". . . buying T206s at antique stores for 35 cents apiece." What's YOUR cool story?

[pete zouras]

$5 is actual price paid. Had authenticity confirmed by net54er of old Kevin Saucier. Contacted by dealer in antique mall responding to my craigslist paying top dollar for vintage baseball cards ad.

[Tere1071]

The store location I worked between 1982-84 had many walk-ins and I was able to get two Ruth autographed baseballs and a Clemente game-used U1 bat, with the permission of the shop owner. But the coolest thing was a man brought in a home St. Louis Browns jersey circa 1950-1951, it wasn't tagged with a name or date, but it did have the manufacturer and size tags.

He stated that he had a paper route in Cincinnati as a teenager and one of his customers gave it to him as a present. He wanted a Dodger Starter jacket in trade. I purchased the jacket from the shop at the full retail price and traded it for the jersey, again with the knowledge of the shop owner. No, I no longer have any of these items, having sold them over 35 years ago to help my mother out with some expenses at the time.

Phil aka Tere1071

[bbcard1]

I have played the game a long time with relatively few home runs to speak of...more of a slow and steady, which is very much like the rest of my life. One of my big "home run" buys was getting 150 T206s fro $100 which included Chance and a few other minors.

[dbrown]

At a usually dismal flea market in the northeast, I bought a very neat 1930s scrapbook from an old lady vendor for $15. I usually don't do scrapbooks but this one was pretty nice and then I saw a Cab Calloway autograph in there, on Cotton Club stationery. SOLD!

It was only when I got it home that I discovered the Babe Ruth-signed 1936 World Series ticket. Sold that page at Heritage a few years ago, to a disappointing result. So it goes.