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Oh well, maybe he's smarter than I give him credit for and actually has 1001 of them.
I stopped collecting when the whole grading deal became entrenched in the industry. It took what little fun was lieft in cards completely away.
I thought that was Florida State? With that kind of ranking I'm thinking the best they can hope for is the Aloha bowl.
I didn't realize the laws of supply and demand weren't observed in baseball card collecting. For prices to go up in this situation you have to assume that people who wouldn't normally buy this card at $350 will now buy it at a higher price just because there are more available. This isn't a new product it's just more of the same product that already had a stated value in the market. Wouldn't a buyer be more willing to negociate the price of this card downward when there are 100 of them on a table as opposed to 1 or two?
Obviously markets don't work perfectly in the short term and there could be a run that causes irrational pricing but unless demand spikes at a rate greater than the supply has spiked the price can't (or at least shouldn't) go up. Also, since he controls a large portion of the market he can hold back the supply to control the price.
Why? There are way more ungraded cards than graded ones. In fact, the grading phenomenon has actually helped decrease the price of mid-grade vintage cards. Now, you can get a card that *looks* near mint but is actually VG-EX for a very nice price. I have a couple thousand Will Clark cards, and maybe five are graded. I do have several graded Willie Mays and Juan Marichal cards, but there's no reason you'd need to.
Check out www.thrill22.com if you'd like to see my collection.
Bottom line: collect what you like.
The Aloha Bowl waved aloha quite some time ago.
It is now the Hawaii Bowl.
As to the cards, I am from the generation that not only traded them, but flipped them. Closest to the wall; Cover the card; Match/Dismatch.
Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Does anyone else also remember having somebody flash through a thick stack of cards at about 1 a second, as you stood there going: Got it, got it, got it, got it, need it, got it, got it, got it, need it, got it, got it, etc.?
I collect C notes.
My card buying stretched from '57 to '64. A couple of years were lean due to a surge in interest in stamp collecting.
Somehow, I always managed to get a Bubba Phillips card though. While out at BRef, I saw that Bubba tied for 17th for MVP in 1961, as a 92 OPS+ 3B. In the year of Mantle + Maris, Gentile + Cash, Whitey Ford + Luis Arroyo, somehow Bubba got 5 points that tied him with ERA leader Dick Donovan. Beee-zarre.
Ya like music, do ya?
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