My friend went to Negro League Baseball day when the Royals played the Dodgers at Kauffman Stadium. He got a cap signed by Sam Allen and Pedro Sierra.

Do you have a PC card you love in part because of some crazy story of how you acquired it?

Clint Thomas is one of my favorite Negro Leaguers to collect anyway. But man, this card was a needle in a haystack for me for years. There are only 11 total examples in sgc's pop report in the first place.

I missed out on the first try when a friend and I purchased a big lot together and then did sort of a draft lottery to see who got to pick first. I lost.

When I found this one, it was lodged into the collection of a guy who had no interest in selling anything. After keeping in touch with him for several years, he finally said yeah, it's time to downsize and this one can go.

I do know the feeling. I'm not getting any younger myself, but I swear this one will be one of the last to go...combination of a card I love of a player I really appreciate and just how hard I had to work to land it!

I had been hunting for these two cards forever and recently had them fall into my lap as a thank you gift as I was helping a new card friend edit his forthcoming books about Toleteros card sets. Always looking to buy non-American cards, especially of Negro League players.

Ducky was a heck of a ball player. He was a 5-time Negro League All-Star during a lengthy career that started in the 1930’s and ended in 1953 in Danville, IL - where I was born and played baseball on the same field when I was a kid (Danville Stadium). I picked up this PSA 1 at auction a year or two ago.

Manuel “Cocaina” Garcia pitched in the Negro Leagues in the 20s and 30s and is a member of the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame. He was most known for his pitching but was a heck of a hitter. This is a 1945-46 Carmelo Deportivo. These cards are paper thin and were usually glued into albums by collectors. Martin Dihigo, Ray Brown, Minnie Miñoso (his true rookie card), and many other greats are in this set, along with the 1946-47 Carmelo Deportivo set. I’m lucky enough to have a few cards from the set.