Posted on 10/14/2024 7:41:37 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President George H.W. Bush is remembered for a lot of things.
One way he has been immortalized is with a Topps baseball card. It remains one of the most unusual cards ever produced.
The former president, in fact, played first base when he was a student at Yale University. While he served only one term as president, as a baseball player starting in 1946 Bush played for three years and batted .224.
In 1990, Topps Chairman Arthur Shorin decided to make a special edition card -- #USA1 -- and presented Bush with 100 copies of them in an Oval Office meeting. The president gave the cards to his friends, family and White Hosue staffers.
In 2013, former Bush Chief of Staff John Sununu, an avid sports card collector, submitted 11 of the special Topps cards to PSA for grading.
"After the presentation of the special issue cards in the Oval Office, the president distributed a number of them to family, close friends and several members of our White House staff," he told Sports Collectors Digest. "Since I was sure that few, if any, of us would ever part with such a personal memento, I was surprised to see so many cards beginning to show up in auctions in recent years, although Topps' original intent was to distribute only the 100, which were given to the president."
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The cards do come up at auction every few years and can fetch thousands. In 2021, one sold through PWCC for $6,100.
6k for a treasonous globalist warmonger who set into motion the seeds of destruction of this once great nation.
$6K for an object even rarer than the profound sayings of GHW Bush.
If only he had meant “No New Taxes” he might have had a second term, and Dan Quayle might have had a chance in 1996.
For 50 years (since the 80s) the Bush family has been manipulating and controlling the GOP and they and their acolytes are absolutely dishonest, dishonorable, and ghoulish people who can never be trusted EVER. I sure hope Trump has figured that out this time around after getting cooked by the likes of Pence and Barr, etc last time.
Not forgetting the Bakers.
“”Since I was sure that few, if any, of us would ever part with such a personal memento, I was surprised to see so many cards beginning to show up in auctions in recent years ...”
whahahahaha
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