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Originally Posted by thatkidfromjerrymaguire
Excellent point about card #1 in a set having an increased value. Probably mostly due to the "Rubber Band Effect" making it difficult to find those cards in higher grades rather than just notoriety of being number one.
You have a good list of others...have you actually noticed a disproportianate value increase in this list of players (Chapman, Wambsganss, Graney, etc.)?
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The Bengough and Pafko cards are well known for their increased values due to being the #1 cards in those sets. There's even a 2010 movie,"Cop Out", starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, where the whole movie revolves around a '52 Pafko card Willis owns in it.
Not necessarily a really huge value jump for Chapman, Wambsganss, and Graney, but they do have the unique circumstances associated with each of them that has some collectors a little more interested in their cards. And oddly enough, all three of them played together for the Indians in 1920, which is the same year Chapman was killed, and Wambsganss performed his feat in the World Series. After a 14 year MLB career, all with Cleveland, Graney went on to become the Indians play-by-play radio announcer from 1932 to 1953.