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If you won the lottery, would you buy a Honus Wagner?

HoneyBadgerHoneyBadger Posts: 152
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I don't think I'd buy any cards with it! I'd get my own jet and sports team!
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  • CollectorAtWorkCollectorAtWork Posts: 859 ✭✭✭
    I actually was thinking about this earlier today, if I won the MegaMillions (yeah, right!), what I would buy. I would get a 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth, a Ruth jersey and a bat (and not the shards, the entire thing). And probably be a signed ball, too.
    Babe Ruth Master Set
    Lou Gehrig Master Set
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  • Mat84Mat84 Posts: 63 ✭✭
    If I took the whole Mega Mil jackpot I would seriously consider trying to own one. If I only won a 6 million dollar split I might have to settle for a Plank. In the last 30 years has anyone lost money on these uber expensive cards? It seems like a safe investment.
  • Probstein123Probstein123 Posts: 1,281 ✭
    yes
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  • miconelegacymiconelegacy Posts: 3,052 ✭
    I would, nice hard asset to own. Don't think they are going down in value anytime soon.
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  • pmcollectourpmcollectour Posts: 1,211 ✭
    It would be tempting, but I think I'd pass on the Wagner and get some nice gold coins instead.
  • jivanjivan Posts: 1,009 ✭
    no, i would by all the mo vaughn's i can find
    always looking for 1969 graded basketball
  • thunderdanthunderdan Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭
    Absolutely.
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  • lifeshouldbefunlifeshouldbefun Posts: 431
    Every one that came up for sale/auction. EVERY SINGLE ONE
  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
    If you won the lottery, would you buy a Honus Wagner?

    Nope

    I already have one
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  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭
    yes
    Fred

    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    For sure.
  • RookieWaxRookieWax Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭
    yes...and every unopened pack or box from 1985 or older that went up for sale.
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,871 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No. No matter how much money I had, I could not bring myself to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a baseball card.

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  • cpamikecpamike Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭


    << <i>No. No matter how much money I had, I could not bring myself to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a baseball card. >>



    Exactly what I was thinking.

    I won't be happy if RookieWax wins though. I might as well close my eBay account then. image
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  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,999 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No
    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
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  • prthdprthd Posts: 1,323
    I think I would pass on the Wagner. Spread out the money out on a few dozen items rather than one single card. High grade '52 Topps Mantle, I would have a mural painted of the '53 Bowman Pee Wee Reese color (one of my favorite cards of all time) on a wall in my new man cave. Somehwere in storage is the old Chief Wahoo that hung on the side of the old stadium. I think this would make a nice lawn decoration all lit up with new neon lighting. Yeah thats a start.
    Looking for 1950 Bowman football PSA 7's
  • JustinsShoeboxJustinsShoebox Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭
    Think I'd find better ways to spend the money. Cards would not be the first things on my mind.

    Justin
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  • firedawg45firedawg45 Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭
    only if i can upgrade from my psa 2 wagner!!!
    # 2 Pete Rose Master Set , also
    collecting 1977 topps baseball in psa 9 and psa 10
  • illinifan912illinifan912 Posts: 1,462 ✭
    I would buy the psa 8 and review it to try and get a 8.5
  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
    I'd have no skin in that particular game

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  • brendanb438brendanb438 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭
    $10 towards Mega Million tickets. If I win I am taking the lump sum payout, buying a 3rd world country, then pretending I am the US government and I will see what it is like to destroy a country from within.
  • Bigjohn69Bigjohn69 Posts: 737
    nope,,, i would consider upgrading to a double wide though,, lol
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  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    If I won the lottery I would do my best to get a cure for cancer. I really wouldn't take more than I need to live "comfortably", the rest would go to charities of sorts. I'd probably put some $ to the side to help out aspiring small business owners and some patent ideas as well.
  • BearDownChicagoBearsBearDownChicagoBears Posts: 81
    If I won the 540 million I would also buy a 1952 Mantle in addition to a Wagner.
  • robbiegiggsrobbiegiggs Posts: 315 ✭✭
    Yep, you betcha!
  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    No, i'd buy two
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
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  • JoeBanzaiJoeBanzai Posts: 12,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    First pay off the house and bank enough to retire.

    Yes, also the 51 Bowman Mantle and 53 Bowman color Musial, Aaron rookie, Babe Ruth card (not sure which one) and rookies of all the 500 Home Run "club".

    Joe
    2013,14 and 15 Certificate Award Winner Harmon Killebrew Master Set and Master Topps Set
  • CDC4CDC4 Posts: 276
    It's not a matter of if it's a matter of how many wagners I'd buy. lol.
    Buying 1957 Baseball PSA 8 or higher. Especially Checklists, and Contest Cards. Topps1957psa8set@aol.com
  • miconelegacymiconelegacy Posts: 3,052 ✭


    << <i>If I won the lottery I would do my best to get a cure for cancer. I really wouldn't take more than I need to live "comfortably", the rest would go to charities of sorts. I'd probably put some $ to the side to help out aspiring small business owners and some patent ideas as well. >>



    Best answer in this thread! image
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  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    I wouldn't buy the Wagner because I have zero interest in it. But, I would go bananas buying cards from 1948-56.
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  • georgebailey2georgebailey2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭
    No interest in Wagner.

    I'd start doing drugs.....the registry drugs.

    Mike Schmidt, Bernie Parent, Reggie Jackson, Terry Sawchuk, Wayne Gretzky, and about a half dozen sets.
  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    Buy a 1952 Topps Set all graded 8
    1933 and 1934 Goudey set best I can get.
    Buy a Big house in Arizona or New Mexico.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
    I'll tell you tomorrow.
    I am buying and trading for RC's of Wilt Chamberlain, George Mikan, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West, and Bob Cousy!
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  • 1960toppsguy1960toppsguy Posts: 1,127 ✭✭
    NO
  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would not buy a wagner, but would probably try to complete every set Topps and Bowman set ever made in high grades. Then take a lot of vacations.
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  • prthdprthd Posts: 1,323


    << <i>no way. we already have one. and ours is an "unreleased version."

    - John Cobb and Ray Edwards

    image >>



    What is this?
    Looking for 1950 Bowman football PSA 7's
  • trextrex Posts: 179
    No!
  • Hank36Hank36 Posts: 175 ✭✭
    I can see buying it for investment purposes if there is a reasonable prospect that the card will appreciate in value, but I wouldn't get any particular satisfaction from owning a card which would also require a significant inventment to ensure its safety and security. When I was a kid, I remember being fascinated by a card valued at $1,500, and while I find the history of the card fascinating, the notion today of simply owning a card with little more attachment to it than a basic understanding that it is a difficult card to acquire, or is worth a lot of money, just doesn't provide me with any particular collecting satisfaction.
  • hammeredhammered Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭
    I'd buy my own printing press and flood the market with high quality counterfeit '82 All Star Wrestling cards
  • thedutymonthedutymon Posts: 4,323 ✭
    Morning,

    No, I might name my Yaht Honus Wagner but that's as close as I'd ever need to be to some worthless overpriced Baseball Card !! Actually no I wouldn't be naming my Yaht that, it would be "URNVSofalltheNakedChicks"

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  • cardsnbeadscardsnbeads Posts: 870
    If I won I would buy a Ruth Autographed Ball and a Gehrig Autographed Ball first. To me that is my dream items. The Honus Wagner card is the most overrated card of all-time outside of 1952 Topps Mantle. I would rather feed starving children instead of dropping that kind of money on a card. I never like the Pirates. I would start a group of investors to buy the Buffalo Bills and keep them in Western New York after Ralph Wilson dies.
  • tigerdeantigerdean Posts: 910 ✭✭✭
    I would buy, oh nevermind, one of my crazy 13u baseball players moms found one of my posts on CU when she was trying to check out my background, she is probably still watching image
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,174 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>no way. we already have one. and ours is an "unreleased version."

    - John Cobb and Ray Edwards

    image >>



    What is this? >>


    LOL, you're not familiar with their story? These guys are a couple scammers that have a "Wagner" that they claim is legit but they won't allow any reputable company to grade. They've tried to auction it and they cry racism at anybody that says it's fake. Got a lot of play in the book "The Card", which is a history of the Wagner T-206.

    Tabe
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,174 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wouldn't buy a Wagner. But I WOULD probably buy the highest grade T-3 Ty Cobb I could find.

    Other than that, not sure how many cards I'd buy. Maybe finish a few sets I've been working on but that's about it.

    My money would go into a house (w/movie theater, arcade, and indoor pool), college money for the nieces and nephews, a couple cars, some nice vacations, and a bunch of jerseys (not game-worns) for me to wear.

    Tabe
  • prthdprthd Posts: 1,323
    What are they holding in the middle picture. Are these the guys from that new show on tv? The card looks like someone bought a reprint and soaked it in coffee overnight. What grading company is that?
    Looking for 1950 Bowman football PSA 7's
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would finally be able to complete my Mario Mendoza registery
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  • HoneyBadgerHoneyBadger Posts: 152
    I didn't win but I'd still like to buy the Wagner up for auction!
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭
    If I won, I surely wouldnt announce it on any message board. Id also keep my purchases quite. Maybe share small things here and there. But yeah, if I won a huge lottery, I would look to buy a Wagner.
  • thunderdanthunderdan Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I would finally be able to complete my Mario Mendoza registery >>



    If I won the lottery, and had a dog that looked like yours, I'd search high and low for a canine orthodontist and pay that man some moolah to do his thang.
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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think the only card I would really like to buy if I won the lottery would be a 1975 topps George Brett PSA 10.
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