Fortunate for him that he has sentimental attachment to something worth thousands of dollars as opposed to say, used bottle caps.

By the way, I'm pretty sure the names are reversed on the Reuschel baseball card.

Estate fights are always ugly

I poo-poohed that $147K figure until I saw the 250K number of cards-that's about 59 cents apiece.

BTW--how many shoe boxes would it take to fit 250,000 cards?

Estate fights are always ugly

You don't know the half of it. In the early 80's, when I was with a large NYC firm, we represented the second husband of an older, fairly wealthy woman, in an estate dispute against her children from her first marriage. The second husband, who was in his 70's, and the eldest son, who was late 50's, were both ex-marines. I remember taking the son's deposition, with his wife, siblings and my client in attendance -- he was all smiles, and all malice.

This was back when Marie Lambert was one of the two Manhattan Surrogates, and you crossed her at your peril. She called us all in one morning for a settlement conference, and basically said, settle the case now, or else everyone will be extremely unhappy. So the parties agreed to a settlement. They left for the deceased's apartment, to divvy up some of the personal items.

That afternoon, the cover of the NY Post reported that the son had bludgeoned the step father to death with an objet d'art that they were arguing over. I brought this to the lead partner's attention, who quickly made sure that our client's last check had cleared.

numerous individual cards for such baseball greats as Lou Gehrig, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Steve Garvey, Johnny Bench and Jackie Robinson

Uh, one of these is not like the others.....

numerous individual cards for such baseball greats as Lou Gehrig, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Steve Garvey, Johnny Bench and Jackie Robinson

Uh, one of these is not like the others.....

Yeah, only one American Leaguer. What's up with that?

numerous individual cards for such baseball greats as Lou Gehrig, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Steve Garvey, Johnny Bench and Jackie Robinson

Uh, one of these is not like the others.....



Yeah, only one American Leaguer. What's up with that?

and only one Hispanic

(and only one Nazi child molester)

Lou Gehrig, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Steve Garvey, Johnny Bench and Jackie Robinson

One of these things is not like the others.

Uhhhh....

BTW--how many shoe boxes would it take to fit 250,000 cards?

Depends on what size you wear?

A pretty standard, large card box holds about 5,000 cards with the card stock normally used for baseball cards. Those things are 19" x 16.5" x 4". Assuming each box holds 5k cards, you'd need 50 of them to hold a card collection of that size - a little more than 36 cubic feet. I would guess that each one weighs 20 pounds as well (a full box like that of Magic cards weighs about 25, but the card stock on those is thinner, so I would imagine that they're also more dense). A half-ton of cardboard .... pretty impressive.

srul - interesting story...

i used to have my cards in 800 count boxes. i think they were about 1 1/2 feet long and 4 inches wide?
so 300 of those...

If that is the book value of the collection, the actual market value is closer to $40,000. And only because it has so many vintage cards in it.

I brought this to the lead partner's attention, who quickly made sure that our client's last check had cleared.

And I assume made a quick call to see if the son was considering new representation?

great story