Did I Screw Up????

[gst6]

If this is now a confessional space, I didn't realize the Jim Devlin in N172 isn't Jim "banned from baseball 10 years before N172" Devlin.

[Steve D]

I just wonder how many people have bought a Curtis Welch, thinking it was Mickey Welch.

Steve

[JollyElm]

This reminds me of the time someone was trying to sell me his collection by crowing how it was "full of Aarons," but when I examined his albums, the only Aarons found there were Tommie Aarons. A frustrating lie of omission...but these days it makes me chuckle a little bit.

[Leon]

If you haven't screwed up in the hobby then you haven't been in it long enough. Nice OJ..

I remember buying an E97 black and white Irv Young from Terry Knouse Sr, about 25ish yrs ago, for 1k. I didn't know it was Irv when I bought it. #Shi* happens. Live and learn.
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[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Leon

If you haven't screwed up in the hobby then you haven't been in it long enough. Nice OJ..

I remember buying an E97 black and white Irv Young from Terry Knouse Sr, about 25ish yrs ago, for 1k. I didn't know it was Irv when I bought it. #Shi* happens. Live and learn.
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exactly! I've got a handful or 2 of blunders in my 45 years in the hobby. It happens

[brianp-beme]

Here are an E93 and E98 Collins that, due to longstanding misidentifications in guide books, and which subsequently has been perpetuated by the grading companies, actually picture HOF player Jimmy Collins, not Eddie Collins. They were both on the 1907 and 1908 Athletics teams, with Jimmy being the established star at the end of his distinguished career, while youngster (and future HOF) Eddie was still a part time player until the 1909 season. Thus it was not a mistake made by the card's manufacturers, but instead a guide book cataloging error.

Eddie is definitely the more regarded and popular Hall of Fame player, and I obtained these with the blissfully ignorant thought that they were Eddie, but at least the actual reality is that they still picture a Hall of Famer, just a different one than what is seen listed in the guidebooks and on slab labels.

So don't be so hard on yourself, Nichols Nicol man. By the way, I guess that makes me an Eddie Jimmy man.


Brian

[RCMcKenzie]

The Browns Champs cards have really gone up in nice condition. I think you did just fine. Maybe a little toward retail, but fine.