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MICHAELDIXON
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David,
I heard you have or had a complete set of certified baseball cards from 1910 to the present. Do you collect baseball cards or is this one of those urban legands?
I heard you have or had a complete set of certified baseball cards from 1910 to the present. Do you collect baseball cards or is this one of those urban legands?
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From 1984 or so to 1997 I put together a near complete set of 1948 to 1957 baseball, football, and basketball cards. I sold the set for about a million dollars in 1997/98...my cost was about $650,000...a mediocre profit at best for the time and work involved. As it turns out, I sold way early as just after I sold the market for super high grade PSA cards went through the roof. Some dealers have told me that my collection would bring $4 or $5 million today. Oh well...it's just dirty green paper, it can't buy happiness.
I did thoroughly enjoy my collection, but some PSA detractors were gripping about my owning the grading service and collecting the cards, so I sold everything. The dealers who sold me a lot of cards weren't very happy as I was a pretty big fish for super high grade goodies.
David
PS...There was one good thing that came out of this. I got the idea for the Set Registry by keeping track of the average grade of my individual card sets and comparing those averages with other top sets I knew about.