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Posted by: Tarasadie17 Jul 10 2012, 01:54 PM

http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2012-07-10/baseball-cards-discovered-ty-cobb-cy-young-honus-wagner-millions?eadid=EL/SICOM&sct=hp_t2_a8

Posted by: urbanmonk Jul 10 2012, 02:04 PM

Wow, must be nice I can only dream

Posted by: 19th Century Indiana Jones Jul 10 2012, 02:16 PM

Those are REALLY NICE!!!!

Posted by: Tarasadie17 Jul 10 2012, 05:56 PM

The quality is simply amazing....

Posted by: northicehero99 Jul 10 2012, 06:08 PM

Are we sure that is not a relation to TCC Bob??? That might explain why he disappeared. just kidding. That is unbelievable, there are probably more out there somewhere, and even more that someone unknowingly just threw in the trash.

Posted by: RGBII Jul 10 2012, 06:21 PM

Thanks for the link, Mr. Cogle.

I saw this earlier today on another site and wrote this in response
to some naysayers of our fine Hobby.

"Folks, I have been in this fine Hobby for 41 years.

I have seen it from the Collectors point-of-view, the
vendor at small town card shows point-of-view, the appraiser of a recently widowed wife's point-of view, the employee of a sports & memorabilia shops point-of-view (6 years) and the manager of a sports card trading site with 30,000+ members.

These kind of stories still, to this day, warm my heart.

Granted, it's just cardboard with pictures of men on them. You have to understand the true collector also has a deep, abiding love of the game of Baseball. The history, the epic stories of achievement and failure, the perfection of 60 feet - 6 inches and 90 feet between the bases, the smell and sight of freshly mowed green grass . . .

I could ramble on endlessly. None of you fine readers deserve that.

What a thrill the Heritage Auction with this lot will be. I will be following it closely. 16 E98 Ty Cobbs graded 9, un-flippin'-believable!"

Collect Hard!,
RGBII

Posted by: road_runner_1964 Jul 10 2012, 06:42 PM

Some of those things look brand new. If only.....

Posted by: ffman Jul 10 2012, 09:26 PM

That is simply amazing!

Posted by: Tarasadie17 Jul 11 2012, 07:23 AM

Well, went through the attic this morning and wouldn't you know it.... nothing.

Posted by: Gadsden86 Jul 11 2012, 07:48 AM

That is just amazing. Wish i could get 1/2 that lucky and find my dads cards from the late 50's and 60's he says are somewhere in thier house.

Posted by: Tarasadie17 Jul 11 2012, 12:45 PM

ummmm.... what was that address again?

Posted by: RGBII Jul 11 2012, 04:43 PM

Check out the close-up of the Wagner . . .


Un-flippin'-believable!

Collect Hard!,
RGBII

Posted by: ffman Jul 11 2012, 05:06 PM

I see Santa is in the house; plan on buying one of these for a TCC giveaway?

Posted by: 5toosweet Jul 14 2012, 12:53 PM

Thats awesome!!!!

Its a great idea to showcase it at the National. Kinda regret not making plans to go now. lol

Posted by: edgerrin32 Jul 14 2012, 02:24 PM

How did my collection get to OHIO? O wait, how did I get to Illinois? I need to be reunited with my collection again, maybe we could meet half way, say Indiana?

Posted by: Iplayfootball_90 Aug 4 2012, 11:43 AM

I saw where the lot got $566,132 at auction.


Kinda surprised they didn't go for more, but they were only estimated to get $500k.

Incredible.

Posted by: dodgerblue38501 Aug 4 2012, 11:11 PM

Is that all? I really though some high roller with a big bank account and bigger ego would pay way more than that. Still not a bad haul for something you found that you didn't even know was there.

Posted by: Iplayfootball_90 Aug 5 2012, 06:16 AM

If I read the article right, that's it. I was a bit shocked as well, I was expected it to get to at least 800k.