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The Find that Turned out to be Real
Posted By: Todd Evans
Back in the summer of 1999, I was searching the classified ads that people post on the old baseball.com website, it may have been the same one that Peter mentioned in his post. Well, I see an ad that says they have 207 1933 Goudeys in EX to NM condition including (4) Ruth's, Gehrig, Dean and Bengough. It also list that there are 459 1939 Playball with (4) Williams and (4) DiMaggio's in the same condition. The asking price was $27,000. I email the poster and excitedly waited for the reply. |
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The Find that Turned out to be Real
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Great tale, Todd... |
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The Find that Turned out to be Real
Posted By: Jodi Birkholm
One summer day in 1990, I was travelling from garage sale to yard sale in my hometown. By late afternoon I was rather tired, having found very little to buy. None of the people had any cards or memorabilia. The last sale I pulled up to appeared to be the most dismal of the lot. A bunch of pure garbage was strewn about a series of folding tables. The host of the sale was truly "white trash" in attire, demeanor and odor. You know the type--flannel shirt with cut-off sleeves. Boozy, day-old halitosis emanating from a mouth that was this side of being declared a national state of emergency. I'm sure this guy's wife would have rather kissed a Three Mile Island smokestack. As previously stated, the day was drawing to a close, and "Larry the Cable Guy" was anxious to "git-r-done". With an asphalt-encrusted arm, he made a broad-swooping gesture, indicating I could haul away his assemblage of bric-a-brac for the princely sum of $50. "I need beer money!" Quelle surprise. I passed, but not without inquiring if he might have any old cards that I didn't see. "Well, I do have these, but they're kinda old and beat-up." From out of his cable guy flannel shirt pocket, Larry fished out a fistful of T206's and a few T205's. Yes, he would part with them, providing I also took away the grease-laden remnants of a not-so-proud yokel community. I asked Larry how much he was short in obtaining his case of Labatt's Blue. Without hesitation, he practically shouted "Four bucks!". I handed him two Canadian $2 bills in exchange for perhaps 75 cards! |
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The Find that Turned out to be Real
Posted By: Rick McQuillan
Todd, Great story! I can't wait to hear the other one. |
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The Find that Turned out to be Real
Posted By: Todd Evans
In 1999, prior to my Pittsburgh, PA deal I had purchased a 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #181 from a gentleman in New Jersey. He listed the card as VG/EX but the scan was small and wasn't very clear. I had comunitcated with him by email and by phone concerning the card and I ended up being the winning bidder. Upon receiving the card I was very pleased as I thought it was undergraded by the seller as I thought it was actually EX+. I sent the card to PSA using the walk-through service and it ended up grading a PSA 6 so I was thrilled. I contacted the seller and asked him if had any other cards. He said he had some other items as he got the Ruth card and all the other items from his neighbor who's husand had passed away about three years earlier. |
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The Find that Turned out to be Real
Posted By: boxingcardman
"I told him to go screw himself and that if he wasn't such an ass he would know what was in the box. I ended up taking them over to the Mastro booth and consigning some of the items and at one point when I had the items laid out while I was talking to the Mastro guys I noticed that Rosen walked by a couple of times trying to see what I had." |
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The Find that Turned out to be Real
Posted By: Sean
in defense, it sounds like Al was being quite the jerk to some poor soul who didnt know that he has worthless cards. I cant tell you how many times Ive seen that at a show. I know their are probably a lot of jerk customers as well but the jack ass dealers come out of the woodworks at shows like the national. If my son starts collecting Im gonna hafta watch his back at these shows since I remember as a youngster being treated like dirt by a LOT of dealers for no other reason than their assumption that I wouldnt have a lot of money. |
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