What is your favorite card or cards that you don't have that you would like to own?

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by brian1961

Adam, 45 years ago I was a raving Ted Williams collector, and the number one dream card on my list was the 1954 Wilson Franks Ted Williams. I wanted one so bad ......... Short to short, I came oh so close to buying a nice EX-MT specimen at the 1974 Midwest Sports Collectors Convention at Troy, Michigan. The experience was so heart-wrenching to me as a collector, I wrote a chapter about it in my book, NEVER CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN. It's the twelfth chapter, "The One That Got Away". One major, major and sad .

To this day, I cannot laugh about it, or think about it very long.

Wishing the best in your pursuit of the very finest Teddy Ballgame ever printed.

--Brian Powell

Much like I don't like to go over my 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle encounter in 1974 for $75.00. Sent away $75.00 for the card and received a Sandy Koufax rookie, a 1951, 1956 Campanella, 1951,1955 Warran Spahn, 1951 Yogi Berra and a $25.00 credit memo. Talk about a scam and a ice pick in the eye that has lasted 45 years. Now the 52 topps Mantle is the only card I really need in my collection to feel whole. LOL ! Not sure I am going to pay 10-50K either?

[ALR-bishop]

Three of the 5 cards I would like to have from the 50s would unfortunately go for much more than the allowed amount...the unissued 55 Current All Stars of Roberts, Konstanty and Stankey. I still need two of the 55 Topps baseball Hocus Focus cards that together might be had for under that figure, but I have yet to see either of them come up

[Jim65]

I collect Mets so there is nothing from the 1950's I'd want but fitting the title I want a 1969 NY Boy Scouts Tom Seaver.

[commishbob]

My #1 want as far as post-war cards is a '59 Bazooka Billy Pierce. Not that they are hard to find, or terribly expensive, but they only seem to pop up when I've committed my hobby budget to something else. I don't pour a lot of money into the hobby so if I had some 'free' cash come my way that's the card I'd grab. Then I'd find a 1959 Topps Venezuelan Ace Hurlers #156 (Pierce and Bob Friend) and I'd put my Pierce collection to bed once and for all.

[VintageVinnie]

1953 Mantle, or 1952 Jackie, or 1954 Wilson Ted Williams. I can't afford any of them, so thank goodness I don't have to choose