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
http://tigerwoodsfistpump.blogspot.com/2007/08/when-baseball-cards-mattered_19.html
― the sir weeze, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:53 (5 years ago) Permalink
Holy shit, remember Brien Taylor?!
I remember reading the entire cover story on the guy, who was basically some high school kid who could throw really, really fast. Never even made it to the majors, but in my mind he was a legend.
― Z S, Saturday, 13 October 2007 17:58 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
dude, you're only going to get like 25¢ more for it anyways.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Saturday, 13 October 2007 18:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
The card worth anything these days is a Bonds card with a signed confession on it.
― Jeff, Saturday, 13 October 2007 19:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
this was at the start of the season, wouldn't expect to find them now
― gershy, Saturday, 13 October 2007 22:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
x-post . yea Target sells them. 7 11 did years ago.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 October 2007 23:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
Sports Authority and Toys R Us sometimes sell 'em
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 13 October 2007 23:08 (5 years ago) Permalink
thanx!
― gershy, Sunday, 14 October 2007 01:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 14 October 2007 03:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://tigerwoodsfistpump.blogspot.com/2008/01/dealing-with-agony-of-once-valuable.html
― the sir weeze, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 13:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
Kent Hrbek!
Andy Van Slyke!
Glenallen Hill!
I'm gonna be RICH!!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
I never got into this kind of collecting, cert not as an investment.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 8 January 2008 14:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (5 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
anyone want to buy 5,000 '88-'90 donruss and topps cards, btw? $20.
― omar little, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
er, my complete set was 1990 Topps. Apparently they discontinued gum in 1992.
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
ya - the gum was staining the cards. boo-freaking-hoo.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Friday, 2 October 2009 20:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
1909-11 tobacco cards:
http://baseballcards.galib.uga.edu
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 October 2009 22:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
had soooo many phil plantier cards
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:52 (3 years 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
― 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
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