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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!

My new "got away" tale is about a common N172. I'm trying to get an Old Judge card (if one is available) of every 19th century player rated in Bill James' Historical Baseball Abstract. A friend had an Orator Shaffer that he had said he'd hold for me because I didn't have funds at the time. Evidently money talked because he decided to sell it instead. That was three years ago and I haven't seen another one since.