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Originally Posted by drumback
To me, the BN Ruth isn't really a card. It's a schedule. And it's kind of ugly as well. In any color. Looks like it could have been printed in the seventies. I would choose Wagner. Not even close.
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Well said, indeed it is a schedule, but still Ruth's inaugural appearance on "some" cardboard issue. While I am as big as Ruth fan as anyone in the hobby and collect his cardboard rarities, in this instance I choose the Wagner. True, stances change over the course of time, but I highly doubt the Wagner will EVER be pushed aside as our hobby's Holy Grail. The original pricing escalation within the hobby was spearheaded by two cards; the T206 Wagner and 1952 Topps Mantle with the T206 Wagner the ultimate benchmark. True, the Ruth 1914 BN is scarcer, but sometimes excessive rarity can limit a card's emergence to the general public. Keep in mind it is "the public" that will ultimately dictate a card's desirability/value, and there are enough Wagner's available (with a scarcity factor still attached) to continue generating the necessary "hype" required for a "Holy Grail" baseball card.
Joe T.