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. :-(
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... ;-)