Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>Bald pate<br />Cheesy goatee<br />Rolex flash<br />Pressure deal<br />Where are my cards, Alan?<br /><br /><br />

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>DJ</b><p>Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional japanese poetry. <br /><br />Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.<br /><br />I.E<br /><br />Sudden spring storm-<br />a family of ducks paddles<br />around the deserted lake.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Andrew Parks</b><p>A haiku is three lines long:<br /><br />Line 1 = 5 syllables<br />Line 2 = 7 syllables<br />Line 3 = 5 syllables<br /><br />But you get an A for effort!

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Tim James</b><p>I am in total shock as to how long this thread has gone.The guy's seemingly "unethical" ways of acquiring the product he desires,might have ruffled some feathers along the way,but that's the way the hobby goes.The kid around the block had a better collection than I,but he had ways of making that happen.Like him or not,he got the job done.Some collect for personal enjoyment,some for profit.People who are willing to put their money on the line to better themselves are the one's that make this country the greatest in the world.We might not agree on the method the man gained his stature,but the way it has been accomplished is what the "american dream" is all about.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Andrew Parks</b><p>I have only seen Mr. Rosen once and never spoke to him. However, it seems pretty clear that he has treated some on here pretty poorly all in the name of the "All-Mighty Dollar". If he did, indeed, treat those the manner in which they told it, I can not support that. <br /><br />Some of you have written that he has treated you with respect and kindness. That is both encouraging and refreshing, and it definitely needs to be told to balance the "horror" stories that others have told.<br /><br />However, I am alarmed at how many of you seem to have a non-chalant attitude about the unkindness, greed, and pride that he seems to throw into people's faces just because he's improved the hobby. If he has indeed acted and said some of the shocking things that have been reported, then the man has serious problems. How can his unkindness and greed "make this country the best in the world" for one example?<br /><br />If the man brought many things into the hobby and had a huge hand in making it what it is today, then I am not so sure where to quite put that on the "Mr. Mint Success Tree". The bottom line is this - the man has seemed to do many unkind, greedy, prideful, and tasteless things to completely innocent people. <br /><br />Some people try to copy the methods of those who are successful. Unfortunately, in our society, the definition of success is wealth. If he has done what some of you report, then there are probably hundreds of other dealers who are willing to follow his lead in an attempt to reach the success status that this man has achieved. It's very possible that for every "important act" he has given to the hobby, for every kind gesture he has offered to others, it is counter-balanced by another side of him that is controlled by greed and pride.<br /><br />I am not perfect, nor are any of us, but as I was reading some of these stories on this thread I could only have pity and compassion for the man named Alan Rosen, and I hope he sees what's truly important very soon.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>At this point we're just having fun with it, i.e., the haiku contest. No need to be distressed at how long the thread is going.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>Coin dealer does cards<br />Legend in his own minds' eye<br />Good for the hobby?

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Scott M</b><p>There once was a dealer with much cash.<br />The reputation he gained was "all flash".<br />He called himself "Mr. Mint".<br />To his customers he said things I cannot print.<br />How'd he become so successful being so brash? <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14><br /><br />Scott M<br /><br />Edited to add that I would have done a Sonnet but 14 lines is more than this particular subject is worth... <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>I asked if he <br />Had a Hack Wilson; he said<br />No; I like your cap.<br /><br />Sort of --embarassing. here's another real one (this is known as sneaking poetry in):<br /><br />Dead my old fine hopes<br />and dry my dreaming, but oh<br />iris, blue each spring!

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>jay behrens</b><p>Are you writing poems? You're writing a poem aren't you? There's no poetry in baseball! :-p<br /><br />Jay<br><br>I like to sit outside drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home I would be arrested, so I go to baseball games and fit right in.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>leon</b><p>as I see it.....

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>taraizzy</b><p>I thought i would add my 2 cents on Mr Mint. Back in the late 1990's I brought my 2 boys to the National Convention in Chicago. Mr. Mint was giving away free mini bats that he was autographing. So with aprox 7-10 people in line to get a free bat, an elderly man approaches him and hands him a ticket stub for possible purchase. What happened next, shocked everyone in that line. Mr. Rosen began cursing at the elderly man and told him that what he had was s*** and to get away from his table. He raised his voice loud enough to be heard from quite a distance. I have never forgot that incident.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>John</b><p>Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,<br />Eating her curds and whey,<br />Along came a spider (Al Rosen) and sat down beside her,<br />And said, “what ya got in the bowl bitch? I’ll pay cash for it”<br />And frightened Miss Muffet away.<br /><br />I only ever had one experience with Al Rosen it was my very first Ft. Washington show a few years back. I had brought my laptop I handed the computer bag to my wife and went to the restroom. When I came back she said lets move away from this area please. I asked why she explained that while I was in the bathroom Rosen approached her and said what’s in the bag your holding for the guy in the bathroom. About a few hours later we walked by his booth and he said “hey man what do you have in that computer bag?” I just laughed and said a computer he turned and said “sure what ever” in a sarcastic voice. Truth is it really was only a computer, I wonder if he would have bought it.<img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/piojohn3/smileys/77.gif"><br />

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p>...at a card show in White Plains, NY. He creeps me out. He was being well-ignored.<br /><br />

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Jim Clarke</b><p>Back in the "Old days" the hobby could be bery profitable for Shady Con-Artist cracters like Hager/Rosen. Because of the e-net and word of mouth... Both these guys can not MAKE IT ANYMORE with their current practices. Yes, we will all see Rosen still at some big shows sticking to his game plan, but the days of Grandpa walking into a show to sell something good is drying up. <br /><br />This thread going so long only shows that people do care who gets ripped off or not and is a very good informative thread for new people to read. <br /><br />I would like to see Leon do a rating of dealers like the VCBC does each year. One vote per IP address. Lets make this a very informative place for everyone to make up their minds on who to deal with. Good people (most dealers) should be rewarded as bad dealers should be pointed out as well!!!!!

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>warshawlaw</b><p>I always ask myself "If this dealer sat down next to me on a bus would I want to move?" If yes, I don't go to his table.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>No, I didn't write the "real" haiku--onl the one about Rosen and Hack Wilson and my cap (which happened). Real one's almost 1000 years old.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>dan mckee</b><p>edited to put my foot in my mouth

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>The Ball once struck off,<br />Away flies the Boy<br />To the next destin'd Post,<br />And then Home with Joy. --Anonymous, 18th Century<br /><br />These are the saddest of possible words:<br />"Tinker to Evers to Chance."<br />Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,<br />Tinker and Evers and Chance.<br />Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,<br />Making a Giant hit into a double-<br />Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:<br />"Tinker to Evers to Chance." --Franklin P. Adams<br /><br />"In our sundown perambulations of late through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base,' a certain game of ball...Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms...the game of ball is glorious." -- Walt Whitman, 1846 <br /><br /><br /><br />

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Julie</b><p>Do not be remembering the most natural man ever to<br /> wear spiked shoes,<br />The canniest fielder and the longest hitter,<br />Who squatted on his heels<br />In a uniform muddied at the knees,<br />Til the bleacher shadows grew long behind him.<br />Who went along with Chick and Buck (sic) and Happy<br />Because they treated him so friendly-like,<br />Hardly like Yankees at all.<br />With Williams because Lefty was from the South too,<br />And with Risberg because the Swede was such a hard guy.<br />Who made an X for his name and couldn't ague with<br /> Comiskey's sleepers,<br />But who could pick a line drive out of the air ten feet<br /> outside the foul line<br />And rifle anything home from anywhere in the park<br /><br />For Shoeless Joe is gone, long gone,<br />A long yellow grass-blade between his teeth<br />And the bleacher shadows behind him..."<br /><br /> Nelson Algren<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/jphotos/BSjoTNGb001.jpg">

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Ryan Christoff</b><p>Good for the hobby?<br />If by good you mean awful<br />Rosen is your man.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Thomas Walcott Sr</b><p>This guy is like varmant to this industry I watched him spit in the face of a show exibitor in Chicago and I was asked by the police to sign a statement which I did along with 7 other witnesses. After the police spoke to Rosen he was shaking the other atendee decided not to press charges the officer in charge told me it was put on record and any further actions he would go to jail maybee that is what he needs.

Mr. Mint -- Alan Rosen
 

Posted By: <b>Thomas Walcott Sr</b><p>Does this guy have any freinds in the entire hobby/<br /><br />

Things that make you go hmmmm