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Posted By: Greg Ecklund

At least when a trading card company buys it, they're offering the chance for thousands upon thousands of collectors to get a piece of history, and actually be able to touch it and look at it up close.

Jay's whole point was that once a Babe Ruth uniform is cut into a bunch of tiny pieces it ceases to be a piece of history and becomes tiny pieces of fabric virtually indistinguishable from any other swatch of gray fabric.

I would think that any kid interested in the game's past would feel much more in touch with the game if he could see the Babe's uniform in some kind of traveling exhibit, rather than by pulling a small piece of it from a pack. I would guess that their first thought when pulling a jersey card is to wonder how much they can sell it for on Ebay.

The new cards with autograph cuts in them are kind of neat though, but what would you think is someone did those like they did the jersey cards? Why not cut up an individual Gehrig signiture and put the "Lou" in one card and the "Gehrig" in another. That way 2 different people could touch a "piece of history".

Also picked up a Mantle that was signed while he was alive.

Yogi: "He must have signed that autograph before he died."