Sports Cards & Game Used Jerseys

[LarryWalkerFan]

Brad Wells, who used to supply game used stuff through ASI to UD, Topps, DonRuss, etc, admitted to selling non-game used stuff to those card companies as game used. That's why the companies now buy the items at auction or directly from the league/team.

[grandeleague]

So much unique history has been destroyed by the companies. And yet, I see kids in hobby shops all the time exhibiting the same level of excitement when they pull a game-used card from a pack as we do picking up a whole, intact, game-used item. It sucks.

Dave Miedema

Correct. There is a 1999 pedro martinez red sox home, a rare 1999 chipper jones home jersey from his mvp season that was cut up for cards. I talked to the dude that sold them to the card company. This was back in 2000 or 2001. Those are two historical jerseys from fantastic seasons lost to history.