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MidLife Sports Cards Q & A- March 4th, 2026 · Sports Card Clubhouse

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What's going on, everybody all right?
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It's been a whirlwind week. It has been a great week.
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And you know what else? I am a week and 1/2 from spring
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break. In a week and 1/2, I have a week
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off. So I mean, lookout world, who
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knows what's going to happen next?
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I mean, in a week who? I mean, just think of how many
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books I could write. All right, Everett, you
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seriously, you guys, everybody's support of my latest Harebrained
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idea has been fantastic. I appreciate all of you.
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The emails, the messages, the texts, all of it has been so, so
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cool, and it means a lot to me. So thank you for your support
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very, very much. Now I've been doing these weekly
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Q&A's for three years and during the three years, I can genuinely
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say I don't think there was a week where there were five
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questions where the group of questions I liked more than this
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group of questions. I think this week's questions
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are fantastic, like really interesting ones.
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And I'm I'm very excited to share my thoughts and then hear
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from everybody about how my thoughts are wrong, which is
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part of the fun. Part of the fun is hearing what
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you guys think and how it differs from me.
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So in the comments, always share your thoughts on any of these
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topics because my opinion is just one opinion.
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That said, if you have a question for an upcoming
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episode, again, leave it down below in the comments.
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Every single week, I go through the comments to the previous
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week's questions. That's where I pull the
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questions that you're seeing in front of you.
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And if I have more than five, I add them to an ongoing list and
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I circle through those. But please don't hesitate if you
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have a question to ask it down below in the comments.
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All right, without further ado, let's take a look right here at
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this week's first question. Hi longtime listener, second
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time caller, 2 questions I cannot.
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Afford a babe? Ruth or Jackie Robinson
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autograph. But do you think other stars of
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cards in the 1960s that are autographed, like Lou Brock,
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Brooks Robinson or Willie Mccovey, will go up in value in
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the future? Also, would you rather?
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Have an amazing card with not so great an autograph or an amazing
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autograph on not so great a card if you had to pick one, thank
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you so much. This is a fun one.
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I absolutely have opinions on this.
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Now we have to 1st go back to the basics and we have to go
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back to the basics. And I know it would be easy if I
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could just answer the question and just give you a couple of
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names, but that's not nearly as fun.
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It's not nearly as fun for me. I got to explain why I think the
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way I think and give you background into how my brain
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operates when I hear something like this.
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It's getting to the point where my adult children, my 18 and 20
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year old children are like, dad, can we just ask you a question
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without a 10 minute response? And I'm like, no, this is just
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what you get. This is just how I am.
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Yes, this is how I am in in real life.
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My students probably love it because I ask a question, Mr.
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Miller, what's better a four O 1K or a Roth IRA And I go, let's
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go ahead and dive in. They probably do time kill
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questions like that all the time, which is fine with me.
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Now, to answer your question first, again, it's it, it's
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basic. It's very, very basic.
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It's all about supply and demand.
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Now you're asking it, it, it feels like you're asking this
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not from a collectability standpoint, but from an
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investment standpoint, because you talked about ones that I
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think will go up in value. Now if if if you're not worried
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about value, which you know from what I've heard recently is a
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thing, then you should definitely buy the player that
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you like. So I would say, which player
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from the 1950s and 60s do you like the most?
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Are you a big Red Sox fan? Well, you should get a Carl
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Yastrzemski autograph. Are you a big Red Sox fan?
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You should get a Ted Williams autograph.
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It should always be buying things in my opinion.
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If, if you're doing this as a hobby, you should always buy who
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you like most. It it sounds though, what you're
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asking me is which one do I think has the most upward
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potential? Now, again, I still don't have a
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crystal ball, but I certainly have a thought process of how I
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would arrive at some certain names.
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Now, you just mentioned Babe Ruth.
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You just mentioned Jackie Robinson.
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And those two guys are crazy expensive.
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And they're crazy expensive because they're both high, high,
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high demand and very low supply, at least on cards.
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Both of them actually died at a relatively young age compared to
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today's day and age. And they they both lived in an
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era when you didn't really sign cards.
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So there aren't many cards from them signed.
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And everybody wants Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth.
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They're the two biggest names. They're the two most important
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names in the history of the sport.
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Are they the two best players in the history of the sport?
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Probably not. But are they the two most
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important names? Absolutely.
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I don't think that's really deniable.
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So I, I know I just had rotten fruit thrown at the screen.
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That's OK though. My screen is still clear.
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So you're the one that when you, you know, when you throw rotten
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fruit at your screen, you have to clean it up, not me.
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So it's OK if you do that. If you so if that's your thing,
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keep doing it. So who are the players who have
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really high demand? Let's start there.
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If we're talking vintage players, right?
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We're talking players from the 50s and 60s is is what I heard.
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I would say the the high demand guys would be guys like Mickey
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Mantle, right? Very who are popular.
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Let's that's what I mean by demand.
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The popular players, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Ted
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Williams, Hank Aaron, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan, right?
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He was late 60s, but he's still 60s.
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Those would be some of the most popular players from the era.
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And and I know that the name the next guy on the list that
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everyone's going to say, well, you didn't, you didn't met Greg,
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Greg, you didn't mention, you know, I don't know, Ernie Banks
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or whoever you think the next guy in the list is.
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So, so who's popular? Those are some of the popular
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players. But here's the thing of those
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popular players, Mickey Mantle signed a ton, right?
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Willie May signed a lot. Ted Williams signed quite a bit.
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Hank Aaron signed quite a bit. Now how, how do I know that?
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Well, I, I was at card shows as a kid and those guys were coming
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through all the time. If you, if you list all of those
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guys that I, if you mention all those guys I just listed, of all
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of them, the one who signed the least is probably Sandy Koufax.
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Now why does that matter? Well, because that's the whole
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other part of the equation we have who is popular.
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I just listed some of the most popular.
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Just some of them who who is in low supply.
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Whoa. Mantle signed a lot.
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Mays signed a lot. Aaron signed a lot.
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Who again? Who else did I mention?
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May's Air. They all signed a lot.
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Koufax signed not nearly as much.
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And Koufax is is the only one that I mentioned.
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Will. Ted Williams is the other one.
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He, Koufax, is still alive. In fact, Koufax actually is
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living on the Central Coast in the same town.
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I went to college and I didn't know that at the time or I would
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have probably looked him up and, and hung out by his mailbox or
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something. I'm, I'm processing through
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that. So, so it, it, it's not just
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important of how popular they are, but also the supply of
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them. So then I think a little bit
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outside the box, who's somebody who's kind of popular but died
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kind of young and didn't sign a ton.
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That's where my mind is at, not who's the best player, but who's
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a very popular player who didn't sign a ton for some reason.
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Maybe they didn't sign because they passed away young.
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Maybe they didn't sign a ton because they just didn't sign a
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ton. They didn't do the card show
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circuit. The name that actually is
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standing out to me and, and you guys down below tell me I, I
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would love to hear what you guys think.
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Who is, who has the most upside in their autograph card
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autograph values out of everybody out there, because I'm
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going to give you a name. I'm not just going to tell you
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my my philosophy again, it's it's not only about who's
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popular because Mantle's the easy decision, but but there are
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probably more mantle cards on autographs than a lot of those
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guys of the people who aren't still living right.
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There's a lot of Brooks Robinson because Brooks Robinson lived a
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long time. He signed, signed a tot a lot.
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Bob Feller signed and signed and signed.
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Then when he got done signing, he kept signing and he kept
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signing until there's no one left to sign for.
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There's a ton of Bob Feller stuff.
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Bob Feller's really good, but he signed a ton.
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Bob Gibson signed a lot. Carl Yastrzemski is still
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signing. Ernie Banks signed quite a bit,
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so who's really popular but didn't sign a ton for some
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reason. I actually believe it or not, I
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think Roger Maris, that's my choice.
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Roger Maris is a very well known name.
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He's very likable. He played in a major market for
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the highlight portion of his career.
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He's not a Hall of Famer, at least not at this point.
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But the other thing about Roger Maris is he has a beautiful
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autograph, and I mean beautiful. If you were to say whose
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autographed cards right now are still fairly affordable but have
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a lot of upside, I have to pick someone that doesn't have a ton
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of signed cards and somebody who's popular and has high name
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recognition. I'm going Roger Maris for
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baseball. If you were to ask me overall
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football, to me it's autogram. It's autogram for a lot of
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reasons. He signed a fair amount, but he
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doesn't have a ton of signed cards out there.
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He has some autogram for football.
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I'm going, but overall I'm going.
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Rodger Maris down below. Seriously in the comments, tell
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me who's the guy I'm not listing that I should list, But it's got
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to be somebody who doesn't have a huge supply but does have a
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big demand. Because if we're going big
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demand and big supply, it's mantle.
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Some people say Willie Mays is underappreciated.
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He is, but he signed a ton. Hank Aaron signed a ton.
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You could go with someone with a really low supply.
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You know, I know somebody and, and did because they they died
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really, really young. There's hardly any autographs
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out there. You could go that route, you
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know, like Brian Piccolo's card, but that's not, I guess that's
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69. You know, Thurman Munson's
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rookie card is 70 and I know there's only like 4 or five of
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his autographed cards and PSA slabs that have been
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authenticated. But you said, I think you said
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50s or 60s. Maybe I made that up.
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OK, I, I just answered half the question in 10 1/2 minutes.
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Look at me. I, I'm super efficient today.
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The other part, I'd much rather have an autograph that I liked
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and a card that I like. Because when you're buying an
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autographed card, you're really buying the autograph.
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You're not buying the card. If you want a nice card, buy a
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nice card. But if you want an autographed
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card, to me the highlight of that item is the autograph, not
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the card. Look at that.
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I did that one fast. So I'm actually pretty proud of
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myself right now. This one says hi Greg, got a
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question for you. If you had several $1000 to
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spend on who is the home run king, which one would you buy?
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I was thinking of buying a game used ticket from the
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record-breaking home run by Hank Aaron at 7:15 back in the 70s
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passing Babe Ruth. Or would you use the money to
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buy the record-breaking home run game used ticket from the game
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that Barry Bonds hit passing Aaron?
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Basically, are you in agreement that Bonds has the home run
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record? I'll be it with steroids or just
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count on Bonds out and go with Aaron.
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I feel like there are two separate questions in this
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question and I don't know how much they have to do with each
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other. So let's just start with this.
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Who is the home run king? That's an interesting question.
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That's not AI. Don't think that's a super easy
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question. Let me ask you this.
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Who has the highest batting average of all time?
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Well, some people would say Ty Cobb.
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Some people would say Josh Gibson, because MLB recently
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allowed the Negro League stats to be integrated into the whole
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MLB stats. So if you looked right now on
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Baseball Reference, I believe it would say Josh Gibson has the
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highest batting average of all time.
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But I think there are a lot of people that would not say that
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Josh Gibson has the highest batting average of all time.
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They would say that Ty Cobb does.
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In that same line of thinking, I could see why somebody would say
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Hank Aaron is the all time home run king.
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I can also see why someone would say it's Barry Bonds because
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Barry Bonds actually hit more home runs over the fence than
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Hank Aaron did. At the end of the day, I think
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that whenever we look at any stats, their eras are part of
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it. You know, there were there were
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periods where the fences were were way out there, like 475
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feet. So.
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So yeah, somebody didn't hit the ball over the fence as much as
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somebody else. But they played in an era where
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the ball was made of mush instead of the way the balls are
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made now. And and they played where there
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were fences way out there. So how do you even compare those
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things, right? Just like with football.
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I mean, Oh my gosh, don't get me started.
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I mean, you can't even touch a wide receiver anymore.
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If Jerry Rice played now, he would have 300 receiving yards
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per game. And if Joe Montana played right
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now, he would have 100,000 passing yards.
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I know. Get that rotten fruit ready and
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also get a towel to clean up your screen.
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I know everybody loves Brady and I know that you guys love Randy
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Moss or you know, whoever the the flavor of the weak, weak
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wide receiver is. My point is this.
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How do you even compare eras? You can't really compare eras.
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You just can't. We live in an era now where
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there's ten guys that bat over 300 or 20 guys that bat over
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300. Like Tony Gwynn would stick out
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like a sword that he would win the batting title every year
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now, right? I didn't even start to answer
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the question, who do I think the home run king is?
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I mean, if if I had to write a book, wait, I just did that.
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I didn't even I didn't even plan that if I had to write a book
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and I had to note in the book, the all time home run king, the
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person with the most home runs, I would say Barry Bonds.
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But the people who say, Nope, the true home run king is Hank
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Aaron, I wouldn't really argue with you.
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I guess that's my answer. The person with the most home
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runs is Barry Bonds, but is he the all time home run king?
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I guess. I guess.
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Now as far as which autographed ticket I'd rather have, I would
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much rather have the Hank Aaron ticket stub from when he broke
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Ruth's record autographed than the Barry Bonds ticket stub
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autographed by Barry Bonds. I like, I like vintage stuff.
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I like old things and a ticket stub again.
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When Barry Bonds broke the record, people knew I should
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hang on to this ticket stub because this will be valuable.
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I don't think as many, I know some people did, but I don't
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think as many people thought that when Hank Aaron hit his
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that I better hang on to this because this is going to be a
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valuable item in the future. Again, the thing that makes a
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lot of old things valuable is that people didn't know it was
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valuable at the time. It wasn't until later that
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people realized something was valuable.
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I think I would rather have the Hank Aaron ticket stub
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autographed than the Barry Bonds ticket stub autographed.
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But if I had to take a lie detector test and answer the
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question, who do I think is the all time home run leader, I
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would say Barry Bonds. I think.
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I think that I did a decent job answering that, but I'm sure if
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I did or didn't, you'll tell me down below.
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So I look forward to finding out.
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This one says. Here's a question for you if
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you're. Looking for a difficult card to
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find that rarely. Shows itself on eBay or any
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other platform. An example 1935 National Chick
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Old Bronco Nagurski. How would you go about locating
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the copy of this card? I've been looking for years for
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this card and I cannot find one currently 0 on eBay or anywhere.
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Else I look, if you know a way please share.
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All right, this is a great question and I feel like I
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personally to a certain extent experienced this myself when I
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was building my N19 pirate set, the Allen and Ginter pirate set,
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the card. The card is the Blackbeard card
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and I went like a year where I didn't even see one was
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available for sale. I didn't see one on any auction
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house. I didn't see one on eBay.
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I didn't see one at A at a card show at the non sport dealer.
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I didn't even see one. But now I have one and the one
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that I have I bought before I even saw a different one show up
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for sale. The how did I do that?
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There's three things I'm going to, I'm going to I have, I
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actually have a serious opinion on this.
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There are three things that I would do if I were in your
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shoes. If there was a card like a
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Bronco Nagurski Chickle card that I wanted that I didn't
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have, I wasn't finding, the first thing I would do is I
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would reach out to some of the top dealers that deal in that
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category. So I would reach out to like at
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the National or at Strongsville, at the Philly show or at the
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West Coast Cart show, whatever it is.
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I would go up specifically to some of those dealers or I would
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Google them. I would reach out to them via
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e-mail and I would say I am looking for this.
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I'm not going to promise you I'm going to buy anyone.
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So if you find one, if you come across one, here's my name,
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here's my information, reach out to me.
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I would be interested. That would be one way I would do
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it. You got to, you got to find out
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from the boots on the ground, you, you need to put your, you
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need, you need more than two eyes.
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Right now. You have two eyes.
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You are looking. You need to multiply the number
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of eyes and the way you multiply the number of eyes is you put
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more eyes out there in the field for you to find that item.
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That is absolutely one thing I would do.
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The second thing I absolutely would do is I would make a
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Facebook account. I would get on as many Facebook
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groups as I can and I would put, I would start putting feelers
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out there. I would put I would post looking
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for this card. If you know of somebody contact
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me. This is what I'm looking for
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there. Again, you are multiplying the
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number of eyes out there. Somebody knows somebody who's
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trying to sell a Nagurski card right now.
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I mean, my buddy Darren, right, return to collecting.
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Darren, he said in his goal video with me like 2 months ago
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that he was looking for a particular card and somebody who
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watched it said, I know somebody who's selling one of your gold
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cards. Here's his information.
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And they ended up with a deal. And how did he do that?
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He used the platform of YouTube to send that out and and, and
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make more eyes out and about. Somebody knows someone selling a
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Nagurski right now. You know, that's what I would do
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is, is I would, I would go on those groups.
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I would go on vintage football collecting groups.
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I would go on vintage card groups.
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I would go on pre war Facebook groups.
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I would blast it out there to people.
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This is my information, this is my name, this is what I'm
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looking for. Contact me if you see it again.
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You need more people out there. You need more eyes than just the
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two that you have. Those are those things I would
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do. Now the third thing I would do,
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I mentioned recently there is a new website that this is like
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what they I mean, so, so let me give you an example of something
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that happened today. I was looking to book my flight
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for the National today and I said, OK, let's see, let's go to
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Southwest Airlines and I could go to Southwest Airlines and
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look to see what their flights are, what their prices are,
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right? I could then go to United
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Airlines. See, do they have any direct
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flights from Sacramento to Chicago?
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If so, what are the times? Are there stops?
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Are they direct? OK, now I've done Southwest and
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I've done United. Now let's try American Airlines.
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I go to American Airlines website.
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Is that how you look? Is that how you look for
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flights? My guess is probably not.
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What most of us do at this point is when we're looking for
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something, we go to a, a, a place that tabulates all of that
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information. You do one search.
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What did I do? I didn't go to American and
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Southwest and I didn't go to United and then go to the
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Continental and then go to, I don't even know you, you know
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what I'm saying? I didn't do that.
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What I did was I went to Expedia and Expedia searches all of
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those for me. Expedia says here's what United
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has, American has, Southwest has, and it lists them all for
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me. And then I go, well, I'm going
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to, I'm going to, you know, use a couple of tools here and I'm
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going to cut out some of the things I'm not interested in.
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So I said I only want direct flights and it eliminated some
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and I, I only want ones in the morning.
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And it eliminated some and it narrowed, narrowed, narrowed,
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narrowed. And it compiled, compiled,
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compiled. That's the term I was looking
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for is compiler. I needed a compiler and I've
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shared it on the channel and I'll I'll continue to mention it
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because it's it is truly is a game changer in the way that I
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search for cards. If there is a rare card that I'm
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looking for, I'll tell you right now, I want to bond bread Jackie
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Robinson with the clip corners. So how do I search for that?
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Do I just go to eBay and refresh every hour or do I go to auction
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wire? Auction wire dot AI and I go in
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there I make a search. Once I make the search, I can do
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filters, I can save it. I can set alerts.
27:03
See auction. I know it, it probably sounds
27:10
too easy and people go. So auction Wire, I would, I, I
27:16
go to auction wire, I set my search.
27:20
When I set my search, I then go and I save it and I set alerts.
27:25
So when that card becomes available and, and Auction Wire
27:30
is rolling out, I mean, I just talked to Leighton, Leighton
27:34
Sheldon, one of just collect, one of the owners of Auction
27:37
Wire 2-3 days ago and he's like, Oh yeah, we're about to roll out
27:42
like 5 or 6, I can't remember 5 or 6 new auction houses that
27:46
we're going to hit. So that's like Expedia saying
27:49
now instead of just having Southwest and United, I have
27:54
Southwest, United, Continental, you know, I don't know all the
27:59
flights, but expanding how many different airlines that they
28:03
could search for in use. Like they're, they're just
28:08
getting started and they are broadening, broadening,
28:10
broadening, broadening, meaning they're reaching more and more
28:13
and more platforms. And I know people say I don't
28:19
want to pay $10 a month. Now the first thing I'll respond
28:23
to that with is this guys, again, it's, it's 30 days for
28:27
free. You don't have to pay anything
28:30
for 30 days. And then if you use my promo
28:33
code midlife again, do I get a kickback if you use midlife?
28:38
No, I reach out to them and I said, will you do something for
28:43
my viewers? And they said, yeah, sure, promo
28:45
code midlife. And then instead of 30 days,
28:48
it's 60 days. So you have 60 days.
28:51
So I mean, today is early March, we'll call it, what is it, March
28:55
4th? So we go two months, months, we
28:58
go all the way into March, all of March, all of April and then
29:04
part of May that you could use it for free.
29:09
And, and the thing that I, I find funny is, is like 10 bucks,
29:13
like not exaggerating. I drove by the gas station today
29:18
and, and in California, at least in Sacramento, gas was five O 8
29:24
a gallon, $5.08 a gallon and auction wire is like 10 bucks,
29:30
right? It's like 10 bucks a month or
29:32
something. 2 gallons of gas. My truck gets like 18 miles a
29:38
gallon. I could drive for 36 miles which
29:44
is what it would take me to drive to a card show just there.
29:48
Or I could have auction wire and I could search for my pajamas at
29:52
home on my recliner. There are times where, like, I
29:57
am not going to spend $10 on this, but you'll spend hours and
30:04
hours and hours and hours of searching here and here and here
30:07
and here and here and here. It's 10 bucks.
30:11
And by the way, if you use my first suggestion, which was to
30:19
put a bug in a dealer's ear, right, and ask a dealer, and
30:24
then the dealer buys it, he's going to charge you for that
30:27
Nagurski card. He's going to charge you an
30:30
extra 3000 because he found it. So he's going to buy it.
30:38
He's going to add 3000, and then he's going to sell it to you.
30:41
Or you could spend $10 a month, the same as it would cost you to
30:50
buy a family size bag of Doritos and a loaf of bread.
30:57
And you could have all this access to search all these areas
31:02
for a month. That's what I would do.
31:09
I would spend the whopping 10 bucks a month.
31:13
If it's not 10 bucks, I apologize, but I think it's 10
31:15
bucks. It's 10 or 15 bucks.
31:18
Think it's 10 though. I would spend.
31:21
I don't see. I don't even look at like my
31:23
credit statements like YouTube Premium, I don't know what I
31:27
pay, Hulu, I don't know what I pay, but I know that I'm getting
31:31
my money's worth out of all that stuff.
31:33
So that's what I would do. I would a reach out to a bunch
31:38
of the dealers in that area. BI would go out and I would list
31:43
all of these different Facebook groups.
31:46
I would join them. I would make posts asking for
31:49
people, if they know anyone to reach out to you.
31:52
And then I would get Auction Wire.
31:54
It's such a no brainer promo code midlife you get 2 free
31:58
months, 2 free months, 60 days. Even if you don't want to use it
32:04
after, you know, you're like, I don't want to spend $10 a month.
32:07
Well, you could at least do it for for 60 days.
32:11
It's free for 60 days. I don't know.
32:15
That's just that's just where I'm at.
32:18
So this is my hobby. This is my thing. 10 bucks, it's
32:23
nothing. I mean my book is 2250.
32:29
You can have auction wire for two free months with midlife and
32:35
then buy auction wire for two more months and that's only $20
32:40
to have auction wire for the next four months.
32:42
My book is 2250. Don't buy my book, go get
32:47
auction wire instead. You get more bang for your buck.
32:51
All right, I beat that to death. But that was that's that's
32:55
genuinely is genuinely how I feel.
32:58
That's that's my advice. This one says great Q and AI
33:03
like collecting OPG cards due to the rarity over tops.
33:08
Some are graded by KSA, a Canadian grading company.
33:12
Any opinion about their grading? I usually do not cross them over
33:17
unless I am considering selling them.
33:20
Any rule of thumb on how to price or comp them?
33:23
Thanks as always, Antonio. Believe it or not, I actually
33:29
think I have a fairly short answer for this one.
33:32
This is the way I look at the smaller third party grading
33:36
companies, right? You've got PSA, you got SGC, you
33:40
got CGC, you got Beckett. Those are kind of the big ish
33:43
for. Are they still all big?
33:46
Will they still be around? I don't know, but those are the
33:49
slabs that if I bought a card in that holder, I would probably
33:52
leave it in that holder. If I bought a card in any other
33:55
holder, I probably wouldn't leave it in the holder.
33:57
I would probably snap it out and send it into one of those other
34:01
companies or just put it in a one touch because the cards look
34:04
really good in one touches. So this company that you're
34:08
referring to, never heard of it. I know I, we have a lot of
34:11
Canadian friends in midlife nation.
34:13
I apologize guys, I don't know it.
34:15
I don't, I don't pay a lot of attention to that stuff.
34:19
But if that's a grading company that's big in Canada, I trust
34:22
you and that's the case. So if the card is in an 8, do I
34:28
then look at that card and value it the same as APSA 8 or an SGC
34:32
8 or a CGC 8? Or I could get into a whole
34:36
thing about buy the card, not the grade.
34:38
It doesn't matter the holder. It doesn't matter if it's in a
34:41
holder at all. Here's what I do.
34:44
This is how I use those other grading companies holders.
34:48
They provide me some information.
34:50
I look at it as I'm buying a raw card.
34:52
I look at it as I'm buying a card that isn't in a holder at
34:56
all, but it provides me some information.
35:00
If it's in some company I've never heard of slab and it's in
35:05
an 8, it probably doesn't have a crease.
35:08
I can tell the centering just the same.
35:11
It probably doesn't have a crease, certainly probably
35:13
doesn't have a pinhole, sorry mook.
35:15
It probably doesn't have tape on the back.
35:19
It probably doesn't have glue residue on the card that the
35:23
person is discreetly, you know by the angle of it.
35:28
What it does to me is I look at those smaller grading company
35:33
slabs as I'm buying a raw card with additional information.
35:40
It probably isn't creased, it probably doesn't have a pinhole,
35:45
it probably doesn't have paper loss.
35:50
So it provides me more information than just a picture
35:55
from a card that is ungraded. An ungraded card I am very leery
36:03
of. When I buy online, I just assume
36:08
that persons taking pictures from angles that are hiding any
36:13
blemishes on the card, That's what I do.
36:16
Just like I assume every time I drive through an intersection
36:20
that the people in other directions are going to run a
36:23
red light and hit me so I look. Well, Greg, that's no way to
36:27
live. I welcome, welcome to my world.
36:32
That's just how I am. So I assume that that a card
36:38
that is raw probably has issues I can't see.
36:41
And if it doesn't have any issues, I'm pleasantly
36:44
surprised. And at the same time, if it's in
36:49
a holder from a grading company I don't know or have an opinion
36:53
of or or trust or have a relationship with, it provides
36:57
me some information. But it's basically, it's
37:00
basically a raw card because I'm probably going to crack it out,
37:05
but I know a little bit more information.
37:08
It probably doesn't have a pen mark.
37:10
It probably doesn't have a crease if it's an 8 or a nine.
37:14
I think I made my point. That's kind of what the way I
37:16
look at it, this one says. Thank you for answering my
37:21
question, great insight as always.
37:24
I understand that being too focused can limit our ability to
37:27
see good deals, but for me it's good to have some goals to
37:31
prevent slipping down rabbit holes.
37:34
For this week, I was. Hoping to pick your brain
37:36
further. The card market seems to be
37:39
settling a little bit, although it will most likely never return
37:44
to pre COVID levels. The exception being iconic cards
37:48
of rookies of baseball greats like Aaron, Jackie, Gehrig,
37:52
Cobb. For someone looking to pick up a
37:55
Hank Aaron rookie card, for example, it can be hard to
37:58
decide if it is most prudent to wait out the market or strike
38:03
now. While prices rise.
38:05
Further, in your opinion, will the market ever correct or
38:09
stabilize for these iconic? Cards.
38:11
If not, should a collector look to?
38:13
Grab one now before the market. Prices us out.
38:18
Thank you for your videos and insight.
38:21
I think a lot of people are thinking about this as a lot of
38:25
card prices, especially some of the ultra modern stuff,
38:28
especially some of the low serial numbered modern stuff has
38:32
really taken off in price. People keep calling it a bull
38:36
market. You can call it whatever you
38:37
want, but there are records being set all the time for cards
38:40
right now. And I think a lot of people are
38:42
saying, well, I'm just. Going to wait?
38:45
And some of my good friends have said that.
38:47
In fact, I've had a couple of friends in the last couple of
38:51
weeks have said that my buddy I, I guess I should, I shouldn't
38:58
say what other people have said off camera to me.
39:03
Some of my good friends have have said recently, yeah, I'm
39:09
kind of waiting to make any big buys right now because I think
39:13
the market's going to correct. Now, here's my thought.
39:18
I don't try to time markets. I don't go well, I'm on the
39:23
prices of houses just are going way up.
39:25
I'm going to wait until they come down.
39:28
What if they don't? What if they don't?
39:31
You know the stock market is set an all time high on the S and
39:36
Pi. Better not buy now.
39:38
I can't buy my gold now because you know, it's at over 5000 an
39:43
ounce. It's got to come back down to
39:46
3000 an ounce soon and I'll buy then.
39:50
All of that sounds good, but what if you're wrong?
39:53
You know, I remember when the Dow hit 10,000 and it was like
39:58
10,000. Oh my gosh.
40:04
It's done pretty well since then.
40:07
It didn't crash. So here's my thought.
40:13
Don't try to time markets. Now what I do is I set the
40:19
amount of money that I have for my card budget every month and
40:24
that amount of money goes into my card budget.
40:26
Just like I have a different budget for my retirement
40:30
investing. I have a certain amount that
40:33
every single month I put into the market.
40:37
It doesn't matter if it's at an all time high.
40:40
It doesn't matter if it's crashing.
40:42
It doesn't matter if the biggest company in the world just
40:46
announced that they're going to lay off a bunch of people.
40:48
I don't pay any attention to that.
40:51
It's called dollar cost averaging.
40:55
Sometimes I'm going to buy it really good moments and
40:58
sometimes I'm going to buy it really bad moments.
41:01
But on average, I'm going to end up average.
41:05
That's the way that I do my retirement investing.
41:10
Same amount every month regardless of what's happening.
41:13
When COVID was happening and the market was, you know, pigs were
41:18
flying into the sides of buildings.
41:20
It was raining frogs from the sky.
41:22
I was just buying and buying and buying the same dollar amount.
41:29
I didn't sell, I didn't pull money out.
41:32
I just kept doing what I'm doing.
41:36
That's the way I look at cards. I'm absolutely going to buy some
41:41
cards at a really good time. I'm absolutely going to buy some
41:44
cards at the peaks of times and the cards will go way down.
41:49
But I'm just going to buy what I want when I want it.
41:53
Sometimes when we try to outsmart the market, what we end
41:57
up doing is outsmarting ourselves.
42:00
I'm just having a good time. Now, again, I will say this too,
42:04
I don't think that you should ever use money on cards that you
42:09
can't afford to get nothing back from, right?
42:14
When I go on a vacation, I don't say, you know, as I'm buying
42:19
that $6 churro at Disneyland, I don't say I hope I get a good
42:26
return on this investment. I just enjoy it.
42:30
I just enjoy the churro. The delicious crunchy, sugary,
42:36
cinnamon, warm, melt in your mouth churro.
42:40
I just enjoy it. I don't worry about the return
42:44
because this is something I'm doing for fun.
42:48
My wife's in there emptying the dishwasher.
42:51
Bless her. I love my wife's.
42:54
I have the best wife ever. I feel sorry for everybody
42:59
watching this because my wife is better and she's so sweet.
43:04
And what I do is whenever I go in to record like this, because
43:07
I'm literally sitting on our bed, I say, hey, honey, I'm
43:11
going to go in and record for a little bit.
43:15
So just so you know, and that's my, that's my way of saying, so
43:18
don't empty the dishwasher and and bang a bunch of pans and
43:23
silverware and stuff. And then she's so sweet 'cause
43:27
she's just trying to help and, and help the family out and take
43:32
care of things for us as I'm in here on my silly YouTube channel
43:37
stuff. She's so sweet.
43:43
Love her. She just forgets.
43:45
She forgets she's the best. What was I talking about?
43:50
I've no idea. Dollar cost averaging.
43:53
Here's my thing. Don't.
43:55
There's the garbage disposal. Love that woman, man.
44:00
I love her. Love her the best.
44:08
She is the best thing. The best thing that's ever
44:11
happened to me, I know all of you who are sitting next to your
44:15
wives right now are going this guy is complaining because his
44:19
wife is emptying the dishwasher. He should he she should never
44:24
empty it again. Make you make him do it forever
44:29
now because he complaints and she's doing it.
44:31
You know what, you're probably right.
44:34
You're probably right. Dollar cost averaging.
44:40
Just just enjoy the hobby. Don't try to time the market.
44:45
You're going to have some really good buys over your life of
44:49
buying cards for the hobby. You're going to buy some stuff
44:51
when prices are super low. And you know what else?
44:55
You're going to buy some stuff when prices are super high.
44:58
And will the market crash? Absolutely.
45:01
The market is going to go down. And there's going to be a a time
45:05
in the in the in the economy where things are crashing and
45:08
people are going to have to sell things like cards to help pay
45:11
bills and people are going to have credit card debt.
45:14
And you know things are going to happen.
45:15
Absolutely. There are going to be times
45:18
where the market's going way up. There are going to be times when
45:21
the market's going way down. But if you just do your thing
45:26
and you just keep doing your thing, you have some good buys,
45:30
you'll have some bad buys, and everything will work out to be
45:35
an average buy. That's what I would do.
45:38
That's just my take. For the record, I love my wife
45:44
more than anything on earth, including myself.
45:49
I love her 100 times more than I love myself.
45:53
She's the best. If you have a question for an
45:57
upcoming episode, do not hesitate down below in the
46:01
comments. Simply ask it.
46:03
Thanks for watching everybody. Again, If you haven't bought the
46:07
book yet, down below in the description, there will also be
46:12
a link to the Amazon page where you can buy it and I'd
46:19
appreciate it. And that's all I got.