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What's your best one? Did you ever play games of chance/skill with them (flipping, for instance)? Does anyone collcet the newer cards?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

What about sporting figure cards in general, not just baseball? I know they're all called "baseball cards" but I don't want to confuse anyone...I have Jim Kelly's rookie card on my desk. My mom has this fantastic one, she collects them occasionally, she found this misprinted one that's apparently worth quite a bit. It's a Joe Montana card that swapped around two stats, it says he got 30,000+ touchdowns and 3,000 yards career. Which would be pretty fucking fantastic if true, I mean it's 10 touchdowns a yard! She has one that was signed by both the Griffeys, to go back to baseball...

― Ally, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and I got Derek Jeter's autograph on a card, but I gave it to my grandma who loves Jeets.

― Ally, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Wow. That card is going to be worth a fortune. I hate the Yankees like few other things in this world, but you have got to hand it to Derek Jeter. Did you see the catch he made in game 5? It looked like a wrestling move, landing on his head in the seats, totally vanished from view -- and he comes up throwing, almost getting the guy who'd tagged up to go to 2nd.

I have a lot of cards tat I love not for their value but just cause I like em for some reason. I've got Danny Ainge card, from whn he played for the Blue Jays. There's a RObin Yount that I'm partial to. Best card: Topps Carl Yastrzemski rookie. My Roger Maris has probably plummeted in value since 1998. I've got a Willie Mays and a Mickey Mantle. The last year I seriously collected: 1986, Clemens' rookie year. My mother, and only my mother, knows were about 20 Clemens rookies are, cached somewhere in the attic of the house in Knoxville.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

i used to be a mcgwire fanatic in the early nineties and bought every single card of his, even his 1985 usa rookie card for 20 bucks. i made out like a bandit when he hit 70hr's but sadly all those cards are worthless now.

derek jeter = the guy from nsync that's always behind everybody else

― ernest, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Did you poke them through your spokes to turn your grifter into a harley?

― chris, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I feel I have to represent the UK here and mention PG Tips cards plus albums. Animals of the World!

― Tom, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

chris ARE YOU KIDDING?? maybe with commons. but god it just seems wrong to abuse them so horribly. for the serious chopper hotrod vibra- flap audio action on my two wheeler i used playing cards instead. watch out foster lane!!

(what i should have done: rubber- banded every bob stanley, calvin schiraldi, marty barrett, and bill buckner card i had and lacerated them slowly with spokes over the summer of 87)

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I had BOTH Griffey's Upper Deck rookie card and Sosa's Upper Deck rookie card. Traded Griffey to my *grrr* friend for a bunch of crapola - if the name Eric Anthony rings a bell, I pity you. Sold the Sosa in a lot of other crap sports cards for about $40 back in '99. My sale of said sports cards occurred after trying to semi- return to the hobby. What I learned - I'm too wussy to be a good collector, and I'm too ignorant to be a hobbyist. Result - wasted moolah. Grrr.

Tracer - no Rich Gedman "love"? Spike Owen? DON BAYLOR? OIL CAN BOYD? The crapitude was a team effort, regardless of the scapegoats. No, wait - it was McNamara's fault.

― David Raposa, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I have an Orel Hershiser rookie card that was one of my most treasured posessions growing up (I have it still, but it's in a box where the sun can't get to it).

I also have about five thousand Jose Canseco rookie cards, if anyone's interested...

― JM, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I had a Mickey Hatcher card on my dartboard shortly after the '88 series (guess I didn't have any Kirk Gibson cards, or something). I wish I still collected; Derek Jeter deserves some cardboard voodoo right about now.

― Kris, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Was that Mickey "Cork Bat" Hatcher ho played for the Astros?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

You're thinking of Billy Hatcher. Mickey Hatcher was an ancient looking white guy with grey hair who was an awful hitter but mysteriously hit like .400 in the '88 WS with more homers in the series than he had all year (2 vs 1, I think).

― Kris, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

I was wandering if anyone could tell me the value of a hall of fame inductee poster card produced by dream team, would be worth. 1983 copyright. thank you

― marcus keeno, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...

lol marcus

there doesn't seem to be a thread on ILB, so let's talk about baseball cards some more. my best is probably a griffey rookie. is it true the market dropped out of baseball cards years ago? i've got 13,000 or so in my mom's basement just waiting for the right time.

― jergïns, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 13:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

i skimmed through a Beckett probably within the last year, and most of my complete sets are basically worthless. I never had any super high priced cards (though I guess that McGwire Olympic rookie was worth a good amount for a short period of time, but now I think it's just worth the $20 I paid for it years ago). The best I have left now is probably a Cal Ripken Jr Topps rookie, which I doubt is even worth much anymore.

haha I remember how much I used to look forward to the new Beckett coming each month! At that point in my life, I actually paid attention to baseball and checked the stats each day. Now I don't have a clue what's going on.

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh, and I got Derek Jeter's autograph on a card, but I gave it to my grandma who loves Jeets.

-- Ally, Wednesday, October 17, 2001 8:00 PM (5 years ago)

guys my grandma died and i got this back.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

bottom dropped out of the market sometime after Upper Deck started putting them out. i guess the market couldn't sustain more than three brands (topps, donruss, fleer), and high-end collectors fucked off.

i'm not a hoarder, but at age 12 i knew Randy Johnson would be the next big thing and bought a ton of his rookie cards at a show for like a quarter each. i have one of those plastic sheet books somewhere in my parents house with page after page of Randy Johnson rookies, i guess i thought of it as an investment? I think that book went from being worth $10 to $1,000 back to $10 in the current day.

― sanskrit, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

i remember in fifth grade selling a Rickey Henderson topps rookie to a friend for $50. always felt real bad about it as rickey is my dude. then maybe 3 years ago i was at a flea market and perused some baseball card vendor's table out of nostalgia. i bought back the very same card for $2, that's how bad it's gotten.

― sanskrit, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Sign of the times: there's an obstensibly comic / card store near me that sells primarly sports crap. Two glass cases of cards; one rack of comics; an assload of Yankee jerseys & UConn towels.

― David R., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have boxes and boxes of almost worthless late 1980s complete sets in storage at my parent's house. Actually, of all the cards I bought, the only ones that are really worth anything are a handful of football cards that include Marino and Elway rookies.

― Brent, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

My one real regret is that I never got a hold of the Clemens "Traded Set" rookie. It was the jewel in the crown and for a couple of years it was a duel between Clemens and Gooden for which one of those cards was the priciest.

My parents still have no idea where my Mantle, Maris, Yaz rookie, and Willie Mays are. :/

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 14:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

The bottom fell out in the early '00s after several sustained years of brand oversaturation. At one point, every company had 3 different brands going for it: the normal, regularly priced packs, the cheapo ugly stuff, and the "premium" garbage. Some companies even trotted out "super premium" hoohah. So Upper Deck probably was the one who started the decline.

The oversaturation was also spiked with mania for special ("special") and rare cards called "inserts" that could be found in only a small percentage of packs, which was supposed to justify their double-digit Beckett valuations.

So oversaturation + artificial scarcity = a lot of kids getting ripped off and eventually giving up on the whole deal as a sunk cost of adolescence = my story.

― Leee, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah, looking through beckett, the number of sets per year gets increasingly absurb starting in like the 90s.

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

yup - same story for me - was part of the card mania of the 90's as a youth and now i have two boxes "worth" of cards in my mom's basement.

I had a thing for older cards tho and they probably have not suffered the tragic decline as much as the cards of the over-saturation era.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

when i was a kid we would pin baseball cards into the spokes of our bicycle tires so theyd make a neat noise when we rode them. children today know nothing but greed.

― deeznuts, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 17:46 (6 years ago) Permalink

Shove it up your airhose, gramps.

― David R., Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:02 (6 years ago) Permalink

deeznuts = bill lee in ken burns baseball?

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

The oversaturation was also spiked with mania for special ("special") and rare cards called "inserts" that could be found in only a small percentage of packs, which was supposed to justify their double-digit Beckett valuations.

So oversaturation + artificial scarcity = a lot of kids getting ripped off and eventually giving up on the whole deal as a sunk cost of adolescence = my story.

This nails it.

The last thing I remember about collecting cards was buying four or five packs of super ultra ltd edition rare upper deck baseball cards, I think they were 5 dollars a pack for 3 cards, and one out of every 1000 or something would have a card with a REAL BASEBALL JERSEY sewn into the card!!!!! Of course, I probably got nothing but Pedro Guererro and Chris Sabo cards, and gave up the hobby for good.

I still have around 12,000 or so cards in my parent's basement, neatly organized by team. So many people have the same situation that I doubt they'll ever substantially increase in value.

Just before the big bust in prices, I tried to convince my parents to let me sell all my cards, but they wouldn't let me. Their reasoning was that since the value of cards increased so much from the pre-1970s to now, they would continue to increase at a similar pace during the next few decades (RONG). Also, they thought that I'd just blow all of the money I made from selling the cards on videogames (RITE).

― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 16:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

oh man my best card was a 1960 Topps Nellie Fox and i bought one of the thick plastic holder things with bolts in the corners

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

it's pretty amazing how much cards devalued. i have a shitload of griffey rookie cards which were worth $10 a pop in the early 90s and now they're worth a nickel.

my best card was some 1971 nolan ryan topps card. i think it's in my closet back at my parents' house.

― omar little, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

know what was cool was that 1992 Score (i think) Bo Jackson card where he had the shoulder pads AND the bat

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

It's not the most valuable I have by any means, but aesthetically this was always my favorite:

Man, I remember writing an essay in 4th grade about how my hero in life was Ozzie Smith. Then it turned out that my best friend at the time had written about how his best friend was me, and things got really awkward when I said I had chosen Ozzie Smith.

― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

how uncomfortable for Ozzie, too

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

hahahahahaha
I think I'm going to start an Ozzie Smith thread.

― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

who else had a Beckett subscription? god that was a thrill checking to see if the little arrows went up or down on your top 10

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

^^^^yes

― Jordan Sargent, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

^^^^

― omar little, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

My very first pack of baseball cards were Donruss 88's, I opened it up and this was the first card:

It was at this point that I decided that the Mets were my favorite team and Strawberry was my favorite player. I really enjoyed collecting the cards and never really card about value. Good thing about that.

― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

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!!!

― omar little, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

Results 1 - 10 of about 278 for "jim abbott" "def leppard". (0.35 seconds)

― iiiijjjj, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

Remember the Score Dream Team cards? Those were hot:

― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

Full bleeds ruined baseball cards. I really liked the wood grain borders of the 87 Topps:

― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

The 1987 Topps set is one of the few that I own all of, and of course there were no noteworthy cards, rookie cards or anything from that series.

Somewhere I have an uncut sheet of 1994 Score cards.

― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

This one kills me, stick figure Barry:

― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

Awesome:

― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

I had this exact same binder:

― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

Oh the lols:

― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

― dan m, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

All these baseball card auctions on ebay with no bids are depressing.

― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

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Chuck: Mine's without the dust jacket, but it's gotta be the same issue. (It was actually Mike Saunders who sent it to me, at which point I gave my paperback to someone else.) The Zernial card's great; my other favourites are the Bob Cerv card where it looks like he's hitting himself in the head, and the Unitas card towards the end. One thing I never understood--the way the authors clearly hate Bouton, even though their book is so similar to Ball Four in some of its humour.

― clemenza, Monday, 16 August 2010 19:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yeah mine's without the dust jacket too. Metallic red type on a dark blue fabric cover, IIRC.

I've stolen so many lines from that book over the years. I'll always remember something to the effect of "Roseboro wore this expression ever since Juan Marichal whacked him on the head with a white-ash Hillerich and Bradsby" which I assumed was a joke for years until I learned it was true!

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

Johnny Unitas... there's a haircut you could set your watch to!

― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

One thing I never understood--the way the authors clearly hate Bouton, even though their book is so similar to Ball Four in some of its humour.

I've got a later edition (early 90s) w/ separate new prefaces by Boyd & Harris. One of them mentions that Bouton had been asked to provide a foreword to the original edition and he declined because he didn't want his kids to see his entry wherein he was called a rat. They replied with what about all the much worse stuff other players kids saw re:their dads in Ball Four. Bouton stopped talking to them.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/images/cards/8510.jpg

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:22 (2 years ago) Permalink

Why did I make such a terrible post about him?

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

Metallic red type on a dark blue fabric cover, IIRC.

You've got a good memory--exactly.

That Bouton stuff is fascinating. Here's the entirety of what they write next to his card: "Jim Bouton is a big mouth." Yet he was approached to write a preface? I'm guessing that was the publisher's idea, not necessarily the authors'.

― clemenza, Monday, 16 August 2010 19:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, they didn't want a forward. They had another story about someone else (i forget) the publisher wanted. One of the guys decided to write the person a letter by hand (to show sincerity). The guy wrote back saying he didn't like hand written letters and whatever $ figure they'd quoted was "an insult".

Joe Garagiola was also approached, but backed out because he was still embarrassed about signing exclusive deals w/both Topps and Bowman in the 50s, and didn;t like that story being retold in the text.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

Of course, later Topps made Joe's business cards:

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

i have most of a set of 1968 topps world series cartoon cards. anybody who wants to pay postage is welcome to them.

― From the novel "Spinster Dinner" (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 16 January 2011 20:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

why dont you ask that question of ebay and use the money for outrageous joy!!

I am goin through all my old cards now - ebaying some.
some of the cards really amuse me

― Splendid Curving Oasis of Ivory (Latham Green), Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

so my brother's mother-in-law gave him a box of 1990 Fleers. they're not worth anything, but we've been enjoying opening them. they have a really nice look to them, very classically designed and clean. they have stickers too but they're no longer sticky so if you put one up on the wall they slide off after a few minutes.

― Mordy, Friday, 18 May 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

Keep the Larry Walkers, and maybe the Sosas, too, just in case; the Belles and Juan-Gones are for the bike.

― clemenza, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

apologies if this has already been posted in this thread, but this is my favorite blog entry ever!

― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Aw man, I used to love Albert Belle.

― pandemic, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

clemenza, do u buy new baseball cards? i so enjoy opening packs of cards that i was thinking about buying a box of something new, but i don't know what to get

― Mordy, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

A truly fascinating player; I just meant he's not going into the HOF, which for a baseball card = worthless. I liked him too.

― clemenza, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was badly hooked in the mid-'90s (just after the strike; like investing all your money in Studebaker stock...), but I haven't bought anything for a few years.

― clemenza, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

Mordy: I think the boxes that tend to be cheap and easily available are, in terms of rookie cards, whatever falls into the steroids window--from about '87 to '93 or so. All those sets with rookies for Sosa, Palmeiro, Bagwell, I-Rod, etc., or burnouts like Belle and Gonzalez.

― clemenza, Friday, 18 May 2012 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

I collected from about '84-'92, so I got to watch my collection go way up in value and then crash down to earth, becoming nearly worthless. Really wish I'd gotten rid of them sooner.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

that makes me feel a little better, jon. i collected in the early eighties and my brother at one point sold the lot on ebay w/o asking me for permission. i mean, i don't necessarily begrudge him for doing so, i owe him a lot in some respects, but axing someone never hurts

― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, my mom kept hinting around '90 that I should sell my collection to get $$$ for college, but at the time I was madly flipping through Beckett's, watching the prices climb and climb, and was all, "no way mom, this is going to be worth SO MUCH MONEY if I wait ten more years!". Stupid me.

My parents sold off all of my comic books and Star Wars toys at a garage sale without telling me, still hold a grudge to this day over that one.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh shit, haha

why did the card prices end up going down? i don't know anything about that world

― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

From what I understand it was just the inevitable collapse of artificially high prices. Like there was a period 2 years into his career when Gary Sheffield's rookie card was worth like $75 or something. It was like all of the sudden card values were based on hype and buzz instead of a HOF career or storied past (see also the ridiculous craze for Todd Van Poppel rookie cards). I'm sure someone else could explain it in more detail or with better back-up though.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

it was pretty much a bubble. too many cards at inflated prices.

xpost

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

Mordy: a coworker and i buy a few packs every year when a new set comes out (ostensibly for graphic design reasons)... Topps now has an exclusive deal with MLB, so for now they're the only game in town. i like what they've done this year tho - they're applying an occasional classic card design to current players, so I got a 1987-style Andrew Mccutchen card in my last pack!

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oooh I loved the '87 Topps set when I was a kid.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

do they do a couple different sets? i remember when i bought cards in high school there were all kinds of different sets. ones with real bats, ones with pieces of jersey, ones that are all rookies, etc.

― Mordy, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

iirc they have a 2nd 2012 collectors set, but i cannot recall what its deal was.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

also: how do you fit a baseball bat inside a pack of cards?!

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

xposts ah how funny

yeah, i've never been savvy enough to convert my trash into cash as it were

like i know i have some books and records lying around that would fetch a decent price, but for whatever reason it's never been in my makeup to suss that out. i would rather give those things to someone who would appreciate it. otherwise i would just spend that money on dinner or a v-necked sweater

not a "humblebrag", prob more of an enduring character flaw and illustrative of my attempts to evade full-fledged adulthood

― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

baseball bat splinters!

― Mordy, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, that was a huge trend among all sports card companies at one point, really thin slices of backetballs, footballs, jersy pieces, bat splinters, even tiny pieces of basketball floors iirc.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

i have tiny basketball floor cards! also bat splinters, jerseys...

― Mordy, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Man this thread is taking me back. Remember when the '89 Upper Deck set dropped and it was like the most exciting, revolutionary thing that had ever happened to baseball card?

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah, that was a huge trend among all sports card companies at one point, really thin slices of backetballs, footballs, jersy pieces, bat splinters, even tiny pieces of basketball floors iirc.

wait what you are fucking kidding me

― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Another thing that hurt the card industry (as alluded to by clem) was the strike, which conveniently lined up with when Comic Books becoming ultra-hot collectibles (the heyday of Image, Valient, X-Men cartoon show etc.).

― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

(xpost)

They even did Nascar cards that had parts of race-used TIRES.

― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Speaking of '89 Upper Deck, this card was such hot shit in my neck of the woods back in the day:

― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

At least all you guys had the excuse of being in grade school and high school when you got hooked; I was 33.

Always figured one of the companies would start sticking bits of Ted Williams' brain into chase packs, but I guess they had to draw the line somewhere.

― clemenza, Friday, 18 May 2012 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

well, we could split hairs about "ethics" all day, but is that really so beyond the pale? i think not

― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh god!
a friend bequeathed a buncha books to me and this was amongst them:

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

I had the Ripken "future stars" triple rookie, which seems to go for around $25 on ebay but was once "worth" a lot more.

― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 May 2012 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

i don't think i gave any sort break down of the classic cards i have, but i feel compelled to share now for some reason, so here a few of my favs that i own:
'61 Whitey Ford & Duke Snider
'65 Koufax
'66 Ernie banks
'67 Ed Mathews
'72 Mays, Orlando Cepeda
'73 Clemente, Brooks Robinson & Aparicio
'75 Aaron, Frank Robinson & Killbrew

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

speaking of the memorabilia stuff, an interesting section from the Upper Deck wiki page:

Memorabilia & Relic Cards

Upper Deck has changed its practice of using materials certified as "Worn" by the player depicted on the front of the card. The changed wording on the backs of Upper Deck insert cards makes it less clear as to how the materials were used or what player wore the item.
EXAMPLE: Steve Nash card 2004... (Back of card) On the front of this card is an authentic piece of a jersey WORN by Steve Nash as a member of the Dallas Mavericks in an NBA game.
EXAMPLE: Jermaine O'Neal card 2006 Exquisite...(Back of card) On the front of this is a piece of memorabilia that has been certified to us as having been USED in an NBA game.

Upper Deck has also stopped adding the word "Jersey" to the fronts of game-used insert cards. The company no longer acknowledges exactly what kind of material was inserted into the cards or how the item was used, and it has eliminated statements claiming the player pictured on the card front actually wore the inserted material.

Upper Deck's authenticity has been questioned in regards to players' jersey and uniform materials. The cards state the inserted items are known to Upper Deck to have been used or worn, but since most of the gear is acquired through third parties, the actual use is unknown. Most of Upper Deck's jersey materials are harvested at events like rookie photo shoots, etc.. During such events, players often change shirts dozens of times to generate event-worn uniform material that never sees the field of play.

Collectors still debate and question the authenticity of such 'memorabilia", which often includes items manufactured specifically for insert cards, patches, and other desirable content.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 19:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Which brings me back to Ted Williams' brain--with all the advancements in DNA science, a tiny little scraping from Ted's noggin would be so much easier to authenticate.

― clemenza, Friday, 18 May 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 4 June 2012 18:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

ha haah a haha

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 June 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

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, August 16, 2010 2:01 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Annyong.

http://leftfieldcards.com/index.html

― Grimy Little Pimp (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 1 September 2012 20:44 (9 months ago) Permalink

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