Heading to Cooperstown - hopefully not OT!

[kailes2872]

I took the boys a couple of years ago. There were plenty of shops, but if I recall they dealt more in memorabilia than cards. There aren't a lot of deals or value to be found. I did buy a nice famed autographed photo of Wille Mays and Hank Aaron - Black & White framed from a mid-60's all star game. COA for both signatures. I probably over paid for it, but I got it $100 off list.

I really enjoyed the wax museum. We spent the Saturday evening going to the wax museum and all of the card shops and then spent 6 hours in the hall the next day. After that, we went back to some of the shops as I told the boys that they could have one souvenir (they got the Pirates yellow pillbox hats which they could get at PNC)

The highlight of the hall for me was the baseball card display. They have an area that has all of the holy grail cards - Wagner, Plank, 52 Mantle, 33 Ruth, Williams, Joe D, Willie, etc. They are all super high grade - I assume that they are on loan from various collectors, but not sure. They then have an area that is the history of baseball cards that has a representative sample from all of the major issues. I think I spent an hour just looking at all of those.


I am going to try to make a return trip memorial weekend. The boys want to go again but their mom isn't interested and the 25th is our anniversary - so I have to work around that.

It is heaven on earth - enjoy!