June Pickups

[jason.1969]

Nice card as always! I suspect yesterday’s bombshell will keep Rose out of the Hall for all of our lifetimes, and there will be some drop to his card prices as collectors no longer can hope to see a return upon induction. To me this is one of the saddest stories in sports...that such a great player could derail his career and legacy so badly.

[MattyC]

I do hope many guys holding centered Rose early issues were doing so hoping for that HOF value bump-- and now they should dump them at once to us collectors who don't care about that angle, LOL.

Personally, I've always liked so many of his cards just for the look and the great on field performer depicted. I didn't find yesterday's news to be a bombshell, since I think many people like me already felt the allegations were true (that he bet on his team to win) without needing corroborating materials.

I look at him kind of like Shoeless, in that he's an iconic collectible player with our without the votes of a bunch of "writers." I use that latter term loosely, since I don't put any real stock into the politics and subjectivity of HOF voting myself.

Anything where human subjectivity and opinion comes into play, be it voting for the HOF or even card grading, I take with a grain of salt It simply comes down to liking a baseball card, its image, its state of condition, and its player, for whatever reason.