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07-24-2017, 11:08 AM | #1 |
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Funny story about my co-worker and his son
So my co-worker knows that I'm heavily into cards and enjoys talking to me about it in an effort to learn about a few things and overall he just finds the things I tell him interesting. He tells me that he buys his 9 year old son cards from Target once in a while and he likes to play games with them, read the stats etc..
Today, he brought in a few cards to show me at the request of his son just because he likes them and wants to show them off to me. First card is a Topps Opening Day Aaron Judge auto. I was like WTF?!? I kind of went crazy and said you have no idea what you have here, do you? He says, "no clue". I pulled up some sold listings in ebay he was pretty blown away. He said he never heard of Aaron Judge and if someone would offer him any Mike Trout card he'd probably trade it because he knows Trout. I told him to never make a deal without talking to me first. His kid was just throwing this card around in the games he plays, unprotected etc...I said I'll bring a penny sleeve and toploader in to work tomorrow to get that baby protected. Thought I'd share the story as I figured you guys would be somewhat entertained by it. |
07-24-2017, 11:12 AM | #2 |
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The funny thing is if you asked 100 kids nowadays to identify Aaron Judge or Mike Trout based on their picture, many more would be able to pick Judge.
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07-24-2017, 11:14 AM | #3 |
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You don't know what you don't know.
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07-24-2017, 11:32 AM | #4 |
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Did those kids forget what Trout looks like?
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07-24-2017, 11:34 AM | #5 |
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He was hurt for 7 weeks, that's like 5 years in kid time.
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07-24-2017, 11:52 AM | #6 |
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Some of them never knew. Trout is the best in the game but he's not recognizable like Jeter, Jordan, Lebron. Outside of Southern California and baseball fans, if you showed s kid a picture of Mike Trout, I'm not sure he would recognize him. He doesn't appear on commercials, on TV, and he's not on the Yankees.
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07-24-2017, 11:55 AM | #7 |
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This is why you don't save any for the kids
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07-24-2017, 11:56 AM | #8 |
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Fair enough. I thought we were talking about kids who like and play sports and buy Target packs
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07-24-2017, 12:10 PM | #9 |
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07-24-2017, 12:28 PM | #10 |
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Great thread and story!
About 15 years ago I worked with an older guy who talked to me about the Mantles and Williams' he had. He offers to bring them in the next day. He come up to me, reaches into his pocket and pulls out a stack (no '52's) with a rubber band around them!!! There was a 53 Mantle, 54 Bowman, 55 Bowman, 57 Topps of both, 58 of both.... insane. I'd say they were still in VG-EX shape and I gave him toploaders for them. He knew they were 'good' cards but was amazed when I told him values. |
07-24-2017, 12:31 PM | #11 |
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couldnt agree more.
This is why retail is awesome. lots of "rare" cards, particularly parallels, go "bye bye"
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07-24-2017, 12:47 PM | #12 | |
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Great story, OP.
And also this (!!) Quote:
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07-24-2017, 12:49 PM | #13 |
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Aaron Judge is more popular than Trout
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Fixed it for you!
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07-24-2017, 06:58 PM | #20 |
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With that said, the cards I pulled as a kid don't have the value or rarity of some of these inserts. So it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but it certainly reminds me of the simpler days of collecting. Last edited by Big35Hurt; 07-25-2017 at 06:17 AM. |
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1987 topps was the first cards we did this with. I believe that I remember a roger Clemens all-star card being like the best card ever at the time(I typed it with the exaggeration intentionally). Having that card in your stack was like having four aces if you were playing war(the card game). |
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07-25-2017, 08:15 AM | #25 |
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If you walked up to 100 adults on the street with a picture of Trout out of uniform, my guess is maybe 2 could tell you who he was. In uniform? Maybe 15.
MLB does not do a good job of marketing their stars at all, and baseball is not part of public consciousness right now.
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