New Year's Resolutions…Pile Them On!!

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by brian1961

As much as it seems to frustrate you, when Mickey Mantle baseball cards are discussed, all sorts of collectors chime in with a variety of responses.

When Dean Chance passed away last year, there were but a few of us who had something to say. There was a rousing discussion going on last fall in the WATERCOOLER TALK ABOUT WHO IS MORE FAMOUS---HACK WILSON OR NELLIE FOX.

So-a, who would you like for us to discuss, anyway? Name three players that you would dearly love to see threads of? In fact, Jolly 'Ol Elm, why not intiate all three yourself? Just please keep the player in his appropriate section, and I will endeavor to chime in with something, and not mention The Commerce Comet, leaving him for all the other threads!

I'm quite restricted now on the kind of cardboard I can buy. So, my responses come from being in the hobby since roughly 1961, pulling baseball and football cards from wax packs and cellos back in those years, mail ordering baseball and hockey from a pair of venerable trading card dealers, and attending some major shows from 1972 - 1980, and one in 1988.

Remember Jolly, though you hate it, people will respond and start threads about who interests them, and THE MIGHTY MICK continues to be at or near the top. Keep punching regarding the other guys who played.

However, when someone loses someone dear to them, even if we pretty much say the same thing, at least we show that we care. If that bugs you, tough tootzies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ---Brian Powell

And why do people constantly talk about Mickey Mantle cards, Mr. Tootzies??? Because they are worth so much more money than other cards. That's it. The only reason is money, so I'll be quite happy to read Mantle posts if people were more honest about it. Funny how you completely and utterly ignored that very specific aspect of my post as you wrote your BS reply.

[brian1961]

My, your moniker is quite the oxymoron, tisn't it?

You assume the only reason many of us include Mickey Mantle as the basis of threads and in responses to said threads is because of the money. I try to be honest, and I am certain money has a definite part of my 56-year-old interest in baseball cards of The Mick.

I won't weary you with my own feelings for Mickey Mantle; obviously you would not find them endearing.

To assume, however, that his cards are all about money smacks of misguided, biased, and bitter enmity towards Mantle's legions of fans. So, you consider my thread trying to reach out to you and your interests BS? There's no hope for you, oh bitter one. Please, do not answer the questions I thoughtfully asked of you. I am no longer interested in you and what you have to say. I have never uttered such rancid works, and do not enjoy writing them, but the ultra-smelly slipper fits you, unfortunately.

Leon, I tried my best to reach out to him, but ..... I sincerely hope you will not take offense at my words. This will be all from me on this thread.

So long. ---Brian Powell

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Originally Posted by JollyElm

And why do people constantly talk about Mickey Mantle cards, Mr. Tootzies??? Because they are worth so much more money than other cards. That's it. The only reason is money, so I'll be quite happy to read Mantle posts if people were more honest about it. ...

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or is it

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[ALR-bishop]

This is now making me dizzy

[Leon]

Originally Posted by ALR-bishop

This is now making me dizzy

Only now? Consider yourself fortunate.
And as for the topic, even though I think the Mick generates buzz by himself, the money aspect of cards is what makes them more interesting to many collectors, myself included. Of course we do it for fun but if literally every card was worth 10 cents we might be in a beanie baby dilemma.
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[ALR-bishop]

.... not if you are a serious set collector. Just a necessary evil.

[packs]

Haha whoops should have read the first post.

NO MORE THREADS ABOUT SCRAPS!