Here we go with Exhibit A in my trial. I'm charged with 'Being a Sucker for Anything'.
The 1964 Bill Pierce Topps card is a pretty good one. I tend to favor cards/sets where the colors accent the uniform colors of the player/team pictured. That's certainly the case with the Giants' players in the '64 Topps set. Add to that the fact that the pose is not a common one and the fact that it's Billy Pierce and it all adds up to it being, in my eyes at least, a great card.
Granted I prefer his White Sox cards (not that I'm a fan of either team exactly) because that's how I first saw him...with my Dad, as a White Sox pitcher in Yankee Stadium.
And that leads me to this 'rainbow' of sorts of '64 and '64-'style' Pierces. It's because I don't follow modern cards that I have a hard time figuring out what all the different 'heritage' cards are that I have listed on my Pierce checklist. I have others listed as 'wants' but I'm halfway convinced that they are just different ways people describe these same cards. I tried sorting it all out one night and it gave me a massive migraine.
I've ended up with these six cards. I don't know it they are all separate 'official' Topps releases or just different ways that people have had him sign the heritage card. For what it's worth, this is what I have pictured:
Top Row:
left) actual '64 Topps regular
right) Venezuelan '64 Topps
Middle row:
left) 2001 Heritage 'blue sig'
right) 2013(?) red sig numbered to 64
Bottom Row:
left) just a plain ol' 2001 Heritage
right) 2001(?) blue sig Heritage with '7X All Star' inscription
Outside of the top two cards, that actual vintage versions I have no idea what to make of these cards. Of the Heritage only the red signed one cost more than a couple of bucks. But the fact that I bought them at all sort of dismays me.
The Venezuelan version was $12 if I recall correctly. The 'best' one is still the original '64 Topps Billy Pierce.
The red signed is from 2013 Heritage. The other stamped cards are all from the 2001 Archives, but I think those autos are either TTM or in person. I don't think any of those were autographed in the packs.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like there's a blue ink 2014 Heritage autograph, which looks like the red one only it's blue Sharpie and not hand #'ed. You can tell the in-pack Heritage autograph cards because they say "TOPPS CERTIFIED AUTOGRAPH ISSUE" inside the orange box.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've seen on eBay, looks like you might be able to get one for under $10.
Nothing against and all for!
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