The Ballcard Collector - March '73 w/Lionel Carter..and "52 Topps in late June "

[Leon]

A nice recount of card collecting and some rather strong comments from Mr. Carter....enjoy..

[bigtrain]

Wow! Mr. Carter was a real charmer.

[autograf]

WOW.....wonder if that's all tongue-in-cheek humor stuff or he was just hanging it all out there actually pissed at those guys? Interesting........thanks for the share. I have 2-3 of these Ballcard Collectors lingering around somewhere.......

[brianp-beme]

I like the auction for the T213 tobacco card of Honus Wagner...perhaps scamming our hard-earned collecting money goes back further than previously believed. I wonder if the seller actually meant a T216 Wagner?

Brian

[Piratedogcardshows]

Great story about the kid discovering Baseball cards and going on a town wide hunt for the source!

[Brian B@rry]

Longtime lurker here. My brother and I were at that "Baseball Nostalgia Expo." I would have been 15 years old. We ended up trading five Kahn's Wiener cards for almost an entire 1955 Topps set (I believe the dealer's name was Bob Rathgeber - something like that - a Kahn's expert). A couple hours later and we had completed the set, going from none to all in one afternoon and spending almost nothing to do it.

For a couple brothers who knew only of the Card Collector's Company and Wholesale Cards, it was like Christmas Day. The first time I ever saw a Goudey and if I recall correctly, the T206 Wagner was on display, worth over $400!!!

[Jay Wolt]

Love those old articles, thanks for posting it

[Griffins]

Originally Posted by Brian B@rry

Longtime lurker here. My brother and I were at that "Baseball Nostalgia Expo." I would have been 15 years old. We ended up trading five Kahn's Wiener cards for almost an entire 1955 Topps set (I believe the dealer's name was Bob Rathgeber - something like that - a Kahn's expert). A couple hours later and we had completed the set, going from none to all in one afternoon and spending almost nothing to do it.

For a couple brothers who knew only of the Card Collector's Company and Wholesale Cards, it was like Christmas Day. The first time I ever saw a Goudey and if I recall correctly, the T206 Wagner was on display, worth over $400!!!

I remember buying Kahns from Bob in the early/mid 70's. If I remember correctly he worked for the Cincinnati Reds.

[ZachS]

Ok so who has the next issue? I want to finish reading 'Summer of '52'!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ZachS

Ok so who has the next issue? I want to finish reading 'Summer of '52'!

I should have seen this coming. Here ya go....and a few more articles from this edition. It's so funny to me that some things never change. I bet in another 41 yrs we (hopefully, though I will be 93 then ) are still debating the same things!! Interestingly, the magazine got this shipped out the day after Part II was written, March 21, as it has a postmark of March 22, 1973.

[barrysloate]

Imagine buying a box of 1952 Topps high numbers when they were issued and finding all those mint cards. Zowee!

And I do recall the first big purchase I ever made, back in 1982, was a 1949 Bowman set from Stan Martucci. Although the cards were terribly overgraded, I had never seen a complete set before and was nevertheless in awe. That's a name I won't forget.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Imagine buying a box of 1952 Topps high numbers when they were issued and finding all those mint cards. Zowee!

And I do recall the first big purchase I ever made, back in 1982, was a 1949 Bowman set from Stan Martucci. Although the cards were terribly overgraded, I had never seen a complete set before and was nevertheless in awe. That's a name I won't forget.

Imagine splitting the 168 cards in the box with a friend and giving him all the Yankees so you can have all the Dodgers. That means he gave his friend all the Mantles! I wonder how many there were, since the card was double printed? Then his friend's mother got rid of them all a few years later when she got rid of his "junk". At the time he wrote this article the 1952 Mantle hadn't reached the icon status it is today.