Look what I found (and didn't know I had)....

[ullmandds]

huh huh huh...his name is...rect-or!!!

Originally Posted by atx840

Have no clue how or when I acquired this one, T218 blank back....found it in a drawer a few weeks ago

[phabphour20]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

huh huh huh...his name is...rect-or!!!

And pretty sure that picture is also a little more revealing than I'd care for...

[Mikehealer]

Not my card, but a pretty neat story.
I was at a friends house last year and we were looking at his collection. I was going through a box of cards and came across a beautiful 1914 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson. I was commenting on how nice it was and he had forgotten he still had it, he thought he had traded/sold it at some point.

[caramelcard]

Nice Leon. Great card with the tricky tough back for Sweet Cap.


Several years ago when I was collecting the E98 Master set, I decided to sell all of my E98s and E94s. I took them all out and sold/traded them all in a matter of days. About 4 years later I was moving my (heavy) desk and found an E98 orange Tinker in a PSA 4 holder that had fallen behind. Nice surprise it was!

Rob

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Chris- Rector is from my hometown. He ran track while a student at the University of Virginia.

In the London Olympics in 1908 he set the world record in the 100 meters in the semi-finals. That afternoon a South African runner asked him for a lesson on how to use starting blocks. The next day the South African edged him for the gold medal and broke his world record using blocks.

Rector went on the become a Federal Judge in St. Louis.

[EvilKing00]

I found 52 1987 topps john Kruk cards about 3 months ago!

[Fred]

Not my stuff, but a fun story.

I remember one time I was at a collectors place in San Antonio (before he sold off his collection). I was digging through a couple stacks of his cards and found a few tough T cards in the pile. I asked Brooks why they were just sitting in a pile of cards, he just said he forgot he had 'em. He had so many cool things and a nice 19th century type card collection.

Does anybody that know's Brooks Newell know how he's doing these days? I hung out with him at a few Nationals and lost track of him after he sold off his collection. Great guy!

[Paul S]

I bought them in the 60's - the end panels - from Goodwin Goldfadden (RIP), before I had even ever seen a whole T202 (I knew I had the others kept in an old cigar box). The Topps were/are still inside a large messy box (Gallo Hearty Burgundy, if you must know). Just recently I was looking for something else and there was Ty - I had no idea I owned it. I contacted a fellow board member (Hi Brianp-beme) who helped me sell them all on ebay for a tidy sum. Who knew?

[freakhappy]

Wish I could randomly find a $500-600 card...damnit Leon!

You know you have a card collecting problem when...

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Fred

Not my stuff, but a fun story.

I remember one time I was at a collectors place in San Antonio (before he sold off his collection). I was digging through a couple stacks of his cards and found a few tough T cards in the pile. I asked Brooks why they were just sitting in a pile of cards, he just said he forgot he had 'em. He had so many cool things and a nice 19th century type card collection.

Does anybody that know's Brooks Newell know how he's doing these days? I hung out with him at a few Nationals and lost track of him after he sold off his collection. Great guy!

Unfortunately Brooks passed away a few years ago. He was a really good guy but often misunderstood. He was also almost legally blind which is unusual for a card collector. He did have a really great type card collection, especially 19th century. RIP Brooks....

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/san...&pid=144682557


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[Sean]

Leon, it's not exactly the same thing, but I bought a raw Uzit on ebay. I had it graded, then put it in a bank for a few years. I never forgot that I had it, but for some reason I thought that it graded PSA 1. Four years later I took it out of the box to show someone. That's when I realized that it was graded PSA 4.5.

That was an excellent surprise.

[frankbmd]

Sean,

Send me the name of your bank. I've a few cards that need to be upgraded.

[Tyler]

Just the other day I was thumbing through my Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (for the first time in about 2 years) and came across this T205 Bobby Wallace that I completely forgot about.