Closing Tonight: Love of the Game Auctions

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by toledo_mudhen

I have finally won one of your auctions on a great card!

I was also a first-time LotG winner. I picked up the 1980 Ryne Sandberg Reading Phillies pre-rookie card.

I am not really a modern baseball collector, but I have wanted a lower-grade copy of that card for a while because the Reading Phillies are the closest team to my house and the local team I grew up with. I like the fact that a Reading Phillies card is one of the more notable notable modern minor league cards.

[Sean1125]

So much for falling asleep and losing out on the one lot I actually wanted.

No one to be angry with but myself

[glynparson]

You mean the fight in' phils. Lol. They will always be the reading Phillies to is Berks countians. Even my 9 year old still calls them the reading Phillies.

[Cmount76]

I went to bed at 2:00am as the leader on two lots. I woke up at 7:00am, having become the underbidder on one (N284 Esterbrook) and the winner of the other. You win some and lose some. Great auction. Looking forward to the next one (and some sleep tonight)!!

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by glynparson

You mean the fight in' phils. Lol. They will always be the reading Phillies to is Berks countians. Even my 9 year old still calls them the reading Phillies.

Yea, the name change is horrible. If the club was that resolute in creating their own identity for marketing purposes, I could at least accept it more if they would have went with a name paying homage to the local area like what Lehigh Valley did with the IronPigs as a nod to the steel-making history of the area.

[x2drich2000]

I've found the easiest thing to do with these late night auctions is just to go to bed early and wake up early in the morning and start bidding again.

[spec]

As a 3-time loser on the Mastro Auctions shill list, I was naturally a bit apprehensive to hit the hay at 1 a.m. and leave max bids on the 3 lots I was most interested in. However, I know Al's reputation for honesty and was rewarded to discover that my 3 original bids held up. Bravo, Al!
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