You hear it all at a card shop in Vegas
KallMaloneSay
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Today I had an interesting card collecting experience, if you could call it that. A woman called and asked if we had any cards of Greg Olson, the former Braves catcher, not the Orioles pitcher. Anyways, I told her we had a few sets from the early 90's that he was probably in, but she insisted that I make sure he was in one of them. So I went to Beckett.com and did a player search to see what cards he had, and sure enough we had a 90 Topps Traded and 90 Donruss the Rookies. She came over 10 minutes later picked up the 90 Topps Traded, but she wanted a better picture of him and was asking for early 90's Braves team photos, etc.
Obviously she was going through a lot of trouble for Greg Olson stuff, so I had to ask, figuring she knew him somehow. The story she had was good for a laugh. Her younger sister just started dating Greg Olson, who I guess is now a scout and out in Vegas to check out a few potential draft picks. The oddity is that the woman doesn't think that this guy is really Greg Olson, claiming he is going as far as to have a fake World Series ring and conning her sister, whom she's really worried about as this impostor must be a psycho-murderer in her mind. When she saw the 90 Topps Traded Olson she was convinced that this guy is not Greg Olson, although I had to explain that the picture was 14 years old and Olson had probably changed a little from the time he was 23 to 37. I then had to do a yahoo search for her on Olson and I just started having fun with it.
She thought it would be too difficult to grab his Driver's License, so I basically had to tell her to use the old "I've never seen a Georgia Driver's License, what do they look like?" routine. Anyways, does anyone happen to know the wherabouts of Greg Olson by any chance? Is he in fact a scout these days? Sorry for wasting your time if you were just looking for a thread to enhance your hobby knowledge, I just thought this was one of my more interesting encounters, topping the woman who must've thought I was a psyhciatrist rather than a card store owner and had to go into detail on how her ex-husband loved to beat women.
Jason
Obviously she was going through a lot of trouble for Greg Olson stuff, so I had to ask, figuring she knew him somehow. The story she had was good for a laugh. Her younger sister just started dating Greg Olson, who I guess is now a scout and out in Vegas to check out a few potential draft picks. The oddity is that the woman doesn't think that this guy is really Greg Olson, claiming he is going as far as to have a fake World Series ring and conning her sister, whom she's really worried about as this impostor must be a psycho-murderer in her mind. When she saw the 90 Topps Traded Olson she was convinced that this guy is not Greg Olson, although I had to explain that the picture was 14 years old and Olson had probably changed a little from the time he was 23 to 37. I then had to do a yahoo search for her on Olson and I just started having fun with it.
She thought it would be too difficult to grab his Driver's License, so I basically had to tell her to use the old "I've never seen a Georgia Driver's License, what do they look like?" routine. Anyways, does anyone happen to know the wherabouts of Greg Olson by any chance? Is he in fact a scout these days? Sorry for wasting your time if you were just looking for a thread to enhance your hobby knowledge, I just thought this was one of my more interesting encounters, topping the woman who must've thought I was a psyhciatrist rather than a card store owner and had to go into detail on how her ex-husband loved to beat women.
Jason
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<< <i>If the guy was going to lie he should have at least claimed to be Sid Bream or Derek Lilliquist. >>
She should tell her sister to date Don Mossi. I think he's still alive and even though his last card is almost 40 years old, I'm pretty sure he'd still be easy to ID.
"Hi, I'm Greg Olson. I was a catcher with the Braves back when we sucked royally. Ah yes, we were 65-97 that year..."
On the other hand, he was in The Show, which I will never be. Hmm, I changed my mind. I wish *I* was Greg Olson.
<< <i>I agree, why pretend to be Greg Olson if you're not?
"Hi, I'm Greg Olson. I was a catcher with the Braves back when we sucked royally. Ah yes, we were 65-97 that year..." >>
ok, if they sucked...
why would he have a WS ring?
(from her quote to KallMaloneSay: claiming he is going as far as to have a fake World Series ring )