T206 Sacrifice by Fire

edhans · #1 09-02-2015, 10:51 AM

Stupid idea. Give it to a kid, or someone else who would appreciate it.

packs · #2 09-02-2015, 10:56 AM

Agreed. There's lots of currency in the world too. If you get bored of yours I'll take it.

egri · #3 09-02-2015, 11:25 AM

It's your card, and your prerogative to do what you want with it. I don't know if I'd burn it if I was in your position, if I really wanted to do harm to a T206, I'd much rather take a few total beaters and play the game where you flip them against a wall and keep the ones your card lands on top of.

sycks22 · #4 09-02-2015, 11:29 AM

I agree, give them to some kids. It'll be the one thing they'll own that's not on a screen.

Leon · #5 09-02-2015, 11:34 AM

I am being devil's advocate but if you can sacfrifice one, very common beater, and get some good out of it, then why not? Maybe you could measure the heat it puts out so we can know the intrinsic value of a card (assuming it's all there). Or maybe analyze the way the paper burns compared to something else. If it's one card, and a thousand people watch it and we get some good from it, I don't think it's the worst thing. Of course everyone else has very good points too. I am almost always for the best preservation of relics, otherwise.

tschock · #6 09-02-2015, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Leon

Or maybe analyze the way the paper burns compared to something else.

Exactly! Burn an original and burn a fake! Measure the smoke that comes of and check the color. That way we will have another way to test if something is fake or real. So if you can't tell if the card is real or fake in other ways, you can always burn it and... uh... hang on... maybe I haven't quite thought this through...

toppcat · #7 09-02-2015, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Leon

Maybe you could measure the heat it puts out so we can know the intrinsic value of a card (assuming it's all there).

How Sir Walter Raleigh-esque Leon!

Brian Weisner · #8 09-02-2015, 12:37 PM

Its your property, so I could care less what you do with it...

Be well Brian

Bestdj777 · #9 09-02-2015, 11:31 AM

Even a beater has some monetary value to it. If you don't care about losing that money, it is your prerogative. But, I'd think it would be a better idea if you either gave the card to some kid or sold it and gave the money away if you really don't want it in your collection anymore and don't care about the money. It survived 100+ years, and there is something special about that.

egri · #10 09-02-2015, 11:39 AM

Just had an idea: for the cost of a few good T206s you can buy a crapton of '80s junk wax, and have a good size bonfire. There may nor may not be too many T206s, but there's definitely too much from the junk wax days lying around.

ullmandds · #11 09-02-2015, 11:41 AM

burn out the day...burn out the t206!!

EvilKing00 · #12 09-02-2015, 11:41 AM

im not a t206 collector, but im sure you giving it to someone or to a kid would be a better idea. history shouldn't be destroyed imo.

T206Collector · #13 09-02-2015, 12:03 PM

A related thought was to hold a T206 captive and threaten to burn it unless someone bought it from me for $25. Not saying these are good thoughts, necessarily, but I got to thinking what the attitude of the forum would be about it, which is why I started the poll.

I assume that most people would say preserve the relic as a historical artifact, and that we are just holding them for the next generation of collectors.

vintagebb2014 · #14 09-02-2015, 12:08 PM

Here is my idea. I would highly recommend that you purchase up the 10,000+ T206 reprints that clutter up Ebay and burn them all. You would be making a video that most of us would truly enjoy watching as well as doing us all a favor by removing thousands of listings from Ebay.

dabigyankeeman · #15 09-07-2015, 09:12 AM

Better you should burn the 1961 Topps card of that damn Mazeroski coming home after he hit the home run to win the 1960 world series, an example of an inferior team beating a far superior team and the worst memory for me in my life of watching sports.

bbcard1 · #16 09-02-2015, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by egri

Just had an idea: for the cost of a few good T206s you can buy a crapton of '80s junk wax, and have a good size bonfire. There may nor may not be too many T206s, but there's definitely too much from the junk wax days lying around.

I was recently at a show where they were selling CASES of 12 1989 Score sets for $8. I thought about buying one, pulling the Glavine, and using them in my fireplace as logs, but i suspect they would not give off very healthy fumes.

wonkaticket · #17 09-02-2015, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by edhans

Stupid idea. Give it to a kid, or someone else who would appreciate it.

+1

Or grow a pair and burn one of your signed T206s.

Bpm0014 · #18 09-02-2015, 01:28 PM

Horrible idea. Kind of reminds me of that clown Adrien Broner (boxer) who burns $100 bills on Youtube and flushes $20s and $50s down his toilet to show how rich he is.....

t206blogcom · #19 09-02-2015, 01:32 PM

Dumbest idea I've ever heard.

bnorth · #20 09-02-2015, 01:53 PM

BURN IT!!! It is a very plain ugly set that is about as common as a 1990 Donruss.

boneheadandrube · #21 09-02-2015, 02:14 PM

One rat chewy common? Go ahead and burn it, its just a "spent" baseball card...and this kid everyone wants you to give it to would forget about it as soon as something better came along. Give the kid a choice between a Bunk Congalton with no face and 1 hour of playtime with the video game he wants but doesn't have and I'd bet he'd choose the hour.

Econteachert205 · #22 09-02-2015, 02:32 PM

If you use it to light a 20 dollar cigar while on your yacht that's pretty cool.

darwinbulldog · #23 09-02-2015, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Bpm0014

Horrible idea. Kind of reminds me of that clown Adrien Broner (boxer) who burns $100 bills on Youtube and flushes $20s and $50s down his toilet to show how rich he is.....

$100? Pish-posh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6q4n5TQnpA

egri · #24 09-02-2015, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Econteachert205

If you use it to light a 20 dollar cigar while on your yacht that's pretty cool.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

Horrible idea. Kind of reminds me of that clown Adrien Broner (boxer) who burns $100 bills on Youtube and flushes $20s and $50s down his toilet to show how rich he is.....

At the outset of World War II, when it became evident that the Japanese were going to take the Philippines, the US garrison there was ordered to destroy several million dollars of US currency so as to keep it out of Japanese hands. One of the officers who was there remembered using a couple $500 bills to light his cigar, and dumping huge bricks of large bills into an oil drum, where they were incinerated.

Rich Klein · #25 09-02-2015, 04:01 PM

was formed; we agreed to find a T206 Dick Egan carfd (our opinion as the ugliest player in the set) and sacrrifice the card to ensure the success of the committee.

When I started to do that at the SABR convention committee meetting, we ended up selling the card for $21 (more than I paid) for seed for one of the yearly prizes.

So, I'm owed a chance at burning a T206 caard;

Rich

pokerplyr80 · #26 09-02-2015, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by edhans

Stupid idea. Give it to a kid, or someone else who would appreciate it.

I would prefer this as well, or give it to someone who's a big fan of the set but can't afford to buy one.

As others have said though it's your card and your money, burn it if you wish.

View Poll Results: Should I burn a T206 on video and share the coverage?
Yes! Burn, baby, burn!	40	20.83%
Um... this is dumb and I'm indifferent...	55	28.65%
I'd rather you didn't.	50	26.04%
This would be sacrilegious - don't **ing do it *hole!	47	24.48%
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