Early sports card convention history

finestkind · Mar 17, 2020

I saw this post on the Net54 vintage forum. I thought people here might enjoy reading about an early sports card convention.

https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2020...Udc7nWU_iVh78v2Cne_dCf0ofiNh8U0i9SZXwCzVIZPFM

Letch77 · Mar 17, 2020

That's pretty cool! I wonder how much those Wagners went for back then.

finestkind · Mar 17, 2020

From Forbes magazine Oct 2016

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davids...d-set-a-new-record-3-12-million/#27e2a8c56610

"Andrew Aronstein shared a letter documenting the sale of the Wagner in 1974 for $1300 to his father Mike. In 1984 he sold it for $23,000."

That 1974 $1300 in todays money with inflation is about $7,230.87
In 1984 $23,000 would be about $57,000 with inflation for 2020

mrmopar · Mar 17, 2020

I discovered TCMA not long after I started collecting. I received a handful of their free catalogs over the course of a couple years and still have a couple. One of the purchases I remember fondly was the black bordered TCMA Hall Of Fame postcard set that I still have to this day. I would love to spend a day (or many) going through the stuff Aronstein probably still has.

Letch77 · Mar 18, 2020

finestkind said:
"Andrew Aronstein shared a letter documenting the sale of the Wagner in 1974 for $1300 to his father Mike. In 1984 he sold it for $23,000."

That 1974 $1300 in todays money with inflation is about $7,230.87
In 1984 $23,000 would be about $57,000 with inflation for 2020

Now I wonder what condition that card was/is in...what PSA grade it would receive. Maybe it's already been graded and is one of the more publicized copies out there.

smapdi · Mar 20, 2020

I remember Collector's Sportslook printed a clipping from a 1940s newspaper item saying a Wagner sold for the unthinkable sum of $25. IIRC, it also listed the buyer's name and address, as was common with newspapers in the old days.

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