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Old 12-07-2016, 11:52 AM
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My avatar shows the card I once owned 40 copies of. Currently down to 12 with one selling on the 'bay this week.

But seriously, have any of you either successfully or not made an attempt to hoard all copies of an issue?


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Old 12-07-2016, 11:54 AM
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I tried to buy all the 1988 Donruss Tom Glavines but fell short.
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I had a buddy who had over 500 1989 Topps Steve Avery rookie cards- that went pretty well for him...
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Kid buying all the 52t bartiromes has prices through the roof
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I wasn't exactly trying to hoard them, but at one point I had 3 of the 7 graded e92 Nadja Jennings and knew where 3 more were (1 in each of the top 2 registry sets and 1 in a board member's Jennings collection). Traded 1 of mine to another board member for his Jennings back run this summer.

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Seems like a horrible idea - I'd never do that......
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T206 Honus Wagner. Terrific card. I had 3 at one point and wanted to get the rest. One person actually had the rest for sale, and I was in the middle of making a deal with him when...


... I woke up. What a dream.
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Years ago I started buying all the T204 Tom Reilly cards I could find. I wasn't hoarding them per se, I planned on destroying them because he wasn't good enough to be in the set and I thought 120 cards seemed more logical for a set size than 121. It was also out of spite for no Pirates in the set. Maybe someday I'll start buying them again to finish my goal, but I think it's been at least 14 years since I bought one.
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Back when I was a seller instead of the collector I am now I done it with several different error cards. I done it to make $ though not have a bunch of the same card.
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I've never done it, but there's several guys hoarding certain T206's, hence the premium- Titus, Shag, etc.
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I got like 5 1970 Topps Mack Jones cards in a pack when I was a little kid and thought that I had!

I had to wait a whole week for my allowance before I could get another pack!

I WAS PISSED!!!!
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There's the 1964 Topps Curt Flood too I think..........

Hoarding 1988 Donruss would be like hoarding Ramen noodles................

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Seems like a horrible idea - I'd never do that......
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Sometimes I feel like I'm trying to corner the market on rare non-HoFers from sets that people have little interest in.
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1984 Topps Nick Esasky. Well, got about 800, lots more to go.

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Years ago I started buying all the T204 Tom Reilly cards I could find. I wasn't hoarding them per se, I planned on destroying them because he wasn't good enough to be in the set and I thought 120 cards seemed more logical for a set size than 121. It was also out of spite for no Pirates in the set. Maybe someday I'll start buying them again to finish my goal, but I think it's been at least 14 years since I bought one.
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I once owned two rookie cards of Bill Bradley. I figured that if he was elected to the Presidency I would sell one at a handsome profit. While I haven't given up hope, I'm starting to think it was a bad investment.
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I would like to corner the market on Ars Longa's Phenomenal Smith card.
I think that is 9 cards total.
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I took a pretty good shot at doing it on Tango Eggs at one point. Had about 35-40 (9 different) before I realized if there was another find I'd be hosed. Kept the best example of each and sold the rest.
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I have all of the 1904 Allegheny cards of Frank Selee.
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I have the only e125 Plank
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in the past when boxing was selling a bit better, I had a good amount of specific boxing cards. I enjoyed it and may do it again

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At one point I thought seriously about trying to corner the market (with another Net54 member) on 1907 and 1908 Dietsche Cobbs. We were up to 18. But then we realized it would involve buying a bunch of PSA 1s for $1200 each. That was the end of that.
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Yeah, kind of like the Pete Rose rookie hoarding. Twenty Five million dollars later you would be screwed as you still didn't have all of them. Even authorities laughed at the idea. I think a lot of folks, even a few board members, probably got upside down on the hype.

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I mailed this guy about 50 for free. I'm the pushpins on his map from the Florida Panhandle.
That is odd. I wonder if Tim Wallach knows about this?
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I think he does -- and it's fairly harmless as fandom goes.

I think the guy has a great idea and I've sent him cards 2x and have another shipment I need to put together for him

Have hundreds more for him
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I watched Baines play high school & American Legion ball so was waiting for his first card. I picked up about 2,000 1981 Topps & 3,000 1981 Fleer over a one year period from vending case breakers in SCD for a nickel each. Sold the Topps for $1 each to SCD advertisers later. No market for the Fleer then.
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IIRC - and this is a long time ago, you also ran classified ads in hobby pubs looking for those Baines cards.

Someday he has an outside HOF shot and you might finally be able to cash in those 1981 Fleer cards
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I have all of the 1904 Allegheny cards of Frank Selee.


Paul - I wasn't going to mention my seven Alleghenys since I never seriously intended to get them all.
I actually have let two others passed through EBAY without offering.

However, since Selee was one of the HOF Inductees the one year I got to Cooperstown, please understand that I still have a standing offer for it.



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IIRC - and this is a long time ago, you also ran classified ads in hobby pubs looking for those Baines cards.

Someday he has an outside HOF shot and you might finally be able to cash in those 1981 Fleer cards
Wow, that is neat that you remembered! I ended up with about 10,000 1981 & 1982 Baines cards, but all are long gone. Sold many to a board member (Hi Tony).
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At one time, Reggie Jackson was actively buying up as many of his own rookie cards as he could find. Don't know if he's still pursuing that goal, but he'll never get them all (I still have one).
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I created a Bumpus Jones postcard by enlarging him in the 1894 Sioux City team picture. That's the picture that Baseball Reference is currently using. Then I commissioned artist Monty Sheldon to do a Bumpus card 1 of 1. He used an 1898/9 team photo for the pose and came up with this



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So I guess you can say I cornered the market, albeit a VERY small one.
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I have the market cornered on t216 blank back dots miller cards.
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Bought 2 1989 Fleer Randy Johnson Marlboro error cards for $2.71 today because they had them listed as the regular corrected version. A black box version and the darker red tint version that you can still see the Marlboro sign.

I don't have the market cornered but have way more than enough of every version to make them worthless if I even sold 10% of the ones I have.
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I created a Bumpus Jones postcard by enlarging him in the 1894 Sioux City team picture. That's the picture that Baseball Reference is currently using. Then I commissioned artist Monty Sheldon to do a Bumpus card 1 of 1. He used an 1898/9 team photo for the pose and came up with this



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So I guess you can say I cornered the market, albeit a VERY small one.
Those are some NICE sleeves!
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At one time, Reggie Jackson was actively buying up as many of his own rookie cards as he could find. Don't know if he's still pursuing that goal, but he'll never get them all (I still have one).
Reggie lost those cards when his house was destroyed in one of those California wildfires.

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I chose to take this concept to the "next level". Rather than buying up one card from an issue I am trying to corner the market on two entire sets.

1941 Goudey was my first addiction. It's only 33 cards, right? How tough can it be to finish a 33 card Goudey set? Not terribly hard it turned out. But my OCD was bothering me with all those different colors in one "set". So I decided the natural thing to do would be to put together a Master Set. All 33 cards in all 4 colors. Tougher yes. But not impossible. When I finished that 132 card quest I had all these leftovers from lot buys and upgrades that I though gave me a good start on a second master set. And so on. When the mailman comes today I will have 470 total cards from this set including 22 Bill Posedel cards. 10 total complete sets and growing. No end in sight although I am getting better at letting go of the dogs and just keeping the upgrades. Anybody want to trade?

Now I'm fixated by T203's. Have 69 of them now. One complete set of Mayo Backs and about half a set of Winner Backs. I will likely pare down the extras on this next year. But I said the same thing with my 41s too. So most likely I'll finish 2017 with more than I finish 2016. Fortunately they don't come up for sale often.
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Reggie lost those cards when his house was destroyed in one of those California wildfires.

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Years ago I started buying all the T204 Tom Reilly cards I could find. I wasn't hoarding them per se, I planned on destroying them because he wasn't good enough to be in the set and I thought 120 cards seemed more logical for a set size than 121. It was also out of spite for no Pirates in the set. Maybe someday I'll start buying them again to finish my goal, but I think it's been at least 14 years since I bought one.
I find this hilarious and amazing. Nicely done I wish you do continue.
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This thread is a psychologist's doctoral thesis waiting to happen.

Just teasing.
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I laughed out loud. We are all a bit nuts and OCD.

I toyed with the idea on two pre-war football cards: the 1894 Mayo Cut Plug Poe and Hinkey. But when you start dropping money on the same card, it adds up, and you start thinking about the stuff you could have bought with that money instead. Its the same reason I cant build sets. It drives me nuts spending money on commons when i could have bought a monster card instead.
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Just teasing.
It's not "waiting" - it's writing itself!!
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I have the market cornered on t216 blank back dots miller cards.
Just like Charley Brown has the market cornered for all Joe Gobezenski (?) cards.
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Just like Charley Brown has the market cornered for all Joe Gobezenski (?) cards.
Not true!

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I've read posts by two people that posted something different than I thought they would for this particular thread.... John and Bob .... still waiting to hear a good story about how many cards you have of a certain player from a certain set.... I'm not sure I'd call it hoarding... I'd call it an obsession.... kind of like the guy that likes that mustachioed player in the T206 set.... either of you guys gonna fess up to having more cards of a certain player from a certain issue?
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Years ago I started buying all the T204 Tom Reilly cards I could find. I wasn't hoarding them per se, I planned on destroying them because he wasn't good enough to be in the set and I thought 120 cards seemed more logical for a set size than 121. It was also out of spite for no Pirates in the set. Maybe someday I'll start buying them again to finish my goal, but I think it's been at least 14 years since I bought one.

Gutted I missed the one on the BST this morning.

Here's the article from July 20th, 1908 where Reilly got sold to St. Louis from the Class D Gulfport-Biloxi Sandy Crabs.

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