Card losses, sad but true...

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

That story was weird in every direction. Still can't figure out what, if any of it, was truth.

.. That Crazy Uncle Auction thread , and the Skydash saga , are my favorite threads to re-read when I'm snowed in .

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[Yoda]

Yes, the dog ate my baseball card. My beloved yellow Lab, Captain, had a voracious appetite for anything that looked interesting. One day when I was out, he discovered my precious E90-1 Tris Speaker on a chair where I had carelessly left it. When I returned, I discovered, much to my horror, that Captain had had a little snack. Nothing left except a few slobbered pieces. He was a BAD Boy for a couple of days until, of course, I forgave him.

[jsfriedm]

For my 8th birthday, all I wanted was a Willie Mays card. My dad ended up going to a garage sale and finding a beat up Nolan Ryan rookie and a 1968 Tom Seaver (I am a Mets fan), but I had my heart set on a Mays, and I wasn't happy. Soon after I went to a card show and paid the princely sum of $13 for a 1972 Topps Mays. Despite many moves, I have managed to keep almost all of my collection from when I was a kid, but somehow that 1972 Mays got lost.

[Vintagedeputy]

Not a loss, but a stupid decision. When I was a young teen, I was very much involved in working card shows for a dealer in NJ named Ron Durham. Ron actually ran the 1988 National in Atlantic City. Well, I was all full of myself and fancied myself as a card dealer. Rented a table at a few shows and sold some stuff.

One day, I went to a garage sale and found a 1957 Topps Al Ciccotte card and a gem mint 1957 Topps Yankee Power Hitters with Mantle and Berra. This card was glorious. Bought both for $5.00!

Went to a card show and read that book value on that card was like $40 or something so I laid it on my table and some shrewd buyer snapped it up.

I'm still crying.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

.. That Crazy Uncle Auction thread , and the Skydash saga , are my favorite threads to re-read when I'm snowed in .



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I had to look up Skydash Saga. That was before I was a member on this board. Quite a collection to read about.

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