1915 Cracker Jack Joe Jackson PSA 8, Babe Ruth Rookie Card Pace Latest Mile High Card Company Auction
Continuing the trend of achieving astonishing and record-breaking prices, Mile High Card Company’s August 2022 catalog auction marked a huge success for participants across the board. “Following the sale of the Charlie Sheen T206 Honus Wagner card in March was not an easy task, but our trusted consignors stepped up with some pretty incredible items for this event,” said MHCC founder and principal Brian Drent.
It’s Singular not Plural! Taking Stock of the 1914 and 1915 Cracker Jack Cards
If you’re like me, you might have grown up singing the line to the song incorrectly. It’s not “Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks” at all! Not having a major league team in Colorado until after I was done with college, I probably sang this at Denver Bears or Denver Zephyr games. It wasn’t until I watched the spectacular Baseball documentary by Ken Burns that I realized it was singular, because I wasn’t really a fan of sweet treats growing up as a kid, and never really purchased any Cracker Jack for myself. I remember some of my friends showing me the little trinkets they got as prizes in their boxes of the caramel popcorn treat, but nothing that I saw really impressed me very much. Of course, it wasn’t until much later that I became aware of the really good prizes that used to come in the boxes, way back in the day.
2020: The Worst of Times, the Best of Times!
Sorry to get all “Tale of Two Cities” on you there but it seems like a lifetime ago that the NBA announced that Rudy Gobert had tested positive for COVID-19 and some NBA games would have to be cancelled. Then in an instant, the entire NBA was gone. And then the NHL. And there goes NASCAR, and the PGA, and the Kentucky Derby. Suddenly, the DraftKings app was only good for wagering on Russian table tennis in the Moscow Ligo Pro, with fistfights breaking out between fans of Alexandr Serebrennikov and Dmitry Petrochenko. OK, that last part might not be accurate, but yeah, 2020 was a different kind of year. In retrospect though, it wasn’t all bad. No seriously, it wasn’t.