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Title:Sports Memorabilia
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Moderator:SCHOOL::KOPACKO
Created:Wed Aug 27 1986
Last Modified:Thu May 08 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:730
Total number of notes:8547

357.0. "Bob Cousy cards @ Filenes" by PIEB04::MCNEALY () Fri Nov 22 1991 18:47

    Filenes (the department store) is selling a set of Bob Cousy cards.
    They seem to be old black and white photos.  They are advertising them
    using large posters at all the entrances to their stores.  They come
    packaged in a small Celtic-green cardboard box (like a deck of cards) 
    with black and white photos on the outside, wrapped in celophane.  
    
    Now for the bad news....
    
    they are selling them for the ressession-busting price of $25.00 !!!
    
    That's 25 cards for 25 bucks......who says this isn't a great country!
    
    Frank
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357.2CERBUS::KARLSONOnly 31 shopping days until Xmas!Sun Nov 24 1991 07:5410
    
    That set is put out by Bob Cousy and his ?agent? -- they set the
    price.
    
    I heard an interview with Cousy.  Said since his rookie card was
    going for so many dollars (don't recall the figure), he thought
    $1 a card was extwemely weasonable for this set.  It's a fixed
    price.
    
    -rjk
357.3Shoes before cards !PIEB04::MCNEALYMon Nov 25 1991 15:249
    No John, I resisted the urge.  It was either the Cousy cards or new 
    shoes for my son.  Guess who won ??  
    
    Wouldn't this be mostly a regional-interest item ?  For example, how
    many people in the East would pay $25. for a set of Jerry West 
    cards.  Certainly there are enough Celtics fanatics to give the Cous'
    a few extra bucks but I would think the market is pretty limited.
    
    Frank
357.4Cousey bugs me!!!!!!!!!ASDS::KELLYTue Nov 26 1991 16:1217
    I'd shell out 25 clams for some cards of the kid from Cabin Creek that
    wore a flat top when it wasn't popular, made jumpers look like
    bunnies and was the best defensive guard in his era.
    I wouldn't take the Cousey cards if they were free.  West had class
    as a player, a coach and a general manager.  He won world champioeships
    as all three.  He wasn't:
                      a complainer
                      a critic
                      a hot dog.
    
    He just stuck jumper after jumper and dug in on D.
    
    My kinda guy.
    
    Where do I have to go to get the West Cards?
    
    Almost heaven-West Virginia
357.5Some people just have too much time and $$$TOLKIN::CHOYMon Dec 30 1991 12:044
    Have you heard that some fu paid $5K or $10K or something outrageous
    along those lines for set #1 out of the 100,000 print run...this is
    worse than the guy who was willing to pay big bucks for the #7 signed
    UD card of Nolan Ryan!  To each his own.
357.6CERBUS::KARLSONOnly 360 shopping days until Xmas!Mon Dec 30 1991 12:148
    
    He paid $5,000.
    
    The other guy offered $7,000 for #7 of the signed UD HOB Ryan card.
    
    Sets #1891 and #1991 have been donated to the Basketball HOF.
    
    -rjk