[jchcollins]

Sorry again to resurrect an old thread, but I do that from time to time...

This was intriguing to me, as I recently picked up my first '67 high number - which turned out to be #600 Brooks Robinson. (Mine is o/c and has a rough cut but otherwise nice...an SGC 5.5).

I knew there was a story behind this card and perceived scarcity before I decided to go after the '67 set, but did not know the details...interesting. Makes me think of my own childhood in the 80's and which older cards had "legendary" status. When I first started collecting it was anything older than about 1985...for some reason I remember the '85 Pete Rose regular issue card having that status among my friends - guessing due to all of the hype around him finally breaking Cobb's record.

Anyhow just interesting to see that even when a card was not particularly "old" (the '67 Robinson was all of 12 in 1979) what rarity and perceived difficulty to obtain can do for it. Even if it wasn't true for the Robinson card in the end - it's this kind of stuff about the hobby that I have always found fascinating.