1976 Mastro auction

[trdcrdkid]

OK, I knew I posted too soon, because the previous issue of SCD (9/30/76) had another auction by Mastro. In the issue before that (9/15/76), he had been selling a T206 set, minus, Wagner, Plank, and Magie, for $900. And in the issue before that (8/30/76), he wrote a column about his friendship with veteran collector Frank Nagy, whose daughter Mastro almost married. Our boy was all over SCD in the mid-70s, as I think I've mentioned before.

[ullmandds]

do you think mastro was looking to marry for the cards?

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

do you think mastro was looking to marry for the cards?

Well, he did joke that that might be the only way he would get a T206 Wagner, so maybe... But then he bought a Wagner for $1500 in 1973 and at one point had two of them, so that probably caused him to lose interest in Nagy's daughter...

[Stonepony]

In retrospect you can almost feel the greed festering.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Stonepony

In retrospect you can almost feel the greed festering.

yup!

[Peter_Spaeth]

I had the opposite impression, of someone who really loved cards and the personal friendships that seemed more prevalent in a face-to-face era.

[JTysver]

I'd often operated under an assumption that at one time (closer to their playing careers) Mays was revered as much as Mantle. Looking at the pricing on their cards, it appears to be true. Somewhere after price guides took off, Mays started dropping behind Mantle.
I feel that one day, it may pick back up.