I have the 1947 Clev Indians baseball signed with Tris Speaker Hall of fame on the sweet part of the ball.. Bob Feller and I think 3 more HOF's players are on it. Tris was a coach of the Clev Indians back then . I Bought it for $5 at a airshow market in Rhinebeck NY in the late 60's. I also have 5 Mickey Mantles that I had him sign at 2 baseball card shows. A few Richie Asburn and Mike Schmidt's,Larry Bowa, Greg Luzinki's ,Yogi Berra Ralph Terry, Whitey Ford ''
I collected baseball cards and in a converse sneaker shoe box I put all my most valuable baseball cards the 1956 '57 '58 MVP s Aaron Mays Ted Williams, Mickey and many Yankees etc Then when off to college but mothers all over the US cleaned their kids closets out and threw baseball cards out. Many card experts say the reason those 50 and 60's card are priced so high today is because mothers threw out cards that today have made them rare.. But I had about 20 rubber bands around my converse shoe box but my mother threw 1,000 of cards out she felt the runner bands meant this box was more important there fore she saved the box .. So today I have great collection still saved of all the most expensive cards of the 1956 -59 series.
But my ace card is a 1953 Mickey Mantle mint cut no creases even cut. I took it to a dealer years ago . He looked at it saw it was mint But when he turned it over some of the writing on the back was gone. He said " what Happened to the back. I told him I took the card with me to college and used like a silly putty and pasted it on my dorm locker-room. He said it ruined the cards price and offered me $200 . I said No thank you and it sits about 1 foot from my laptop that I'm now typing on.. This card has been with me my entire life and no way was I going to see it. I put it in an acrylic glass holder and when someone see's. it beautiful , Just don't turn it over to read the stats. I sometimes go to Goodwill here in Austin and will buy a book or two. I always see those " Idiots guide" books But if there was an Idiots guide to baseball card collecting book I could be the author or at least write the forward to the book . It was about a $2000-$3000 mistake lol
