What's your Monster number?

[Bocabirdman]

Geez, between the same unsold listings recycling through over and over again, coupled with a heavy beater population, along side "Auctions" with fullblown market prices for minimum bids, I wound scoring one this week. Count 'em, one. My Number is up to 201.9

I scored:
Mike Donlin (With Bat) SC350

[wazoo]

My new number is 57! I love the new beauties I added.

[vintagerookies51]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

Geez, between the same unsold listings recycling through over and over again, coupled witha heavy beater population, along side "Auctions" with fullblown market prices for minimum bids, I wound scoring one this week. Count 'em, one. My Number is up to 201.9

I scored:
Mike Donlin (With Bat) SC350

You probably already said this earlier in the thread, but what's the extra .9 for?

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by vintagerookies51

You probably already said this earlier in the thread, but what's the extra .9 for?

Cole, My first fractional T206 HOF-er had me at a ".6" Since then, Frank, the Monster Number Man has contributed 3 more that between paper loss and nibbled corners added up to be a total of 2.3 cards, hence the 201.9 (I actually have 203 cards....199 are in more "acceptable " shape). Here is the first card, a Waddell portrait that I picked up for a "fraction" of the normal price
Waddell front.jpg

Waddell Back.jpg

Here are a few examples of the rest of my stack.

T206Cards.Raw.jpg

[frankbmd]

Seeing that Waddell again makes me want to cry.

I want to discourage future activity in the fractional T206 market for the purpose of shamelessly increasing one's Monster Number by a few tenths.

To this end new policy rules are required:

1. No longer will cards be given partial scores based on their degree of paper loss.

2. Mike's Rule - You have three choices sir. Your Monster Number will be increased to 203, or you can accept the portion of my Bay card that has been removed to bring your Monster Number to 202, or you may invoke the Schaefer Precendent (see below) and remain a .9er forever.

My chief concern here is too avoid having to grade an avalanche of partial cards for scoring purposes. This would inevitably lead to disputes, "small" claims and possible disruption of the entire market.

[Bocabirdman]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Seeing that Waddell again makes me want to cry.

I want to discourage future activity in the fractional T206 market for the purpose of shamelessly increasing one's Monster Number by a few tenths.

To this end new policy rules are required:

1. No longer will cards be given partial scores based on their degree of paper loss.

2. Mike's Rule - You have two choices sir. Your Monster Number will be increased to 203 or you can accept the portion of my Bay card that has been removed to bring your Monster Number to 202.

My chief concern here is too avoid having to grade an avalanche of partial cards for scoring purposes. This would inevitably lead to disputes, "small" claims and possible disruption of the entire market.

Frank .....You do what you think is best but allow me to plead my case for having my fractional Monster Number being "grandfathered in". I will keep it brief.
Germany Schaefer once stole second base, then announced to the pitcher that he was going to steal again on the next pitch. Puzzled, the pitcher looked to third and confirmed there was indeed a runner there. The pitcher shrugged his shoulders and pitched. Germany took off and slid in, throwing a cloud of dust into the air.... at first base. Germany then stole second again on the following pitch. The powers-that-be checked the rule book and finding no rule against it, gave Germany credit for, not one, but three steals on the sequence. They immediately amended the rulebook to prevent any future shenanigans for the basepaths. However, Germany's steal of first stands in the Record Book. To avoid any future fractionals is OK with me. The existing ones are no more disruptive than a single steal of first , are they?

[wazoo]

I went from 57 to 61 last night!

[Merrillstoys]

Hi Frank,
I hope you received my want list.
With my buy today of Tinker, my Monster Number is 562.
The writing on the card must have been done in the teens or early twenties.