In 1952.....

[larietrope]

A case of Topps baseball cards cost 26.00. If you could go back for a day. What would you do ? Buy cases ? Where would you put them ? You only have a day. Convince someone that a bunch of penny baseball cards would one day be worth millions. They'd laugh at you.
But I'd love to try !

[Kutcher55]

Well, it would make more sense to open packs like crazy and just save the Mickeys, Jackies and Willies.

Then again it wouldn't be as great as you think, assuming the laws of aging still applied and you were stuck in 1952. By the time the cards achieved big value you'd probably be dead, unless you had a Delorean to climb back into, in which case due to spatial concerns I would still employ my whole open-and-cherrypick technique. I suppose I would also hold onto a few nice Pafkos and Ed Matthews now that I think about it. If I had time I guess I would try to curate one really nice set.

I would also consider kidnapping Marilyn Monroe, but then charming her so that it was consensual and whatnot.

[bobsbbcards]

Not sure that any amount of wooing after kidnapping makes it consensual, but I’m no lawyer.

[JollyElm]

Well, I ran across this original movie poster, which helps explain it...

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[larietrope]

Nothing from the year 1952 has more value than baseball cards.

[Gorditadogg]

I would show Marilyn my gem mint Mantles. That would get her attention.

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[Gr8Beldini]

The problem with going back in time to buy all those '52's is that you would have sold all of the Mickeys in 1980 when they hit $1000 each... and all of the high numbers for $25 each... and the Willies foe $200 each. You'd still have turned a nice profit, but no way they make it to 2021 - not in your collection at least.

[ALR-bishop]

I would have stocked on Tony Bartiromes

[Volod]

Originally Posted by larietrope

A case of Topps baseball cards cost 26.00. If you could go back for a day. What would you do ? Buy cases ? Where would you put them ? You only have a day. Convince someone that a bunch of penny baseball cards would one day be worth millions. They'd laugh at you.
But I'd love to try !

I believe that the ground rules specify you can only stay there - 1952 - for one day, at which point I suppose you can somehow transport any number of cases, or perhaps even Marilyn, back to your interdimensional starting point. My own ground rules allow for starting the one day in a location of my choice, which would be NYC in order to schlep on down to the Topps offices, flash a few Benjamins and request all the file copies of the 1951 MLAS missing Big 3, which are much rarer than any '52 cards - if they were even available a year later. As for Marilyn, I think Joe D. would agree that she was way too much to handle no matter how much you might want to.

[mikemb]

Just remember you have to bring money with you. It has to be currency printed or coins minted in 1952 or prior. Otherwise, you may not be coming back.

Whoever goes I will mail the attached 2 coins to you. Please bring me back 20 unopened packs of 1952 Topps high numbers.

Thanks!

Mike

P,P. - If you do happen to run into Marilyn, tell her Mike says "Hi".

[Steve D]

I would go back and stop Sy Berger from heading out on that barge. Then I would take all those hi-number cases off his hands.


Steve

[egri]

I would go back and put all of my money into Berkshire-Hathaway, at the time a chain of distressed textile mills trading at $7.50 a share. They closed on Friday at $422,000.