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05-09-2016, 01:30 PM
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Yeah, I have no interest at all in non-contemporary cards. In fact, I find myself looking down at sets that include lots of them. (1940 Playball, I'm looking at you.)
But whatever. People buy reprints as well. If you like them I'm not going to complain. I don't really mind bids going to cards that I'm not going to bid on. 
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05-09-2016, 01:34 PM
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I am also not a fan and was surprised by the price of the Ruth sale. The 1940 Playball set was mentioned and the Joe Jackson card comes to mind as another expensive card that doesn't interest me at all.
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05-09-2016, 01:48 PM
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I agree. If I was going to pay big money for a card, I would want it to be a card issued during his playing career.
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05-09-2016, 02:03 PM
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The Leaf Ruth is desirable because it's part of the famous and highly collected Leaf set. People are into the entire set as it was one of the first major nationally distributed Post WWII sets. If the T206 contained a Cap Anson card I'm sure it would fetch good prices from people here.
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05-09-2016, 02:07 PM
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I agree with the op on 2 of his 3 examples. The one outlier to me is the 33/34 lajoie. I would love to have that card. Wanted one since I was a kid. Thought long and hard about trying to play for the album specimen with pencil on the front in the hunt auction, but chickened out. Maybe someday.
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05-09-2016, 02:28 PM
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I also much prefer the contemporary in-career cards. However, the Leaf Ruth and Wagner are my personal exceptions. The Ruth because I believe he is ,to this day, outside normal hobby rules. The Wagner because it shows him pulling a chaw thereby debunking forever the theory that the T206 was rare due to his dislike of tobacco products.
Neither player had enough attractive (or affordable) contemporary in-career cards for me, anyway. My Babe is a beauty...but, not my only Ruth card BABE RUTH 1948 Leaf-3 PSA-5.jpg BABE RUTH 1933 Goudey-144 SGC-70.jpg BABE RUTH 1926 Sports Copmpany of America PSA-5.jpg
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05-09-2016, 02:28 PM
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While I would RATHER have a contemporaneous card or Ruth (or whomever), when I bought my Leaf Ruth, I did so at a time when I could NOT afford a '33 Goudey.
Still not sorry that I own one! Just my 2 cents...
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