My big regret was 1992. I had put an ad in the local paper buying cards. Someone responded saying they had a Tony Gwynn Minor League card and 1956 Topps Ted Williams. I can't remember if he had other cards. The Gwynn was pretty expensive back then, not sure what it sells for today.
I get there and buy those two cards and then asks me if I would be interested in old baseball scorecards. He then pulled out what was about 400 or 500 scorecards from the 30's and 40's. His Father or grandfather, I don't remember which, was a traveling salesman and would go to baseball games when he traveled. He would buy a scorecard and saved them all. I think he was asking $5 or $10 each.
I had very limited money and ended up buying all the Yankee ones he had and one from a Bob Feller no-hitter. They were all scored and they were very interesting. Some games where Ruth and Gehrig hit HR's, a couple from Joe D's first year as a Yankee.
He seemed to have a lot of Cub's but I passed on them as I didn't collect that kind of stuff.
Anyway, I ended up trading the 20 or so I did buy for some cards a few months later and regret that almost as much as not buying every single scorecard the guy had.
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10-05-2011, 06:03 PM
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