...but even if I had $2.3 million dollars, I'm not sure I'd use it to buy a baseball card, even if it's the rarest baseball card in history. You can't display it, because any number of bad things can happen.-Someone spills a drink on it
-Someone steals it
-It gets too much sunlight
-Your dog eats it
So that pretty much means you need to keep it under a velvet cover, in a locked room, guarded by pit bulls/ninjas/one of each, for the rest of your life. And what's the fun in that?
I used to be an avid collector, and I remember seeing one of the Honus Wagner 1909s at a card show once. But I'm just not sure if I see the appeal. Maybe the new buyer sees it as an investment, because it has more than quintupled in value since in the last 15 years. And it is a good conversation starter, if you're a jerk.
"Would you like to see my $2.3 million dollar baseball card collection? It's just one card. (rich guy laugh) Ah, ah, aaaaaah!"
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can you imagine eating the piece of gum that it came with?
shouldn't it be in a museum somewhere at this point?
Um, Brian, I can. Because last spring, I ate gum that was 20+ years old.
I can imagine what 5x that bad would be.
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