fraudsters
Years ago, long before there was such a thing as doctored cards and big money had entered the picture, a dealer wrote a piece in SCD about being approached by an old guy, a walk in, at a regional card show. Seems as if the man had a cigar box filled with Crackerjacks. The author of the piece, who had a table at the show, offered him a buck each for the cards,
which the man, who was totally unaware of what he owned, accepted.
This was in the mid-seventies, but even then Crackerjacks were probably going for $15 a pop.
The author bragged about his big score. Maybe later on he blacktopped the man's 60 foot driveway for ten thousand dollars as a favor.
There was a lot of that in ancient times. Guys would advertise in the sport section of newspapers that they would be at the Holiday Inn on Route 35 all weekend paying cash for gum cards stashed away in a closet....And they would pay pennies on the dollar.
It was all legal. Of course it was morally bankrupt, too.
There is just all kinds of crime.
lumberjack
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