Holy Grails of Mediocrity

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

David's thread not withstanding, the intent here is to showcase cards whose value exceeds by multiples of 10, 100 or 1000 that of the comparable common card.

Scans are encouraged, but the focus here is not eyebrows, mustaches, afros or guys named Willie who didn't play baseball.

A community collection of scans of the treasured cards of mediocre players is what I'm shooting for.

That wasn't the intent of that thread. Just kinda where it wound up going..

[ullmandds]

how about the Upper Deck Michael Jordan Jordan card from the early 90's...91' I think. Sure he is one of the best Bsketball players of all time...but did nothing on the baseball field?

Or the t210 mascot card...

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

how about the Upper Deck Michael Jordan Jordan card from the early 90's...91' I think. Sure he is one of the best Bsketball players of all time...but did nothing on the baseball field?

Or the t210 mascot card...

I don't know if the Jordan would count. For one, it's value was really just part of the insert craze. Secondly, It was Jordan, they could've made a card of him eating sardines while wearing a tinfoil hat, and it would've been worth $5.. Why not just add the Tom Selleck "Mr. Baseball" card while we're at it.. Or the SuperPro card from 1990 ProSet football. Heck, even those Santa cards got a little out of hand.

[cardaholic]

1977 Topps FB Vince Papale


BV is $20 rather than $.20, because they made a movie about him.

[bn2cardz]

Another modern one is the 2012 Schumaker topps card with the squirrel:

The one above sold for $86 on April 17th on ebay, whereas an autographed Schumaker's card that shows his entire body with no Squirrel recently sold for $8.99 and a non autographed one sold for a dollar

[Tcards-Please]

Kaiser Wilhelm played off and on over 18 yrs with 5 different teams.

Win-loss record 56-105
Earned run average 3.44
Strikeouts 444

[ullmandds]

I'm all for including the Tom Selleck card...and would pay multiples for a card of Shaq stuffing peeps in his mouth from the jimmy falon show a few weeks ago?!?!

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

I'm all for including the Tom Selleck card...and would pay multiples for a card of Shaq stuffing peeps in his mouth from the jimmy falon show a few weeks ago?!?!

nice

[sylbry]

1991 Donruss Andy Hawkins error. Should say "no hit's White Sox" instead of "pitcher." This is the only graded example.

Here is a brief write up on the card from Junkwaxgems.com

http://junkwaxgems.wordpress.com/tag...hawkins-error/

[cyseymour]

Please forgive me for indulging myself: