Title: Any baseball card investors here?
Description: …attention Hal wherever you are
Skipjack - March 25, 2010 01:04 PM (GMT)
Slate has an excerpt from the book, "Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession."By Dave Jamieson
Here's the lede from the article:
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| How come that Frank Thomas rookie card you stowed away in 1990 is now worth less than a Happy Meal? Chalk it up to the baseball card bubble of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In a new book, Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession, Dave Jamieson tells the story of how baseball cards evolved from a tobacco marketing gimmick in the 19th century into a massive, big-money industry of their own by the late 20th century. In this excerpt, Jamieson explains how baseball cards first became seen as promising investments, setting the stage for a decade of speculation and overproduction. |
And here's the link:
http://www.slate.com/id/2247677/pagenum/all/#p2Anybody want to buy an autographed Val Majewski future star card? It has only been on my bike for a couple of days.
I have a Billy Beane autographed player card but I'm not selling that until he is in the Hall of Fame. I call it my Moneyball (another literary classic) Moneycard.
szekely - March 25, 2010 04:18 PM (GMT)
I have been looking for that Majewski car for at least five years. Would you trade it for a carbon of Scott Erickson's contract with Topps Baseball card company from about 20 years ago. (I really do have it--a friend used to work for Topps traveling the Cal Single A league and the PacSWest league up in portland and the surrounding minor league baseball world. Gave it to me.)
I have a Gregg Olson card and will mail it to anyone here who likes GO.
And for you big Albert Belle fans. . . .
But like Milto, my collecting days are over. I have all I need. An F Robby autographed baseball. My collection is complete.
stanhouse - March 25, 2010 11:36 PM (GMT)
Nice article.
Reflexively, I still peer at the counter-shelves of Wawa looking for a green-wrapper Topps pack with that cardboard flavored gum. It isn't there that I've seen and it wouldn't be a quarter if it were.
HotTubMan - March 26, 2010 03:15 PM (GMT)
I also have a F. Robby autographed ball...any maybe even a few sticks of gum from the 70's. Or maybe small concrete slabs by now...
Career200 - March 26, 2010 03:34 PM (GMT)
If you ever want to develop jaw strength like Jaws from the James Bond movies, just chew one of those sticks of gum every day for a month.
stanhouse - March 26, 2010 03:37 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Career200 @ Mar 26 2010, 10:34 AM) |
| If you ever want to develop jaw strength like Jaws from the James Bond movies... |
That has always been my goal. Sort of like having a leatherman tool or swiss army knife right there in your mouth. No need to wear a silly looking belt-carrier.
Career200 - March 26, 2010 03:42 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (stanhouse @ Mar 26 2010, 10:37 AM) |
| QUOTE (Career200 @ Mar 26 2010, 10:34 AM) | | If you ever want to develop jaw strength like Jaws from the James Bond movies... |
That has always been my goal. Sort of like having a leatherman tool or swiss army knife right there in your mouth. No need to wear a silly looking belt-carrier.
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Knew a guy in college who would unscrew the tops off his beer using his teeth. He still had pretty and straight pearly whites too. Always thought that was impressive.
Sluggo - March 27, 2010 01:50 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (HotTubMan @ Mar 26 2010, 10:15 AM) |
| I also have a F. Robby autographed ball...any maybe even a few sticks of gum from the 70's. |
You've got autographed gum? Now THAT's original.
Sluggo - March 27, 2010 01:54 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Career200 @ Mar 26 2010, 10:34 AM) |
| If you ever want to develop jaw strength like Jaws from the James Bond movies, just chew one of those sticks of gum every day for a month. |
When I was in Little League they used to sell these really long sticks of gum called "Bubs Daddy." They were as thick as a piece of Bazooka Joe, and about a foot long. I remember chewing 2-1/2 of those all at once during a game. Another time I chewed a whole stick at once and then saved it overnight.
szekely - March 27, 2010 05:40 AM (GMT)
Sluggo:
Your parents must have been so proud. "That's my boy. He can hit a lick and he can chew a lick. "
