Joe Jackson and Pete Rose Should Be HOFers Because...

[BobC]

Originally Posted by ThomasL

Very true.

And to the point about his baseball cards (and really all the Black Sox cards bc lets be honest if the scandal never happened that 1915 Zeenut McMullin aint no $5k card)...

My first baseball collecting book was Robert Obojski's "Baseball Memorabilia" printed in 1991 and he has a mini section titled "Joe Jackson Reinstatement Unlikely Despite Petitions, So Cards Suffer"...this did not age well

LOL

So very true.

Think about it like the Gretzky-T206 Wagner card, which up until this pandemic had previously been the most expensive baseball card ever sold. But that sale came before the Mastro trial and Bill Mastro's admission in front of an open court that it had been cut off a strip of T206 cards found back in the 80's I believe, which means PSA completely mis-graded the very first card they ever looked at. And instead of an "8" grade, it should have gotten no better than an "A". Well, I remember hearing some speculation on what that admission by Mastro would do to the value of that card. There was even some speculation that the card's current owner should go back to PSA and demand they make good on their guarantee and buy the card from them for what they had paid for it. But then I remember someone else saying they would never do that, and that PSA probably wouldn't pay out for it anyway. And not because PSA wouldn't stand behind their guarantee, but because the card had gone from simply being famous to having now become infamous, and in all likelihood was now worth even more than it was before. And oddly enough, I can't disagree. So it isn't just the ladies that apparently have a thing for the bad boys! LOL