Netflix baseball card documentary

[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

[glynparson]

Thought it was kind of poorly done. i did feel bad for Stu hell i even felt bad for his dad at one point, though i agree if you say he doesn't deserve sympathy. But as a documentary it was scatter brained and not really accurate at times or certainly exaggerated. It clearly at times lumped the junk era and the value of those cards in with all others. I guess it was Ok, but certainly not worthy of an hour and a half of my time that i spent on it.

[Pre War Starter]

Totally agree.
A guy that was raised as a kid of one of the biggest 80’s baseball card dealers,
Thought his cards were worth thousands and when he found out they were not worth anything, then his mission was to find out why?

Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. You know why!!

Just tell your story, like about 50 million other kids that come from broken homes.

[stlcardsfan]

I wasted an hour and 20 minutes or whatever it was I'll never get back watching this.