How Much Would You Pay?

[CutMeMick]

I decided long ago that if I ever got really really rich, I would buy a Honus Wager t 209. Wayne Gretzky bought one for 500K. I believe there are only 8 or 9 in existence. I think the old story is that they were tobacco cards and cards used to come with tobacco, Honus Wagner strongly condemned the use of tobacco so he ordered a halt to it all. He got the ones that had been printed and ripped them all in half. A few got out though and a few stuck around and those are the ones out there today in Cooperstown and in the homes of the insanely rich.

Of course I'm not sure that story is true but that's how I've always heard it. I love baseball, I really do a lot of the reason is because of that history. Of course I know next to nothing about the history of baseball with the exception of the Giants who I studied up and down after getting the media guide from a friend of ours.

I'm rambling here.

Gretzky owned it years ago but he's sold it since...

About 2 weeks ago 1 was auctioned try running a google search on it...

[CutMeMick]

Kirby Pucket was a great player IMO...

TM,
I'm not sure as I have the slightest idea how much cards go for...

I used to collect baseball cards as a kid, I had a Ricky Henderson card when he broke the stolen bases record. I also had McGwire rookie card and a Dave Stewart card where he was in a tuxedo. I also had "Bo Breaker" which was Bo Jackson breaking his bat on his thigh after striking out...

I sold all my cards when I was a kid....

I had several of those same cards. Didn't sell them though, had em in the back of my parents car that got stolen. Broke down on the highway and when they went back to get it, it was gone. We got a call like 5 years later it was parked in a parking garage at Chicago airport for several years. The bastards took my cards and left the shitty car!!!

All my good ones were in there cause I separated them. I still have all the regular ones, but I had the good ones in a shoebox along with one of those price guides. I liked to look them up and see which ones were worth $3 instead of .10$..... I thought I was a high roller.....

Damn! that sucks about your cards...

I remember the Beckett books.. I used to sit there and spend hours in the afternoon looking up the price of my cards...
Like you, when I'd see anything above 2-3 bucks I thought I was in the money.