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Old 12-13-2015, 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mechanicalman View Post
Generally speaking, I presume that most auction participants would not need to be reminded that Ty Cobb or Mickey Mantle, for example, were actually skilled ballplayers, so I don't know why the descriptions wax poetically about HOF stats. I do see value, however, with describing the provenance of more rare issues, as Heritage did with Leon's collection.
Agreed. Same with the history of well known cards, like the story about how cases of 52 Topps high numbers were dumped in the ocean.
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