Your opportunity to own one of the two-known PSA 8.5 1955 Bowman Steve Gromek cards is here!
It is known as "The Pack Heard Round the World". In 2018, our sister company, Vintage Breaks, had An "Eye Popping" Pull from 1955 Bowman at The National. The story made headlines because in that 1955 Bowman pack came a Mickey Mantle card that would eventually grade a PSA 9. Since that time, the Mickey Mantle card sold for $358,000! In the same pack, there was a Steve Gromek and that very card is now available for purchase on the Just Collect eBay page.
The Steve Gromek card has a story of its own. It has been graded a PSA 8.5 and is only the second card to receive an 8.5 grade. There are no higher graded 1955 Bowman Steve Gromek cards. A right-handed pitcher with an outstanding fastball, Gromek had a 17-year career with the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Tigers. His best season came in 1945 when he won 19 games and had a 2.55 ERA with the Indians, but he was mostly remembered for a photo taken with a teammate in the clubhouse.
Steve Gromek and Larry Doby embraced each other in the Indians clubhouse after a win in the 1948 World Series that brought Cleveland one victory away from the championship. With huge smiles on both their faces, the moment was captured in a photograph and was printed in newspapers all over the country. It was a moment of peace and unity that still resonates today.
He may not be "The Mick", but Gromek's relevance is just as important as Mantle's.
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The 1955 Bowman Steve Gromek PSA 8.5 is available to purchase in our eBay store right now. We specialize in selling vintage baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and non-sports cards. There is a wide variety of graded cards from PSA, SGC, and BGS as well as autographs, wire photos, unopened packs & boxes, and game-used memorabilia. If you'd like to check out the Steve Gromek card or our eBay store, click the button below.
WE ARE ALWAYS BUYING
If you have Mickey Mantle cards you'd like to sell, I'd be interested in buying them! I am very familiar with buying Mickey Mantle Topps cards, including his rookie card. I purchased a Mantle rookie that was hiding on a shelf with jars of pickles! Read the awesome story about the "pickles" Mantle HERE. A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle rookie card was also part of The Black Box Collection that contained six complete vintage baseball sets.
Just Collect is always buying vintage sports and non-sports cards from 1879 to 1979 as well as select modern cards. If you have a collection that you are considering selling, contact us today to discuss or get our industry-leading purchase offer. If you have a collection that you want to be appraised, please contact us and we would be happy to discuss your collection and help you understand the real cash value of your collection in the current marketplace. Check out the Just Collect Buy List.
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We offer many ways to evaluate your cards other than or using our website, too.
If you can make the trip here like the son from my hometown did for this collection- we can make a deal at the office. We once met a father-son duo that drove eight hours from Virginia to meet us to sell a Michael Jordan rookie card stored in Tupperware since 1986 - great read here.
We keep a LIST of the card shows we'll be attending. Come stop by the Just Collect table and chat.
If you have a valuable collection and want us to come to you, we'll hop on the next plane out. We recently took a trip to California to purchase a collection that included three Jackie Robinson 1948 Leaf rookie cards that you can read about here.
We have another location in New York you can meet us at; read all the information here.
If you choose to mail your cards for an appraisal, we will evaluate your cards for FREE still. If you choose not to sell the cards, we'll ship them back with shipping fees paid by us! We can offer our FedEx account with 2-day shipping, fully insured, all covered by us. Simply contact the office to set up this option.
OUR BUYING PHILOSOPHY
We've run into a wide range of people and collections over the last 25 years. Although Just Collect is known for buying vintage sports cards and especially vintage baseball cards, we are also extremely interested in buying non-sports cards, too!
Every collection and every collector is different and we treat EVERY collection with the respect and attention that we show for our own collections. We understand that many have put their heart and souls into building their collections. So when you're ready to sell, we understand the feelings that you're going through and will work with you to help you reach a decision that is a WIN/WIN, because if you're not happy, we're not happy.
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