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Ever wish you could go back to 1952?
TheCARDKid
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This photo is in the current Lelands auction. Wow!!
Does anyone want to chip in a for a few packs? The uncut sheets aren't bad either...
Does anyone want to chip in a for a few packs? The uncut sheets aren't bad either...
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Mark
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<< <i>Ever wish you could go back to 1952? >>
I'm working on my DeLorean as we speak. Anyone have a spare flux capacitor?
Cool pic. I'd love to walk into a place that looked like that..."Excuse me sir, how much are the boxes? $1.50 each you say? I'll take them all."
Hey, a guy can dream can't he?
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Say a current box "wholesales" at $50 k. A cool 6 million in cards!
The auction description said it's from a Woolworths in the Bronx.
Linky...
mike
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But a great shot nonetheless...can only imagine all those fresh, crispy cards waiting to be discovered.
This thread got me thinking...always a dangerous proposition.
1. You can go to any coin shop and pick up a 1934 series $500.00 or $1,000.00 bill with ease.
That takes care of the money issue.
2. The flux capacitor? I've emailed Stephen Hawking and he's working on it.
But other ramifications, if you somehow hoarded all the 1952 Mantles, would all the Mantles
in present day disappear from the collections they are presently in?
Has Topps ever revealed the print run on the 1952 set?
/s/ JackWESQ
There is the story about the '52 high numbers, they got them out too late and got stuck with a lot of them, so Sy went out in a boat to Long Island sound and dumped them in the ocean.
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<< <i>Print runs were always a big secret with Topps- Sy Berger was asked and never told, to the best of my knowledge. He did mention a total amount of cards printed in the mid '70's, but that included all sports and non sports.
There is the story about the '52 high numbers, they got them out too late and got stuck with a lot of them, so Sy went out in a boat to Long Island sound and dumped them in the ocean.
i'm diving off of the robert moses causeway tomorrow ! come on mickey talk to me ! was it the sound or the ocean? let me know it's a large area. i think i can pick up some pro 10's or at least 9's after being submerged for 53 years in salt water. matrix
Lets say...
In 1952, some little boy walked into the store and said "Oh wow!" and ran to get his dad so he could buy some baseball cards. The kid's dad is next door at the hat shop. Dad decides that his boy has been a good boy, and skips buying a new hat and walks over to buy his boy some cards. He passes a rather upset looking man on the way out, but doesn't think anything of it.
Lets say that you go back in time and clean out that whole store of it's Topps cards....
In 1952, the little boy walks into the store, doesn't see anything interesting and lingers by the comic book rack while his dad is next door at the hat shop. The dad doesn't really see anything he likes, but figures he'll buy a particular hat anyways, then walks over to get his boy.
Well, that particular hat was exactly what an upset looking man was looking for. It's not there anymore. Being especially ticked off that someone bought his hat, he recalled seeing a man walk out of the store wearing the hat he wanted, goes over and finds him in the grocery store, pulls a gun, and shoots the dad in the face, grabs the hat, and runs, just to be gunned down by the cops in the street. The little boy is scarred for life and ends up in a mental institution where he later commites suicide. That little boy was your dad!
Your greed for cards and misuse of time travel equipment has just erased you from existence. Congratulations.
Your best bet, go back in time, sneak into the warehouse where Sy Berger kept the cards he was about to destroy, and take them all, replacing them with the appropriate weight in blank paper. Sy dumps all the "cards", and you are now in possession of something that was supposed to have been destroyed. No one misses them, and no one gets hurt.... until you unleash your horde of minty fresh 1952 Topps cards into the market, and the pop reports explode.
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Your greed for cards and misuse of time travel equipment has just erased you from existence. Congratulations"
but if my dad committed suicide in the mental hospital as a little boy i wouldn't know i wasn't born anyway. by the way , where did the hat end up?
matrix
1) cease to exist and vanish, leaving a big pile of baseball cards where you once stood, ase well as a crowd of shocked on-lookers..
2) Arrive in the “present” and have no family, no home, no history, no friends, etc. However, maybe you could re-invent yourself with the millions you make from your baseball cards.
The hat? Hmm. Maybe it’s the same hat that Dr Who wears?
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So if you bought them all, you'd be the only one who appreciates them, and that wouldn't do much for their value.
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<< <i>As a nerd, I've contemplated the ramifications of time-travel many times. Too risky....q]
You have watched the "Butterfly Effect" too many times.....
....at least it was a post with some thought behind it
Or maybe I'd just be childhood friends with Angelina Jolie or Heidi Klum...
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<< <i>Look, isn't the destruction of the space-time continuum a small price to pay for the glory of chewing that gum with a mint Mantle in hand???? >>
Yes, but if you did go back it time and were chewing gum with the Mick in hand you'd probably be wishing you could go back to '33 and be chewing gum with the Babe in hand!
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<< <i>2. The flux capacitor? I've emailed Stephen Hawking and he's working on it. >>
I believe you better talk to Dr. Emmet Brown first.
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<< <i>Look, isn't the destruction of the space-time continuum a small price to pay for the glory of chewing that gum with a mint Mantle in hand???? >>
Yes, but if you did go back it time and were chewing gum with the Mick in hand you'd probably be wishing you could go back to '33 and be chewing gum with the Babe in hand! >>
Why bother going back any further? In 1952 you could have the best of both worlds. You could buy current 1952 packs AND ask around to see if anybody has any OLD (T206's, Goudeys, etc..) boxes of baseball cards sitting in their closets that they are too lazy to drag out to the garbage can.
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P.S.- I'm really starting to enjoy this thread.
That photo kinda goes nicely with the book I'm reading by Roger Kahn...."The Boys of Summer"....not really the same year, but still good vintage baseball!
Due to over-production from Topps in 52', I wished i was the one that could have stopped them from dumping hundred's of cases in the Harbor. Wonder how many Mantle's are still floating around at the bottom.
You ain't kiddin - I've lived the nightmare since '85!