Anyone ever tried to Corner the Market on a Particular Card?

[bocca001]

Originally Posted by z28jd

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.

A T204 Tom Reilly just sold on the BST today... perhaps it suddenly has new value as a scarcity? An increase in demand?

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by bocca001

A T204 Tom Reilly just sold on the BST today... perhaps it suddenly has new value as a scarcity? An increase in demand?

The guy hit .180 and couldn't field. Are you sure it wasn't someone paying someone to take the card off their hands?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...eillto01.shtml

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by Fred

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?

I have over 3,000 rookie cards of Omar Vizquel, if that's what you mean? Some guy was taking 1989 Topps Traded sets, pulling the Griffey cards to get them graded, then selling off a couple of the stars cheap, and trashing the rest. I bought most of his Vizquel cards for about 10 cents each.

So if someone is looking for a 1989 TT Paul Kilgus or Randy Kutcher, they are a lot less common than the Griffey card because many thousands were trashed

[Exhibitman]

True market cornering, no. Closest I came was trying to get every 1928 Exhibit of my cousin that came up for sale but I quit after 8:










I've let a few slip past since.

Since 1 of 1 specimens are pretty regular occurrences in boxing, soccer and other global sports, especially from foreign issuers, in a sense anyone who collects actively in those areas has some markets cornered. For example, this is the only known specimen of a 1904 Sporting Life cabinet from the Jeffries-Munroe title fight:



This is the only known example of the 1938 NX5 American Sweets Joe Louis:



I don't know of any other complete runs of these:



Can't be too many of these floating around, either:

[Fred]

John,

And I thought you had more Omar V rookies than that.....

[glchen]

There can't be more than 2-3 more of these out there, can there? More seriously, these were all slightly different color tints, which was why I got them.

[DeafSports]

I have about 110 of T-206 Luther "Dummy" Taylor. I don't think I will ever get tired of buying a beauty card.

Best,
Danny