Baseball Royalty

Roberto Clemente, Hank Aaron & Willie Mays

1965 Batting Leaders

In my younger years when I was buying a lot of “wax”, just for a dopamine hit to honestly not really get anything of value and even then was a risk. A card store owner introduced me to vintage. Now, I knew these players but was always discouraged because the sticker price for a lot of the cards was the price of 2 boxes+ of cards. He recommended that I ease my way in with the “Leaders” cards because you could get a bunch of the HOFer’s all in one! And I actually thought they were pretty cool too!

So, if you’re thinking about getting into vintage cards, this isn’t a horrible way to start. Where else can you get a card that has Banks, Mathew’s and Hank Aaron all together?

My well-loved card of the night! This is my only Mantle card and one of my favorite Hanks. Most of my Hanks are one of my favorite Hanks!

Had slick hopes it would end up an 8 but 7 to 7 i’ll take it. My main plan was also to take this and trade up for an 8, but I waited until the last day & ran out of time. I initially bought a 3 and slowly traded up over 2 years. Been a fun challenge.

Decided to post my very first Exhibits “card” that I picked up late last year…love it!