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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: shammus
I got this idea from an earlier post and thought I'd go ahead and start a thread on this in the interest of coming up with new, positive things to discuss. One of my favorite cards is a w555 Wagner that I bought off of Ebay for a little over $300. The card looked really good in the scan but when it showed up, I was impressed enough with its condition that I sent it in to SGC figuring it would grade a 60 or 70. It actually came back as a 60 (wow, SGC agreed with me!) Turned out to be a really nice acquisition. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: jay behrens
My version of the one that got away was having to make a decision between buying a car, which meant I could have a social life with women, or buy a complete set of t206s, less the Big 3, in Ex+ condition. I opted for the car and a social life, but some times I wonder just how different things would be if I had bought the set. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Joe P.
Build a happy social life Jay, and the cards will come. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Hankron
The one(s) I just missed out on were the color separation proofs for the George Brett 1975 Hostess Rookie Card that was never issued. They weren't expensive, but I contacted the owner too late. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: jay behrens
At the time this happened the Doyle variation wasn't known to exist. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Brian C Daniels
and how much was the set? and how long ago? |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Joe P.
That the Magie name spelling error is called an error, and some call The Slow Joe Doyle league designation error a variation? |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: OldOriole
For me, this is an easy question to answer. I went into an antique store several years ago looking for old baseball equipment, I found a Baltimore News Babe Ruth card (I can still remember how blue it was). The owner said he had had it for years and just put it on display. I left to get my money and brother for his input. When I came back, he had sold it...for $250! Again, this was probably 10 years ago, but it still kills me. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Kevin Cummings
Originally, my sad tale involved a T204 Jesse Burkett. A dealer had offered me one back in the late 1990s for a couple hundred bucks, but I turned it down because it had a crease and I had just committed to buy something else. It wasn't until I actually started looking for one that I realized how hard they were to come by and how bad my decision had been. Over six years passed, but a comment I made to a board member paid off. Scott Brockleman came across one, knew I was looking and brokered a deal for me. Sweet! |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: warshawlaw
A few years ago there was an auction of a lot of Zeenuts glued down into a magazine. There were several scans with the auction and I spotted a Thorpe in one of them. I was a little tight at the time financially and I let the lot go when it reached around $800. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Chris (the illini)
About 10 years ago, Larry Fritsch had a 1915 Zeenut Fred McMullin -- for 75 dollars. I was in college and limited in funds, so I bought a 1917 zeenut Frank Chance in about fair condition for the same price because he was a HOF'er. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: jay behrens
The year was 1985 and the price was $4,000. Some of the Southern Leaguers were a on the VG side, but all the key cards were Ex or better. As for the backs, I have no clue. Didn't even bother to look at that since back then Drum and Uzits were aboutt eh only backs that really commanded a premium. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Aaron Michiel
Gather around and I shall tell ye a tale... |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Julie
and (it was about 10:00P.M.) we didn't have a fax, so I biked up to the all-night fax place, and faxed Fritsch that I wanted it. It was gone... |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Julie
pin would be very popular in Northern California! |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Paul
About 8-10 years ago, I passed up a Just So Clarkson. I dropped out when it hit $750, which I think was the final selling price. If I'm not mistaken, I lost out to Dennis Purdy. Around the same time, I passed up an E107 Delahanty with a medium vertical crease that went for $550. It had a crease, so I thought I'd wait for another, or an Old Judge, because after all they're pretty common. I also passed up a W600 Delahanty because I thought they were issued in 1910, several years after he died. I can't remember the price, but it was pretty cheap. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: TBob
I was at a card show in Kansas City featuring Joe DiMaggio (might have been an early National, come to think about it) and my young daughter who was 9. After meeting Joe D. and having him sign a ball for my daughter and a print for me (and my daughter and Joe D. were photographed together in a picture which appeared on the front page of the KC paper for any of you old timers who remember that!) I settled in and began touring the floor buying my new found passion, T206 cards. I remember buying a Tinker batting in EXMT from a guy by the name of Bill Mastro, our first meeting, and by the end of the day had bought a lot of cards. On the way out a guy came up to me and told me he had some cards for sale. He held out his hand and there were about 50-60 T205s in what looked like EXMT condition. Matty was on the top of the stack. As I recall, he wanted $300 for the whole lot but I was in to T206s and didn't want to start collecting another set. He said $200 as I was walking away, and then said, "Tell you what, the whole stack for $125 I just want to sell them, I'm not in to cards anymore." Like an idiot, I said no. I have always regretted that (duh). |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: jay behrens
I think most likely goes back to the days of Burdick and the original collectors. They weren't so hung up on symantecs, so error and variation essentially meant the same thing. Technically, the card is a variation, but from the time I got into the hobby in 1980, it was always called an error. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Aaron Michiel
Not that I have any particular dislike for the Dodgers (only indifference). I just always appreciated the doomed sense of irony that pin represented... |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: runscott
If an error is discovered and the problem is corrected, then the original issue is an error. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Joe P
Fellow collectors, the original question on this thread has merit and interest. ..... It was my bad. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: warshawlaw
I got onto the "big fish" story vein and forgot to answer the question about the favorite card. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Lee Behrens
I should have spent all the money I had in 1982 show that Bill Mastro was at. He bought a tavble brought 2 briefcase. I did buy one card, my first T202 but I should have spent all my monwy on his stuff. |
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Favorite Card / "The One That Got Away" thread
Posted By: Rich Klein
I owned several 1962 Post Cereal cards with that familiar Buck Barker scrawl on the back. As I have continued to build my hobby library as the history is important -- I would sure like to get a card with Buck's name on the back again (and no it does not have to be a 1962 Post card) |
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