cash option on Mega Millions tonight

[kcohen]

Well, since I'd be stinking rich I'll be greedy and get both a Baltimore News Ruth and a T210-8 Jackson.

[kkkkandp]

If I win that much money, I'm not stopping at one stinking card!

I'd buy all the Old Judge Hall of Famers I don't already have and couldn't afford otherwise.

[soxinseven]

E107 Cy Young

[zljones]

I just thought of more: E107 Addie Joss, E107 Chief Bender, and all Old Judge HOFers and N300 HOFers. I would also get Cracker Jack HOFers and that Joe Jackson card.

[bn2cardz]

I was telling my wife last night that I would buy the PSA 8 Wagner, and have it resubmitted so that I could take advantage of the "The PSA Financial Guarantee of Grade & Authenticity" once it was determined it was trimmed. (If need be I would get SGC to re-holder the card, then take PSA to court for not holding up their end of the guarantee)

It would be a fun way to spend some money.

[T206DK]

Kalamazoo Bats Pittsburg team photo

[birdman42]

L-1 Leather Johnson. I think the L-1s are about the coolest collectibles out there.

Bill

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

I was telling my wife last night that I would buy the PSA 8 Wagner, and have it resubmitted so that I could take advantage of the "The PSA Financial Guarantee of Grade & Authenticity" once it was determined it was trimmed. (If need be I would get SGC to re-holder the card, then take PSA to court for not holding up their end of the guarantee)

It would be a fun way to spend some money.

You need a pat on the back

[ScottR81]

Baltimore News Ruth

ALL OF THEM, I would be the sole owner of all that have been discovered.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by bn2cardz

I was telling my wife last night that I would buy the PSA 8 Wagner, and have it resubmitted so that I could take advantage of the "The PSA Financial Guarantee of Grade & Authenticity" once it was determined it was trimmed. (If need be I would get SGC to re-holder the card, then take PSA to court for not holding up their end of the guarantee)

It would be a fun way to spend some money.

I really like your thinking, but to avoid angst, I would get nice VGEX versions of both Wagner and Plank.

I can't believe someone said they would get a leather Johnson - wait until you are about 70 and you will have one automatically.

[birdman42]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I can't believe someone said they would get a leather Johnson - wait until you are about 70 and you will have one automatically.

Scott,

Thanks. I needed that on a day when an impaired driver sideswiped my car parked in front of my house.

Bill

[peterose4hof]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I can't believe someone said they would get a leather Johnson - wait until you are about 70 and you will have one automatically.

LOL, Bazinga!

[Kzoo]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I can't believe someone said they would get a leather Johnson - wait until you are about 70 and you will have one automatically.

I just laughed out loud in front of complete strangers. If I was drinking anything, it would have come out through my nose.

A nice '14 CJ Cobb would be an initial purchase, followed by that autographed t206 Cobb red background that sold a couple years ago.

[frankbmd]

I'm buying as many Mendoza RCs as I can this week. Imagine the demand for this after everyone loses except one. Pre-order now before 6PM for my special pre-lotto price. Cards will shipped in faux gold envelopes

[Bilko G]

Baltimore News Ruth and a Gem mint O-Pee-Chee Wayne Gretzky rook.

[CubsFanCurt]

Since I didn't win it looks like I'm buying a 1999 Mickey Morandini

[ctownboy]

My answer is somewhat off beat (people who know me would say, "what else is new?").

With that much money, instead of buying one card, I would try to buy one collection.

I would fly to London and try to buy the Edgar Wharton Tigar baseball card collection from the museum that currently has it. I mean, what good are old American issued baseball cards in England anyway? How many over there really know about them or appreciate them?

Anyway, once I owned them, I would have them all scanned and put on a website so that people could enjoy them and study them. I would then have them all graded and hide them away in safe deposit boxes.

The main condition for the purchase, I would tell the museum, is that I would do what I just said I would do and that none of the cards would be sold individually. If I ever did sell the cards, the museum would get the first shot at buying them back and at the same price I paid for them.

Doing this would allow the museum to have some funds to do other things with, would allow MORE baseball card enthusiasts to see some rare cards and would give the museum comfort in knowing that I wasn't going to just buy the collection and then sell it off piecemeal for a huge profit.

David

[slidekellyslide]

I'm pretty sure that if I won the lottery you guys would grow to hate me quickly. (edited to add: If you don't already)

I would definitely try to assemble an N172 set as complete as possible.

[travrosty]

buy all the really big name cards that ever come up for auction and hold a big press conference and bust them all out of the graded holders and put them in regular card savers. Give a speech that chasing specific number grades is a whole other industry unto itself and that people have eyes and can tell the condition of cards and we need to get back to collecting the cards not the grades, and we don't need to entomb our cards and we should be able to take a card out of a card saver and hold the actual card in our hands once in a while and that it's good for the hobby to do that once in a while. They are not made out of eggshells. Okay, go ahead and clobber me now.

[CW]

Sans agenda , I would buy the nicest T3 Ty Cobb I could find.

If it could simply be a hobby-related item, I might purchase the Babe Ruth autographed ball inscribed to his pal, Ted Williams, which transcends coolness.

[mark evans]

I'm not giving away any secrets until I see the check in my wife's hot little hands. But, I will say that I hope Dan Mckee is around at that time.

Hope to see all in Baltimore.

Mark

[glchen]

Baltimore News Ruth

[egbeachley]

Just So Cy Young........or every card from America's Toughest Want List before Archive gets them.

[peterose4hof]

1963 Topps Pete Rose RC PSA 10 from the Dmitri Young collection - Stunningly perfect specimen

PS: Can I buy these in the state of Florida? (Can you tell I don't play the lottery much?)

[kmac32]

All the E121 Ruths