Eddie Mathews PSA 7 1952 Topps

[1952boyntoncollector]

Card for sale for like $21,500 at memory lane....

Maybe a member of the board will find a buyer for $23,000 then buy the card and make a profit before having the card in hand...

but of course the card will get sold before the member can buy it...then the new buyer will be mad because he sold his PSA 3 Mathews expecting to get the PSA 7 and now has hole in the collection.


the cycle repeats..rinse again....

I do expect this card to sell at list price..anyone agree?

[begsu1013]

hilarious!!!

and naturally a 30 page thread that has more right turns than a square is immediately bound to ensue, correct?

[pokerplyr80]

Hopefully that seller will honor his deal, even if he's offered $23,100 later in a private message.

[ls7plus]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

Hopefully that seller will honor his deal, even if he's offered $23,100 later in a private message.

Couldn't have said it better myself, but honor has gone out of style to some. Those to which it has, however, beware: the "it's all about me" syndrome will always, inevitably catch up to you in very unpleasant ways (when you think "it's all about me," 99.9% of the time it's not).

Best wishes to most,

Larry

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by ls7plus

Couldn't have said it better myself, but honor has gone out of style to some. Those to which it has, however, beware: the "it's all about me" syndrome will always, inevitably catch up to you in very unpleasant ways (when you think "it's all about me," 99.9% of the time it's not).

Best wishes to most,

Larry

As a decent songwriter put it, Instant Karma's gonna get you.

[Gr8Beldini]

I don't get the meaning of this thread. Does it mean that a PSA 7 Mathews is advertised but isn't really for sale? How would the seller benefit by doing that? Or does this mean that the $21K price is mislisted? I'd like to know.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

I don't get the meaning of this thread. Does it mean that a PSA 7 Mathews is advertised but isn't really for sale? How would the seller benefit by doing that? Or does this mean that the $21K price is mislisted? I'd like to know.

The OP is referring to a thread on the pre-war page: http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=212067

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Gr8Beldini

I don't get the meaning of this thread. Does it mean that a PSA 7 Mathews is advertised but isn't really for sale? How would the seller benefit by doing that? Or does this mean that the $21K price is mislisted? I'd like to know.

the card is for sale still for 21k....I think someone will buy it..but was having fun with a hypothetical that has happened on the forum...people trying to sell cards before having them in hand....

[ls7plus]

To go a bit off topic from the last few posts, Eddie Mathews was a FABULOUS third baseman. A lot of people don't know that Milwaukee County Stadium was a very tough homerun park--check the home versus road totals of the '82 Brewers, "Harvey's Wall-Bangers," a tremendous homerun hitting team (some have said due to poor weather conditions in a long spring and early fall), and Mathews posted ROAD homer totals in three seasons of 30, 26, and 24!!! Given just a neutral home 4-bagger park, he would conceivably have topped the 50-homer mark 3X!!! And the consensus was that although he was initially a less than average fielder at third, he became significantly above average with the glove. Bill James rated him as #3 all-time at third, despite suffering a severe shoulder injury in 1962, which significantly hampered his production thereafter, but I have him at #2, as he was significantly ahead of George Brett in runs created versus league average (James rated Brett #2, second of course to Schmidt).

I got his autograph at a Pittsburgh show before he died an untimely death, and was very glad I did. The only really good card I have of him is a PSA 7.5 '54-'56 Spic and Span Braves.

The '52 Topps Mathews is also a tremendous card, one which, IMHO, will continue to rise in value on a regular, probably linear, basis! Wish I could buy it (well, I could, but the wife would have a you-know-what fit. When I recently bought the '39 V351 Williams, she felt she was entitled to have the interior of the house painted, which, added on to the price I paid, nearly doubled the cost of the card--can't afford much more of that!).

Best wishes and may your collecting be the stuff of dreams,

Larry

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

As a decent songwriter put it, Instant Karma's gonna get you.

Unless they're a Karma chameleon; then they'll be harder to spot.

[1952boyntoncollector]

not terrible..it appears you can buy it now at memory lane......