Near miss...Cards that you've personally taken out of existence...

[Tomman1961]

In 1988 me and my future wife were preping cards for my first show,to make a few bucks to help pay for the house we bought a few days before.We were in my bedroom at my parent's house laying the cards out. I was called to the phone in the kitchen.My fiance decides to make popcorn in the kitchen.So we both leave the room. When we come back,the (5) 1973 Topps EX-MT cards that we were grading and putting into sleeves were no where to be found.We searched that house all night.When I moved out of that house,my bedroom was literally empty.I even took the floor molding off the wall to look for those cards. My parents sold the house 12years later.Still no Willie. So I am single handedly responsible for lowering the supply of 1973 Topps Mays by 5 cards.

[ls7plus]

I had separated all of the star cards from my youth (mostly '60's cards, with plenty of Mantles, Mays', Aarons, Koufax's, etc.) out from the commons somewhere around 1982, and temporarily placed them in the trunk of a 1970 Mustang I owned (I don't recall exactly why). The Mustang was stolen, then later recovered and returned by police with a brand new stereo system that had been added by the no longer at large thief, but alas, the cards were gone, never to be seen again, along with a lot of very early stratomatic cards. I think I would rather the police recovered the cards than the car!

I also used to be quite the Mark McGwire fan, with emphasis on "used to be." After the steroid scandal enveloped him, I seriously considered intentionally reducing the population of quite a few Mark McGwires permanently, and still do from time to time. At times, I have thought a viking type funeral would be appropriate, with the cards placed aboard a toy boat, set ablaze in a fire that would burn slowly, and pushed out into the deeper areas of a pond or lake! Still have them, though, along with a heavily game-used bat from 1992, which used to be one of my most prized possessions. But I wouldn't make any bets that the bat and the cards survive forever.

Good thread!

Larry

[novakjr]

Follow up. Well, I guess the near miss, just became a miss. I couldn't get up there in time, the day that they were gonna set aside the car, and it's now been scrapped. Now there's a '48 Bowman Sain in the middle of a squashed up mini-van somewhere on it's way to be recycled....YAY!!!