Two years ago, I posted a Ray Lankford card out of the 1991 Score All-Star FanFest Set. Included in the post was a story about a local card shop owner who tried to sell me a similar card that came from a Candy Convention in St. Louis. At the time, I passed on the Candy Convention card, which I later deeply regretted. It turns out the Candy Convention Ray Lankford card is pretty rare.
Here is the FanFest card.
Well, after posting the card, I received a comment from a reader who was also trying to track down a copy of a Candy Convention card of former Blue Jays player Ed Sprague. More comments followed indicating that they had found a copy of the Ray Lankford and a promise to forward the card on once the commenter received it from COMC.
Well, a few weeks back I got a white envelope with a print out of the blogger comment section and note.....
and inside the note was a top loader with a baseball card........
I cannot thank Derek enough for sending this card along to me! It's my current favorite baseball card and it will always have a prominent home in my collection of Ray Lankford cards.
Very nice of Derek to help you out with that HTF Ray.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best cards I have ever been gifted, still blown away by the generosity.
DeleteWow. Very cool of Derek to hook you up with that super rare card. Hope he eventually tracks down a Sprague for his collection.
ReplyDeleteI managed to snag the Sprague as well!
DeleteCongratulations Derek!
DeleteOne of the best cards I have ever been gifted. Incredibly generous.
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ReplyDeleteIt was my pleasure! When I saw it, I had to make a choice - leave it on COMC and let Eric know and risk someone else picking it up or buy it. So I bought it. Then tried to set the resell value to something absurdly high with offers open so that Eric could offer me a penny but I think 10% was the lowest offer option that could be set. So it waited 2 years instead.
ReplyDeleteAgain, thank you for the card!
DeleteCongratulations on getting your much desired card! I feel like I sometimes take a lot longer than I should to send people stuff that I've told them about in advance, but two years, that's something. Good on Derek for following through. That says a lot about the quality of his person.
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