The Top 10 Collections of All Time

[SteveMitchell]

Frank Nagy spent several thousand dollars in or around 1960 to purchase the Walter Corson collection which included dozens of complete 1952 Topps baseball sets - not to mention thousands of T cards. Mr. Corson might be a candidate for inclusion on this list.

[quinnsryche]

my father Pat Quinn. Owner of the country's first full time baseball card shop The Sport Collectors Store in Chicago, IL with Don Steinbach, Mike Keasler and Roger Marth (all awesome collectors). I can't even begin to tell you what my dad had at the height of his collection. THE premier autograph collection amongst other one of a kind items. All the collectors listed previous (Halper, Mastro, Lifson, Lipset, Young etc.) had dealings with him and could attest to what he had before he sold it all and retired from collecting, although he still runs his monthly auction even though he's retired at least a half dozen times!

[toppcat]

What about Lew Lipset? I have to think his collection at its peak was top ten material, no?

[barrysloate]

Clearly there were more than ten people with world class collections, and it would be difficult to pick a best one. There were many.

[thekingofclout]

that have a better collection than Marshall Fogel. I'd say his collection is more like top three...at the very least.

As for cards only, I'm very surprised that Charlie's name wasn't mentioned.

Just my .02 worth.

[Griffins]

Tony- wasn't Goody Goldfadden's Adco the first shop? He started in '48 in Cleveland, and then moved it out to LA in the late '50's or early '60's.
I know when I started going there in about '72 it could take weeks to get an appointment, and you'd still be waiting outside with others long past your appointed time.