Thursday, December 12, 2019

100 Pounds - 100 Cards - Card #5

Today will be card #5 out of 100 in honor of me losing 100 pounds over the last 5 months.

There have been a ton of great players to wear #5 over the years, but Johnny Bench is a Hall of Famer and often regarded as the greatest catcher of all-time, so I figure his 1968 Topps Rookie card is a good choice for #5.

I picked this one up at a card shop. I think I paid $60 for it. They had two at the time and the other was $90, but I actually thought this one was in better condition than the other one. After I bought it I asked the owner why the other one was priced higher. He looked at them side by side and couldn't come up with a reason.


I picked this one up in a Facebook group. This is the one I gave away as part of my contest this summer.


I got this one just recently off the app Offer Up. I paid $20 for a 4 card lot, with this being the main card. The others were in better condition, but this was the star. With that said, if I break it down by card, I'd say I paid $10 for this. I asked the guy about the X and he said he asked his dad about it and his dad said he just didn't like Ron Tompkins.Even with the X, I'm happy to have paid $10 for it.



8 comments:

  1. Nice card. I got mine in Sep of last year for a little less than $30 (with almost $3 for shipping). I blogged about it Jan of this year: https://captkirk42.blogspot.com/2019/01/catching-white-whale-1968-style.html

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    1. OH I sometimes think Ron Tompkins looks a bit like Tom Hanks, guess that means Tom Hanks looks a bit like Ron Tompkins.

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  2. Love that card... the backward hat and the vest jersey. Just a classic.

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  3. It'll be interesting to see how many more copies pass through your hands :)

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  4. Such an iconic card for my least favorite set design of all time.

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  5. Ha! Poor Ron Tompkins, its not bad enough that he gets overshadowed on his own rookie card, he also gets crossed out!

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  6. Wow. I'm gonna guess that only a small fraction of collectors can claim to have owned three Bench rookie cards. You got some really cool deals on them.

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