Ep.304 w/ Brad Askew Part II

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Nation what is up everybody Welcome to episode 304 of sports card Nation happy to be

back we have my friend ask you back on the show for the conclusion of our great

conversation we started on last week's episode uh Brad's a super collector from

Atlanta Georgia Edie Murray is his subject of choice there but he collects

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ASU continued from last week hope you enjoy it yeah I think I remember like um

Tanner you know's a big cono guy you know do podcast and stuff I remember him talking about this became such an

obsession he's like I gotta check eBay 27 times a day and all that you know just to try to get it and yeah after a

while it's just it's exhausting you know and it's like I can't and it gets to it gets to an addiction Point too like like

you know you mentioned like I'm checking 20 um any kind of free moment I'm grabbing my phone or logging on my

computer right right and that again again to each their own right hobby your

way all that stuff I like to say of course but I like to enjoy my hobby and I I just go in it you know on the

Robinson you know I collect Jackie Robinson and Hall of Fame graded rookie

I on both sides of those aisles I'm never going to have every one of of either one of those niches and that's

and that's okay right I you know I get what I get and when the Music Stops it

is what it is what it is I'm not gonna stress because if I'm stressing about it like you know I I wanted to see the

rookie two years ago at the national didn't happen I got it this year right right you and I told I was like what are

you looking for John and I was trying find something for you you can go find or look at yeah so I don't I don't like

if it happens great if it doesn't I get other stuff right I mean the worst thing that can happen is you walk out of there

and you didn't buy anything which is pretty rare you know that's no good that that might make some stress but you know

I think you go in with the right mindset and you enjoy the process you enjoy the

the cards you do get you enjoy your collection and I think most people I I'm

probably preaching the choir to most people I think most people have that approach especially nowadays with all

these new releases it it's it's hard to keep up and and you can't even get I'll

show Even if you want I don't even care if you have a unlimited bank roll it's still hard go ahead go ahead here's your

Jackie uh you can see this is this is actually one of my prize possession cards I've had this going back to my dad

my dad and I bought this back in the 80s this is I actually got it graded on a Becket holder a long time ago and it's a

which I I don't have mine handy but that's a higher grade than the one I have so it's want to trade I think I got

a three I'd give you exactly I I absolutely adore it I love it I love it and I you know I know that you know like

U it's probably a card as I mentioned ear my son's not really into the cards my daughter likeed the movie 42 this

card will probably be my daughter's one so I mean you know I just I love that I'd love to get all of Jackie's vintage

cards from back then but as you know my goodness they're they've got I had most of them back in the day but my dad and I

sold off um a lot of that stuff yeah here's the thing I don't have every one

of even his playing days one I'm missing a few yeah and to to one of the things I

did like even to acquire the the leaf was I had to sell a couple so it's on my you know it's on my list to pick off and

and get them back again yeah um you know but uh you know know we do that

sometimes right we move part of our inventory to acquire a bigger card because we kind of we want to get that

we don't want to wait too long so you know to I don't have I have most of them

I don't have I don't have all of them so I'll tell you a Jackie story that'll kind of blow your mind uh you remember

back in the day when a guy that you profiled in sports collector's do just once Al Rosen remember when he had the

Rosen fine of the 52 High numbers they back then my dad somehow one of our

contacts my dad was able to get a 52 Jackie Robinson from that fine we got

the card John it was a Blazer man I mean it it was off center side you know it was like two3 one third maybe as I

recall but it was Blaze gorgeous card I I think and we sold it Year Dad paid a

few hundred dollars for it literally yeah and we sold it for more than that but you know pennies of what we should we

should have kept I think if I had that card now it probably would have graded a

seven or an eight or maybe whatever I'm like oh my God that that card in an eight can I'd be like what in the world

would that be worth nowadays you know and that I I had one one you have I'll just say I'll just answer that like this

you'd have a lot more Eddie Murray cards yeah exactly yeah I'd like to have the

Jackie I'd like to have that Jackie back it was gorgeous and we you know I think

we all have stories like that right you know I tell the story you know Jeter's SP rookie came out during my store years

when I had my shop and I'm in New York so people loved him I always thought at

the time that he was overrated I thought he was good I didn't think he was gonna be great so I just sold I just sold him

as quick as I could get him I'd buy him to resell them and for what I sold them

for you know I probably went through 140 15 in a a two years in a twoyear span not

like in a month but over the course of two years from opening the SP product to just buying the card and and then

selling them at the store but I didn't I didn't I didn't think he was going to be what he turned out to be right so we all

have we all have super stories like that a mulligan you know can have a

mulligan on Jeter SPS that I went through you know so and vintage cards

too I had vintage cards back in the day that I sold I sold Jackies to acquire

other Jackies that probably would have made more sense to keep them and and just buy the Jackies I bought and keep

the ones I sold so so I think we all have those you know things we regret and

it just comes with the it comes with the collecting uh uh territory and that if

you're arounded as long as you and I both have been you're going to you're going to screw things up you're going to

wish we'd never sold all those old sets wish we had on to that Robinson wish we'

done this even with my Murray the one the biggest regret I have with Murray I remember being at the national in

Atlanta uh this would have been 99 I think it was uh David Adams had the the

uh the gold the mirror gold 96 select Murray which they only made 30 of them

and that's a uber popular set even today and they had one and held in my hands

and they they want a hundred bucks and I I did not pull the trigger and I'm like

what an idiot because one sold they don't come up very often but when they do one sold on eBay recently for like

$2,200 yeah no I I tell the story I tell the story with the Jackie Leaf which I

do now own you know I three times Brad I could have bought that way you know at

different moments a lot cheaper than it wound up cost me and if I could go back know if that delore I always joke if

that DeLorean was real me and Dr em Brown would be going back to those moments and like I'd be pulling the

trigger rather than saying nah I think I'm gonna wait I'll get it another thing right oh God you I think I think back to

those early 80s John I mean I was the kid and I'm sure you were the same way and it's why it's so cool that you and I

both have become friendly with Dr Becket which is just a joy but I I remember getting that Becket every month and just

pouring over it and reading all the all the yeah we wanted the

triangles oh no that went down my world is ending that went down you know all

crazy I read that thing like it was my job and I read I read it I read it like

it was my job and then i' go through even after I read into what Who had who had all the black triangles who who's

the guy right oh yeah I think we we all have similar stories and I was like a

walking Becket because my dad and I would be walking around shows on a weekend and like Brad what's that book for that book's for

$22 I would I would like have it in my brain I knew I knew what all of those were it was crazy back in the day well

people like people had that in their back like folded up in their back pocket oh yeah like it was everywhere yeah yeah

there was no there were no smartphones and scanning cards it was we have we

didn't have eBay it was just you know it was you like you talked about 1984

earlier we were all on strawberry hunts searching out we called it Berry hunts we're looking for strawberries we're

looking for this and just that was a thing man now by the way you mentioned 84 doners that is still to this day one

of my very favorite sets I absolutely I love it I I know it's not his rookie and I'm a rookie card guy but

that Gwyn that secondy year Gwyn in it is is to me one of the best looking GN

cards and it's just it's a it's a great set especially when you look at there

three prior sets uh gar well they weren't all garbage they weren't great

but well was comparatively speaking to the 84 donus they actually they were but

they they whatever happened with the whoever designed the 84 donus they hit a

home run that year with that they did I still have a lot of them I've actually got a bunch of them in screwd Downs

they're $2 cards and even the bats even even even the bats on those with the

teal like they're just it's a sharp looking 80s card when you think about 80s cards

design it's it's it's it's it's it's probably the well for me it's number one

in the 8 I don't have I don't think I have a complete setup I know I've got a bunch of Stu I I probably need to I

don't look through binders I've got a good bit of binders I I should look through them more than I do but that would be one that would would be worth

having in a binder because it's even though it's just a great set I totally

yeah no doubt you you got a a a Murray item I which I you you showed me before

we went on that I think's really cool if you want to talk about it not a card

it's not a card but it's it's a really you you know we talk about you know rare

things or one-on ones I'm sure there was a few yeah but how many survived right how many of these survived so I'll let

you it's your item but you shared set up yeah I was on eBay many years ago and a

guy had this I'm searching at Murray stuff of course and this guy there's a bottle on there and I look at it and I

read it it was listed on eBay by a former coach of the Mets um I could grab

the paper but basically it is a champagne bottle from and I'll show it

here on the screen uh kind of cool it's got the you know the open bottle or though there and if you can read it

which may not be able to with the thing there but basically it says June

1992 1510 RBIs and it's signed by Murray in

in in Black Sharpie and it's just a bottle of champagne um that they opened

apparently they did several bottles that night that, 1510 RB why that's significant John when he got that he

passed Mickey Manel who we talked about earlier as the most rbi's all time by a

switch hitter so and yeah and he still owns that record with is finished up at

1917 uh and he he owns the record by tons I mean I think chipper chipper may

have gotten to 1500 as well he was in that neighborhood but Murray's got the record by 35400 RB and I mean that may

stand forever I mean it stood for you know 20 something years 25 years 30

years almost now it'll probably stay in for a for a very long time but anyway the the bot I found it on eBay I think I

paid a couple hundred dollars for it and I'm like that's one of the best deals I've ever made to get it to get

something like that signed by him with that significance you know with that date on it with a letter of authenticity

from the coach it's just a great item to have that's a that's a personal item that's not an 8 by10 that you just hand

him that's something that was designed for the record absolutely yeah who knows

how many of those exist maybe two three four at the most there probably aren't many and yeah I mean know that you may

have something for that matter Brad when you think about this you may have something that Eddie Murray himself

might not even have any but like he may not he may not I'll I'll read real quick

the letter who was it it was Dave L Ro he was a pitcher back in the day he was a pitcher yeah for the Yankees Pirates I

believe yeah to whom it may concern on June 6 1992 New York Met first base when Eddie Murray drove in the 1510 run his

career breaking Mickey M's record for career RB by switch hitter in celebration of this event Eddie Murray

opened this bottle of champagne and toasted with teammates and coaching staff being a member of the New York

Mets coaching staff at the time I took this bottle that was opened on that occasion and had Eddie Murray sign it

signed dve Ro right there so so listen until you read that let's let's connect

it could be I doubt it's the only bottle surely they did more than one bottle way he the way he way he W way he wrote that

it maybe it was like just for the event right oh it was and it almost sounds

like it was going to like it was just kind of left there and he's like I'm grabbing this and having Murray sign it

yeah I mean I mean I'm sure models of champagne there might have been two or three for 30 y I don't maybe maybe

Murray has a Clos one but I don't know how many of these really techically

exists that's that's pretty I love having it it I just played on one of my

shelves here in my office and it's it's just cool to have so really cool but uh

you know it's it's I've got I've got tons that that's something I want to do with my collection time to hear from one

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Rob's got you covered let's go you are listening to the sports card Nation

Podcast I'm not a Content guy I love watching content and listening to content obviously you Dr Becket Mike

Summers Mike moan many others I I love the content on YouTube as well as podcasts I subscribed to multiple

podcasts John keading Etc who's also a friend who I got to know this year at the asille that was cool but um you know

it's just it's just really uh you know really cool to to uh get to know you

know folks like that and to you know just share this collection share the hobby with folks

and me to sign yeah are you asking me to sign the Eddie Murray ble no I'm not

asking you to sign that no no I'm not no I'm not good to face it John by having you sign I love you man I'm

not that's exactly that's exactly what that that's exactly

what would happen if did the value just got the value just got cut in in half or

or maybe in a four it it just got or or or even worse you'll have to just cut

the Eddie Murray Auto out at ex absolutely no that's just a great that's

just a great item that you yeah I mean you know I have a it's behind me I have a Cy Burger uh media uh spring training

media pass nice I've never seen another one anywhere right so like you know like

if I'm you and I have that bottle every once you do this do you ever check to see hey is there another one out there

like so yeah I mean I if there's ever I've never seen another one pop up that they certainly could I mean obviously I

don't see everything that pops up there but uh you know it's it's a it's a crazy

thing but yeah it's there as he said in the thing there probably weren't many of them you would think there might have

been two or three four but s they would have had 20 bottles of champagne for 30 guys or whatever I'm sure it would the

way the way the L Ro letter sounds he he yeah you know it's like it almost sounds

like it was it was one for the event where everyone was who wanted to partake who knows who knows right it's cool yeah

I mean I'd have to ask Murray might remember I don't know or David Ro for that matter who knows but very cool very

cool when you go to a show when you go to a show what how what's your mindset whether it's a national or local show

are you like hey I'm I'm getting some muray or like where does your buying I

don't really it's sad with so much that I have and what I need is old yeah you

kind of asked earlier and I think we got off track but yeah I do I do I do track

my collection well between Becket organizer and spreadsheets you I've got everything from okay these are like the

standard cards that are on Beck and organizer here's what I have here's what I don't then I've got spread sheets of

like here's Oddball stuff that's not on there that I have so that I know I have

that you know then I have a list of you know whatever like uh these three dimensional kind of items like the

bottle or or stuff from the hall of fame or whatever I have a list of all that I've got a list of all the Publications

I have so you know if I've got all that on my iPad or even printed or whatever and I'm at a national I could look at

and go okay do I have that Orioles media guide I probably do let me check I could

look it up and find out as far as cards go I do have a want list that basically

goes and I'm still kind of constructing it but I I do have a want list from the beginning of his career through the like

0405 and as you can imagine when you get into the later years it's hundreds of items you know the early years it's

hardly any that I need so you know so yeah there are items that I would love to pick up that are older perhaps um and

then when you get into the 03 especially 0405 it's all these different parallels

and and all that kind of stuff that came out like I was talking about the the Hall of Fame set that I love so much

there's 180 of them I've got 101 105 whatever I've got you know well that

means there's a whole bunch of them I don't have you know and those are ones they pop up on eBay I'm going to track them and I'm going to try I may

overspend for some of those but I'm not going to overspend as we talked about earlier for yet another 2024 Auto that

comes out numbered to 25 I I'm I'll pick him up if I can get them cheap but I'm not going to overspend I'm going to

focus on the older stuff that is a little more you know career you know playing career time or close to playing

career time that are special to me but so that's kind of my thought when it comes to the National I don't really go

into their thinking I'm gonna find Min Murray's because I just don't think I will literally this year at the national

I picked up a couple items nothing special that you know were that I that I got um I got a blank back like 85

Allstar tops Allstar card I got a I got a uh a relic card recent like National

Treasures that's about it nothing special I'm not GNA find rare Murray stuff there that I don't think usually I

usually go to the National and I'm focused more on Vintage kind of like you where you're focused on uh you know your

Hall of Fame which who's my two or three or four I want to focus on this year I usually go in there with an open mind

and go I want to pick up one or two or three nicer vintage cards I don't even

know what sometimes I know what I'm looking for sometimes I don't uh but you know sometimes I don't sometimes I think

it's better not even to have a like go in without a list and just whatever hit you I know I know you got some car we're

coming down the home stretch here sure but uh if you want to share some of some of your collection whether you got at

the a national or however you're acquired it but go ahead go ahead couple year yeah this is for instance this is

Jake Beckley this is a t206 uh I got got it in a four I got it at the Chicago National

23 um it's a pedm back nothing too special but uh but Murray actually broke

his record for most games played at first base and this is one of the few playing Day cards that Beckley had he's

a Hall of Famer he's a minor Hall of Famer not even a lot of people don't even know who he is but because Murray

broke that record I'm like I want to get that card con there's the connection so that's the connection there for me um

you know this year at the national I picked this up from a very dear friend of mine he had it I picked up a diamond

Stars melot I did not go into the quood national thinking I want to get a knot this year I I just saw it it it Peak my

interest I'm like heck yeah I want that so I picked it up so that's you know that's the kind of thing that i' I've

picked up you know I've got a lot of in my vintage that most of my vintage collections either stuff that my dad and

I had going back to the 80s I would say probably 80% of my hundreds of vintage

stars that I have are back that I've had literally 30 40 years ones that are more

recently uh you know acquired I would have gotten mostly from my my friend uh

Roger nelt who's a 80s something year old dealer out in Oklahoma City um

that's a dear friend of mine I've worked the last couple of Nationals with him um

you know he wasn't able to come this year but I worked two Nationals with him before that and just enjoy helping him

him out of his booth and and doing that and um you know dear friend and and

that's what the Hobby's all about I mean as as your slogan says the hobbi is the people I met so many awesome people

through this hobby I love the cards I love going to the National I love looking at cards and buying cards Etc

but going to that show really is as I know you've said before it's like a family reunion you're going to see so

many people that are great friends from Dr Becket to yourself you know I've got

met Danny TI a little bit uh also you know Mike summer and and then these

other friends and even before you know not even people I would necessarily see at the national being a Murray collector

going back all these years there are several Murray collectors that I have in my phone I don't really correspond with

them much anymore but some of them you know I've traded with or I bought cards from they're older they're they're

looking to move on from their collection I bought stuff from them one of them particular is a guy named Dwayne crater

that lives in a he had a huge Murray collection bigger than mine ever has

been back in the day and I bought tons of stuff from him I've been to his home multiple times so I mean those kind of

relationships are this cool and that's the same guy that I went to the Hall of Fame with back in ' 03 when Murray was

inducted so those relationships you make are just so cool and it's great to have people as friends share relationships

with them uh I just met two new guys uh this year at the national two actually

three new guys I never met before that I met and and I've become friends with and

we you know we text each other every now and then we're planing on seeing each other future Nationals I mean that kind

of thing is really cool and you actually met one or two of those Tom Snell was one of them and a guy named Robert

Robert dogd as well and then um you know a guy named Ruben as well are all guys

that I met they're just they're so cool the great guys to hang out with and get to know and that's just what's so great

about the Nashville is seeing all these people it's it it's very true uh here here as they say and much like cards we

add to our collections right we can add friends to our uh Collective friends

list uh as well and uh sometimes they they might last longer than the cards as

we as we move cards uh here and there as well that's that's a great way to kind

of uh finish for for for for now and uh you know for those I know you're not big

on social media you're the smarter of the two on the screen here because of it

but if someone has maybe an Eddie Murray that they think you would like and wanted to check with you how might they

do that Brad go ahead and give like you said I'm not you know U I'm I'm not on

Instagram I I've got a Facebook account but I don't ever do anything on it that kind of thing uh really for me it

texting and phone calls and and email is fine as far as people reaching me uh um

actually my cell phone which I don't mind sharing is 44444 9393 anybody wants to reach out happy to

send me a text that'd be great uh email is Brad asku

comcast.net and um you know yeah muray collect Murray I collect vintage as well

I still love my vintage cards but you know Murray's the main focus of my collection so there you go you got a

Murray you think or or you you want to even be super nice and like hey I want to get this too yeah there's how you get

hold of a Brad and like I told you before we I gotta I got to look at some

some of my stuff I might have uh some stuff too I know I don't have a ton of marry but there might be something

hiding that I I can send your way as well Brad this was fun I enjoyed it

we'll have to do it again be you know uh we'll have you back and uh kind of catch

up again so thank thanks for coming on John it's been a pleas pleas I really have enjoyed your content over the years

uh I've been a sports collector's digest play I'm one of the still subscribed to

it I still get it I enjoy your columns in that as well and it's just a pleasure to call you a friend my friend well well

thank you maybe you'll be read you never know maybe be reading about a guy named Brad ASCO who who knows you don't you

wouldn't have much readership man if you did that don't do that no listen they'd

be surprised so well Brad well Brad thanks again again man I I'll I'll I'll

be talking yes sir it's pleasure thanks so much Sean have a great day thanks to my friend Brad ASU for coming on uh

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