The things we have done for Cards!!

[Rhotchkiss]

I was texting tonight with a friend and I told him about how I was sitting on the runway once, bidding on some Zeenut DiMaggios at an invaluable auction, which closes lot by lot, and the plane took of and I lost internet before the DiMaggios came up. I did not win them. He then mentioned that he has bid on cards from a mountain top, on a boat whale watching, and during a client meeting. That led me to think.....

What are some of the craziest things you have done for a card, or, what is the most odd place/circumstances you have placed a bid in auction?

I have woken up at 3am oversees to place bids. I have placed bids during weddings, concerts, and my kids’ back to school night. But my biggest “card move” concerned my biggest cards. In May of 2020, when COVID was brand new and the world shut down, I flew from Newport News to Detroit via Charlotte (and back), to pick up my T206 Wagner and Doyle Nat'l. I guess, at the time, I was literally risking my life for a couple of baseball cards (holding each in a separate pocket of an old pair of cargo shorts as I walked through empty airports).

Here is the Doyle; it now resides in a PSA 3.5 flip.

Lets here some stories of the lengths you have gone to for a card(s).