Are You a Baseball Fan? 

"CounterTorqueSteer" (countertorquesteer) 09/18/2015 at 17:44 • Filed to: Woah

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Then take a gander at a VERY small sampling of one of the most amazing private baseball collections I’ve ever seen. It all belongs to a good friend of mine. He’s moving and has to pack up everything. The highlights for me are the uncut sheets of completely mint Mickey Mantle cards.

CB > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 17:46

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The best I can do is 73 cents and a blue M&M.

StingrayJake > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 17:52

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That’s nice.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 17:52

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That’s a pretty awesome collection. This is all I got

sebdel > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 17:55

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I know nothing about baseball, but I feel I could listen to that guy talk about every item in his collection for hours. Nice collection.

Sam > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 18:00

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Nice. Also, that carpet looks like 90’s movie theatre carpet.

CounterTorqueSteer > sebdel 09/18/2015 at 18:03

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Thats exactly right. He has a great story, for everything. What's amazing is that so many of them are personal, such as him hanging out with Hank Aaron after doing a commercial shoot.

CounterTorqueSteer > Sam 09/18/2015 at 18:05

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That’s EXACTLY right. This portion of the collection was kept in his home theatre room...built in the 90’s

Sam > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 18:11

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Boom. I kinda figured. That’s the only place a pattern like that could work, a room that has the lights turned down 90% of the time.

sebdel > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 18:17

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See, I don’t know who Hank Aaron is but sounds like a cool story. I wasn’t exagerating whe I said I know nothing about baseball.
The passion behind sports is something I really like.

itschrome > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 18:41

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the thing I wonder about stuff like baseball cards and pop art related items, is at what point does the value stop being relative to the item and more based nostalgia and kitsch appeal of it?

I mean take mickey mantle for instance. I know he was great because my father told me he was great. he grew up with him. He was an old man by the time I was born. he’s but a memory passed on to me. What about my children and their children. Will those generations give a shit that those cards have mickey mantle on them? Will their value be based at all on the man him self or will it have moved on to a more art based evaluation. That’s how I feel mostly about old cars, no one can say an old muscle car is worth six figures because of performance and capabilities when most of them can’t compete with a mid level family sedan from today in that aspect. How ever, they are great pieces of art! For that reason I understand the high figures on some of those cars. in other words they are desirable because of what they represent more than what they are.

so yeah at what point i wonder this sort of thing begins with memorabilia such as this collect. Is it valuable because of who the items represent or because of what they represent.

DrJohannVegas > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 20:59

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grumble, grumble...the Yankees stink...grumble, grumble

Seriously, though, that’s an awesome collection, if that’s even just a taste of it.

XJDano > CounterTorqueSteer 09/18/2015 at 23:01

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I don’t have much baseball stuff but entire season sets of Topps for 89,90,91 in plastic still I found in a house to be demolished.

This guys stuff does remind me of a dentist in the suburb I grew up in that had an old house for a office then had his memorabilia in the upstairs of all cardinals stuff. The house caught fire & most all of it was ruined or damaged.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/met…

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > CounterTorqueSteer 09/19/2015 at 01:35

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I’m not really into bbaseball like I used to be, at all, but memorabilia still gets me. To me, there is nothing comparable to the smell of fresh cut grass, oiled glove leather and diamond dirt on a warm summer morning. Throw in some old tyme photos and I’ll spend all day on memory lane even though I was born in the 80's.