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Posted By: jay behrens

This board has become more of a social club than an actual place to discuss vintage cards. A while back Leon asked that OT posts stop for awhile. Thy did, but it didn't take long for things to digress right back to it's old state. Most attempts at any serious discussion end up getting shouted down by various people with agendas. God forbid anyone say anything bad about Mastro on here. If you do, get ready to ganged up on big time.

Look at Sean's return. He asks a few questions and instead of answering his questions people feel the need to berate and belittle a 12 year old kid for asking questions that any normal 12 year old would. I was 16 when I found the first Beckett annual. The thing that caught my attention was the price of 1972 Topps Carew. It was the value of the cards that got me to return to my childhood hobby, not an altruistic desire to collect for the sake of collecting. I'm thankful for people like Mark Macrae, Bill Bossert, Dick Dobbins and others that took the time to teach me about cards even though I may have seemed annoying to them. Once he gets past the $$$ stage, he'll start asking other questions that won't involved value.

Jay

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