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Posted By: Rhys

As the baseball card hobby moves closer and closer to the destiny of stamps and coins, things like this happen. Coins and stamps place a high value on misstrikes and errors and things just like this Cy Young. 10 years ago this would have been either worthless or odd and neat to a couple of guys worth a very small premium. Now $45,000? I remember ordering some T206 cards from a catalog in about 1995 and getting them in the mail and one of them having pieces of 4 Piedmont backs on it because it was so off center. At the time, I was pissed that this flaw was not disclosed, now its worth big bucks.

First it was grading, now its print freaks, but hopefully the end result for our hobby will not be the same as the other two. I think it is a cool card, but the fascination with anything related to T206 cards just completely escapes me.

Rhys