Top 25 Baseball Cards - #2 Don Drysdale
by delias man on Aug 19, 2011 9:46 AM PDT
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I take my Don Drysdale collection very seriously. You can see here on the PSA Set Registry that I have the #4 Don Drysdale collection in the WORLD! Once I do finally win the lottery I will be #1. Here is a beautiful 1957 Rookie card of Don. Not very often you see a picture of him in Brooklyn gear and he is so young here. I really enjoy the 57 Topps set because finally we have great close-up images of the players with a real life background. I like the simple white borders and the simple two color font. I saved up for an entire year for this card. It was so worth it to me.
More Don after the jump...
The main difference here in a PSA 9 and a PSA 8 is usually in the color. The brightness is noticeable and there is much more focus and clarity.
Here you can see Don as an old man in his second to last card. If you can believe it there are 42 PSA 10's for this card. This must be one of the luckiest sheets ever printed in the history of baseball cards to come out this clean. Never really cared for this set. Love the style, but the odd borders always bothered me.
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Has any team in history had two of their HOF pitchers retired by age 32 that pitched wholly for them within a five year span. Just imagine what these two did in 65/66 to both being out of baseball before the end of 69. Thank God for the 68 draft.
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Delias Man's baseball card posts...almost done
2) Drysdale
3) Koufax
4) Hodges
5) 1955 Bowman
6) Garvey
7) Lasorda
8) Kershaw
9) Duke
10) The Big Three
11) Bulldog
12) Cey
13) Piazza
14) Tommy Davis
15) Beltre
16) Sutton
17) Kemp
18) Lopes
19) Murray
20) The Core
21) Babe Ruth
22) Wills & 1959 World Series
23) Frank Robinson
24) Our Favorite Closers
25) Ethier
Also, 3 cards that didn’t make the cut
After number one, I’ll make a post out of all 25. I love this series; thanks for doing them, Delias Man.
Fantastic cards
You are justifiably proud of them. They are so great it’s hard to imagine what #1 will be like. Has to be Shawn Green, right? ;-)
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Lou Johnson
Sheffield
Fernando
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The joy of collecting
I have the last card issued while Don Was still with us.
Mothers Cookies/Nabisco I saved boxtops to get this autographed mint card in a display card holder. Don Died two weeks after I received his card.
What memories. Winning 25 games, the scoreless inning streak. It was later that the Bulldog topped him. Don would be glad. There was the year that he hit seven homers.
Candid moment caught Don talking to Mantle, sticking the ball in his ribs and said, where do you want it, about here as he gave a tiny shove. Mantle, often the target of headhunters, said he thought about it every at baf and well, that was Bid D.
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