1986 Topps Traded Baseball Forum

Reminds me of this guy:http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/11411892/mysterious-curt-flood-card-collector-chases-1964-baseball-card Then there is the blogger who is hoarding Expo player Tim Wallach he is attempting to get every Wallach card ever made. These guys have lofty goals, and due to 2 big factors they will never have ALL of the single card they are chasing. 1) Cards that have been thrown away, especially cards like the '64 Flood card any card from before the early 1980s when the collecting hobby exploded many copies of all cards were carelessly tossed. As were cards produced during the overproduction years of mid 1980s to mid 19990s these because of ther lack of financial werth. and 2) SEt Collectors 'Nuff Said.

Not sure if others have mentioned it here, but it has been mentioned in other threads throughout the years here. A few reasons people keep dupes:

1. They are set collectors who also have a PC team or player collection. They need 1 copy for the set, and 1  for the team collection and 1 for the player collection (if they have the truple threat of set/team/player collections)
2. They upgraded to a better conditioned card, but the original card is sentimental from childhood collection.
3. They store all their cards in binders and like seeing multiples of a single card on a page so they fill up a single page with the same card.
4. It is a semi-valuable card they think they can make some money off of. So they have one to keep for their collection and one or more to sell.
5. Trade bait?

I might have missed a reason or two, but to me those are the basic reasons (even if a few are odd) to have duplicates, or multiples of a single card. However, if those multiples are intentinally more than say a dozen copies? I dont know the reason for that. 

There was an episode of the TV show "Silver Spoon" where Ricky Schroeder's grandfather, a very wealthy businessman, decided to corner the market on Tommy Lasorda baseball cards. I forget how it ended, but Lasorda made an appearance at the end of the show. 

Don’t forget the Curt Flood cards that have been lost in floods

I've been collecting Barry Bonds for 20 years. I'm closing in on 6,000 different cards (tcdb is missing some oddballs in my collection) but I only have a few copies of the rookie cards. There's way too many cards from that era for me to focus on one. I much prefer getting as many different issues as I can. Believe it or not, there are quite a few Bonds collectors out there. The low serial issues and his certified autographs have shot up over the last few years. 

He is forgetting that most of the people who want that card already have it.

  Reminds me of a Scrooge McDuck comic from the 1950s.   Scrooge McDuck buys and collects every 1918 quarter (i could be wrong on the year but it is unimportant)  ever made.   He dumps them all in the deepest part of the ocean except for one.  Thus making it the rarerst coin on earth.   Naturally he leaves the bank with the rarest quarter and flips it in the air, but doesn't catch it and it bounces into the street under a steam roller, flattening it.  

I, too, collect Bonds cards (and those of his dad's, Bobby). I'm envious of your collection. I don't see anything wrong with trying to collect all their cards, those that are still available. My curiosity is over why someone would want so many of one card, his '86 Topps being the original topic of discussion. I can see a few for the reasons stated earlier by one of our members. But hundreds, even thousands of one card? I don't follow, but I don't criticize; I just don't understand the reasoning, and the bottom line is that it doesn't matter if I understand it or not. It's not my money or time.

I guess everyone elses card went up in value as there aint many for sale anymore as that guy is hoarding them all LOL.

Mitch: Where are you from. I bought a collection in White Plains, New York a few years back and guess what, It had about 100-150 Gant Rookies in it. Could you be their Father ? LOL !! 

Glad I got me one a little over a year ago. Wish I had more.