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10-09-2021, 04:59 PM
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A little off topic but I've always enjoyed buying and giving the last card a collector needed to finish his set as a gift.
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10-09-2021, 05:08 PM
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10-09-2021, 05:21 PM
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I have sent and received many free cards from members. It is one of the things that makes this forum special. 
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10-09-2021, 05:41 PM
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Lefty Gomez daughter purchased a snapshot photo from me. I didn't know until she wrote me a nice message explaining how much she loved that particular photo of her dad. I added a few extra snapshot photos of Lefty with her package. She was very grateful for the surprise.
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10-09-2021, 05:55 PM
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I have, but those stories aren't terribly interesting. These somewhat related ones are better:
In the early days of eBay, I had a vintage Joe Gordon signed GPC up for auction. Joe's daughter took the time to write, "Yup, that sure looks like a genuine autograph of my father. Neat!" This was years before his induction. At the time, I think it was the only Gordon autograph then listed on eBay. Duane Ward is/was a collector and eBay seller, at least at one point! Have any of you been contacted directly by a player as a result of something you listed? I once received a nasty, unsolicited message from a player whose autograph I had listed. "People like you are the reason I don't sign anything!". Funny, because he wrote a letter to another collector not long before this which alluded to his Christian faith being the reason he no longer signs (no precise explanation given other than that hint). I was rather offended at the "people like you" jab, as I was already familiar with his reputation as a non-signer and had never once troubled him for anything. The item in question was simply a career-era example of his signature which I myself had purchased for my own collection and was reselling in order to recoup what I had into it. I don't feel like putting his name out there, as he clearly spends all kinds of time Googling himself. 
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10-09-2021, 05:53 PM
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Grba, McLain, etc.
I've been working with John Miley, selling his complete game audio CDs for the past 20+ years and have sold several to players and their families. Eli Grba bought the first game in Angels history (4/11/1961) that he pitched and won, and then he called me and we talked about it. I asked him about Bo Belinsky but the guy he wanted to talk about was his good friend Dean Chance. He said if I ever wanted to get any of my Met Stadium seats signed by Dean (who was a 20 game winner with the Twins in 1967) I could go through him, since Dean wasn't always easy to reach for such requests. Sadly, Dean passed away before we could arrange it.
I sold the complete 1968 World Series runs to both Don Wert's family and also Sharon McLain. Nelson Briles' family bought some games he pitched in, and I included a picture of a note Nelson wrote to me when I was in high school asking for autographs/pitching advice. His wife (or daughter, can't remember) wrote back and said it brought back memories, seeing his handwriting again. Steve Blass' family bought about 8 copies of the 7th game of the 1971 World Series, to distribute among family members one Christmas. I've gotten orders every once in awhile through the years from Dave McNally's son, for games Dave pitched, and Ray Culp bought a couple games he pitched. There have been some others, but there generally isn't much of a story to go along with them. I've sold game used bats to Glenn Borgman's son, Steve Hovley's son, and Harmon Killebrew's daughter. In those cases, I let them go pretty cheaply because the bats meant so much more to them than they would to anyone else. But again, no interesting stories to tell.
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10-09-2021, 05:58 PM
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10-09-2021, 06:27 PM
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Sold a 1939 Play Ball Schoolboy Rowe to his granddaughter about 20 years ago.
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10-09-2021, 07:28 PM
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I gave a very cool card to a grandchild of a major league player. He came on the forum and asked about cards of his grandfather. So it was paying it forward a little bit. He enjoyed it.
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10-10-2021, 08:47 AM
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10-10-2021, 11:57 AM
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sold a Rollie Fingers rookie card to.... Rollie Fingers! He considered it, but didn't purchase. Related - I sold a sealed 1970's Charlies Angels doll display to a friend of Aaron Spellings who was going to give it to him as a birthday gift (in the 90's)
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10-10-2021, 12:26 PM
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I sold a 1952 tony bartirome....wait they arent related...
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10-10-2021, 12:37 PM
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I sold something on Ebay in the summer of 2020 to Craig Biggio's wife.
She was nice enough to appease me and we talked back and forth a bit about Craig, then her son and the Blue Jays, her new favorite team. I've also sold a 1927 WS Ticket on here to a former St Louis Cardinals pitcher who is a Net54-er. And I've sold a Buck Weaver Postcard to Bill Mastro......oh wait, he's not a player. Last edited by Shoeless Moe; 10-10-2021 at 12:42 PM.
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10-10-2021, 06:21 PM
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Over the years I have sold 3-4 Zeenut cards to relatives, and have directed that many or more to check with the great dealer Mark MaCrae, who, among other titles, is the king of Zeenuts.
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10-11-2021, 05:41 AM
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A dealer friend of mine told me he had a woman come to his table and ask him for Roman Gabriel cards. He had 4 cards that she bought for $4. She gave him a $5, and he turned around to get her change. When he turned back to her, she had already torn the first one into quarters then proceeded to do the same with the next card. He asked her what she was doing, and she said that the SOB was her ex-husband and her therapist told her this would be good for her. She then tore up the rest of the cards and told him to keep the change.
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10-10-2021, 04:55 PM
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10-10-2021, 06:04 PM
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10-11-2021, 06:14 PM
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10-30-2021, 04:09 PM
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I was processing eBay orders the other day and noticed that one was for former Red Sox pitcher and current NESN in-studio analyst Lenny DiNardo.
He ordered a 1985 TCMA minor league card of Mike Griffin, who was a coach in the Red Sox minor league system when DiNardo was around. DiNardo is actually going to be a guest at my SABR chapter's next meeting (Saturday after Thanksgiving) - I'll have to ask if he was happy with his purchase.
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10-30-2021, 05:02 PM
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Lenny is a good guy - I’ve been fortunate enough to know him for a while. He has some nice memorabilia from his playing days (including a 2004 WS ring!) - I’ve tried to get him to come over and join me in the vintage world, but no luck yet!
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10-31-2021, 10:13 AM
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Not a baseball story but.....my brother bought a lot of press photos from the 1950's (no sports) and one was a family juggling. There was a boy around age 7 in the photo and that is the person my brother sold it to a few months ago.
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