Good Things Come to Those That Wait The late Tom Petty wrote in the chorus of "The Waiting:" The waiting is the hardest part.Every day you see one more card.You take it on faith, you take it to the heart,The waiting is the hardest part. Yeah, waiting can be the hardest part, but it is also said that good things come to those that wait. This Will Write Itself You've heard the phrases before, "Every picture tells a story,"
What exit? For readers old enough to remember, "What exit?" was a catchphrase from a Saturday Night Live skit with Joe Piscopo playing a character named Paulie Herman who hailed from Piscataway. The joke has some root of truth in many in New Jersey identify by their proximity to the exit number on the New Jersey Turnpike or the Garden State Parkway. A New Jersey collector recently contacted us and mentioned that he lived just off the Garden State Parkway. All
What's This? Are these blankets? Are these blankets? There's no blankets. There's no blankets in baseball. Oh, wait, that was , "There's no crying in baseball..." Sorry Jimmy Dugan. Well, these are blankets and we recently acquired a group of more than 100 of them as part of a much larger collection -- a collection from the family of a NJ lawyer that included T206 tobacco cards, programs and yearbooks, autographs, and Topps cards from the 1950s through the 1990s. The
When you buy and sell sports cards and meet with hundreds of people and speak with thousands, you're bound to hear a wide range of stories about collections. We've learned how many collections were assembled from buying packs, trading or going to card shows, passed down through the family or found while cleaning and organizing. Sometimes, there are facets that we still find amazing and these are the nuggets that we really get a kick out of and love sharing with our readers and our customers. A collection that we recently purchased had some
Many inquiries that we recieve are simple questions with people wanting to know if there's any value to cards that have been found in closets, left behind by relatives, or that have been recently purchased at flea markets. Invariably, we are asked about tobacco cards like T206's and it seems that most people think that because they're old, they must scarce or because they're old, they have to be valuable. Well, the good news is that they are valuable, but "valuable" is a relative