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Posted By: T206Collector

When I was about 16 years old (circa 1989), I spent a lot of time hanging about a baseball card shop that was open for about 6 months in my little home town. One day, I was flipping through pages of baseball cards when I noticed a 1933 Goudey in beat up shape -- it stood out because it was the only one pre-1970 in the whole album. I asked how much and the guy said fifty cents. So I bought it, brought it home and learned that Lefty Gomez was a Hall of Famer. And so the card was worth more than fifty cents, even as beat up as it was. This made me very excited. A little later, I saved a lot of money for anoter 1933 "Lefty," this time Grove. While I do not still have the Gomez, having parted with it in a trade when I was about 17, I still have the Grove and just recently had it submitted to SGC.