller - i actually found one on eBay a few years ago. need to find a few more though
zippy zappy - that seems to be the way to do it ;)
collecting cutch - now that's a great title for a post
community gum - it truly is. you can see each individual letter
commishbob - thanks. i thought i saw another one on comc, but i just checked and it's gone
hackenbush - i honestly have no recollection of him with the a's... only seeing him on a few cards from the early to mid 90's. as for the signature... i agree. it's definitely top tier
npb card guy - maybe one day bbm will make a special set to honor all of the foreigners who have come to japan to play in the npb. there's a lot of mlb fan favorites who could be featured in that set.
They actually did a couple sets just like that a few years ago but there's still a lot of guys like Gossage and Don Zimmer who played in Japan but don't have any Japanese cards. There's also guys like Don Newcombe, Larry Doby and a bunch of Japanese-Americans who played in the 1950's (like Fibber Hirayama and Andy Miyamoto) who don't have any modern Japanese cards.
If they ever make a BBM Gossage card... it's gonna be popular among his fans. I'd love to see a Newcombe and Doby BBM cards as well.
I recently had my mom tell me that she had kept all my sports and comic cards that I had as a kid. I just started to research them and keep finding out that I possess top tier cards. I have this Ricky Henderson card as well as 3-4 others, Nolan Ryan’s, Michael Jordan, Ken Griffey JR’s, Dion Sanders, Bo Jackson and many more. To say the least I’m in shock!
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