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Old 03-16-2008, 02:40 PM
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Default T206 Cobb which ones better...

Posted By: Brian Lindholme

The card on the right has slightly better eye appeal to me.

But, I think the question comes down to WHY you are considering buying.
If you are buying this Cobb for resale, it's probably not a great choice for either.

If you are Buying a Ty Cobb card because you like it and want to show your friends and family how cool it is to own a 100 yr old piece of both American History and Baseball History...you'll get a good example from one of these two.

Rambling alert:

I think that we are quite fortunate that in our hobby we could actually make money on resale, but maybe that's not so good afterall...it changes the way we look at our cards. They become commodities.

I have an old buddy whose hobbies are to drink beer, play pool, maybe go fishing(with beer) or go to the racetrack. All of those hobbies can't be slabbed, graded, auctioned or resold. He enjoys it as much as I do card collecting...maybe more so.

I don't like it when I have to explain to my non-collector friends how much I paid for a certain card or how much money my collection could get if I sold it. Why doesn't anyone ask things like..."That's cool, do you have any Cy Young cards or Lou Gehrig?...Those guys are legends!!"

My buddy doesn't worry about those things when he's on beer 7 and tells his fishing stories...

oh well....I'm a hypocrite...pay $80 for both of those cards and I'll give you $50 for the one you don't want !!! hahahaha


Brian L
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