Getting high (numbers) on Kronozio

In my first order on Kronozio, there was a high number among my cards which was priced the same as the others. After getting them, I looked through the seller's inventory in the hope that there would be more high numbers, priced just as well. To my glee, I was able to find about a dozen high numbers, along with some other cards.

I don't know why it took so long for me to get a Don Mossi, but that '57 above was the first in my collection. The Pedro Ramos, from the scarce series, set me back just $1.40, the same as Mossi. That is the most I paid for any of the cards in this post.

                                         

I think I'll also start working on completing 1963 Topps, and finding so many good deals on high and semi-high numbers is one of the reasons. I love getting cards of 1962 Mets of any kind, and I especially love getting semi-high short prints for $1.10!

I find it interesting how in the cartoon on the back of Thomas's card, there's a portrayal of Casey Stengel, lecturing to the Mets . It's odd because for almost all the cartoons, it features only the player, or the player with some generic figures. Casey also makes a cameo in one of my 1956 Topps Yankees.

Casey's in the 3rd panel - back images courtesy of TCDB

I guess Casey was pretty easy to caricature. 

                                               

A row of Rowes! (sorry)

Too bad Randy Cardinal didn't pitch for the Cardinals. Anyhow, I was glad to get a McNally rookie on the cheap, because it's a high number and the cheapest copy on COMC is $22.56.
                                 

Too bad Dick "The Monster" Radatz didn't last longer, because he was incredible at his best. Over his first three years, he averaged 13 wins, 25 saves, a 2.17 ERA, and 162 strikeouts per year! The workload was probably too much for him, as he worked in as many as 157 innings in a season. What might have been.

                                           

These aren't very noteworthy except for being high numbers, but they were still satisfying adds.

                                             

Does anyone else have the problem where, when writing a blog post, they keep on wanting to write things from The Great American Baseball Card etc. book? It happens to me all the time. I had to restrain myself from writing whooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee for the 1963 Roseboro a little bit back in the post. (For those who are interested in getting the spelling exactly right, it's 10 o's and 17 e's.) Now I'm tempted to just write "Jim Bouton is a big mouth" for Bouton, and repeat the passage on Daddy Wags and "Rent Your Pad From Super Dad." But I guess I'll have to resist the urge.

By now I have the book almost memorized, so these passages just spontaneously present themselves to me when I see the cards featured in the book. I've read it for almost as long as I've been collecting baseball cards, and it's been very influential to me.

The holy grail of the high numbers I got were three 1972 Topps high numbers, all of which were under a dollar.

                                             

Because my dad has a complete 1972 set, I didn't need these for the collection, and by selling Ivan and Koosman, I almost paid for the rest of the cards! And I haven't sold the Gallagher yet. Think of it. 1960s high numbers, practically for free!

So that's it. I have some more 1963 Topps cards from this seller that I'm going to buy, including some more high numbers, so I'm feeling pretty happy right now. 

By the way, sorry for going almost a month without posting. Half the time I've been too busy to write a post, and the other half I just haven't wanted to. I'm planning to start doing a post at least every Sunday, so hopefully that'll help me with my consistency.