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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

The Chicago Maroons played in the Western Association in 1888, and several of their players are in the N172 set.

I was going with early NFL

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

I was going with early NFL

Barry got it. It is an old, long running joke going way back on the forum....

[Tabe]

What a fun thread. Highly entertaining read, that's for sure.

Out of all the exaggerations in this thread and the attached articles, I think the worst was Leon saying the guy would make a 250% profit if he sold the card he bought for $2 for $5. C'mon, Leon, that's 150% profit, not 250%!

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Tabe

What a fun thread. Highly entertaining read, that's for sure.

Out of all the exaggerations in this thread and the attached articles, I think the worst was Leon saying the guy would make a 250% profit if he sold the card he bought for $2 for $5. C'mon, Leon, that's 150% profit, not 250%!

Well somehow the discount from $8 to $2 for the purchase is 80%, so by that monkey math...

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

I was going with early NFL

I assumed the reference was this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8GGpYFmkYI

[Sean]

He plans to sell some of his cards through Heritage Auctions? Now I'm going to stop by the Heritage booth at this year's National and ask to see the Dale Ball collection.