OT: Player you regret collecting

[bigtruck260]

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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.

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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.

[Swoboda4]

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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.

[cjclong]

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I never collected any of his game stuff, but I had a lot of magazines I saved of OJ Simpson when he was at USC. I remember a long run he made against UCLA. I really liked him. All that is now totally spoiled.

[dcgreg25]

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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!

As far as players I regret, I have a couple Sosa items and a Vick signed Eagles jersey...neither is a player central to my collection but all purchases I now regret.

[JETEFAN]

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Arod, Bonds, etc. all the Riod Crew boys.....

[coxfan]

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I regret nobody, since even those with frustrated expectations are still part of baseball history. My only regret would be if I thought an item was not authentic, but that hasn't occured yet with me. Of course, it helps to keep a limited buying budget, to buy mainly MLB-authenticated g-u items directly from teams, and to rely on getting only in-person autographs, as I do.

[emann]

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I just was corresponding with a collector who collected nomar garciaparra for the longest time and now regrets it. say it was a complete waste of time looking back.

Not to derail the thread, but I'd be interested in a Nomar bat if that collector is selling them off.

[godwulf]

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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.

[suicide_squeeze]

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Eric Gagne.

Being a Dodger fan, he was hot stuff during the "streak". 84 straight spanning over three seasons.....are you kidding?.....that was legendary.


Until his name surfaced in the steroid tabloids. Now, I have three perfectly signed balls of his, each with a different inscription ("Game Over!"....."84 straight"......"C Y '04"), a game used 2004 jersey, signed to perfection with inscriptions, and his black 2004 Easton game used glove.

I just wish I could get my money out of them. He's garbage.....a disgrace to the game IMO. But there are still a few fans out there, and the steroid "era" hasn't played out yet, so we'll see. He may eventually develope a whole new following after everyone comes to the realization his record will never in a MILLION years be approached by any mortal soul....

[cohibasmoker]

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Pete Rose.

I got 99.9% of my Rose stuff from Paul Jensen. At one time I had at least eight jerseys, Mizuno bats, spikes, caps and other signed items. Once Pete did what he did, I sold almost all of the items I collected. With the exception of a few signed Sports Illustrated pieces (which are lying under a bed in our spare bedroom), and Reds warm-up for 1985, it's all gone.

Jim

flaa1a@comcast.net

[sox83cubs84]

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Big truck
Just for clarity's sake, you mean that you used to have 100 Ben McDonald cards, not 100 kids. Right?

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

Dave M.
Chicago area

[legaleagle92481]

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Mark McGwire $600 autographed baseball when he did his first Steiner signing.

[joelsabi]

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Well I can't honestly see someone regretting who they collect unless they did it for investment purposes.
But honestly if your going to collect it should be more for the love of the hobby.

I think the guy regrets the amount of money he put down on the player and then seeing the prices at where they are at now. Hes still picking up his stuff so maybe it's a timing issue.

But I do not think he would have had the collection he has now if he waited until the downturn to occur to get started. Would he be able to accumulate the same quality collection had he started when the downturn occurred?

[corsairs22]

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Big truck
Just for clarity's sake, you mean that you used to have 100 Ben McDonald cards, not 100 kids. Right?