I have only about 60,000 cards, having started in the mid-eighties to collect. As I say, I gave up a few years ago trying to collect sets as the marketing ploys made it not only expensive but frustrating. I now buy Dodger cards only.

My absolute favorite card ever is the 1954 Duke Snider card. Duke is also my favorite player, and it was extremely difficult to get that card back then. I did give it away but acquired another about 20 years ago.

About four years ago we went to a flea market in Halifax. I came across some cards, quite a few, that were absolutely perfect. They were 1955 cards and so perfect I thought they were archived cards. I picked out Podres, Spooner, Labine and Jackie Robinson and stuffed them in my shirt pocket. There were no other Dodgers. On the way home I took them out of my pocket to show Jamie, our son. He was astute enough to look on the back and see they weren’t reprints. I paid $1.00 a card, also for Jackie’s. I was upset that I had not looked at the others more carefully but relieved I didn’t know. I don’t think I could have taken them at that price knowing the true value of them and not telling the gentleman selling them.

GO DODGERS!!

Show him your Walter Johnson card…

And now that he is out there to hang — the cards probably have any value. But, if he were clean, went into the Hall — those 50 or 60 cards would have made some money.

In fact, I should bring charges against all of those players in the 1980s and 1990s that I have their rookie cards and are now out to hang. McGuire, Sosa, etc.

I have from my youth, the 1954, 1955 Topps sets, both complete. Value there is over $16,000 — because of all of the rookie cards: Clemente, Kaline, Aaron, Koufax, Banks, etc.

I have almost everything from 1974 or 1975 through 1995; all of the different companies including Canada. I stopped at the beginning of 1996. Just ran out of room and the big deal then was not the sets, but the sub-sets, elite super sub-sets . . . the hobby got out of control then.

I must have from 750,000 to 1,000,000 cards in all. All sets in binders. Many many monster boxes in order with second and multi cards.

My son, still in school, going from his 4th degree kind of wants them in the future — but does not have time for them now. So about six months ago, I rented space in a rental place and have most of it there. Will bring over the monster boxes in the next month. There was just too much here — took up so much space.

Maybe, to a super rich person wanting to purchase the entire stuff — I might sell. But it would take a medium size YouHall to take it away.