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Card # 80
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This Great Game 1960s
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| Player |
Position |
Team |
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Pierce, Billy
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Looking up, mitt at belt
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San Francisco Giants
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| Top Auction Price |
Total Sold |
Avg # Bids |
Avg # Bidders |
Last Sold |
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$ 62.00
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3
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5
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3
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June 12, 2024
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About the Player
From the "This Great Game" card back: How good do you have to be to have two of baseball’s greatest legends gush over your pitching, and choose two different pitches while doing it? Joe DiMaggio said of Pierce: “That little so-and-so is a marvel. So little, and all that speed. And I mean speed!” Later, after he had won 20 games a few times in the league, Ted Williams opined, “He has the best curveball I ever faced.” Pierce was small but had the heart of a giant, and he gathered his many pitching weapons to win 211 games.
About the Series
Helmar continues to delight as the This Great Game franchise roars into the 1960’s! This can only be described as a startling, groundbreaking issue. This Great Game, the 1960’s takes no prisoners—every effort has been made to leave collectors in awe. This is no overstatement. Sanjay Verma, master of the gouache miniature, returns to create more of his special brand of magic with the player portraits. The front card design has been carefully crafted to have that familiar 1960’s feel—without being a stogy derivative of graphic roads thoroughly mined. Player selection is typically Helmar in that the nearly forgotten are celebrated alongside immortals. What is possible with card backs, normally designed as after-thoughts, have been completely reimagined in a way that makes them just as important as the fronts. The formation of the backs recognizes that the 1960’s were of time of upset, re-thinking, revolt. In art we celebrated (or endured) Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, among many others. But what did we tack up on our walls? Black light posters—gaudy, bold and scandalous. This series isn’t just imaginative—it is visionary! 2.7" x 4.75", thick stock.
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| This Great Game 1960s, San Francisco Giants |
| Card # | Thumbnail Pic | Player Name | Position | Top Auction Price |
| 77 |   | Hart, Jim Ray | Bat resting on right shoulder, bleachers | $ 65.00 |
| 78 |   | Alou, Jesus | Hand in mitt at chest | $ 50.00 |
| 79 |   | Crandall, Del | Posed batting, belt up | $ 43.89 |
| 80 |   | Pierce, Billy | Looking up, mitt at belt | $ 62.00 |
| 81 |   | Miller, Stu | Mitt at belt, looking up & away | $ 53.00 |
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