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Posted By: Rhett

It wasn't a deal that I was involved in but, it was my father. He is a big toy train collector and has been since the early 1970's. Sometime in the mid to late 1970's he was over at a fellow train collectors house and was doing some trading when his friend asked him if he had any interest in old baseball cards. My father has always been a sports fan so he said maybe. His friend then offered to trade him a box of nice 1930's Baseball cards, he later saw one of my Goudey cards and aknowledged that the cards he was offered were '33 and '34 Goudeys, for a Lionel 675 Engine, valued at about $250-300 today, for the whole box of cards. My father thought about it for a while but ultimatly decided not to do it. The part that makes me sick is when he told me there was over 2000 cards there with at least 10-15 Ruth's.