National Game, Tom Barker, Polo Grounds sets

[Butch7999]

Originally Posted by phikappapsi

... if it weren't for the baseball players making it collectible; it would have almost certainly held little to no value...
if it weren't for the people that wanted that 3 of clubs; the game would likely be gone and forgotten completely.

Was it Cleopatra who said "I'm not prone to argue"? And we know we're not going to change a single mind in here.
But, respectfully, there is a substantial clique of game collectors who would refute your basic premise.
Yes, famous names and famous faces do, as a general rule, give extricated components of antique games
a higher market value, but hundreds of games lacking those features or endorsements do pretty well anyway,
antiquity, aesthetics, rarity, completeness, and play quality all mattering more to most game geeks than does
resale value. So with no desire to debate, we'll have to agree to disagree.

This was my affordable option for a Tom Barker, Joe Jackson which was graded good by PSA