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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Hoarding also matters in the raw card world. I forget the player but somebody in the 90's was buying up every '58 Topps cards of one individual (I think on the White Sox). There was an SCD article on it and it explained he had over 400 examples of the same card. It was affecting the supply of that card from what I remember. This happens with other Topps cards too, like the 65 Murakami (sp?) rookie that got hot when Ichiro came to Seattle. That card was hoarded by 3 or 4 individuals and it quadrupled in price quickly from what I can remember.

In the pre war world, the T206 Doyle Hands above head was hoarded (and that hoard largely lost to the hobby) and it has affected prices.