OT: Justin Verlander 3rd No-Hitter

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Originally Posted by barrysloate

I'm sure you've discussed this before, but what is your interest in Corcoran? Is he somebody from your hometown?

I have, but I'll be happy to give the quick version again. I was able to pick out an OJ card as a birthday present when I was young and bought Corcoran from Larry Fritsch because it was the best common player he had available. When Ebay first started, I went on and the first card ending was a Corcoran, different pose than mine and cheap, so I bought it. At the time, I thought maybe 20 of his cards existed, so having two seemed hard to get.

I decided to try to get all of his variations. In the process of doing that, I had trouble finding the last two, but I saw doubles that I bought as trade bait in case anyone had them. While waiting, I upgraded two of them and by the time I completed all six variations, I was just one away from getting two runs of all six. So I did the same thing and it finally just turned into me buying whichever ones I saw because that's what I was basically doing.

The initial intention was far different than the final outcome. I'm at the point now where I won't go all in for one if it shows up because the prices were getting out of hand, though I've only seen three in the last 2+ years. The only exception would be the one variation I only have three copies of, because who doesn't want four runs of the same player