OT - Marlin's Rookie works offseason in card shop

[baseball tourist]

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=5622484

[Bilko G]

great story and thats really cool how the advertisement for his card shop is in the background on one of his RC's.

[glynparson]

Rich Delucia, former Seattle Mariner and a couple other teams, owned a card shop around here, Wyomissing PA, while he was playing in the early 1990's. Unfortunately the man running the store for him was not as well versed in the card industry as he convinced Rich he was.

[smtjoy]

Cool story but sad thats he's a rookie with 90 different cards already. Way to overkill the market, when will they learn.

[collectbaseball]

Funny little story, I like it.

I remember a couple years ago there was a Marlins rookie pitcher (Chris something?) and his mom was buying up all his signed rookie cards on eBay which artificially inflated the price. A card that should have been ~$8 was going for $30-40.

[lhoyle]

Maybe not quite as cool as working in a card store, but Phil Hughes used to post quite frequently on the Beckett Baseball boards. Maybe he still does, but I have not been on their boards in over a year.

Us old-timers know that Gary Carter used to be a BIG card-hound. Tom Candiotti was as well. Candiotti spent some BIG bucks on cards.

[bbcard1]

There's a saying which I am sure is purloined from another industry that owning a card shop is like being married to a nymphomanic. It is fun for about two weeks.

[tolstoi]

Market overkill is right, that is sad about the 90 cards etc. I mean who would even want to get involved with the modern hobby nowadays? It is too much of a headache.