Jeff Stahler for August 30, 2022

That’s what? Three levels of indirection?

Sad that in our world that is a goal.

…or maybe a Most Wanted poster.

For those who missed the story, a Mickey Mantle rookie card (1952) in near mint condition just sold for $12.6 million.

My goal is to be rich enough to throw money around like that.

This generation wants it all but doesn’t want to work for it.

Sports is way over rated….a % of players are criminal….

And to think the kids worship them….what’s wrong with this picture?

I’ll see your Mickey Mantle rookie card with an autographed game program of the Indianapolis Racers by some kid named Gretzky. Wayne Gretzky.

My mother sold our (mine/brother’s) boxes of cards (football, baseball and basketball) from the early 70s at the recycling center because my younger brother had done something wrong. My eight year old self was distraught and thought it completely unfair. Current me wonders how much those cards would have be worth now. Oh, well; I guess stories like that are why cards that remain have “value”.

Well, if he lacks any other goals, that’s a start.

Schroeder: What do you mean Beethoven wasn’t so great?

Lucy Van Pelt: He never got his picture on a bubble gum card. Have you ever seen his picture on a bubble gum card? Hmmm? How can you say someone is great who’s never had his picture on a bubble gum card?

(From A Charlie Brown Christmas – 1965.)

I had that card and my mother threw it away.

Then you’d better pick a sport, hope you have the physical talent that will get you on a sports card. That said, you might be dead before it’s really worth a lot of money, so you may never actually see it become a valuable piece of sports memorabilia.

Memories of what somebody else did. Where’s the value?