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10-23-2008, 10:08 AM

Posted By: Rich KleinEdith Piaf may not have regretted anything she did in her life, but the rest of us always have something out there What is the ONE thing in collecting/dealing/investing in sports cards and memorabilia that you regret.? Could be selling somthing too cheap, not buying an item whicn you never saw again, etc. let us know Rich

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10-23-2008, 08:25 PM

Posted By: Bob(1) Didn't buy the other 1970 Topps Cloth sticker I saw at a show because $75 was too much. (2) Didn't bid higher on the 1951 Topps Major League All-Stars Eddie Stanky card that showed up on eBay. (3) Didn't buy a T206 Wagner when I had the chance.

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10-23-2008, 09:15 PM

Posted By: Paul SI regret that I didn't take better care of my cards throughout the years, the pre- and post-war purchased as a kid, long before the shiny stuff hit the market. It's a double-edged sword, because I don't regret one moment of handling them (in fact, I still handle them -- Egad!, such a crime...I LOVE IT!, I'd sleep with them if the wife wouldn't have me committed -- and still they are not graded with no regrets.) Yet, during the couple of decades they were socked away they have lost some "quality" due to some corner knocking, slight rubber band marks here or there, climate change, etc., by not being properly stored. Now, of course they are all in toploaders/penny sleeves. I'm not whining about the current financial value of many is not what it might have been, because really, I got them for a song back then, so who can complain? My biggest lament among them all is that a once beautifully intact 1921 Exhibit display machine dispenser piece ("Base Ball Stars Insert 1 Cent") -- intact with sixteen cards, almost half of them HOFers, including Ruth, is, alas, nowhere near what it once was. I bought it for $5(!) about 1968. At the time my dad said, 'Hey, that's really neat. You should get it framed." I should have listened to him -- he was ahead of his time.

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10-23-2008, 09:38 PM

Posted By: PaulBob, do you have the 70 cloth sticker of Seaver? Do you know who does?

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10-24-2008, 03:54 AM

Posted By: BobPaul, No and no. Wish I did to both questions. Bob

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10-24-2008, 12:50 PM

Posted By: Anthony N.2 similar situations. Both cards were offered by friends, and the last one I needed (and still need) to complete the 2 sets. Both offered me months to pay, but I didn't want to owe anyone. Both insisted they didn't care, and again, I refused. And in both cases the card has doubled in the 3-4 years since I declined. '15 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson, and '33 Goudey Lajoie. It might be years, if ever, before I finish those sets now.

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10-24-2008, 03:56 PM

Posted By: dennisstaying focused & working to complete bowman and topps sets in the 80's and not spending any money on pre-war.

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10-24-2008, 04:44 PM

Posted By: Rob RayDoes it have to be ONE thing? <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14> That's pretty tough..... 1) PLaying with my great uncle George (Nap) Rucker's hat and Dodgers jacket as a child after they were given to my mom after we visited him down south one summer in late 60s. They were beautiful. Gave them to my yougner brother when I went away to college (they were in my closet at home)...and...he was a bad apple at the time (late 70s)...he sold them both for drugs (and this was back when they weren't worth as much as they would have been now). I would have absolutely kept them downstairs with my father's WW2 army stuff. And still have them to this day. I'm still ashamed my brother gave away these family heirlooms to this day,although he himself has straightened out. 2) Like most others, giving away all my dad's cards (tons of beaufitul goudeys,along with about a dozen Ruths and Gehrigs...guess they weren't too scarce back in the day)...AND all my 60s and early 70s cards...all perfectly preserved right from the packs to my neatly-rowed shoeboxes...along with the wrappers! Gave them away to my cousin (also when I went away to college),with whom I have no contact with anymore. Along with my cards and my dad's cards,my next door neighbor gave HIS 50s and early 60s cards to ME when He went away to school in mid 60s,and I kept THEM with MY cards,too. Can't imagine how much vintage I would have to this day...common enough story,I guess,huh? The SMART ones held onto their cards:-)