Manning "Ghost" on Ebay...Ending soon

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Posted By: Cat

Fred:

I am glad you bring this up. Because of recent discussions on this, I have tried to reconcile the very issues you bring up. I collect for one reason and one reason only. THE LOVE OF BASEBALL AND ITS HISTORY. I learned a lot about baseball, or at least baseball players, through Topps cards when I was growing up. That is why I collect now... a mechanism to teach my child and potential granchildren about the game. But, my only reconcilliation as to why folks collect odd stuff (shadows, ghosts, cards missing the red ink) is that it is about the love of collecting or the love of the oddity. I can understand collecting "odd" cards of good players. But to collect an "odd" card from a PCL player, who may have never made it to the bigs, CAN'T be about baseball. Certainly, I have an appreciation for set collecting and therefore a certain demand for the lesser players, but a willingness to pay $1,000 for a Heine Wagner card because it is missing red ink? Somebody is going to have to explain that to me.

All right folks, let me have it.