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Posted By: ramram

I went to a local (Kansas City) card show and a small time dealer, had some old cards that caught my interest. He didn't know anything about them and I didn't know much more other than they were old. I bought the five best for $10 each. I saw him again about a month later and bought about five more for between $5 and $10. I finally bought 10 more a few weeks later all for $5 each (which was all but about 5 cards he had left). They probably averaged g-vg but some were faded. That was my introduction into Old Judges. Nobody was interested enough back then around here to buy any of this guy's OJ's. Two of them were two-player cards and there was a card of Pud Galvin and many of the others were KC players including the manager. Unfortunately, I wasn't smart enough to pull the trigger on either of the Hamiltons that he wanted $100 for nor the $10 manager Watkins or the $10 umpire card neither of which interested me enough because they weren't players.

Rob M.