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I like the 65 and 71!
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Bob, looking at your sweet Rose basic topps registry sets, looks like you like 'em all!
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My favorites are the 63, 64, 65, 67, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76. Also like the 1986 RB.
Last edited by MattyC; 05-30-2015 at 12:49 PM. |
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Well, we may be able to scratch this question out now, given the recent reports that Rose bet on baseball while a player.
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He has zero chance of ever getting into the HOF. What he did undermines the very foundation of the game, i.e., that: (1) the games are legitimate contests of skill and the winner is not predetermined by the participants' lack of integrity or morals; and (2) the outcome is not scripted in advance. Like Joe Jackson and pals, he will forever be on the outside looking in (unless he buys a ticket to the Hall), and should simply meander into oblivion insofar as his personal efforts to change his fate are concerned. Enough is enough--some mistakes are not meant to be overcome!
Best regards, Larry |
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regardless, i still love the images of his cards as they are engrained in my childhood...just a hall of shame, i guess. |
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Love him or hate him, he's part of the game's history. If one collected anywhere during his playing days, the images-- the cards themselves-- are iconic and take you back to youth. Whether his cards go up or down in monetary value, I'll leave that to the flippers, investors, and clairvoyants.
I remember the fanfare around his pursuit of Cobb, and as a boy who got into cards in 1986, that Topps Rose Subset is such a vivid memory now. The cards depicted four at a time in that subset seemed ancient to a ten year old. If one collects to have his collection tell the story of the game, as well as to be something of a time portal, Rose cards will always be desired pieces for the collection. Same as Shoeless and other stained names whose on field achievements electrified at the time. A fall from grace makes for as much of an entertaining story, albeit a tragic one, as does a tale with an inspirational, upbeat tone. Both can be useful to share with our kids as well-- cautionary figures and role models of work ethic, class, humanity, and courage (like Gehrig, Clemente, or Mattingly) are both valuable. What I also like about early cards of tragic figures-- Shoeless, even Mantle, Doc and Darryl, Bonds-- is that many of these men had such prodigious talent, and early pictures of them, at the dawn of their careers, make us remember there are always multiple paths we can choose in life. Early cards of these players make me pause and wonder what could have been. Last edited by MattyC; 06-24-2015 at 12:04 AM. |
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