the biggest hoarder??

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Posted By: anthony

A different kind of survey.

The other day I saw a post that had 3 t206 Kid Elberfeld Washington Portrait cards. I also saw awhile ago a post that had 15+ t206 Dummy Taylor cards.

I was wondering who has the most "identical" single card duplicates, triplicates, quadruplicates, etc ?? You dont have to post which card if you dont want to, but the number would be nice.

Here's the most I ever had at one time

2 T206 Ty Cobb Green Portraits...currently have 0

2 T206 John McGraw Portraits No Cap...currently have 1

2 T206 Walter Johnson Portraits...currently have 1

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Posted By: BD

is the "Eddoe The Echoe" of pre war cards!
he's had so many of one card or another its quite funny.

BcD

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Posted By: sean

I have 15 signed willis hudlin 1933 goudeys. I think I mailed to him so many times I put him to an early grave at the bright young age of 98.

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Posted By: jay behrens

I have 1,438 Dead Jawa cards from the Star Wars collectible card game. Does that count?

Jay

I love pinatas. You get to beat the crap of something and get rewarded with candy.

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Posted By: Brian

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Posted By: Paul S

Three T206 Gandils. A different back on each. No idea how I ended up with 3 because when I was collecting them I would not have gone for more than one of any player, and different backs were not such a big deal. Does separate backs count as hoarding? Or is it the "intention" to hoard?

Paul S






edited to add scan

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Posted By: Turner Engle

9 Bugs Raymond T205's. 6 are at SGC right now for grading.

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Posted By: leon

but 3 E99 Delmas's

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Posted By: anthony

same card different backs counts...as long as its pre-war or close to it. 1982 doug decinces doesnt count.

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Posted By: Ken McMillan

22 Elmer Miller cards with different backs. Some are duplicate but 10 actual different varieties and still looking.

Ken

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Posted By: Andrew

9 1964 Stand-up Yaz's.

If you allow foolish-teenage-following the herd-bad investment-mentality:

400 '85 Kirby Puckets
300 '85 Eric Davis
Kal Daniels, Joe Carter, etc.

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." -- Erica Jong

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Posted By: peter chao

I've got 2 '69 White-letter Mantles.

More modernly, 200 '87 Topps Bonds and 50 '87 Fleer Bonds. So you know I'm rooting for him to break the record and changing his public persona.

Peter

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Posted By: Jim Dale

Guess 1975 Mini's aren't vintage and worth discussion on a pre war forum, but its fun to watch the registry war for that set on ebay. There are 4 or 5 people within 10 cards of finishing their sets for that registry; one of those cards comes up and its an all out war. The winner is usually the guy who already has the full set and seems to be denying everyone else. I got one of those cards in an SGC and couldn't believe the trade I got for it so the guy could do a cross over.

So my question here is do people hoard to deny others or because they are a fan of certain players?

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Posted By: Cat

I once had 25 1963 Topps Pete Rose rookie cards...16 graded 7 and above. I have one left.

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Posted By: peter chao

Jim,

If your a true hoarder then your into the investment aspect of the Hobby. Let's put it this way one '87 Topps Barry Bonds looks pretty much like another one. So there's no reason why you would need 200 unless your hoping the price will go up.

Peter

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Posted By: Jim Dale

Peter,

Guess that is predominately it; but I hoard one of the 1975 Mini's just because I still play golf with the guy and I like to tell him I got another one of his cards when I do see him. I'm up to about 12 of his top PSA graded cards from the 75 mini set (out of 25 in the population reports).

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Posted By: barrysloate

The only rookie card I ever hoarded was Dave Magadan- I bought 100 of them in 1987. Does it get anymore boneheaded than that?

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Barry, I have 100 Ruben Sierra Rookie Cards from 1987 if you ever want to trade!

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

Up until Friday, I had five '38 Goudey DiMaggios. Three #250s and two #274s. I'm getting rid of all but two, though.

I also have three T206 Rube Waddell Portraits, and sold a fourth two weeks ago.

-Al

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Posted By: JimB

At one time I had five T206 red Cobbs. Now I have two: they are two different backs.
JimB

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Posted By: barrysloate

Dave- I sold the Magadans years ago.

I think I bought them for fifty cents apiece and sold them five years later for a quarter apiece...great tax writeoff.

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Posted By: Marty

I had 5 Rice Stix Dizzy Dean cards.

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Posted By: Andrew

The only rookie card I ever hoarded was Dave Magadan- I bought 100 of them in 1987. Does it get anymore boneheaded than that?
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Yes, Jim Traber was my next IBM. Who you say? Exactly.

"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." -- Erica Jong

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Posted By: Anonymous

I have 7 T206 Iron Man McGinnity cards, each w/ a different back.

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Posted By: Scott

I have 5 Dummy Taylor cards. Each has a different back. I'm trying for all the backs. They are for my deaf son who is two years old.
Thanks,
Scott.

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Posted By: Paul S

Cat,

Not an attempt to age you, but did you acquire those '63 Rose's by buying packs in the year they came out (and grade them later?) The only reason I ask is that I have 5 1971 Topps Yaz's, which was the last year I bought packs over the counter. I didn't even realize I had 5 until I went through them two weeks ago. By the way, each one is different from the other in quality, especially centering-wise.

Paul S

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Posted By: howard

Barry, I am surprised that anyone would pay fifty cents apiece for 1987 Magadan cards but at least there was a chance at that time that he would become a star player. What amazes me is that you were able to dump them on someone for twenty-five cents apiece after he had erased earlier hopes of stardom. Good job!

Howard

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Posted By: barrysloate

Truth is, I'm not sure I actually even got a quarter apiece for them. I just remember I sold them for a loss.

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Posted By: Cat

Paul:

No, I bought my first about 10 years ago and the last as recently as 5 years ago.


BTW, if anyone wants to trade, I have 200 Greg Swindell rookie cards, but I am not interested in the Ruben Sierra cards since I have 50+ of those. I also have large lots of Danny Tartabull, Ramon Martinez, Jose Rijo, John Kruk, Ivan Calderon, Hal Morris, ....

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Posted By: Rob NYC

Elberfeld (Wash. port): 3 different backs
Bergen (batting): 7 different backs
Bresnehan (portrait): 4
Keeler (portrait): 2
Tinker/Evers/Chance: 2/2/2 (PSA/SGC)
Philip Hughes 2004 Topps: 12


Added Bresnahan, Keeler, and the Cubbie trio.
Added Philip Hughes.

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Posted By: Jason L

isn't such a bad thing!
I actually wish I had even 20 Pucketts
at least he's a HOFer, compared to many of the other board members' woes with the likes of Ruben Sierra, Magadan, and Kal Daniels...(all of whom, I mwill also admit to having in greater supply than Puckett)

Sadly, nothing vintage...but I do have nealy 50 of Ozzie Smith's second-year card....I know: "Oooooooo!"

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Posted By: david poses

o/t, but is anybody interested in any 87 topps pete incaviglia cards? i have about 50 of them. also have a bunch of wally joyners and a big pile of classic todd van poppel. nice.

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Posted By: Ed

hoarding should not include different backs. Backs are the Future (Movie idea?)

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Posted By: MEWheat

4 dark cap Matty's; 3 different backs.

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Posted By: peter chao

Also, hoarding should not include junk like Ruben Sierra cards and Cory Snyder cards.

Peter

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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

I once had several hundred Steve Garvey cards. They were naming schools after the guy. Then . . . well, you know the rest. That experience cured me of speculating on card values.

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Posted By: Marc S.

about 20,000+ Mike Schmidt cards when I was getting my MBA...that was probably too many.

I think I have eleven different T-206 Doolan batting cards..

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Posted By: anthony

20,000+ schmidt card? holy crap thats a lot...

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Posted By: Matt Goebel

I know it's not a big number, but I have five examples of the 1923-24 Billiken Oliver "Ghost" Marcelle card. It does, however, represent probably 50% of the total population.

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Posted By: peter chao

Matt,

50% of the population is huge, the unfortunate part about having let's say 20,000 or so Roger Clemens Rookies is that it is probably less than 1% of the population.

Peter

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Posted By: Ray

Not really hoarding this one since there's gotta be several hundred of these out there, but I am partial to this card. I still have one or two raw ones I need to scan. I only pick them up when I can steal them for really cheap.

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Posted By: Jason L

on why you're partial to it? just curious...

favorite player?
first vintage card?
on your favorite team?
family member?

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Posted By: peter chao

I love it...now who is Lynn Nelson and why are you trying to corner the market on '34 Goudey cards of this guy.

Peter

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Posted By: mike

i know a guy that once had over 200 1968 bill mazeroski cards. he was born in 1968 and maz was his favorite pirate

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Posted By: David Smith

There is a guy in Madison, Indiana who buys up every 1933 Goudey (I think?) card of a certain player because he is related to him. I can't remember the players name but I do remember asking about baseball items when I was in town once looking in antique stores and an owner told me that story.

David

Edited-- The player's name is Tommy Thevenow. If you need that card for your Goudey set and it is hard to find, now you know why. This guy has been buying and hoarding them for years.

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Posted By: Rich Klein

What may have been an urban legend about the 1971 Topps Fred Wenz card. Supposedly some guy in the Philly area got upset at Wenz, who knew all about his only card; and vowed to make sure Wenz never got any of them.

Teddy may know something more about this

Rich

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Posted By: Ray

Jason/Peter,

When I first got into collecting pre-war, about a year or so ago, I picked up a few cheap raw commons of various sets to educate myself a little and see what set I wanted to collect. Well I picked up a raw version of this card (I think it's the second raw card at the top) for about $6. I got it in the mail, and read the back, which mentioned that Lynn Nelson was born in Fargo, ND.

Now, I didn't grow up in Fargo, but I did live there for a year or so during my last year of high school. I met my wife there and met life-long friends there, and really love that city. After a little research, I found that Lynn Nelson is the only pre-war ball player from Fargo (the only other noteable guy from there is Roger Maris).

Oh, and on a side note, Lynn Nelson wasn't born in Fargo. He was born about 60 miles to the south in a little town called Sheldon, ND.

I'm definitely not hoarding them Like I said before, there's gotta be several hundred of them floating around out there. But getting one in the mail reminds me of the thrill I got when not only did I get one of my first pre-war cards, but I read the back to see Fargo mentioned. It's just a cool feeling. Plus, pretty much any pre-war card looks awesome with a bunch of its brothers sitting right next to it.

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Posted By: peter chao

Ray,

That's a great reason for collecting Lynn Nelson cards, it's better than my reason for getting 200 '87 Topps Barry Bonds cards, I'm trying to corner the market. Unfortunately, there's probably a gazillion or more out there.

Peter

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

The guy who buys Tommy Thevenow's 1933 Goudey cards (card #36) is apparently the player's son. He buys not only cards but other memorabilia related to Thevenow as well. I think if I were in his position I would probably do the same thing. It does however add an interesting twist to the Goudey collecting challenge for the rest of us.