Does anyone actually have any interest in something like this?

[calvindog]

Utterly insane. Why not cut up into pieces a signed copy of the Declaration of Independence?

http://www.hugginsandscott.com/cgi-b...l?itemid=19691

[JP]

I don't get it...it isn't even a signature made by Cobb. It is a piece of a Ty Cobb brand bat...right? ....that he may or may not have played with....depending on how well Donruss did their research.

That being said, it does look super cool. Though I can't compare it to the Declaration of Independence because I'm sure there are hundreds, if not thousands, of game-used Cobb bats.

[teetwoohsix]

If it is an actual Ty Cobb game used bat,I don't understand the logic of ruining it to make a card?

[teetwoohsix]

Also,if it's a 1/1,where did the rest of the bat go,into the trash?

[JP]

And why isn't this encapsulated? Is it because it would grade a PSA 7 or 8 at best, and make it look bad? Somebody got PSA to encapsulate their Babe Ruth pants from this card series, and it came back a 7. Why not just have it encapsulated as authentic to protect the damn thing????

[barrysloate]

The concept of destroying a valuable artifact to make money is deplorable. Period.

[birdman42]

Originally Posted by teetwoohsix

Also,if it's a 1/1,where did the rest of the bat go,into the trash?

This is the only one with the signature on it.

There are 2003 Topps Tribute cards and 2009 Topps relic cards with a piece of a Cobb bat. (Looks like there are four different 2003 sets that include a sliver of the bat.)

Bill

[HRBAKER]

Merely a contrivance to lure people into buying immediately worthless product.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by teetwoohsix

If it is an actual Ty Cobb game used bat,I don't understand the logic of ruining it to make a card?

Because it's the only way the modern card companies can get adults to spend their paychecks to play the pack opening lottery.

[barrysloate]

Adam- artifacts like Ty Cobb bats are finite. There are only so many that have survived. Each time you destroy one that's one less that exists. If you love baseball memorabilia, and I know you do, that should trouble you.

After the Beatles stayed at the Plaza Hotel, their bedsheets were cut into little pieces and sold to the public. But a bedsheet is ostensibly worthless, and you can just buy another one. Ty Cobb bats can eventually run out, if you cut up enough of them.

[JP]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Ty Cobb bats can eventually run out, if you cut up enough of them.

Even if they cut up the last bat and no whole bats were left, there still would be 10 or so "whole bats" listed on eBay starting with the line...."my collector grandfather just passed away...."

[Anthony S.]

Hope that whoever buys that atrocity does the decent thing and releases it back into the wild.

[Orioles1954]

So what is the acceptable starting and stopping points for inserting bat pieces and jersey swatches into modern products? 1920s? 1930s? 1940s-1980s? What?

[quinnsryche]

Yes, I believe there is great interest in the collecting world for a card like this. There is only one,and that is VERY attractive to the modern card collector. I would be very surprised if this card does not fetch at least 5K. Another thing is, what would an actual game used Cobb bat sell for? Probably alot more than what this card will sell for but the owner of the card gets the best part. Many see this type of collectible as heresy but that's the way it is these days. If you don't want to see items like this cut up and put on cards, buy them up and stop it from happening (I realize that's probably unreasonable but it's the only option). Today's card companies HAVE to do this sort of thing to make their product more appealing than the other guy's, that's business in card world these days. I don't like it any more than the next vintage collector, it's just my perspective and playing devil's advocate.

[bigtrain]

I used to occasionally buy a box of new cards just for fun but stopped doing so when the idiot manufacturers started destroying true artifacts to create these ridiculous "relics". It is an obscenity.