Keith Olbermann goes off over baseball cards on Antique Road Show (Video)

By Cory Buck | Jan 8, 2015

ESPN’s Keith Olbermann ripped into the valuation of baseball cards on Antiques Roadshow.

Keith Olbermann couldn’t sit by and let an old lady believe her baseball cards were worth a million dollars per an Antiques Roadshow episode. Instead, he took to his show on ESPN to decry the show for telling the wrong story and offering the wrong estimate on some century-old cards owned by said old lady.

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Olbermann featured Antiques Roadshow on his ‘World’s Worst’ feature, noting that the ten cards featured were hardly worth a million dollars. But hey, at least it was the bronze medal finisher in that feature, losing out to a referee who was talking on his cell phone while working a middle school basketball game.

“They’re actually scorecards from the Boston games of 1871,” Olbermann said of the Roadshow feature. “The photos were a novelty to sell more scorecards and they are beautiful and rare because they didn’t sell well.

“But there are at least two dozen different ones known and at least 100 of them total – even I have a bunch. And they’re in all the catalogs and they have a name. They’re called Mort Rogers 1871 Boston scorecards and the 10 of them there are NOT worth a million dollars.”

While Olbermann may very well be correct about the million dollar figure, USA Today notes the cards could easily be worth $100,000 or so, which isn’t chump change. It’s not like a set of 100 of something from 1871 is some easily accessible collection. That’s pretty rare stuff, in truth. One could only dream of baseball cards made these days that come in sets of merely one hundred.

Then again, who’s keeping track when Olbermann decides to rip into someone? It’s much easier to simply devalue the crap out of something than to simply clarify its actual value, which is a dollar amount that anyone would be happy to cash in on if they were so inclined.

The lady in question doesn’t appear to be willing to sell the set anyways, citing it as a family heirloom of sorts, which means the whole point is moot anyways. The ‘cards’ will remain in her family at least until she passes. Let’s just hope she mentions their value to her sons or daughters before that happens.

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