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frankhardyfrankhardy Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭✭✭
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There have been instances where I have been wrong. Of course, those instances are very few and far between, but it does happen. What were you wrong about when it comes to sports or sports cards?

I was wrong about Vince Coleman breaking Lou Brock's stolen base record.

I was wrong about Mark McGwire being clean (though I am right about Pujols image ).

I was wrong about Ron Mercer being a star in the NBA.

I was wrong about thinking that my late 80's and 90's card collection would be "worth something someday". (didn't we all think that?)

I was wrong about thinking that the WNBA wouldn't last 2 years.

I was wrong about Michael Jordan being a nice, humble guy.

I was wrong when I was about 13 for trading a 1960 and 1961 Topps Mantle for a bunch of modern (late 80's) junk.

I'm sure I can think of one or two more.

Shane

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  • iahawks55000000iahawks55000000 Posts: 46
    I was wrong in 1983 about getting rich off my Wade Boggs cards

    I was wrong about thinking Dwight Gooden was going to be the best pitcher in the modern era

    I was wrong about trading my late 50's baseball and football HOF'ers from 1975 Topps cards

    I was wrong about 1980's cards in general....
  • larryallen73larryallen73 Posts: 6,069 ✭✭✭
    Nothing yet but I am only forty-something. Give me time.

    image
  • AFLfanAFLfan Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was wrong about my Chargers winning the Super Bowl last season.

    And the season before that...

    And the season before that...

    And the season before that...

    And many, many other things.
    Todd Tobias - Grateful Collector - I focus on autographed American Football League sets, Fleer & Topps, 1960-1969, and lacrosse cards.
  • HallcoHallco Posts: 3,676 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I was wrong for relying too much on Beckett price guides when buying cards in the early 90s! Although...in most cases, I do still love the overpriced cards I bought.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    WRONG!!!!!!!!
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • theczartheczar Posts: 1,590 ✭✭
    though I am right about Pujols ).

    the jury is still out on that one. let's just say innocent until proven guilty.

    for me i was wrong
    that 1990 upper deck french hockey would be a great investment
    the stock market still had room to fall in march 2009
    some rookie senator whose only experience in life was being a community activist could knock off the clinton machine in the 2008 democratic primaries/caucauses
    people will stop going to movies starring will ferrell or steve carrell
    rachel maddow's gender. i thought rachel was a man for many years. my bad
    brett favre has some class
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>I was wrong in 1983 about getting rich off my Wade Boggs cards >>



    I imagine his cards are 2000x now what they were in '83. He's no Ron Kittle (who was a $5-10 RC at the time).
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • iahawks55000000iahawks55000000 Posts: 46


    << <i>

    << <i>I was wrong in 1983 about getting rich off my Wade Boggs cards >>



    I imagine his cards are 2000x now what they were in '83. He's no Ron Kittle (who was a $5-10 RC at the time). >>



    I think I paid $1-2 a pop during the 1983 season for about 50 of his cards. They were priced slightly below Sandberg and slightly above Willie McGee.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>

    << <i>I was wrong in 1983 about getting rich off my Wade Boggs cards >>



    I imagine his cards are 2000x now what they were in '83. He's no Ron Kittle (who was a $5-10 RC at the time). >>



    I think I paid $1-2 a pop during the 1983 season for about 50 of his cards. They were priced slightly below Sandberg and slightly above Willie McGee. >>




    Alright....1500x. That's pretty good.


    Edit to add I was thinkiing % above, as I usually do in turns of value change.

    Maybe not so interesting to anyone, McGee sold for more then Boggs here in Kansas...but we are pretty close to St. Louis.
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,629 ✭✭✭✭
    I was wrong in thinking that Barry Sanders would definitely unretire one day. Man he broke my heart.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,179 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I was wrong about my Chargers winning the Super Bowl last season.

    And the season before that...

    And the season before that...

    And the season before that...

    And many, many other things. >>





    Me Too!!!!! imageimage

    Steve
  • jivanjivan Posts: 1,009 ✭
    i was wrong about milli vanilli not lip syncing
    always looking for 1969 graded basketball
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    I was wrong when:

    1. Back in the 80s, while I was doing some local card shows, another seller tried to sell me his JUNK WAX every week. I think he was getting $12 - $15 per box and he offered me all his JUNK for $10.00 per box. He HAD to have 10+ cases of this crap. But I was no fool ... NO WAY was he going to sucker ME into paying TEN BUCKS per wax box of 1986 Fleer Basketball Cards!!!!!

    2. Because of all the money I saved from NOT buying the above JUNK, I proceeded to buy about ten cases of 1988 Donruss and Fleer baseball products. BOY, they eventually made some great firewood!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • Carew29Carew29 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭

    i was wrong about jose canseco....even though he still is a jerk
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Nothing, I'm never wrong.


    image


    Steve
    Good for you.
  • MeteoriteGuyMeteoriteGuy Posts: 7,140 ✭✭
    "I was wrong about Vince Coleman breaking Lou Brock's stolen base record."

    When Coleman was at his best it was wild. The whole stadium and everyone, pitcher, dugouts, everyone would be watching him. Waiting for him to move....there was just no way to stop the guy. But Coleman just being on base had to help the couple guys behind because it was SO distracting. Almost a take a breath....Coleman is on base. (Or maybe it is just that I was around 12 in '86).
    Collecting PSA graded Steve Young, Marcus Allen, Bret Saberhagen and 1980s Topps Cards.
    Raw: Tony Gonzalez (low #'d cards, and especially 1/1's) and Steve Young.
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭
    I was wrong about Jeff George about being the next big thing. (anyone want a whole bunch of his rookies)

    I was wrong about the whole 1988ish -1990ish sportscard collecting thing.

    I was right about trading my entire binder of 1989-1990 football rookie cards for 1- 1986 Jerry Rice Rookie. (It was a tought trade for me then, one that I thought I woulg regret later)
    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken...
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭
    "Two wrongs don't make a right" - Well, it just so happens that two wrongs do make a right. Not only that, but as the number of wrongs increases, the whole thing goes up exponentially. So that while two wrongs make one right, and four wrongs make two rights, it actually takes sixteen wrongs to make three rights, and 256 wrongs to make four rights. It seems to me that anyone who is stringing together 256 wrongs needs counseling, not mathematics.

    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My coins collected as a kid would be worth way more money than my cards in the future.

    Just the opposite. LOL
  • stevekstevek Posts: 30,277 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>My coins collected as a kid would be worth way more money than my cards in the future.

    Just the opposite. LOL >>



    Heck, I even thought my postage stamp collection would be worth more than the cards. LOL
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭


    << <i>"Two wrongs don't make a right" - Well, it just so happens that two wrongs do make a right. Not only that, but as the number of wrongs increases, the whole thing goes up exponentially. So that while two wrongs make one right, and four wrongs make two rights, it actually takes sixteen wrongs to make three rights, and 256 wrongs to make four rights. It seems to me that anyone who is stringing together 256 wrongs needs counseling, not mathematics. >>



    And four rights puts you right back where you started from . . .
  • gregm13gregm13 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭
    I was wrong about not buying 1997 UD Legends when it was $6 a blister pack at Wal Mart back in 1997....
    I was wrong about buying every rookie card of Travis Henry...
    I was wrong about cornering the market on Steve Avery rookie cards....
    Collecting vintage auto'd fb cards and Dan Marino cards!!

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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭
    I was wrong when I skipped over The Incredible Hulk #187 and instead bought Richie Rich Dollars & Cents #95........
  • al032184al032184 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭
    It's not sports related, but I was wrong about Sirius Satellite Radio.. SIRI
  • bbuckner22bbuckner22 Posts: 1,028 ✭
    I was wrong to open an 8 track player repair shop last year.
    From what I can tell, 707 is the DOLLAR STORE compared to deans_cards. For what that guy charges, if I ever bought anything from him I would expect it to be delivered to me in a frickin' limo.
    ~WalterSobchak
  • WalterSobchakWalterSobchak Posts: 2,096
    1. Thinking that buying Ben McDonald, Marquis Grissom, and Delino DeShields RC's in bulk was a good idea.

    2. Thinking that 1989 Bowman cards would be more valuable than other issues in the future because the irregular size would be so irritating to collectors that few would bother with them, thus making them scarce, thus making them valuable.
    'Sir, I realize it's been difficult for you to sleep at night without your EX/MT 1977 Topps Tom Seaver, but I swear to you that you'll get it safe and sound.'
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    *1956 Topps baseball- 97.4% complete, 7.24 GPA
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  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    I was wrong about not starting my HOF signed rookie card collection 20 years ago, when a lot more players were alive, signing fees were a LOT more reasonable, and most of the big vintage names were a lot cheaper for the raw card.

    I was especially wrong for setting up at a show that had both Willie Stargell and Kirby Puckett as autograph guests, getting several items signed by each, and not getting a Stargell rookie or Puckett Fleer Update rookie signed. Both those cards have been VERY elusive for me to find now.

    Mike
    Buying US Presidential autographs
  • hotmushhotmush Posts: 657
    At a card show in 85 I sold six Mario Lemieux OPC rookies for $2.50 each. Didn't know much about hockey at the time. Wrong about that. Also wrong about baseball OPC vs. hockey OPC in general. I saved my money at age 14 and bought a CASE of 1985 OPC baseball cards. They sell for about $35 a box now. But hockey? Well if I had bought hockey...
    Definitely wrong about that.
    Oh, and Kevin Maas. Always Kevin Maas.
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  • ROCKDJRWROCKDJRW Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭
    Cade McNown
    Eddy Curry
    Darius Miles
    I bought ProSet instead of Score football in 89.
    I'm generally an idiot.
    Collect Ozzie Guillen Cards
    Unique Chicago Cards
    Wrestling Cards
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>I was especially wrong for setting up at a show that had both Willie Stargell and Kirby Puckett as autograph guests, getting several items signed by each, and not getting a Stargell rookie or Puckett Fleer Update rookie signed. Both those cards have been VERY elusive for me to find now. Mike >>



    Back in the 80'smost people would get the SECOND year card autographed, because we thought a rookie card would be LESS valuable if you had a signature on it!!!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • KneelKneel Posts: 160
    I'm always right... even when i'm wrong, i'm right! image
  • DeutscherGeistDeutscherGeist Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭✭
    I was wrong about the 80s rookie cards increasing in value. There are many out there that I am sure I can now buy much cheaper than ever before.

    1987 Donruss David Cone--paid like $9 each for PSA 9s
    1988 Topps Traded Jim Abbott--paid $7 each for raw
    1988 Fleer Tom Glavine--paid $5 each for raw
    1987 Donruss Barry Bonds--paid $4 each for raw
    1983 Topps Wade Boggs--paid $50 each for PSA 9s

    ......
    I bought bunches of those cards, which makes it all the more painful. Now, I still collect 80s star cards, but I no longer try to corner the market on any of them. 2 examples of each card are more than enough (I go for one graded and one raw in my collection).
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  • toc1000toc1000 Posts: 95
    Wrong on Mike Greenwell and Bobby Bonilla.

    But then again, I was still a pre-teen and not yet any judge of talent or value.



  • GarabaldiGarabaldi Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭
    I was wrong to hold onto any of my cards when a player is "Hot", knowing that in a year or so I can get them usually for half the price. Maybe not half but alot less.
    I was wrong to hold onto the crap in the mid 80's to the early 90's.
  • Adenhart34Adenhart34 Posts: 90
    According to my wife, "everything"

    According to me:

    Dallas McPherson would be the 2005 Rookie of the Year.

    I'm sure there are many others, but that's all I can think of now.


    Rick
    Buying or trading for Cubs, Angels autos and anything related to Nick Adenhart! ****RIP NA 34****
  • ElToroLocoElToroLoco Posts: 914 ✭
    1.I was wrong about NOT taking an individuals advice and investing in Apple in the mid nineties at $14 a share.....

    2.I was wrong when my cousin mentioned his company was working on a new music player that would change the way we listen to it..I laughed...after all..what could be better than a CD player?

    3.Did I mention my cousin worked for Apple and gave me the advice in #1?

    4.I was wrong about gold being overvalued at $400 an ounce.

    5.I was wrong in 2007 when my mother recommended I invest $10,000 in her company at $8 per share....it's pushing $40 image

    However, I was right when I felt the .com boom was ridiculous.....and real estate was overvalued.....
  • bobwillerbobwiller Posts: 19
    Becoming a Buffalo Bills fan....
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  • BugOnTheRugBugOnTheRug Posts: 1,611 ✭✭✭
    That the pittsburgh pirates will win another world series in my lifetime.
  • summerof68summerof68 Posts: 748 ✭
    I was wrong back in 2002 when I assumed unopened baseball packs from the late '60s & early '70s had to be rare....

    .....then someone told me about "the Fritsch hoard".
    "You tell 'em I'm coming...and hell's coming with me"--Wyatt Earp
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    i think it was the night i turned twenty-one.

    i figured i could just drink my way straight through until i turned twenty-two.

    boy, was i wrong. image
  • summerof68summerof68 Posts: 748 ✭
    I was wrong when I thought Maris's record would never be broken...

    ...turns out I wasn't wrong afterall.
    "You tell 'em I'm coming...and hell's coming with me"--Wyatt Earp
  • dontippetdontippet Posts: 2,615 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"I was wrong about Vince Coleman breaking Lou Brock's stolen base record."

    When Coleman was at his best it was wild. The whole stadium and everyone, pitcher, dugouts, everyone would be watching him. Waiting for him to move....there was just no way to stop the guy. But Coleman just being on base had to help the couple guys behind because it was SO distracting. Almost a take a breath....Coleman is on base. (Or maybe it is just that I was around 12 in '86). >>



    I loved to watch those guys do the double steal. I think Coleman always had a green light to steal second, and I wonder if he also had a continuous green light to steel third.
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    I was wrong to think that my box of World's Best Guineas marbles were worthless. I gave them to the pizza delivery guy as a tip a few weeks ago.
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