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Old 01-30-2022, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by skelly423 View Post
I wasn't intending to go in this direction, but it's an interesting corollary. Strictly from a card collecting perspective, you're 100% correct to include him as an inner circle guy. Excluding rookies and error cards, he's the most expensive card in almost every set he appears in. That's doubly impressive when you consider he's a pitcher, and they always to lag behind hitters when it comes to value.
Mantle and Ryan and Jackie are always going to have relatively higher card values. I would argue Clemente too. Not to detract from any of their greatness as players, just a relative point.
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