Hobby Quick Hits Ep.194 Hobby Regrets & Do-Overs

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Newman hello everybody Welcome to

episode one 94 of hobby quick hits

today's topic I titled the episode

regrets maybe that's too strong of a

word but you know you know I get asked

sometimes whether it be at a show or

even uh via DM you know for as long as

you've been doing this J you know would

you do anything differently or did you

make any mistakes or things you you know

if you could go back again uh and

there's yeah there there's things I I

have you know regrets

I'm

really you know proud of my hobby

Journey if you will if I can be so bold

but you know I yeah there's a few things

I like Mulligans on I don't I don't know

if regrets maybe is the right word but

things I would do differently and so

that's what this episode is is going to

entail is is what would have I changed

if you know that DeLorean as I always

say was real and I could go back and and

tell myself hey do this and not this or

do this in addition to or that sort of

thing what I would do differently and so

uh it's a question I get asked every so

often so I figured I'd put it together

in this episode so uh with that being

said let's get the show started okay now

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first visit all right I'll be doing the

new releases for the next couple weeks

right here so here we go

on the 18th decision

2024 trading cards same day this is all

December 18th a week before Christmas

2024 Leaf Maryland Monroe icons

collection 2024 Panini Mosaic football

no huddle 2024 Panini prism football

hobby Star Trek Discovery season 5 2024

Topps graphite

tennis 2024 25 top shifa club

competition soccer Hobby and

Blaster 2024 Upper Deck Fleer retro

Looney Tunes 2024 Upper Deck Fleer Ultra

matriarchs of Marvel and closing out the

18th 20232 24 Upper Deck Parkers

Champions

hockey uh the 19th 202 four Topps triple

Treads baseball the 20th 2023 24 Panini

basketball 2024 Panini prism

baseball 2024 Panini prism Collegiate

draft football staying on the 20th 2024

Pro Set pure

football uh and and the plus pro uh Pro

Set uh 24

of December Christmas Eve 2024 Leaf

Heroes and Prospects football Hobby and

jumbo going to the 27th 2024 Leaf

collective

multisport in the solo

Edition and hobby and blasters 2024

Panini absolute football 2024 Panini

Mosaic

football staying under 27 23 24 Topps

Cosmic Chrome

basketball 2024 Upper Deck professional

women's hockey league on the 30th 2024

Upper Deck Marvel Spider-Man

Renditions closing out the year on New

Year's Eve 2024 Leaf Elvis Presley Ians

collection and 2023 24 Panini National

Treasures basketball and that is what's

scheduled for the rest of the year a lot

of uh a lot of releases on the 18th and

the 20th here just uh just in time for

uh Christmas so as I always say Choose

Your Weapon happy

ripping Let's Go Round The Hobby verse

and catch up on this week's hobby

news and find

out all right let's start with the

1916 Morehouse baking Babe Ruth at this

point only one in existence there's 90

cards in total in circulation from this

very unknown uh set of cards that were

uh used as sort of redemptions on many

of them will have cancelled uh stamped

on the back of them uh but uh Babe Ruth

that was graded uh 3 and a half by PSA

uh just sold at Rea auctions for 800 12

,000 and uh you know you can go to

sports uh sports collectors uh daily to

hear the story about it but interesting

fing through kind of a a yard sale if

you if you will but uh pretty obscure

set and really only mantle in existence

and you know you say well why didn't it

bring you know seven figures and I'm I'm

only guessing is I think people don't

know a little about it they their a

little trepidation there but you know

$812,000 uh is nothing to scarf uh you

know scarf fat so uh almost a million

dollars uh right there so uh

congratulations to the seller uh and the

buyer it's being called a Babe Ruth

rookie card uh Matt sundine uh Swedish

Hockey player if you collected hockey

cards in the 90s you will remember Matts

and uh he just signed a exclusive

autograph deal uh with Upper Deck so

he'll be on the uh Upper Deck side of uh

you know if you want any Matt sundine

autographs you'll have to uh look at uh

getting them through Upper Deck uh uh

products a mantle the online uh

collecting Community platform that I am

active on uh big news there they just

got uh a new app

IOS and Android both I'm an Android guy

so uh love using the app it's just

easier accessible and no matter what you

collect you know from cards to watches

to whatever it might be uh there's a

there's a community on that app uh I had

Evan Parker the CI CEO uh just spoke

with him look for that uh two-part

interview uh coming up in a few weeks on

sports card Nation where we's talk about

the app and other things including uh

the hobby there PSA has announced they

are doing uh like you're streamlining

you can go put your cards from PSA right

on to eBay and that's whether they're in

the vault or you've just submitted them

for grading so once the grades come back

you have a choice to list them on eBay

and then have them go into the Vault if

you have cards in their vault already

you can add them to to uh eBay uh as

well uh let's talk about you know it's

not a new segment right we don't talk

about a crime or at least it feels like

that when when we do these uh dat line

Chattanooga Tennessee

Walmart uh a gentleman I'm not going to

mention his name uh I I don't want to

give any kind of shine to uh commit CRI

criminal activity but this gentleman

went into Walmart he loaded up his uh

shopping cart with about $560 worth of

uh you know product blasters went

through the self checkout acting like he

was paying for it put him in bags and

left the store a uh their in-house

security which was an off-duty police

officer uh was on to him uh right away

followed him out of the

store uh he ran back into the store

actually ran over a customer they I

believe they were slightly injured he

was apprehended handcuffed behind his

back and put into a squad

car uh the officer went back into the

store I don't know the reasoning and the

next thing he noticed was his car his

squad car being driven by the suspect so

the suspect somehow got his hands over

to the front he was still handcuffed

climbed through the back

window of the squad car into the front

seat seat I'm assuming the officer left

his keys in the car Keystone Cops here

and took went on a while chase the

police uh chased him uh he wound up

hitting a few vehicles and then

flipping the squad car obviously he was

he got out of the squad car tried to run

while still being handcuffed and was

apprehended so all over

$560 uh worth of blaster boxes holy cow

I don't believe it so there you go crime

does not pay the national I you know it

sounds crazy but it's uh approaching we

are again about 7 months away tickets

are now on sale at the Nationals uh

website which I believe is

nscc.edu

uh as as well and uh we'll kind of close

with this story uh you know we all know

about these deut debut patches that tops

are doing where they take that debut

patch off the

uniform uh make a card out of it it's

either in the pack as that or Redemption

they made just so you know I didn't

realize they actually made this many

they made 251 of them and at this time

we only three that we know of have come

to light now someone could have one and

just didn't advertise it but three we

know have seen the light of day uh Wyatt

Langford Jackson holiday and uh cheros

the Milwaukee uh young Stars so uh just

three that we know for sure but again

there may be others out there that just

no one kind of said that they they

pulled it but uh you know some big ones

Still Still uh you know haven't seen the

light of day with the big one being uh

Paul SCH so uh Happy ripping and and

good luck uh pulling one of the

248 uh remaining there

and now our Feature

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Presentation all right so I'm I'm

entitled this episode The regrets

episode uh I'm going to talk about some

things in the 40 years I've been in the

hobby my store days my show days current

days um I I I don't like the word

regrets cuz I really am happy where I am

at this stage of my life and and where I

am hobby wise do I have every card I I

ever want not even closeth so it's not

about that right we can't have get

everything we want and so I don't like

the word regrets but you know would I do

something differently and I get asked

that question by people who know me and

and know how long I've been you know

collecting cards and selling cards and I

I get that question every so often hey

what would you do differently John or if

you could go back and change

something what would you do and so that

that's more the angle of where this

episode's coming from rather than

regrets I know I i' I titled it regrets

um but it's more hey hindsight being

2020 you know what would you what would

you do and so that's that's what I'm

going to cover and I'm going to you know

start to finish and and uh try to do it

sort of in order I'm sure I'll go uh a

little bit out of order but again no

complaints I really am enjoying where

I'm at Hobby wise outside the hobby wise

and that sort of thing um but you know

going back to when I started as a as a

little kid and in 1979 right I wasn't it

had nothing to do with finances or

financial right we were trading them

putting rubber bands around them

throwing them around beating them up

um so you know should I wish uh uh I

would have probably took better care

right from the start but you know that's

what we did so again that's not a regret

it's just hindsight being 2020 the other

thing you know I again I started in 1979

with 79 Topps baseball you know some

people would probably consider that that

year now vintage I don't you know

obviously then it was current um but but

I did start buying cards earlier than

the year I you know we were in but I

didn't you know even as a younger person

who started doing shows at

15 I wish I had bought more vintage than

I did and different types of of vintage

and uh you know I I did buy uh vintage

or or ear you know earlier year cards

but I wish I would have did more of it I

I I wish I would have did more

kind of targeted uh buying you know a

lot of you know I'm a Jackie Robinson

guys and I have you know I have some I

don't have every Jackie Robinson I wish

then and now we know you know Jackie

Robinson card is is even in low grade

condition is going to be kind of costly

so I wish I had bought even more Jackies

than I did earlier including you know

I've told the story of the Le rookie and

and waiting too long and kicking the can

down the road a couple times and you

know would love to to have a mulligan

there um I guess that would probably be

definitely a regret cuz you know I'm

glad I have it but it cost me a little

bit more than it would have had I bought

it earlier um so I would say that with a

you know with a lot of the Jackies right

and some that I have and some that I

still don't um it would have been nice

to uh you know have a little more

foresight uh there um one of you know

someone says what why didn't you buy as

many and that's a good question and and

I answer it like this at the time when I

really started to buy

Jackies um I was already on the show

circuit I already had thoughts of

eventually opening the store which I did

at age 20 and so whenever even to this

day right whenever you buy and and if

you're a seller or someone that sells

car I'm not even talking about like a

dealer but someone that sells cards on

eBay um any you know anytime you buy a

PC card you know that's a one-way

transaction right you're going to you're

going to buy whatever you spend you know

three figures two figures four figures

and that's going into your PC and it's a

it's a oneway transaction could you

always sell it sure does it always have

some kind of liquidity or value sure but

when you're buying a PC card you're not

thinking about selling and that's the

great thing that's why it's awesome to

have a PC but because of that I was a

little bit maybe hesitant or reluctant

to buy a lot of Jackie Robinson because

I knew you know I was going to buy it

and then it would never you know be sold

again so I it probably cost me some

buying opportunities um if you will with

uh with that being said so yeah I would

I would love to probably be a little

more would have been a little more

proactive buying some Jackie

Robinson's um early on right uh going

ahead to the store days um again so

buying more vintage buying more Jackie

um buying more targeted vintage um which

I I mean I did all right I'm not I'm not

crying about it but you know knowing

what we know now right old um if I knew

then what I knew now kind of uh lying

there uh but when I got into the store

you know H20 was the first year to store

I did it for six years so from H2 to 26

I was I had a partner and I owned my own

uh store with my partner Angelo and

Angelo was great at he didn't get

attached at anything so he didn't really

with memory certain right didn't PC a

lot maybe some Yankees he was a Yankee

fan at that time where I was a met guy

but he really everything had everything

was for sale one of the things I did was

I got attached to certain cars and so

certain things I didn't put out for sale

and I would remember I would remember

conversations with Angelo he'd be like

John sell that thing like why are you

taking that home or why are you have

that in the back of the store not out in

the Showcase and and you know there's a

lot of those cards now I'm like why did

I not sell that car um and it would have

been more you know beneficial to sell it

than than to hold and um you know I

still hold some stuff back today even

even with my show inventory but not as

much as I used to do so would have loved

to to you know have a mull in there and

maybe sell some of those CS that um I

didn't at at the time when I should have

and I think we probably all have uh

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