Dodgers Baseball Card Collection: 1976 Shakey's ~ Dazzy Vance, Wilbert Robinson, Burleigh Grimes, Zach Wheat, Branch Rickey

Friday, August 12, 2011

1976 Shakey's ~ Dazzy Vance, Wilbert Robinson, Burleigh Grimes, Zach Wheat, Branch Rickey

rec'd from ebay seller bigpuma on 8.8.2011

Bigpuma is a nice guy. Exchanged emails with him for close to a week sharing Dodgers stories. He has an 85 year old aunt who still has season tickets. They go to spring training together every year.

These HOF Shakey's cards feature some old skool Dodgers. In fact, a couple of these guys, including Zach Wheat played for the Brooklyn Superbas. That was what the Dodgers were called before they were the Dodgers. All I need now is Roy Campanella to close out my '76 Shakey's team set.

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Introduction

I began collecting baseball cards in 1987 when I was 11 years old. After little league games we would receive a raffle ticket which we could use at the field snack bar and I began choosing to use mine on a pack of baseball cards. I stopped collecting in 1992 when the popularity of cards exploded. I moved my interests to music. I picked up collecting again as an adult in 2002. When I started back up I made the decision to create an area of focus for my collection. I am a HUGE Dodgers fan so I decided that I would collect every Dodgers Topps card from 1995 (the year I graduated H.S.) and earlier. I chose to stick with just Topps because that's what I collected when I was younger. Over time that focus has held to form with a couple exceptions. At some point I began to include odd-ball food cards (and discs) to my collection and also decided that I would collect any cards that were vintage (prior to 1965). I don't spend too much time looking for them but if they cross my path I certainly will not pass at the opportunity to snatch them up! Hope you enjoy following me on the journey to completing my collection!