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A recent flood in my parents’ basement destroyed my father’s baseball card collection. I broke down and picked up the current Beckett price guide to see exactly how much he lost. Can you determine the correct value of these 12 rookie cards?
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7 out of 12. Not bad since I never really had cards that old and neither parent had any from when they were kids. Though I’m sure my mom threw away some great rookie cards in the 50’s when all she wanted was the gum.
posted by k on 9-4-2009 at 12:20 pm