Oops! I guess it's not that rare after all

[Hankphenom]

The Runnels calculator IS rare, Val, there just doesn't seem to be much demand for it. I've seen maybe six or seven of them in 30 years of collecting and dealing in Senators stuff. I'd call that rare. Can I get more than 25 bucks for it now? No, but that's true of a lot of Senators stuff for which the demand seems to have fallen off a cliff. If there were a bunch of them in Texas or anywhere else you'd see them on eBay all the time. Items like this bring to mind the time years ago when I showed Jimmy Spence a letter on White House stationary addressed to Clark Griffith and signed by a White House functionary. It had to do with opening day, and I thought it was pretty cool. I asked Jimmy what he thought it might be worth. Jimmy sighed, handed it back to me, and said: "I'd put this in the category of 'rare and undesirable'." As a dealer, I've learned the hard way just how many items fall into that category. The Runnels Batting Calculator is still a really cool piece, whatever it's market value.
Hank Thomas