Say you had a time machine...

[whitehse]

Instead of going back to 1909 I would think one would travel back to say....1934 and take out advertisements in all the local news papers offering to buy old sports cards. There would no doubt be a line around the block selling you cards because this practice was virtually unheard of back then and the cards you purchase would already be "aged". Since the cards would show signs f handling one could come back to the future and sell those cards at a substantial profit without raising suspicions.

Going back to 1934 would not necessarily net you a Wagner unless someone lumped it into the group they were selling you but you certainly would get thousands of T-206's and you could also write Goudey and tell them how pissed you are that you did not get a Lajoie in your 1933 set. Imagine what a pristine Nap would net you in this day and age?

[darwinbulldog]

Or you could just go back to 1960 and offer to take the warehouse full of '52 Topps high number cases that Berger and Gelman had to charter a barge to dispose of.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...ped-into-ocean

[Paul S]

I'm bringing back Honus himself and will ask him what the real story is about that ^&$#@ card!

[obcbobd]

I'd to Oak Square in Brighton (Boston) MA in 1933. Buy up a ton of 33 Goudeys, then walk up the street to see my Dad (7 years old) and Uncle (9 years old, died in 1943). That'd be cool. I could tell them to hide the cards in the attic of their house. I cleaned that attic out in about 1991 :-)