Episode 369： Million Dollar Card Collection
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Summary
In this episode of Value Tim, Pat Trubet talks about his baseball card collection and why he collects baseball cards. He also talks about the history of baseball cards and the value of some of the most valuable cards of all time.
Transcript
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, turn the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Pat Trubet, your host of Value Tim, and today I'm sharing with you my baseball card
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collection, at least not all of it, but some of it, people keep asking about Pat.
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Do you really have a million dollar card collection?
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Well, I do, but today I'm just going to share with you some of the cards.
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By the way, here's why I'm doing it, there's a reason behind the madness, let me explain
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So, I'm not the only one that collects weird things, let me give you some names.
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Angelina Jolie collects knives, I don't know why, but she collects knives.
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Nicolas Cage collects comic books, matter of fact, he owned a Superman number one, the
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old, old school, the main one, and by the way, somebody stole it from him, and then he eventually
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found it back, and they brought it back to him, and he sold it recently for 2.1 million
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Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, and Charlie Sheen collect baseball cards.
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I want to say, Brad Pitt collects metal furniture.
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There's a list of these names of what people collect.
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And there's a reason why I collect baseball cards.
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So, when I was a kid, when I was a kid, I used to go around collecting beer bottles.
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Late at night, my mom and my sister would go to sleep.
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I would take my shopping cart, and I would go from trash cans, and I would collect two
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liter bottles, because it was five cents per two liter bottle.
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And then per two cans, I would get five cents at Albertsons, and I would go, I would go recycle,
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and I would go take that money that I had with my friend Adrian, and we would go, and we
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And I always wanted to have this 1992 Stadium Club Shaq, when he was coming out of LSU.
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So, and the first time I started collecting cards, I was in Germany.
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When Germany won the World Cup in 1990, I was in Germany.
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I was in Germany when they won the World Cup, and it was the first time I collected cards.
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And I remember I said, in 1991, I'll never forget this.
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First, Bruce McNall and Wayne Gretzky bought a card in 1991.
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They bought it, I want to say, for $451,000, is what they bought it for.
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Today, I want to say it sold a couple years ago for $7.5 million.
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And by the way, if you know anybody who has that card, please send me a tweet.
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I'd like to talk to the person that owns a Hannes Wagner card.
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A house, if you would have bought in 1991 for $451,000.
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Now, if you know who Jerry West is, he's on the NBA logo.
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When you see the NBA logo, Jerry West is the logo.
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This is a 1961 Fleer, seven and a half, Beckett Graded Services.
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But Jerry West, you know, he's the greatest GM in the NBA today.
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He goes to a team, they pretty much win a championship or go to the finals or go and do things no one expected them to do like Memphis Grizzlies did when they hired him as a consultant.
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This is probably a $13,000 card, Mickey Mantle.
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The next one is a Will Chamberlain rookie card.
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This guy claimed he benched 600 pounds, jumped 51 inches.
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And he's the only guy ever to average 50 points in a game and I think 45 rebounds in a game.
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Which is insanity to average those kinds of rebounds.
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And one season, he went out there and averaged 12.4.
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This is probably a $15,000 card you're looking at with a Will Chamberlain.
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If you know nothing about baseball cards and you're thinking about investing into baseball cards,
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But if you can get any Babe Ruth cards that are graded by PSA, you keep them for a while,
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This is probably Ted Williams' best card you can get.
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I think one of these sold recently for $42,000.
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Ted Williams won Triple Crown pre-World War because he went to the war.
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Comes back from war and wins Triple Crown again.
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Baseball players today get paid $20, $30 million a year to hit 3 out of 10 pitches.
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If he was playing today, he'd be making $60, $70, $80 million a year.
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And that's probably lowballing the number that he'd be worth.
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He'd be the first billion dollar contract if he played today.
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I'm a big Ted Williams fan because psychologically he played with the media.
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He was a brilliant guy outside of just playing baseball.
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One of the things he's known for is a 56-game hit streak.
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The other thing he's famous for is he married the woman that was on the first ever Playboy
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Many, many men admired and they fantasized about Marilyn Monroe.
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This guy didn't have to fantasize because every night he went home, it wasn't a fantasy.
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It didn't last a long time, but he was at least with her for a while.
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This is probably a $42,000 card, $35,000 to $42,000 card.
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And again, another good card to add to your collection.
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It's part of the same collection, but in that collection they had a few Babe Ruth.
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This sold in 2016 for $155,000 is what it sold three years ago for $155,000.
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Again, you cannot go wrong with Babe Ruth, especially if you can get a PSA 8, which this is just a beauty.
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Can you imagine like cards come out, kids grab them, they're messed up.
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And you mean to tell me this one's got center, surface, corners, just a gorgeous card here.
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I think Roger Maris broke his record in 1961 with 61 home runs.
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And people were upset that he broke the record.
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And he was psychologically tortured so much because everybody loved Babe Ruth so much.
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Now it's getting interesting here with some of the cards.
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This is a 1979 Wayne Gretzky PSA 10 rookie card, Topps.
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There's only two of these in the world graded PSA 10.
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And by the way, this one sold, again, three, four years ago for $205,000 is what this one sold for.
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Again, Gretzky, the only sport that I would say where it's no debate.
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Who's the greatest football player of all time?
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This one, I want to say, in 2016 sold for $465,000.
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This is, when you go into PSA's headquarters in Newport Beach, the PSA's where they grade
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And Joe was there when these things were being re-holded in a new holder.
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This is a brand new holder, I want to say six weeks ago or something like that, four weeks
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We have the whole printout and everything and they have registered it.
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But when you go there on the wall of PSA, they have this on the wall.
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When you enter a PSA headquarters office, this is on the wall.
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There's a story behind the fact that I, you know, was enamored by the fact that him and
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Bruce McNoll bought a Hannes Wagner card in 1991 for $451,000 and I'm buying his rookie
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card and it's worth, I didn't buy it for $465,000, but it's worth, sold three years ago on $465,000
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I know there's a guy that owns these who is a very close customer and friend of ours
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with, uh, through heritage and he wouldn't sell his.
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If you offered him $750,000, he wouldn't sell his.
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He's a diehard Gretzky fan, but the other one is here.
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Let me explain to you why I'm sharing this with you.
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Look, you know how in life, uh, to win, there's different recipes, meaning you need hard work,
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you need goals, you need targets, you need clarity, you need to recruit the right people,
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you need an enemy, you need competition, you know, you need, you know, all these, you need
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to be able to figure out a way to hang out with people at your same level so you don't
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feel like you have anxiety because like, oh, other people are going through the same problems.
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You have a person you look up to that's mentoring, you need people below you that you're mentoring,
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You know what's the additional thing I would add to that?
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You need to have side hobbies or collections that bring out the childlike tendency of you
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because when I hold these cards, I go back to the 12-year-old kid.
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The 12-year-old kid, I'll tell you a crazy story about the 12-year-old kid.
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When I was in Wilson Jr. High School, which is in Glendale, it was a middle school, and
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I was in 8th grade, and we would walk back, we would have to go down the, uh, going over
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the bridge, and when we would walk down this place, my friends would walk with me and I
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Remember when we were boys and we would ask and say, if you could be with any woman, who
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Oh my gosh, for me it's Pamela Anderson from Baywatch because back then it was Baywatch.
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You're, you guys don't know what you're talking about.
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And we would go back and forth, or even the debates about, you know, I don't know if you've
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I grabbed my friends and we'd sit down, we'd talk, and I would say, listen guys, you
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You can be the greatest athlete in the world, Michael Jordan.
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Jackson, you can be the greatest performer in the world, pick it, Michael Jackson, or
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you can be the most powerful in the world, a president.
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Oh, there's no way in the world I would want to be the basketball player.
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I want to be in that because if you're basketball, everybody watches you.
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The billionaire, the president, and the Hollywood stars and entertainers.
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You are, if you're the president, you make decisions.
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And sometimes when you get past a certain age, after you've been beat up so many times
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in life, the first thing that goes is that dream machine.
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So you go from the languages, what if one day we could go out there and live a life like
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this and be able to have this and be able to have that?
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Versus it goes to, what if we go out of business?
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The what if starts the same way, but it used to go this way, now it goes this way.
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You've got to figure out a way to bring it from this side to this side by re-energizing
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But the whole idea is for you to start going back to dreaming again.
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You become attractive again because you're dreaming again, right?
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I cannot believe you paid, you know, how much money you paid.
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And it takes you back to what you were like when you were 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 years old
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because it brings back that childlike tendency.
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