The one that got away--what's yours?

[ls7plus]

My basic vote goes with Adam--could have afforded a T206 Wagner one time in my life, shortly after getting out of law school, renting housing from a friend, giving me low overhead living expenses, in the late '70's. Unfortunately, while I had collected baseball cards through my early teenage years, at this point in my life, I was a lot more interested in putting substantial sums of $$$ into building and street racing some very fast big block Corvettes on Friday and Saturday nights on Telegraph Ave.--The adrenalin still flowing through an ex-athlete, you know. With what I put into those two Corvettes, probably could have purchased a couple of Wagners! Had a lot of fun street racing,though I'd rather have the $250 K + now, or even keep the card, knowing it was mine to sell if and whenever I wanted to.

The M101 Ruth in NMt-Mt, as I've posted before, escaped me at the Strongsville, Ohio show in the early '90's. A dealer there had both a raw NMt-Mt specimen, and one much rougher, grading fair to good. Unfortunately, he wanted $7,000 for the NMT-Mt Ruth, and I had only $5,000 to spend, and he wasn't about to make that deal. Reluctantly, I settled for the example in fair to good for much less. Several months ago, I advised the wife that a NMt-Mt M101 Ruth had sold for $140,000, at which time she advised that she would have given me the extra $2000 needed to procure the higher graded example. Hah! Hindsight is 20/20--the trick would have been to come up with the added cash then, and that would have been unlikely. The wife doesn't like the Babe; she likes the $140,000!

I can sympathize with Daryle too--that T210 Joe Jackson is such an enticing, almost impossibly rare card!

I hope you guys know what these recollections mean--try to learn to recognize the $100,000 + card well before it gets to $100,000 +! There are those still out there; still in process. Think rare, significant and the best condition you can find or afford!

Larry