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Posted By: Mark Marvelli

Jay

Semantics...I said 'little' and you said 'huge'. Let's split it down the middle and call it good.

As to what circles I run in...I spend a lot of time running a figure eight, I dont follow the circle crowd as much as I used to.

Point is, that can always be argued, PCL cards while compulsive to many are not near as desireable to the collective collector community (also known as the CCC) as major league players. That was my point and I am sticking to it! I call it East Coast bias. When you can pick up a Hughes Confection card, which is seldom stumbled accross, for 250 bucks of a player the caliber of T Freitas then you are collecting in circles of minimal interest. If a PCL card doesnt have a ACC designation of either T or E then you can pick it up on the cheap, unless of course you want a complete set of '49 Sunbeam/Pureta Solons cards.


Yes Tony was great. He was voted by SABR as the 'best all time minor league pitcher', yet his cards are valued and priced as if he was a mere common. He won 20 or more games six consecutive years from 1937 to 1942. He had 342 wins in the minors, and was affectionately reffered to as the "pint sized port sider". The newspapers dont put those types of monikers on players anymore.

So anyway...long live the old PCL!!!

Mark