For 3500, which Jackie would be your one/only?

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Many of my cards are crappy examples of great cards, like that Robinson. As a collector, I always figured why buy a single nicer card of The Bambino when you can spend the same money on several lesser grade cards and HAVE MORE BABE RUTHS? Made perfect sense to me…

I do the same. The few higher grade cards, I have in my collection feel very uncomfortable to me.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

I do the same. The few higher grade cards, I have in my collection feel very uncomfortable to me.

Ironically, even the lower grade stuff ends up in slabs because it is still too valuable to leave raw.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Ironically, even the lower grade stuff ends up in slabs because it is still too valuable to leave raw.

Yes! Because anything in my collection just about is for sale at the right price and I want it ready to sell at any given time!!

[jingram058]

Any playing days Jackie Robinson is perfect. You just ask yourself which one YOU like, and in what condition. For me, personally, I love Jackie Robinson. He is in my top 5 ballplayers of all-time, and depending on when you ask me, he might number one. I think "42" is a great movie, and I think the stress and the weight he was carrying aged him more than anyone I have ever seen. A shame we don't hear more about Larry Doby over in the American League with the Indians. But it is very clear that Branch Rickey got the right man. If the events of the movie are even remotely accurate, then I have admiration for Leo Durocher, Pee Wee Reese, Eddie Stanky and Ralph Branch, and I believe Ben Chapman to be a pariah, and from what I have read, Enos Slaughter and Terry Moore, and later, Solly Hemus also.