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Frank WakefieldMr. Fritsch was a good fellow. He'd take time to chat on the phone. I enjoyed it. The true hobby misses him.
They had high prices on old stuff. And it was overgraded. After buying from them a couple of times I got to where I just expected that going in. Why did I continue to buy from them?? Because some of the stuff they had you just couldn't find anywhere else. It was either hope you found it somewhere else one day, or buy from them. Exchanges were always easy, much easier than expected. Nice folks to deal with. Who of us has not overpaid for a card we really wanted?? This was a great place to do just that, because they had so many old cards.
I bought Cracker Jack reprints and T205 reprints from him because I wanted to be able to read the backs of all of those cards. There are lots of folks out there who love the game, the history of the game, and like looking at reprints of old cards. They think we're nuts for having a bunch of cash tied up in old cardboard... they're not totally wrong about that. So that's why the reprints.
As for why they've shifted from as much vintage business to more new reprint stuff... I'd think a combination of the growth of eBay and the passing of Mr. Fritsch.