Just from the first pictures posted in this thread, I was suspicious.
The Cy Young cards in the sleeves looked thin and wavy. Taking into account these cards were ALL of the SAME players with the SAME backs, plus the thin, wavy stock AND Craig's List plus "old man selling these" story, my guess is these were cut out of a book. Something like a Scholastic elementary school book about old baseball cards.
So, no matter HOW much you paid for them, take the cards back to the seller, demand a refund and then report this person to Craig's List and the local police department. Fakes are fakes and every time a seller gets away with profiting from selling them, it just makes them want to try it again.
Thus, every time a new person to the hobby gets burned, it means one less possible collector in the future and it means REAL cards are devalued because no one wants to take a chance on buying them, even IF they are real.
David
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