Netflix baseball card documentary

[Duluth Eskimo]

I watched it. I thought it was entertaining and pretty well done given the circumstances. Stu’s father is exactly what I remember all the hustler dealers back in the 80’s and early 90’s acting like. What a tool bag.

[jsanz]

It was fun to watch. I wish they dug deeper into the inner workings of the card business back then. It strayed a little when it became about Stu and his dad.

[conor912]

Yeah, pretty scatter brained. It touched on a lot of things but never went deep enough to make me care about any of them. The only thing I really took away is that the dad is a complete loser POS and Stu needs therapy.

[slidekellyslide]

Damn, I wasted a whole dollar buying this on Amazon last month when it was posted on another site.

It was really good, but a lot less about baseball cards, and more about family. I would recommend it to anyone, not just baseball card collectors.

[Jason19th]

This movie actually really pissed me off. There is a real and poignant story here but it get lost in the dishonesty of the presentation. There was no need to start by pretending he didn’t know about the cards or pretending it wasn’t going to be a story about how relationship with his dad. Just tell your story, don’t pretend you just came across it while you happened to have a film crew following you.

[Bkrum]

Sort of agree with you Jason. Going into the tiny motel show and being “shocked” that junk era cards were virtually worthless offended my sensibility like a scripted reality TV show. Demanding an answer so let’s go talk to Jose Canseco...whatever. There was a much better story that could have been told about the faded dreams of the junk wax era. I do think that the awkward father-son meeting was real though. Have a feeling they just scratched the surface of the family secrets there. Burning the cards at the end was quite a reach too.

[Throttlesteer]

Still waiting for the "attic find" reality show