- Thread starter
- #1
mouschi
Featured Contributor, Bridging the Gap, Senior Mem
- May 18, 2012
- 3,105
- 170
I have gone back and forth in my head several times about whether I should post this or not. I understand that baseball card purists may very well see the pictures I am about to show, and throw up all over their keyboard.
Why?
Because I destroyed $1,500 worth of baseball cards.
I wonder what is going on in your head right now. "Did he set a fire to 3 million 1988 donruss cards? (I guess that actually may not be a bad thing after all...somebody hit that drum snare!)
Perhaps you are thinking "Did he accidentally drop a handful of $10 cards in the toilet while he was peeing and looking at ca....errrr....multi-tasking?
You already know that I'm crazy enough to take a Canseco game used bat and have it cut up into tiny bits.
You already know I'm looney enough to travel across 'Murica to have Jose Canseco wear jerseys and other things for me.
So how crazy am I? (Actually, I guess I can blame this on my friend as to how crazy he is!)
The number of cards destroyed: 2.
The fewer the cards destroyed that make up the $1,500 amount, the scarier this is, isn't it?
Let me give you a little back story here. A new friend came to me and asked for help putting together something unique. Something unique that has to do with Rod Carew. A booklet card that features Rod as a member of the Twins instead of the Angels.
What was to be created would be require the sacrifice of 3 virgins and 2 high end cards.
One is 1/2 and the other is a 1/1.
As you can see, the cards are very nice. A few things may come to mind: These 1/1 and 1/2 cards have a bunch of other cards that are the same (but with different players on them). The pictures of Carew are tiny, and they are of him as a member of the
Angels.
The guts it takes for someone to want to do this is admirable in a sense. With his actions, he is saying this is NOT for business. This is for my personal enjoyment. Forget the stock market role of baseball cards - I want something that *I* want for *MY* collection that has not been made.
As many of us are pseudo / wannabe hybrid dealer/collectors, we have to keep one thing in mind. Not all cards are going to be flipped. I'm learning this the hard way now with my own collection. Just because you want a card, doesn't mean it is available. Every single copy of a card may be locked up in people's collections for good! I say this because these two high end donor
cards may very well likely have never seen the light of day ever again.
Well, here is where the horror begins.
As the 2 cards were en route to my home, I had envisioned what it would be like to rip apart these cards. Would I put on
some rubber gloves and dip them in chemicals? Take scissors to them and cut right down the serial numbers just because I know that no one else on the planet will ever do this?
I mean seriously, who else would be doing something like this? This is like being the first man on the moon or something for me, here.
I decided to take extra care and split the cards up like so:
Have you fainted yet?
Yes, I opted to be careful with these because I figured just in case ... *just in case* (said twice for emphasis) he wanted to go back, there is a possibility of doing so. The sides of the card may look split, but with time and care, since these are PC items, they will look fantastic again though they may come back as "altered" if ever graded.
My guess is that this won't happen though.
So, with all that said, I introduce to you ....
The Rod Carew "Double Barrel" Booklet Card
The inner windows have a gold foil border, and the inner binding has a gold foil inlay. I love how it came out! It fits great in a one-touch booklet holder, and is something I hope will be enjoyed for a long time to come.
So there ... I showed it. I showed what some people may see as a horrific train wreck. Monocles are being dropped and shattered on the ground all over America. The glasses of high-end collectors everywhere filled to the brim with champagne are being dropped without notice.
At the end of the day, I'm going to have to say I take it as a huge compliment that I was tasked with taking apart two high end cards from two different companies and trusted to design & produce something to replace them.
As for you, my valued reader: I sincerely hope that you like the end result as much as my friend and I do. If you do not, then I understand (though, please keep it to yourself - LOL!) . The next best thing that I can hope for is that you have been able to enjoy a story about something that may never be done again.
Why?
Because I destroyed $1,500 worth of baseball cards.
I wonder what is going on in your head right now. "Did he set a fire to 3 million 1988 donruss cards? (I guess that actually may not be a bad thing after all...somebody hit that drum snare!)
Perhaps you are thinking "Did he accidentally drop a handful of $10 cards in the toilet while he was peeing and looking at ca....errrr....multi-tasking?
You already know that I'm crazy enough to take a Canseco game used bat and have it cut up into tiny bits.
You already know I'm looney enough to travel across 'Murica to have Jose Canseco wear jerseys and other things for me.
So how crazy am I? (Actually, I guess I can blame this on my friend as to how crazy he is!)
The number of cards destroyed: 2.
The fewer the cards destroyed that make up the $1,500 amount, the scarier this is, isn't it?
Let me give you a little back story here. A new friend came to me and asked for help putting together something unique. Something unique that has to do with Rod Carew. A booklet card that features Rod as a member of the Twins instead of the Angels.
What was to be created would be require the sacrifice of 3 virgins and 2 high end cards.
One is 1/2 and the other is a 1/1.
As you can see, the cards are very nice. A few things may come to mind: These 1/1 and 1/2 cards have a bunch of other cards that are the same (but with different players on them). The pictures of Carew are tiny, and they are of him as a member of the
Angels.
The guts it takes for someone to want to do this is admirable in a sense. With his actions, he is saying this is NOT for business. This is for my personal enjoyment. Forget the stock market role of baseball cards - I want something that *I* want for *MY* collection that has not been made.
As many of us are pseudo / wannabe hybrid dealer/collectors, we have to keep one thing in mind. Not all cards are going to be flipped. I'm learning this the hard way now with my own collection. Just because you want a card, doesn't mean it is available. Every single copy of a card may be locked up in people's collections for good! I say this because these two high end donor
cards may very well likely have never seen the light of day ever again.
Well, here is where the horror begins.
As the 2 cards were en route to my home, I had envisioned what it would be like to rip apart these cards. Would I put on
some rubber gloves and dip them in chemicals? Take scissors to them and cut right down the serial numbers just because I know that no one else on the planet will ever do this?
I mean seriously, who else would be doing something like this? This is like being the first man on the moon or something for me, here.
I decided to take extra care and split the cards up like so:
Have you fainted yet?
Yes, I opted to be careful with these because I figured just in case ... *just in case* (said twice for emphasis) he wanted to go back, there is a possibility of doing so. The sides of the card may look split, but with time and care, since these are PC items, they will look fantastic again though they may come back as "altered" if ever graded.
My guess is that this won't happen though.
So, with all that said, I introduce to you ....
The Rod Carew "Double Barrel" Booklet Card
The inner windows have a gold foil border, and the inner binding has a gold foil inlay. I love how it came out! It fits great in a one-touch booklet holder, and is something I hope will be enjoyed for a long time to come.
So there ... I showed it. I showed what some people may see as a horrific train wreck. Monocles are being dropped and shattered on the ground all over America. The glasses of high-end collectors everywhere filled to the brim with champagne are being dropped without notice.
At the end of the day, I'm going to have to say I take it as a huge compliment that I was tasked with taking apart two high end cards from two different companies and trusted to design & produce something to replace them.
As for you, my valued reader: I sincerely hope that you like the end result as much as my friend and I do. If you do not, then I understand (though, please keep it to yourself - LOL!) . The next best thing that I can hope for is that you have been able to enjoy a story about something that may never be done again.
Last edited: