The fireworks are done, the Major League Baseball season is more than halfway finished (*sigh*), and the All-Star break is just over a week away.

Draft picks are signing, and trade talks are heating up.

It’s a busy time of year for baseball and for fun.

And, baseball card collectors, there’s not much more fun than looking at cards, holding cards, and even dreaming about cards that are maybe beyond our reach.

That’s what this droolworthy series is about — bringing you some of the mose awe-inspring baseball cards for sale on eBay each week.

So tie on your bib and get ready for this week’s main course …

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1954 Topps Hank Aaron and Ernie Banks PSA 8 (oc) Rookie Cards

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Quick!

What has 1264 home runs, two Hall of Fame plaques in Cooperstown, a combined PSA score of 16 (oc), and a 64-year legacy of making collectors smile — twice?

That would be this duo of 1954 Topps rookie cards, each graded PSA 8, though with the “oc” (for off-center) qualifier.

Baseball players don’t get much better than Hank Aaron and Ernie Banks, after all, and hardly any are more beloved. Throw in rookie card status and awesome condition and it’s not surprising the seller is asking nearly eight grand for this duo.

As Mr. Cub himself might have said were he a cardboard hound like us … let’s collect two!

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1959 Fleer Ted Williams Unopened Pack (PSA 6)

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In 1959, Ted Williams walked away from Topps and took his talents to Philadelphia.

No, he didn’t sign on with the Phillies or the A’s, but rather inked a deal with Fleer that gave the gum-maker exclusive rights to produce baseball cards of the Splendid Splinter.

Fleer took advantage of that arrangement by producing an 80-card set that chronicled the life and times of one of baseball’s greatest hitters of all-time. Along the way, they also created a couple of scarce cards that still haunt collectors today.

This eBay lot gives you the chance to relive the ecstasy of “Where Ted Stands” or “Ted Discharged” through the magic of an unopened eight-card wax pack. Does it hold a long-lost “Ted Signs for 1959”?

Unlikely, but a guy can dream, can’t he?

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Baseball Card Collection of 100,000+

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Am I the only one who gets a lump in his throat when confronted with a mound of baseball cards from some unknown corner of the universe?

Whose hands go cold even as his palms drip with sweat?

Whose heart races with anticipation?

Whose head spins with the thought of what might be hiding right there under that 1969 Topps Deckle Edge Pete Rose card or that 1977 Hostess Manny Sanguillen.

Nah, I’m not the only one. We’re all — us collectors, that is — pretty much the same at heart. And a heap of unexplored cardboard is like tripping a hatch to a new universe.

That’s what makes lots like this one, which the seller says contains over 100,000 cards from 1965 to 2017 so intriguing — the possibilities seem endless, even if we know deep in our old men hearts that they’re not.

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1964 Topps Giants Complete Set – PSA Graded

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Most of the Topps base sets from the 1960s were pretty heavy on design. From wood grains to mult-colored borders with inset headshots to burlap borders, the cards seemed to be as much about widgets as they were about photography.

In 1964, Topps issued a team-focused set that featured a prominent block-letter team name at the top of each card — great for sorting, but, again, heavy-handed in terms of stealing real estate from the game itself.

Never one to leave collectors wanting for too long, Topps doled out a brief design respite with their 1964 Giant set that was pretty much all photo, save for a small baseball in the lower right-hand corner that offered up the player name, position, and team affiliation.

This eBay lot brings all of that full-color goodness to you and all 60 cards have been graded by PSA for good measure.

Now, not all of the cards received a high grade, but these sure would make a great display piece.

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1980s Baseball Card Dealer Costume … er … Cases and Sets

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You’ve seen those all-in-one bagged Halloween costumes that you can get at the Frank’s Frights and Drac’s Digs stores that popup like headstones all across the land each October … right?

You know the disguises I mean …

Vampire with Leftover Neck Bits

Werewolf with Silly Sheep Shears

Umpire with Spitting Earl Weaver Head

You get the picture.

Well, this eBay lot is the baseball card equivalent for all of us who ever dreamed of making a living buying and selling cardboard, which is pretty much all of us if we’re being honest.

With more than 100 boxes and cases of stuff, from unopened 1986 Topps rack packs to 1990 Upper Deck cases, this is the 1980s Sports Card Dealer with Precariously Stacked Dreams.

And it’s spectacular, Junk Wax or not.

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So sit back, get your hobby history radar geared up, and enjoy these droolworthy listings for June 29, 2018.

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1979 Hostess Ozzie Smith Handcut PSA 9

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Topps wasn’t the only company who got in on the Ozzie Smith rookie card sweepstakes in 1979.

If you were a sweets connoisseur or just a diehard collector, you could head to your local supermarket and nab The Wizard of Oz on a box of Hostess goodies.

What sets this offering apart from all the rest of the sticky Ozzie’s out there is that it grades out at PSA 9, one of fewer than 10 cards to make that, um, cut.

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Unopened T206 Era Drum Tobacco Pouch

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What’s more fun than an unopened pack of baseball cards, just taunting you with its untapped potential?

Well … how about an unopened tobacco pouch from the early that may contain a T206 baseball card?

This thing is a drawstring bag of Drum Granulated smoking tobacco that has apparently never been opened — that’s over 100 years of patience, if you’re counting.

The seller is careful to say this package “could potentially contain” a T206 card (and throws in the obligatory Honus Wagner mention), and I honestly have no idea if this type of pouch ever contained baseball cards.

Sure is fun to speculate, though, isn’t it?

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1971 Topps Baseball Complete Set

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The 1971 Topps set is a longstanding white whale for many collectors — it’s huge, full of Hall of Famers, and really tough to assemble in nice condition because of its chip-prone black borders.

This listing won’t get you far on the condition front — the seller lists them at VG — but you get all the rest of the 1971 goodness.

Two out of three ain’t bad.

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1972 Topps Reverse Card Art Uncut Sheet of 12

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Topps opened its vaults a couple decades back, and every once in awhile, those one-of-a-kind pieces still make their way back onto the market.

Case in point — this eBay listing of 12 original drawings used as cartoons on 1972 Topps high-number cards. Among the players on whose cards these drawings appeared were Rod Carew, Steve Garvey, and Jose Pagan.

And if you don’t like any of the comics on this sheet, you can always check out the other 12-drawing sheet the seller has listed (affiliate link).

Sheesh! Hobby history and choices. What could be better?

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1963 Fleer Baseball Cards Uncut Sheets Complete Sets (2)

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Above, we saw some amazing uncut sheets and a pretty cool old complete set.

This listing combines both elements to bring you … two 1963 Fleer baseball card sets in uncut sheet form.

The seller claims these are the only uncut complete 1963 Fleer sets in existence, and I have no ammo with which to combat that statement (though the second set is “near” complete, with 65 out of 66 cards).

However that particular cookie crumbles (see what I did there?) these six-sheet offerings are pretty amazing from a historical and visual perspective.

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But this Friday is different … this Friday is the Friday before Father’s Day!

Does that mean some of these goodies might actually show up in the Dad stockings we hang by the hammock with care?

Maybe, if you get your want list into the right hands.

But even if that doesn’t happen, its’ fun to dream, as always.

Here are the droolworthy lots for June 15, 2018.

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Three (3!) 1973 Topps Complete Sets

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How many complete 1973 Topps sets have you seen in your collecting lifetime. For most of us, I’m guessing the answer is less than ten.

Probably far less than ten.

Maybe even one or none.

So here, in this one eBay lot, you might have tripled or infinitied your exposure to 1973 Topps complete sets.

Now, these cards aren’t perfect, as the seller grades them, overall, at VG and says some are in “pretty rough” condition.

But the three complete sets are, well, complete, which means three Mike Schmidt rookie cards, three Pete Rose cards, three Nolan Ryan cards, and, yes, even three New York Mets Willie Mays cards.

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1975 SSPC Proof Cards

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In 1976, SSPC issued a bootleg set of baseball cards that became known as the “Pure Set” in hobby circles owing to the simple design.

Just pure, beautiful photos, white borders, and nothing else.

Those cards were unlicensed, though, and it didn’t take Topps to have the operation shut down.

The SSPCs live on in hobby lore, though, and part of that is the 1975 copyright on card backs. These beauties were conceived the year before they were issued … and there is proof.

Or there are proofs.

Like this eBay lot, which offers up 18 photos used to make the Pure Set, when they were just photos and not yet cards.

Are these proofs any more legitimate than the SSPCs themselves? No clue, but they’re a great conversation and display piece.

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1960 Kahn’s Weiners Sales Presentation Catalog Featuring Jim Brown

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OK, this is not baseball cards.

It’s not even baseball.

And it’s not even cards.

But Kahn’s made baseball cards in the 1960s, so there’s that.

And Jim Brown was like the Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth and Willie Mays of football all in one person.

So there’s that, too.

And this catalog is awesome, with page after page of vintage pigskin stuffs. You definitely need to see this.

Baseball or not.

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1979 Topps “Unopened” Boxes — 50,000+ Cards!

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This lot gets air quotes around its “unopened” status because the seller says the cards have been picked through to remove potential PSA 10 specimens.

But the seller also maintains that superstars and high-grade cards remain — only the absolute cream have been removed.

And when we’re talking about 39-year-old cards, the milk is nearly as good as the cream.

I mean … 50,000 cards from 1979 Topps with the chance to pull Ozzie Smith, Paul Molitor, and Wayne Nordhagen over and over again is pretty cool.

And then when you wrap them tight in 46 big brown boxes like that … forget about it!

*drool*

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1988 Fleer Edgar Martinez Rookie Cards Graded PSA 10 (39!)

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We can’t completely lose touch with our junk wax roots, so how about a little rookie card speculation?

Edgar Martinez is, like, the best designated hitter who’s not in the Hall of Fame, and fans still love him.

Someday, he’ll probably make it to Cooperstown, even if Ken Griffey, Jr., has to go all Ted Williams on us and take over the Veterans Committee just to pull his old teammate along.

But whatever.

Edgar was great, and this lot gives you 39 of his 1988 Fleer rookie cards, all graded PSA 10.

So that means you can build a Monument of Martinez, with an overall grade of 390.

When was the last time you saw that?

Uh-huh. Thought so.

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