If the goose were clutching a bat with "fuckface" written on it, maybe, but I think I'll pass.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 October 2022 13:10 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OfVoZo0.png
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link
Hell yeah
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 29 December 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
Not a card, but I bought one of these for $4 in Dollarama today:
https://www.fairshop.ca/new/collectibles-c-1/zack-greinke-21-arizona-diamondbacks-player-replica-mlb-players-choice-p-64
(If you look down below, you can still get a Roughned Odor for $10 before there's a run on them when he retires.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 December 2022 02:00 (one year ago) link
Starlin Castro!
I still want a Mike Richter starting lineup
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 29 December 2022 02:34 (one year ago) link
Not much of a hockey fan, but you can get a new one on eBay for $15.
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 December 2022 02:39 (one year ago) link
I had a Gary Carter Mets Starting Lineup action figure back in the day and sad I don't still have it
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 December 2022 03:14 (one year ago) link
Phil Neiko was born in ‘39 so he was probably 47 when that photo was taken assuming during the ‘86 Season. Awesome
― calstars, Thursday, 29 December 2022 04:26 (one year ago) link
Upper Deck ruined the baseball card industry
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 29 December 2022 04:29 (one year ago) link
I found my old cards - i like the matter of fact-ness of the 80’s stuff. Ur right that upper deck ruined a lot of stuff (most specifically brands like score trying to do the photography that UD did but not as well). Also a pack of 89 topps was 40 fucking cents!!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 29 December 2022 05:16 (one year ago) link
That said having switched to a pack of baseball cards instead of eating ice cream when i’m stressed the topps archive line is pretty dope
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 29 December 2022 05:17 (one year ago) link
For obvious reasons I never collected baseball cards but I have some cultural knowledge of what they mean to people who do; the sell-your-soul-for-it Sandy Koufax card that’s a notable Mcguffin in Needful Things and the Yaz card (“here you go, muttonchops Yaz”) that Milhouse is willing to pay $30 (in the 90s!) forhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr7v7FBcKoIAnyway at some point randomly last year I received a package in the post from the person who started this thread, with a collection of 2019(?) Portland Sea Dogs cards. That’s the Red Sox double A affiliate and the collection featured a number of guys now on the big team:https://i.postimg.cc/SRtsyMbq/IMG-4735.jpgThen clemenza offered to send me some old duplicate cards of his, which I accepted and they are pretty amazing. https://i.postimg.cc/7Z46qDp5/IMG-4736.jpgThere’s some beautiful cards in this, like the Griffey one on the left, but the NOMAH card on the right might be my favourite of them allhttps://i.postimg.cc/yd21tzmY/IMG-4737.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/NjbgYX6n/IMG-4739.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/x8HfSF5G/IMG-4740.jpgAs my message to TH says, they are in perfect condition! https://i.postimg.cc/JhczsgCp/IMG-4743.jpgSo now I have a very small collection of cards, most of them not worth anything (not the point to me), I’m not sure if I’ll add to it massively but certainly I have been looking out for nice cards for my favourite players and such. Thank you so much to both Tracer Hand and clemenza for your generosity and sharing your love of the game with me!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 2 February 2024 10:42 (seven months ago) link
I have a signed canseco dream team that makes me giggle
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 2 February 2024 10:58 (seven months ago) link
Baseball cards got exceedingly ugly for a time--"refractor" cards looked like the worst dollar-bin album cover art--but the Nomar card is a Topps Stadium Club, and they usually looked great in the '90s.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 February 2024 15:33 (seven months ago) link
lol. I actually considered sending you a Roy Halladay refractor (but was prevented from doing so because it didn’t ship to Canada!)
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 2 February 2024 15:42 (seven months ago) link
I was really, really into baseball cards from about 1983 to the bubble burst in the '90s, which really killed my interest. I had a binder of my best cards that was at one point was valued (at least per the Beckett magazines I used to devour) at about $7,000 - $8,000. Hoping to use it to help pay college expenses, I held on too long and when I finally took in in it was worth about $150 total.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2024 15:53 (seven months ago) link
i've still got thousands of cards in my childhood home, gyac if you have a list of favorite players whose cards may be of negligible value from the years 1987-1991 i likely have them. plenty of Score and Donruss and Fleer and particulary ugly Topps lying around.
― omar little, Friday, 2 February 2024 16:14 (seven months ago) link
Really kind of you Omar - if your webmail works, message me that way & we can discuss?
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 2 February 2024 16:40 (seven months ago) link
I thought the thread might have been revived for this crazy story, what Canadian dreams are made of:
http://www.cp24.com/news/saskatchewan-collector-finds-rare-case-containing-coveted-wayne-gretzky-rookie-cards-1.6749401#:~:text=Heritage%20Auctions%20took%20the%20hockey,of%20%242%20million%20or%20more
― dinnerboat, Friday, 2 February 2024 17:30 (seven months ago) link
Heard about that on the radio the other day--amazing. ($200,000 worth of baseball cards, too.)
― clemenza, Friday, 2 February 2024 17:59 (seven months ago) link
Didn't know there was a baseball card thread so I want to repost this from the 'Rank Anything You Feel Like Ranking' thread just to see if anyone wanted to engage with it. I chose this period only because that's what I'm familiar with - I knew the '70s sets from growing up in that era but I also knew most of the '60s sets from older kids in my neighborhood who had hung on to their cards.
Topps baseball card sets 1960-1980 by aesthetic design:1. 19752. 19653. 19644. 19715. 19726. 19747. 19608. 19769. 197010. 196711. 196112. 197713. 196614. 197315. 196316. 196817. 196918. 198019. 196220. 197821. 1979― Josefa, Saturday, August 18, 2018 1:38 AM (five years ago)
1. 19752. 19653. 19644. 19715. 19726. 19747. 19608. 19769. 197010. 196711. 196112. 197713. 196614. 197315. 196316. 196817. 196918. 198019. 196220. 197821. 1979
― Josefa, Saturday, August 18, 2018 1:38 AM (five years ago)
― Josefa, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:46 (seven months ago) link
I know the sets from the first half of the '90s much better; collected for about five years in there, mostly overproduced sets from the glut.
― clemenza, Friday, 2 February 2024 22:29 (seven months ago) link
https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20100809/the_30_worst_baseball_cards_of_all_time_24.jpg
― omar little, Friday, 9 February 2024 17:32 (seven months ago) link
Incredible stache
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 9 February 2024 17:35 (seven months ago) link
phwooar
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 February 2024 17:38 (seven months ago) link
the randiest randy
― omar little, Friday, 9 February 2024 17:43 (seven months ago) link
Has mustaches over his eyes too
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 February 2024 17:50 (seven months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PbRk0uT.jpglook what came in the mail from user gyac!!!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:00 (seven months ago) link
Just to clarify, I did not deliberately purchase 3/4 of these cards.What does that Ortíz say on the back
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Monday, 12 February 2024 21:04 (seven months ago) link
V underwhelming. No stats or anything. The others are great - little retro clip art, drawings, fun facts etc
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 08:40 (seven months ago) link
Is the Seabold a rookie card as well
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 09:38 (seven months ago) link
lol it is. Let's hope he gets the chance to lower his career ERA to something under 8.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 09:45 (seven months ago) link
Probably not in Colorado
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 09:47 (seven months ago) link
Sends baseball cards very much in character...Thank you to gyac for some cool cards, including these two, which I think are both from heritage sets:
https://i.postimg.cc/sXVkq4zF/buster.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/C596hj3x/tim.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:42 (seven months ago) link
Those were supposed to be smaller and side by side...
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:43 (seven months ago) link
(they're side-by-side if you have a big enough screen!)
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 03:08 (seven months ago) link
The Lincecum is supposed to look like an ‘85 Topps iirc. One of my favorite designs. The set with the legendary Gooden rookie.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:44 (seven months ago) link
I sent a few others, as clemenza alludes to, so here’s what I sent and why:Lincecum: duhPosey: the Posey/Lincecum battery of the 2010 postseason is my Roman EmpireBrandon Morrow: obviously he was a Jay but I kept reading about him when I started reading about Lincecum. He was a California kid who was drafted ahead of Lincecum, by the Mariners. Lincecum was a stud at UW and Mariners fans had been watching him carve up the pac12 for three years and Mariners fans, to this day, still bitch about (them drafting) Morrow. So you had a California kid go to Seattle and a Seattle kid go to California. Morrow was basically ruined by the Mariners messing him around but the Jays, I believe, helped him get back to what he started out as. The parallels are intense - their careers started and ended at very similar times.Sergio Romo - my Immaculate Grid stud! And the story about him striking out Miggy with a slow fastball in 2012 remains classic.I also sent a José Bautista by virtue of him being both a Blue Jays stud, baseball brawl and rule 5 legend?
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 09:41 (seven months ago) link
This is all really cool
― H.P, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 10:02 (seven months ago) link
I was in the MLB flagship store last week and I bought a box of the new cards, some sampleshttps://i.postimg.cc/J7Yf69Sk/IMG-5664.jpgThey very thoughtfully chose photos of the Padres players in their City connect uniforms for the most part which appealed to my aesthetic sensibilities. I gave my husband the Astros fan some Astros players and also Jordan Romano, who he loves “because he always blows the save when we watch him”.The neon look is pretty cool IMO. This pack cost me $20 for 59 cards, when I was looking at the pack this man came up and was cursing about the price increase. (He asked “Do you collect?” and I said “no,” despite having a box of cards in my hand, he then went into a spiel about what cards you can get in which packs and their value which I forgot as I wasn’t interested.) Anyway I may send some of these on!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 11:43 (seven months ago) link
The era of speculation is back
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 14:54 (seven months ago) link
Hey, you got Strider...I'd give those a 7/10 aesthetically; reasonably subdued by today's standards. And 30 cents a card doesn't seem too bad.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 12:56 (six months ago) link
And old man Acuña just behind him!
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 13:12 (six months ago) link
Didn't even notice that--those two cards alone justify the cost.
Just for context, two sets I'd give 10/10 for their design: '91 Topps Stadium Club and '93 Upper Deck SP.
https://i.etsystatic.com/16316958/r/il/053774/2227109100/il_570xN.2227109100_qjz7.jpg
https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ud-sp-griffey.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 13:26 (six months ago) link
Yeah I loved '93 Upper Deck.
I always had a soft spot for the wood grain '87 Topps.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71pOBCzaVDL.jpg
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 15:21 (six months ago) link
Clean af
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 15:47 (six months ago) link
agreedmid-80s a very good time for ultra-clean designs i.e. ‘85 fleerhttps://image.invaluable.com/housePhotos/onesourceauctions/05/667005/H4367-L201361811.jpg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:33 (six months ago) link
The antichrist of card design, marginally less garish than Las Vegas:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3c/Topps_1993_refractor_card.jpg/170px-Topps_1993_refractor_card.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:47 (six months ago) link
See I love that but I love holographic anything (my nails have holographic glitter right now), spare a thought for those of us who are magpies please
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:51 (six months ago) link
They were definitely all the craze for a while--not sure if they've maintained their value.
― clemenza, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:31 (six months ago) link