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Just imagine… If Honus Wagner hadn’t objected to tobacco use, he wouldn’t have raised a stink about having his card included in cigarette packs (that’s where baseball cards first appeared). Then those cards wouldn’t be nearly so rare, and not nearly so valuable, and 100 years later pretty much nobody would remember his name.
As it is, I don’t know much about baseball or about trading cards, but I at least know that the Honus Wagner is the Holy Grail thereof…
Just imagine… If Honus Wagner hadn’t objected to tobacco use, he wouldn’t have raised a stink about having his card included in cigarette packs (that’s where baseball cards first appeared). Then those cards wouldn’t be nearly so rare, and not nearly so valuable, and 100 years later pretty much nobody would remember his name.
As it is, I don’t know much about baseball or about trading cards, but I at least know that the Honus Wagner is the Holy Grail thereof…