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Just when you think baseball cards are the center of the universe
none of the three contestants on Jeopardy tonight could identify the person depicted on a T206 Wagner. I was a bit surprised. I wonder if Mantle would have caused the same lack of response? At least it was a 2000. question....
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Not sure how that's possible unless you live under a rock.
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I really doubt a 52 Mantle would of had any better response. In reality card collecting is done by a very small percentage of people.
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I think the chances of Mantle being identified are far greater
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I don’t find that surprising at all. In fact I would have been shocked if more than 1 of the contestants knew it. You can walk down any street in any city in America and ask 100 people, and I will bet you that no more than 20 people will know, if that many.
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Honus rolled over in his grave .
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With apologies to Bill Gates and Warren Buffett...
We collectors are the REAL 1%
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Agree -
I think a decent amount (maybe 10%-20%) of people are aware of that card in the sense that they know there's some rare baseball card they've seen in the news before. But few could probably pick it out of a lineup and practically none could tell you the name of the player.
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Heck, one of the questions on the show was something like "Barry Bonds broke this man's career home run record, and the first response was "Who is Babe Ruth?"
Then another question was about the record 56 game hitting streak, and they even showed a picture of Joe DiMaggio! The first response to this one (not from the same contestant as the first one) was also "Who is Babe Ruth?" After those two, I'm not surprised at all that none of the three contestants knew of Honus Wagner. Steve
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I concur. Card collecting really isn't a huge market nowadays. We may think it is...
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What was the answer? Did they show the card? Certainly Trebek didn't say "The person depicted on the t206 Wagner."
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I'm guessing about 1 in a 1000 could identify the man in this picture:
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Behind the Right Centerfield wall at Camden Yards, the Orioles have Bronze statues of Brooks and Frank, Earl and Jim Palmer. Palmer does color for the Oriole broadcasts on MASN. He was out there doing a pre-game piece on Boog Powell's BBQ. A woman was taking pictures of the statues. When she got to Palmer's, Jim walked over, raised his leg to mimic the statue of him in his wind-up and........The lady asked him to please move out of her shot...She had no clue who he was.........
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