OT: Player you regret collecting

[Swoboda4]

All the steroid players. I believe Pete Rose items will endure though. He hurt baseball,himself,and fans but what he did while playing was pure and will,over time stand out alone after he's long gone.Don't get rid of his items. Steroid items are tainted.

What I regret is what was touched on in this thread. A player with great promise arrives and his items/autograph are astronomical in price. Only to not sustain its purchasing price.
Does anybody realize what Steiner did by asking and getting $45,000 for Matsui's game 6 '09 WS jersey? So,does this mean my '86 Dykstra playoff-WS home pinstripe has sky-rocketed in value?
What we lost by making and regreting bad decisions has also placed us in a market where top shelf items can realize prices beyond their few thousand dollar initial investment.

[Jays1fan]

I actually do Regret collecting Lyle Overbay. Not because of Cost or anything like that. But for the simple fact he may not be a Blue Jay for long. I have 2 of His Jerseys including a Great looking "Canada Day" red jersey and I have his 2006 Canada Day HAT and Locker Name plate... but the only thing on display is the hat. which brings me to my next Regret ....
All the JERSEYS I bought. Again , cost or value is not a concern but I just dont have the room to display them all. Most are hanging in the closet.

[bigtruck260]

I'd presume he meant 100 Ben McDonald cards. After all, he's Big Truck, not Shawn Kemp .

Dave M.
Chicago area

Or Evander Holyfield.

Yes, 100 Ben McDonald UD Rookie Cards.

[bigtruck260]

Not one player in particular, on whom I've ever spent a huge amount of money and now regret it, but a whole bunch of players on whom I've, cumulatively, spent a huge amount of money, and now regret it.

In the early years of my collecting, my focus was (as it still is) the Diamondbacks...but being a young team, many of its players had already been on one or more other teams in previous years...so I began collecting jerseys and bats of DBacks players from those other teams. And I sort of overdid it.

With some of my all-time favorite players, it's okay - the Matt Williams stuff from SF and Cleveland, the Luis Gonzalez stuff from the Cubs, Detroit, LA, etc, the Greg Colbrunn and David Dellucci and Mike Morgan bats and jerseys from everywhere...those I'll keep. But I bought "other team" bats and jerseys from players who were only with the team for a very short time, or who were guys I never really even liked that much. Richie Sexson, Troy Glaus, Lenny Harris, Jose Cruz, Jr., and quite a few others come to mind.

In most cases, it's nothing they really did that soured me on having their stuff - it's just that the stuff really doesn't mean all that much to me anymore because their connection with the team was so transitory, and I find it increasingly annoying having a lot of it around.

I just remembered a birthday present I got from my sister several years ago. She bought it right after Wally Backman was named the new DBacks skipper - his manager's jersey from the 2002 Southern League Champion Birmingham Barons. Long before my birthday, after Backman had been canned, my sister let me know that my present, when I opened it, might seem "a little odd"...but, after all, she couldn't very well return it.

Surprised that you didn't have a butt-load of Travis Lee stuff. Man, what a hype machine he was during the expansion draft...

[gatorcollector]

I actually do Regret collecting Lyle Overbay. Not because of Cost or anything like that. But for the simple fact he may not be a Blue Jay for long.

That's to be expected these days. And that's exactly why I love being a college collector. A guy from UF might go on to play for half a dozen pro teams, but once a Gator, always a Gator.

[godwulf]

godwulf, if you would consider moving any of your Matt Williams Indians items I would be very interested. Also, any other Indians jerseys or bats (Sexson, etc) you have that you might sell or trade, let me know. Thanks!

I'm actually looking at selling somewhere in the neighborhood of eighty bats, but I think the only Cleveland bats I want to move right now are a Roberto Alomar (from 2000, I think...a signed, uncracked LS M356) and a couple of signed, early-'90s Carlos Baerga bats. Please shoot me an email if you're interested in any of those.

Jeff

godwulf1@cox.net

[godwulf]

Surprised that you didn't have a butt-load of Travis Lee stuff. Man, what a hype machine he was during the expansion draft...

Well, I do have seven of Lee's DBacks sticks, from '97 to '00, that I value, and which are a part of my collection that continues to make sense. I mean, yeah, he never lived up to the hype, but he was an important part of the team's history...at least for awhile. I also have the prototype DBacks jersey that he wore on the cover of the (I think) Feburary '98 issue of Becketts. The only Lee item that I bought and now regret bothering with is a signed, unused Phillies bat that I paid less than forty bucks for.

[5kRunner]

I'm actually looking at selling somewhere in the neighborhood of eighty bats, but I think the only Cleveland bats I want to move right now are a Roberto Alomar (from 2000, I think...a signed, uncracked LS M356) and a couple of signed, early-'90s Carlos Baerga bats. Please shoot me an email if you're interested in any of those.

Jeff

godwulf1@cox.net

Jeff,
Any Cubs bats in the "eighty"?

Send me an email, if there are. I might be interested.

[xpress34]

I can't say I ever REGRET collecting any one player, but yes, I have purchased items that lost appeal to me over time... and that alone has helped me become a much more 'focused' collector...

I still collect Matt Holliday - I was collecting him well before his popularity went up and I have continued since he left the Rox. No matter how or where his career ends, Matt has always been a class act to myself and my wife and like many guys on here, Matt knows that I collect his stuff and has always made me feel special whether at a public signing, Spring Training, or even a few months ago when the Cardinals were here at the end of the season.

I use to collect anything and everything of players I liked, but now concentrate on building 'matching' collections if I can (Jersey, Hat, Bat, Ball) and I have narrowed my card collecting to ONLY doing AU sets with the exception of Topps Allen & Ginter (I build that one set each year) and my '51 and '52 Berk Ross sets (still working on them - but already have the '52 Mantle!).

I have picked up random jerseys and then had the players leave the team or get injured, etc. and I just end up usually using them as a 'throw in' item when making a larger bulk sale of stuff to get extra stuff I've accumlated moved.

- Chris

[joelsabi]

All the steroid players. I believe Pete Rose items will endure though. He hurt baseball,himself,and fans but what he did while playing was pure and will,over time stand out alone after he's long gone.Don't get rid of his items. Steroid items are tainted.

What I regret is what was touched on in this thread. A player with great promise arrives and his items/autograph are astronomical in price. Only to not sustain its purchasing price.
Does anybody realize what Steiner did by asking and getting $45,000 for Matsui's game 6 '09 WS jersey? So,does this mean my '86 Dykstra playoff-WS home pinstripe has sky-rocketed in value?
What we lost by making and regreting bad decisions has also placed us in a market where top shelf items can realize prices beyond their few thousand dollar initial investment.

Matsui's legend just rose exponentially in Japan from being the first Japanese Player to win the WS MVP. There is no doubt that if, and i doubt it, it gets resold it would fetch even more. No regret here. I would not be shocked if Matsui got outbid while trying to get this jersey for the Matsui Museum in Japan.