Massachusetts Collection of 100-Year-Old Baseball Cards Hits Market

[Harry Hooper]

Forbes:

In mid-June, Leighton Sheldon, a top baseball card dealer, received a short email from Kevin, a pharmacist from Northern Massachusetts who has requested anonymity. It ended, “I have had these cards for 25+ years and am not sure of value and unsure I want to part with them.”
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Sheldon discovered that the collection belonged to only two families for the past century and that there were a lot more where the first cards came from. Among the 366 different cards, almost comprising a “near set” (524), were more than 60 Hall of Famers, including three Ty Cobbs, three Cy Youngs, three Christy Mathewsons, and two Walter Johnsons.

 

[RG33]

"three Ty Cobbs, three Cy Youngs, three Christy Mathewsons, and two Walter Johnsons". . . . . . . .

Yeah, but did it have like 15 Danny F'n Heeps? Danny Heep turned 59 today (from Cafardo's article in the Globe), and reading it brought back the terrible memory of being 11-12 years old and continually getting disappointed by getting "another god-damned Danny Heep" in my Topps baseball card packs. It seemed like he was the guy for me that was in every damn pack, ruining my quest for Wade Boggs, Dwight Evans, and Roger Clemens.

 

[Harry Hooper]

"three Ty Cobbs, three Cy Youngs, three Christy Mathewsons, and two Walter Johnsons". . . . . . . .

Yeah, but did it have like 15 Danny F'n Heeps? Danny Heep turned 59 today (from Cafardo's article in the Globe), and reading it brought back the terrible memory of being 11-12 years old and continually getting disappointed by getting "another god-damned Danny Heep" in my Topps baseball card packs. It seemed like he was the guy for me that was in every damn pack, ruining my quest for Wade Boggs, Dwight Evans, and Roger Clemens.

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Ha, I recall getting a ton of Del Unser cards.