Originally Posted by Exhibitman
The following cards are hideous:
--1933 Goudey Foxx
--1933 Goudey Gehrig
--T206 Young glove showing
--T206 Speaker
--E90 Jackson
--1952 Topps Mays
--National League T205s
--R427 blue tint
--W512, W513, W9316, IFS Blue and Orange, Universal Toy & Novelty strips
T227s are lousy likenesses of the subjects.
The premium for the Obak Ten Million card is asinine.
Just because a player was a great player doesn't mean his cards are worth as much as he was. Frank Robinson, Eddie Collins, Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker, Rogers Hornsby, etc.: sorry collectors, but their cards are never going to be on the same level as Ruth, Cobb, Johnson, Aaron, Mantle or Gehrig, no matter how much we discuss it.
Willie Mays is not less popular than Mickey Mantle because of race: he was an asshat who played for the least popular NY team for a few years and spent most of his career in the godforsaken frozen wasteland of Candlestick Park. He is less popular because his fan base is much smaller.
Joe Jackson was a crooked player who should never get into the HOF. Ditto Pete Rose.
Racist players from the Jim Crow era who are in the Hall of Fame should stay right where they are: do not erase history, learn from it.
Anything made from 1981-1988 is junk wax. Period. Anything made after 1989 is shiny crap. Period. Have fun with it, play with it, speculate with it, but recognize it for what it is in the end: recycling.
Anyone who spends more than $1,000 on a card, or who owns more than $10,000 of cards, and says that they don't care about the value of their cards, is lying.
The set registry is stupid. Bunch of insecure old white guys comparing pee-pees.
The National should be in Chicago every year. Good venue, easy airport, lots of hotels and food. If the show isn't going anywhere west of Chicago or south of AC, it isn't a National it is a northeastern regional. Just stick it in Chicago and stop pretending.
Long baseball pants are an abomination and should be banned immediately. The players today look like kids in their favorite team PJs.
Pitch counts are for wimps.
Michael Jordan is overrated.
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