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Old 05-07-2010, 05:22 PM
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N162 Dunlap showing him on Detroit.

The stereotype that all collectors are "weird" or "nerds". That only applies to the other 99% of collectors I know.
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Not really a card, but how about Babe Ruth's "called shot" recently immortalized in Mcfarlane figurines....
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From the alteration side:


Cards are micro-trimmed with lasers.
Cards can be stretched.
Cards are rebacked (they are typically refronted or spliced together)
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that Ferguson Bakery BF2s were distributed by Ferguson Bakery. The large "prize pennants" were given away as premiums by Ferguson, but there is no proof that the smaller pennants were from Ferguson.
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Myth - you have to spend tens of thousands of $ to have a respectable collection in the vintage community. Maybe just my opinion, but I dont think you do!
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Not really a card, but how about Babe Ruth's "called shot" recently immortalized in Mcfarlane figurines....
There was recently a New Yorker article profiling retiring Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens. How old is Stevens? Old enough that he was in attendance at that Cubs-Yankees WS game in 1932. He said he saw Ruth gesture to the outfield, but then misremembered where the ball was hit. Oops.

Here's the article online: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...fa_fact_toobin.


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Myth: Cards are worth Beckett book $'s...
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Myth: Cards are worth Beckett book $'s...
That's an easy one... any time someone quotes you 'book price', tell them "then go buy it from Beckett or SCD". I learned that line from SB1...


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Myth: Coaches Corner has the fairest prices on Mother Theresa Autographs No Really.
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That's an easy one... any time someone quotes you 'book price', tell them "then go buy it from Beckett or SCD". I learned that line from SB1...


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Bill, this is not directed at you (I don't know you), but that line has been for years my surefire dickhead detector.

If I reasonably try to talk to a seller about a card, and I put forward some indication of what similar cards have sold for elsewhere in recent times, I expect to be treated with some respect and I expect a dialogue. All too often, I get this dickhead response inviting me to go buy it from someone else...and I gladly oblige every time. Not only on that item, but on every item in the future (ie. I never do any business with anyone who feeds me that stupid line).

Now, if someone wanted to have a discussion about how they felt certain price guides were not accurate, but they had some more accurate info on recent sales, I'd be very happy to discuss that. It is the dismissiveness of saying "go buy it from X" to a prospective customer that is utterly idiotic from a person who is actually trying to sell something.

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No offense taken, Blair. I thought that snarky line was one possible reply to being quoted book prices, which are often wildly wrong. However, those prices are sometimes a starting point in a face-to-face negotiation between a buyer & seller at the National.


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Myths I remember from the 1970's and '80s were the supposed scarcity of the 1967 Topps Brooks Robinson and 1970 Topps Bench
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Kids have been priced out of the card market. It just failed to hold the interest of kids...many kids have more disposable income than many adults. The internet and PS and cel phones did more to take them out of the market...even in the 1980s, they didn't really want cheap cards once you got past the insanity where you could almost not open a pack and immediately sell the cards for at least a modest profit.
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