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Prices listed in pics!

Prices can be explained if desired, but I tried to be as fair as I could… can provide comps that I was working with!

Hey y’all! I’m Madcap’s Cards, or Carter, and I figured I’d do a little giveaway to introduce myself to the sub! You’ll find out more about me as I post more, but let’s get into the giveaway! You may have caught me over on some over subs, but I figure I’ll carry on and present myself over here as well!

There’s some sweet cards of some greats in here, and I’d love to find them a loving home :)

How to Enter:

Simply comment your favorite stat, fun fact, or story about one of these players!

Winner will be chosen tomorrow afternoon after about 24 hours so more people will have an opportunity to join!

As some of you know, I collect registration errors. I started this hunt with a few cards and have slowly found some of the larger cards out there (i.e. Nolan Ryan rookie, Thurman Munson rookie, a trippy Dock Ellis, a couple of Hank Aaron’s, and the list goes on)… Sometimes the best way to find one of these cards is to dream up the card you want a misprint of, or think there might be a misprint of based on the year, then start searching high and low for weeks.

This isn’t one of those cards, but it sure crossed my mind of “man only if I could get a 1980 Rickey Henderson rookie misprint, but I’ve only ever seen one that’s NFS”. I have “Rickey Henderson misprint” saved as an eBay search for shits and gigs, but never in my wildest dreams would I have thought this card might show up.

For those unfamiliar, Rickey Henderson has a couple of minor league cards that predate his 1980 rookie! I’ve included a picture of a raw 1979 TCMA Rickey Henderson for those who have never seen it, but he also has an even rarer 1977 Chong card that is known as the Honus Wagner of minor league cards.

With the card being signed and a pre rookie that I feel has slightly better eye appeal than the 1980 Topps, I feel like I one upped my holy grail of my favorite player! I definitely wish the corners were in better shape, but beggars can’t be choosers. I’ve never seen this card with a registration error, and I sure don’t expect to see another any time soon. I sure think it’s neat to consider that Rickey laid eyes upon this majestic card before he passed, and I sure appreciate that he knew exactly where to sign!

Thanks for looking!

always looking for more! especially the ever elusive unedited/clear billboard!

It’s harder to take a picture of this than I imagined but man the 2007 red refractors are beautiful!

My 3 favorite pitchers of all time, in order :) never thought I’d own a card with an auto of all 3! Sure, it’s unlicensed, they’re napkin relics, they’re sticker autos, Nolan has a dot on the right side of his “R”, it’s got a meaningless numbered parallel, there’s plenty of reasons to hate this card. To me, this card represents the best 3 pitchers of the modern era in a pretty beautiful way.

Who would you swap out on this card and who for?

***can retake video without Simpsons card in front if need be, it just felt fitting as like a “cover art” ***

I’ve been asked by you guys a few times to take a family photo for these guys, but as you can tell it would be quite hard 🤣 tried to record this in the highest definition possible so I’m hoping it comes through alright on yalls end.

I took the time to rearrange by year and follow that chronologically… looks like I’m missing a few years but it’s a small time capsule from 1951-1990 of printing scrap starting with the 51 Bowman Whitey Ford and ending with the 1990 Rickey!

Maybe next time I’ll have to pick a longer song so I can spend more time on the cards 🤣 will happily provide close up pictures of any of the cards requested and answer any questions in the comments!