1971: Mastro gets his Plank

[cardsfan73]

Thanks for sharing, I for one am interested in all aspects in the history of our hobby even if it does involve someone like Mastro. Makes one wonder what ever became of this Plank card? Did he "clean" this one up and sell it for a massive profit later on down the line?


Great stuff as always and thanks for sharing!

Scott

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by cardsfan73

Thanks for sharing, I for one am interested in all aspects in the history of our hobby even if it does involve someone like Mastro. Makes one wonder what ever became of this Plank card? Did he "clean" this one up and sell it for a massive profit later on down the line?


Great stuff as always and thanks for sharing!

Scott

Agreed. I don't think anyone on this board would support what Mastro did, but this article is a part of the history of our hobby and is interesting and informative.

[frankbmd]

1971: Mastro Gets His Plank

2015: Mastro Walks The Plank

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hahahahahaha

[Peter_Spaeth]

2017/18 Mastro auctions a Plank.

[bbcard1]

I miss publications like these. I know they'll never come this way again, but it was an interesting time. I kind of got in at the rear end of that era.

[Duluth Eskimo]

Maybe I see it from a different view. I have never known Mastro to be a good guy, or someone who helps others, or someone who just made a bad choice. He has always been a d-bag who is a self-centered, egotistical, asshole who enjoys his flock of followers. More reveling about his greatness makes me want to vomit. It reminds me of the people who would stand around this guys booth or follow him around he show back in the day validating his celebrity status.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by Duluth Eskimo

Maybe I see it from a different view. I have never known Mastro to be a good guy, or someone who helps others, or someone who just made a bad choice. He has always been a d-bag who is a self-centered, egotistical, asshole who enjoys his flock of followers. More reveling about his greatness makes me want to vomit. It reminds me of the people who would stand around this guys booth or follow him around he show back in the day validating his celebrity status.

What on earth are you talking about? Who is "reveling about his greatness"??? I think everybody here recognizes that Mastro is a d-bag; I certainly do, but I'm also interested in how he got to where he is now, and to what extent he was always sleazy. (A considerable extent, I think, though his sleaziness really came to the forefront when the money involved in the hobby ballooned.) And as others have pointed out, Mastro was a significant figure in the hobby starting in the early 1970s, and if you're interested in the history of the hobby (as I am) it doesn't make sense to just ignore what he did back then, or refuse to discuss it just because he's a sleazy guy who's now in jail.

[jcmtiger]

Originally Posted by Duluth Eskimo

Maybe I see it from a different view. I have never known Mastro to be a good guy, or someone who helps others, or someone who just made a bad choice. He has always been a d-bag who is a self-centered, egotistical, asshole who enjoys his flock of followers. More reveling about his greatness makes me want to vomit. It reminds me of the people who would stand around this guys booth or follow him around he show back in the day validating his celebrity status.

Hi, just curious, what year did you meet Mastro?

Joe

[brian1961]

DAVID KATHMAN---

I for one am very grateful to you for posting this baseball card history research document. It's fascinating to me.

For many years, Bill Mastro was one of our hobby's elite collectors, developing an encyclopedia knowledge of baseball cards. He turned auctioneer in 1995, and shared some of that encyclopedic knowledge in the many pages of his first-rate cutting edge technology auction catalogs. Yeah, we all know what eventually occurred. I in no way am minimizing what he did to our hobby. But honestly, to discredit everything he did is illogical, bordering on idiotic.

---DON'T YOU DARE STOP PRESENTING THESE TYPES OF CARD COLLECTING DOCUMENTS TO US, DAVID. YOU WILL NEVER PLEASE EVERYBODY. THERE'S MORE THAN A FEW OF US THAT LOVE THIS KIND OF STUFF. MANY WON'T SAY SO, BUT I WILL, AND DO SAY SO!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS, BRO! ---Brian Powell