Never even made it to the majors,
injured himself in a bar brawl while in the minors and his career was over.
― chicago kevin, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
How much do you think 12,000 cards would be worth now? Discounting the "good" cards in them, how much would that many common cards be worth? $300?
― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I have Orel Hershiser's RC somewhere. I also have a signed Mike Richter (G, NYR) RC at home in CA.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:06 (sixteen years ago) link
good luck selling that to anyone, Z S
i think most people are too attached to their own collections, and that buying someone else's would kinda be like using their toothbrush
― the sir weeze, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha, you're probably right. I guess I was thinking more of selling all of them to some small card shop. I'm sure people in that business get sick of clueless people walking in everyday trying to unload thousands of worthless cards.
― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
this seems like a good place to mention this:
i have a ton of jeff bagwell cards that im irrationally inexplicably attached to there's a good chance he's going to the hall of fame, at which time his cards would be at peak value (around induction time, if it happens) i gotta sell all of them at that time, but im anticipating being all.. 'man, i CANT sell ALL of them...' or something has anyone else dealt with this before?
― the sir weeze, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep, with McGwire's cards during the season that he and Sosa were chasing 70. In retrospect, I made the completely wrong decision.
― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
dude, you're only going to get like 25ยข more for it anyways.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The card worth anything these days is a Bonds card with a signed confession on it.
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
here's a dumb question, but where do you buy baseball cards these days? i was looking to get some for my son because he's just at that age where he would probably dig them, and i couldn't find them. looked mainly in supermarkets and the big chain drugstores.
― gershy, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:36 (sixteen years ago) link
this was at the start of the season, wouldn't expect to find them now
― gershy, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Target sells baseball cards -- packets or boxes (no more wax boxes these days I reckon)
― van smack, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
x-post . yea Target sells them. 7 11 did years ago.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 October 2007 23:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Sports Authority and Toys R Us sometimes sell 'em
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 October 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
thanx!
― gershy, Sunday, 14 October 2007 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
asshole card dealers took the fun out of card collecting.
"hey i've got a mint bonds card here, man!"
"ah but is it gem mint?"
"..."
― omar little, Sunday, 14 October 2007 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.snopes.com/sports/graphics/ripken.jpg
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 14 October 2007 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
http://tigerwoodsfistpump.blogspot.com/2008/01/dealing-with-agony-of-once-valuable.html
― the sir weeze, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
it's pretty awesome to think about the players everyone was creaming over during the baseball card collecting peak! omg gregg jeffries! steve avery!! jose canseco!! doc gooooden!! future hall of famers WILL CLARK and DON MATTINGLY!!! DAVID JUSTICE and KEVIN MAAS!!!
Kent Hrbek!
Andy Van Slyke!
Glenallen Hill!
I'm gonna be RICH!!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I never got into this kind of collecting, cert not as an investment.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i think the monthly price guides starting getting popular around the mid-80s, it was like the jr. stock market
by the way, the actual baseball card link for sir weeze's article is this: http://tigerwoodsfistpump.blogspot.com/2007/08/when-baseball-cards-mattered_19.html
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
come with us to 1971...
http://thebaseballchronicle.com/personal_stories/1971_topps_baseball
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
my dad's collection is at about 40,000. i used to catalog them for him!
― Julie & Julius Rosenberg (donna rouge), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a mark mcgwire rookie card that he gave me...somewhere...
yr grandma didn't throw them out? xp
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 August 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
baseball card dealers back in my hometown were like these messiah figures to kids, i swear. they had an entire army of 11-14 yr olds at their disposal at any given moment, keeping them loyal with 1989 donruss. it was all a lie!
― omar little, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone want to buy 5,000 '88-'90 donruss and topps cards, btw? $20.
― omar little, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/09/29/the-baseball-card-industry-is-in-a-serious-slump/
― omar little, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder whatever became of my 1992 Topps complete set that I bought from the Price Club with money I had saved up from helping dig post-holes in my grandpa's backyard. I actually opened all the packs and put them into plastic sleeves for access to the gum. No regrets.
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
My dealer had $5 grab-bags on the wall - little manila envelopes on hooks labeled 1-30. You'd stare at them for 10 minutes or however long it took you to determine which one had the luckiest aura, then throw down your $5 and roll the fukken dice. OCCASIONALLY it was something worth more than $5 but for the most part it was some borderline decent card and a handful of no-name loser crapola. Scamming pre-adolescent boys, woop woop.
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
er, my complete set was 1990 Topps. Apparently they discontinued gum in 1992.
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
ya - the gum was staining the cards. boo-freaking-hoo.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 2 October 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
one out of every 1000 or something would have a card with a REAL BASEBALL JERSEY sewn into the card!!!!!
Like, a wee couple-of-centimeters tall jersey? Or a scrap of a regular-sized baseball jersey?
― existential eggs (Abbott), Friday, 2 October 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Viceroy has some Chris Chelios card(s?) displayed in our windowsill for the lols. I realize this is hockey but it is a sports card nonetheless.
― existential eggs (Abbott), Friday, 2 October 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
still have 50,000+ cards stacked in boxes in mom's basement. sorry, mom. they will be there until the end of time
also have a 2500+ will clark collection
― 6335, Saturday, 3 October 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
1909-11 tobacco cards:
http://baseballcards.galib.uga.edu
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 October 2009 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
had soooo many phil plantier cards
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://acidcow.com/pics/12208-the-30-worst-baseball-cards-of-all-time-30-pics.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
this one cracks me up:
http://acidcow.com/pics/20100809/the_30_worst_baseball_cards_of_all_time_16.jpg
― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
No Kent Tekulve?
This feature also reminds me that I had a dream recently in which I was astonished to discover that Doug Drabek was still active.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
There's still a part of my brain left over from highschool that could get back into collecting baseball cards tomorrow if I let it. That obsessive collect the whole set, find my favorite players, etc gland. Dangerous, dangerous stuff. I dare not let it out.
― Mordy, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
In a similar spirit, this is one of the funniest baseball books I've ever read:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Great_American_Baseball_Card_Book.jpg
It was first published in 1973, long before all the collector insanity.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
There's still a part of my brain left over from highschool that could get back into collecting baseball cards tomorrow if I let it.
^^ cosign
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 16 August 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm almost positive i had that Tom Henke one
― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Monday, 16 August 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i had many of those cards morbs linked to, oscar gamble lol
i always remember the ugly dudes http://lh5.ggpht.com/_kynWiBKxeYU/TD3GGv_F-_I/AAAAAAAAA5k/Nm4emmvNc2k/Andy_Etchebarren_77.jpg
― buzza, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
clemenza - I had that book!!! totally hilarious and for a teenager it was this weird direct access to the ancient past
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 August 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I went downstairs to try to dig it up so I could quote one specific entry, but I couldn't find it. I remember I leant it out a couple of times, so I hope I got it back...Let me give it another try.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Found it--forgotten that I'd replaced my old paperback with a hardcover edition. The entry I was thinking of is too long to quote in full; it's the one where they look at the text on the back of a Sammy Esposito card and analyze what it really means. Sample: "'Sammy attended Indiana U. for three years'...But as long as they were at it, did they have to throw in the 'three years'? This makes it sound as if Sammy was expelled."
Here's the exact card:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bpv/images/9/92/Sam_Esposito.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, I guess baseballreference.com blocks their images.
― clemenza, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
one of the funniest baseball books I've ever read.
Also (as I've said before) one of the most influential books on my own writing.
This is what my copy look like (the original cover, I think?)
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/38/f7/8092024128a0bedd634e1010.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
And I can't believe this card didn't make that Top 30 list:
https://www.gfg.com/cardimg/119/27051.jpg
― xhuxk, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link