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Posted By: Scott Hageman

Here is the REAL STORY! I am Scott Hageman and after completing a 1956 Topps set about 6 years ago I decided to collect one specific old card. What better than the only Hageman to play baseball, and better yet he only had one card! So over the last 6 years I picked them up whenever I saw them and commonly paid about $15-30 per card. I do not have a huge stock pile, approx. 20 of them but the last couple of years I did not see too many. This is why I started to email some of you trying to track down any leads on others. From what I can tell there are a lot more Hageman cards out there but they are locked up in sets but this is true of MANY of the T207 cards. I myself could not believe that jellybeans223? bid $219 in Feb to purchase one so this last one in JUNE I put in a Ridiculously high bid because I was on summer vacation and would not be able to bid on it again. I really did not think it would go over $219 again (which is too high as well)! Just got home to see the results and all the debate it caused on this site. My days of getting Hageman cards may be over since that price could buy...........................a lot of other things!!!
BUT.........I would argue that not just this Hageman card but MANY of the T207 cards have skyrocketed in price in the last 12-24 months. What cost $15-20 a year ago is most likely a min. $40-60 now and many cards that I think would be 50-100 are selling for 300-500.

All my other T207 bidding is simply on cards that I feel are worth more such as the John Henry Anon. SGC 10 for $44. 1) John Henry is not listed as rare, but in my collecting he seems to be and 2) I know the Anon. is rare in any condition.

I guess I should just select the watch list but I have this fantasy that occasionally some of these cards will sell for, what I think, are reasonable prices, unfortunately they rarely do.

Since everyone else is putting in their two cents I will too. If Napoleon cards are more common than Anon. I would like to be the person sitting on that HIDDEN stockpile because Napoleon backs (at least the last year or two) are VERY hard to find.

I also have an opinion about a lot of the T207 cards. Such as, if you find a Clyde Engle --- BUY IT!

Also, Fromme is not listed in the list of 50 rarer Recruit Backs but has anyone else felt that this card is slightly rare? I think it is on ebay RIGHT NOW but that may be the first time in 6 months or more.

I thought I should finally join the T207 club and express my opinon before everyone gets too carried away with this Casey Hageman T207 panic attack!

May be some of you hate me for collecting just one specific card but for me it added a whole new dimension in baseball card fever, plus I could do some geneology too.

Happy to response to any questions or "polite" comments,

Scott