Mr. Mint's phone not ringing so much anymore?
 

Saw this recent article in the NY Daily News. Hopefully it's not a repost.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012...e-card-goudeys

awwwwww...should we pool our funds and send him a fruit basket?

Anyone else remember the Mr. Mint trading cards that he had made up, autographed and then tried to pass them out every time you stopped by his table at a show?

He also had bobble heads.

i have one of those howie mandel/mr mint cards somewhere...I wonder if he'd buy it back?

Depends if it is graded or not...

If I remember right in Sports Collectors Digest back a couple years ago he was supposed to retire in Dec of 2010. Guess that never happened, to bad. I also remember him a couple years ago being mad about not getting the head tables at the Nationals so said he was going to do them anymore. Boo Hoo. Guess he figured the hobby would fall apart and go away without him there. Seems to me they go on just fine without him there. Never saw a guy so in love with himself before.

Nice Free advertising..........maybe not as dumb as we thought.......


Don't forget about Pennants and Beanie Babies on his self promoting band wagon.........

....and Pogs.

I thought he was into Japanese made toy robots....

David

Not that I'm trying to write his obituary, but at the end of the day was Mr Mint. good or bad for the hobby???

Lovely Day...

I think Mr Mint was good for the publicity and for raising awareness of the hobby. He also ripped off little old ladies and others for their card collections...but then again...this is what most dealers have been doing since I was a kid!

I don't think he was as bad for the hobby as the TPG's!

The sportswriter who wrote the story Bill Madden sold his collection (or consigned it, I don't remember) to a dealer. Guess who?
This is not the first time he has written about Rosen and given him free publicity.

I vote very good for the hobby at the time. I had several deals with him and all were very fair. Although I have heard the horror stories.

He scared me to death 1 time when I was a young man.

I was at our table and Alan came over and grabbed dad to go look at something. He sat his briefcase down and off they went leaving me by my lonesome. Well the hell with the cards, I was watching skirts walk by the table in those days.

Him and dad came back and I asked "Mr. Alan, what is in the briefcase?"

He opened it up and there was about $200K in there in $100 bills.

I almost died that he left that in my responsibility!

I should have grabbed it and ran and bought me some skirts for the evening :)

You would have got some high quality skirts for that kind of money, maybe even a few of them:p

Thanks for the story Dan! Good stuff, as always.

I'm in agreement with both you and Peter. Ultimately, he created a buzz with his antics, which was obviously good for the business side of this hobby. Perhaps, we are missing some of that today?

I wonder how Jefferson Burdick and some of his hobby friends would feel about Mr. Mint. I'm sure not too fondly.

Lovely Day...

I'm extremely disappointed to think that you would ever have to pay to land some nice skirts Dan. Always thought your smooth talkin would be more than enough to reel them in. Another myth busted I guess.

Couldnt happen to a nicer guy, I used to call him Mr vg-ex

where ?..where ?
 

Nice story..but hot ladys at a card show ?...I cant say Ive seen many..in 20 yrs or so !... maybe every once in a while...but I seem to recall.. alot more of the Yankee T shirt wearin, $1.99 flip flop wearin, NON member of Golds Gym type of gals ...???

The sportswriter who wrote the story Bill Madden sold his collection (or consigned it, I don't remember) to a dealer. Guess who?
This is not the first time he has written about Rosen and given him free publicity.
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It did seem like just one long advertisement.

I'm not a fan of his style of self promotion, but I think he was good for the hobby.

If Mr. Mint's phones not a ringin', that would be me a calling'

I remember Alan in the boom years of the hobby. The man did a LOT Of good. I recall him and his amazing buys, the SCD Auctions which were huge then, in the days when the major mega catalog/online auctions were NOT the norm.

Yes, he wasn't perfect and his style, boasting and always getting the top spots at shows rubbed some people wrong. In the end tho, mainstream pub for him and esp the hobby was the best.

One personal moment I'll always recall: Years back my dad and I set up at a Paper/Collectibles show in Marlboro Mass. I bought a vintage signed Mantle Ball, "To Pamela, Best Wishes". Sig looked like a hybrid between the straight M's and the elegant card s how style. I took a flyer on it, tho I felt it was prob good. Anyways, a couple months or so later, I was set up at the Tom McDonough show in W Warwick RI and had the ball out for 100.00..ha Only paid 50. A customer was looking at it, Alan came by walking the show and looked at the ball and said "no doubt bout that one, Nice Mantle ball". The customer bought the ball right away.

I really miss those days, running up my CC and before I was out of work, as now. The hobby was so much fun then, and so were the shows.

Thank you Mr. Mint for all the memories