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peter chaoI agree with you. Unless you are independently wealthy it's tough to collect now days without flipping. Even buying a T206 Walter Johnson in excellent condition is costly. Many of us collectors couldn't do it without selling our '50s and '60s stuff.
Then there is the wife, how would you explain a $1000 charge for a baseball card. So to avoid having to do that you deal in cash. You sell your cards for cash and you buy in cash at shows.
That's a nice T206 beater with a upside down back, if you found it at a flea market it might come cheap, but on E-Bay it would probably still cost a pretty penny.
Peter C.