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I have no knowledge of what happened to these sheets but it wouldn't surprise me if they ended up getting chopped, which is a real tragedy if that did happen as sheets from the 1950's are so much rarer than a stack of 400 Mantle cards.
A lot of the finds that Mr Mint and others of his ilk found back in the day would have been better off being found by almost any person other than them... If I remember the story I heard correctly he found a bunch of 1949 Leaf Short-Print boxes and then [ridiculously] opened all the packs looking for Paige's cards! They survived that long only to be opened!!! Can you imagine what those packs would sell for still in their unopened state? I personally feel the hobby would have been better off had he never ventured into the baseball card world. Here is a single pack that somehow survived Mr Mint opening the packs... https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=44356 Just a ridiculously stupid thing to do to open all those sealed packs from 1949!!!
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People were collecting unopened material & people were paying large amounts for unopened material even then (not to todays standards by any stretch but still a pretty good premium.) 1949 Leaf unopened packs were impossibly rare even then so it was a huge disservice to the hobby in general to do that and was also very short-sighted.
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Everybody bitches about Al. Al brought the hobby to a new level of interest. He was on radio, on tv, wrote a book and spent a ton of money. Most of all for Al is he made more than a ton of money. People are jealous of what he did. He was a business man. He made huge offers for stuff and he got it. Nothing was handed to him. I for one think he was a pretty smart guy.
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It's entirely possible to dislike anyone for multiple reasons and not be jealous of them.
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Jealous of what exactly? Money? That is not what makes one happy. I have met a lot of miserable rich people. I just don’t understand those that can sit by and watch someone be a raging a-hole to others, often strangers, and still choose to socialize with them. If you can’t have the minimum level of courtesy with those you come into contact with in life then I don’t have much use for you. I will never understand those that can witness bullying behavior and simply say to themselves… “he was always nice to me so I like the guy”
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