Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Baseball Card Bought For Record $2.3 Million (1909 Honus Wagner Card)
CBS5 ^ | Feb 26, 2007

Posted on 02/27/2007 2:38:46 AM PST by nickcarraway

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last
To: nickcarraway

I think this is the card that someone found in a couch about ten years ago.


21 posted on 02/27/2007 5:29:02 AM PST by cyclotic (Support Cub Scouting-Raising boys to be men, and politically incorrect at the same time.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DeerfieldObserver
E-Bay is our friend...
22 posted on 02/27/2007 5:31:26 AM PST by Hatteras
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: BushMeister

Neat, putting the Mick in the dugout!


23 posted on 02/27/2007 5:34:48 AM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Riley

Wow, you're related to Carroll? For a time, he was arguably the best catcher in baseball. Carroll still holds the record for most hits in a doubleheader (with 9, tied with a few other players), and might hold others that I don't know of. Great player, but got hurt young.


24 posted on 02/27/2007 5:37:27 AM PST by SpringheelJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Jaysun

Quite right. Plus your state. MA is 5.3%. Combined, then, for the long term gain, would be 20.3.


25 posted on 02/27/2007 5:44:17 AM PST by Plymouth Sentinel (Sooner Rather Than Later)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Hatteras
Don't get me started.

I had about 50-60 pre-1920 American Chickle Co. bubblegum cards (Nellie Fox, Mel Ott, Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner..) from my grandfather. The players' pictures were done in watercolors - Tris Speaker looked like John Daly. The box got lost in a move in the mid-60's.

I could've bought my own island. :-(
26 posted on 02/27/2007 5:52:01 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
"Nicknamed the "Flying Dutchman," Wagner was the National League batting champion in eight of his 21 seasons and finished his career with a lifetime .329 average. He retired in 1917 with more hits, runs, RBIs, doubles, triples and steals than any National League player."

The Flying Dutchman was also a sailing ship found sailing with no one on board. Nothing was missing, so there were no pirates aboard. Weird, huh?

27 posted on 02/27/2007 5:54:36 AM PST by Slip18
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Thrownatbirth
I've told this story before but one of my best friends growing up had a boy who was heading off to college. His mom (the boy's grandma) bought a college study desk set for her grandson. To jazz the set up she found a box of my buddy's old baseball cards and shellacked them to the trash can and lamp shade of the desk set for that "special touch".

My buddy cringed as he looked over the trashcan and lamp shade. A couple of Nolan Ryan rookies, Tom Seaver rookies (2), Reggie Jackson rookie, Bench rookies (2) and a host of other stars were scattered among the commons from '67 through '70.

Not quite worth an island but still... ;-)

28 posted on 02/27/2007 6:20:11 AM PST by Hatteras
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Jaysun
I thought it was 15%.

Nope. Thanks to the US Congress, when the capital gains rates were adjusted down, they specifically exempted collectibles. So, if you happen to be in a lower tax bracket, if you sell a collectible after holding it for less than a year, the profit is taxed at the same rate as ordinary income. If you hold it for a year or more, it is taxed at 28%. So, unless you are in the higher tax brackets, by holding a collectible long term, you actually pay at a higher rate. Thanks, Congress.

29 posted on 02/27/2007 6:23:00 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Vaclav Klaus: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Hatteras

Wow, amazing! Exactly what I remember from 46 years ago.


It is a steal at 99 cents!


30 posted on 02/27/2007 6:30:19 AM PST by DeerfieldObserver
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

I wonder what my shoe box full of Mike Lum cards will be worth in the future? I think I got a Mike Lum and Nelson Briles in every pack.

I'll bet I've got every print they made.


31 posted on 02/27/2007 6:36:39 AM PST by Gunflint
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jaysun
What's his name?

Fred Carroll- Post 6.

32 posted on 02/27/2007 3:28:25 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: SpringheelJack
Wow, you're related to Carroll? For a time, he was arguably the best catcher in baseball. Carroll still holds the record for most hits in a doubleheader (with 9, tied with a few other players), and might hold others that I don't know of. Great player, but got hurt young.

I've seen pages of baseball stats on him- which are meaningless to me. Thanks for shedding some light on his career for me- it means a lot.

After he got out of baseball, he had a shipping business in San Francisco, until he passed away in 1904. He died of heart disease at about the same age that I had a bypass. Runs in the family, I guess.

33 posted on 02/27/2007 3:32:38 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: SpringheelJack
Great player, but got hurt young.

Was he injured? Do you have any more info on this?

34 posted on 02/27/2007 3:38:56 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Riley
Was he injured? Do you have any more info on this?

He had a hand injury in 1891, according to "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract" pg. 421, and because of it couldn't play catcher anymore. James doesn't specify how the injury occurred, or what exactly it was. He tried being an outfielder for a year, but had a bad season, and was dumped by his team. He played baseball in some California minor leagues for a few years after that though, until 1895.

35 posted on 02/27/2007 4:32:02 PM PST by SpringheelJack
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Fresh Wind
Nope. Thanks to the US Congress, when the capital gains rates were adjusted down, they specifically exempted collectibles. So, if you happen to be in a lower tax bracket, if you sell a collectible after holding it for less than a year, the profit is taxed at the same rate as ordinary income. If you hold it for a year or more, it is taxed at 28%. So, unless you are in the higher tax brackets, by holding a collectible long term, you actually pay at a higher rate. Thanks, Congress.

I didn't know that. Thanks.
36 posted on 02/27/2007 5:03:41 PM PST by Jaysun (I took one look at her unfashionable eyebrows and thought to myself, "she's literally crazy.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

update thread here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892909/posts


37 posted on 09/07/2007 6:54:49 PM PDT by xp38
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson