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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Chris Counts
I realize this is a little off-topic, but I think it's close enough. I just came across an advertisement for the latest "product" Topps is hyping. They're calling it "possibly the greatest card ever." Here's the text ... |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: JimB
I just had a great idea. How about chopping up T206 Wagners and pasting 1/16th inch squares of them onto 2007 limited edition Topps baseball cards. If they make less than 50 of them, that would make them rarer than the T206 Wagner. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: warshawlaw
Not only is this stupid, it is also converting something historic into garbage. Those bat and jersey cards are not "just like" owning a bat or a jersey, they are like owning a piece of lint. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: John S
For modern players who have yet to retire I think it is a great idea for the kids (pieces of jersey, bat, etc.) but for items with a finite supply it bothers me. My preference would be to donate some of these items to museums so everyone can enjoy them. |
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Posted By: Mark Turner
as we know it. A jersey should be sold whole, not in pieces. A bat should be sold whole, not splintered up. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
Yes, to cutting up stuff of modern current players... for 2 reasons, stuff of Sheffield, Puckett, Carter and the like, it should be cut up. And if sticking the residue on a card gets a kid interested in card collecting, all the better. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: High Grade Non Sports Buyer
Is this good for the bottom line & the TOPP stock price? |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: fkw
When are these clowns going to make "Liberty Bell" cards and "Mona Lisa" cards. They keep destroying historic artifacts to make a buck, and all the guys collecting this modern junk just keep encouraging it. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
What about "Mr. Mint" cards... they'd come slabbed, of course. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Cobby33
What's wrong with owning an affordable piece of history. Having a full Josh Gibson hanging in some rich guy's closet does nothing for anybody. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: DJ
If you really think about it, what good really is a one inch by one piece of Josh Gibson's bat? I mean really, of what use is that you anyone? It's simply a crime to tear apart a piece of history and make it "affordable" in such a non-important manner. This is simply attention grabbing, trying to get people excited about what many of us would call "a dying industry". |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Chad
Wow, that is one seriously flawed argument. Chopping Josh's bat up into meaningless chips of wood is irretrievably stupid. It can't be undone. When this madness is over, we will be left with nothing but regret. I can't afford the bat and never will be able to, but I'd rather it hang intact in Bill Gates' closet than to be destroyed. Where's King Solomon when you need him? C'mon my lawyer friends, if you can sue a developer to keep them from razing an historical landmark, can't some kind of injunction be filed against Topps for this? |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Bill Todd
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Ricky Y
I'd rather Topps make a card of Josh Gibson sort of like the 1940 Playball set of past players. If something like that hasn't been done already...I haven't paid much attention to new issues at all.. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: jay behrens
Jim, I beat you to the Wagner idea long ago The proof is here in a very old post somewhere on the board. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Paul
There was an article about this in SCD a couple of months ago. I meant to post about it then. Truly tragic. Topps actually bragged about the fact that they were cutting up one of two known Gibson bats. I can't wait to buy a card with slivers of Michaelangelo's David in it. Or maybe chunks of the crucifix. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Brett
lol Jim B, i said the same thing months ago. I wondered why there was no Upper Deck or Topps cards with piece of a t206 wagner. I bet they'll get part of a wagner and plank and put it on the card. I just wonder if people who get this card( if in fact they make it ) will consider their half inch of a wagner part of their t206 set. |
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Posted By: John_B_California
Anyone that chops up a rare and desirable bat should be banned from baseball IMO. Madness is an understatement. |
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Posted By: Cobby33
This is worse than having to hear why George W. Bush is such a great president and why we should stay in Iraq (or use the antipodal) and why my opinions to the contrary are "flawed," "stupid" and the subject matter, "crap." What gives? Why can't you people respect others' opinions and collecting interests and not get so personal about it? If you don't like the game-used material, don't buy it, but keep your self-righteous viewpoints to yourself, or express them in an objective manner. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: James Feagin
I dabble a tad in modern, and never fear folks, Topps pulled a fast one on everyone in the hobby. The Topps Sterling and Pristine cards are cut barrels from one of his model bats that he ordered from Louisville Slugger. That's right, it most likely never even saw game-action. Modern hobbyists are up in arms over it. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: jay behrens
Whether it is game used or not is not the point. Anything directly associated with Gibson's career is extremely rare and destroying it for a buck is reprhensable. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: John S
Cobby, |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Al C.risafulli
I think I've posted this story before. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Cobby33
Jay and John- |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: dd
Topps has it all wrong, the most valuable modern era cards will be the Active DNA Series in which each card will contain a small vial of a superstars blood or................. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Bob Pomilla
Perhaps like relics of the Saints, we could have bone chip cards of deceased hall of famers. Maybe a drawing of the Babe telling some child, "Hey, kid! You want a piece of me?" on each pack. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: JimB
Who sells these things to Topps knowing full well what they will do with them? I believe they are equally culpable. It is not like that bat would not sell to someone who would appreciate it for a king's ransom in a Mastro auction. But then again, maybe Topps is winning these sorts of items in auctions. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: David
I'm just wondering why one or both of the only two Josh Gibson bats known to exist weren't in the Hall of Fame in the first place. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: warshawlaw
An autographed card from an old-timer would likely have inspired the same conversation. And left a gamer intact. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Al C.risafulli
I'm not sure about that, in my case. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Jeff
I hate the Game Used cards that they make. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Larry
If Topps was smart, the Josh Gibson promo Cards would be redeemable for the complete bat in some kind of publicized and televized drawing with several consolation prizes, not the cut up shredded wood pieces and the publicity would be much better for them... |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: davidcycleback
Notice that Topps calls the bat 'game model' not game used. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Rich Klein
With vintage memorabilia being given out as prizes. The only downfall to the contest was that everyone had to pay taxes on their winnings and I think maybe one of the five winners could afford to keep their prize they won in the contest. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: PC
The card companies could balance marketing and respect for the history of the game, but apparently they don't. |
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Greatest card ever? Read it and weep
Posted By: Rich Klein
It was Donruss that cut up the Ruth Jersey. |
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