Baseball Cards

My Juan Gonzalez and Albert Belle rookies are worth less than a George Pataki endorsement.

mine were in my parent's storage since 2001 or so, presumably for eternity, and then about a year ago their basement flooded and they were all absolutely ruined. i had a lot of cards, not many of them good.

https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/1/14/Omar_Vizquel.png/250px-Omar_Vizquel.png

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/03/family-rare-ty-cobb-valuable-baseball-cards-in-house

Had no idea Toronto's biggest card shop, Legends of the Game (long ago--they changed their name at one point), closed down a few months ago. Very quietly--don't remember anybody posting anything on Facebook like when the World's Biggest Bookstore or Queen Video or various other local landmarks closed. When I shrewdly started buying baseball cards in '94, the year of the strike, they had a huge space. Tim Horton's took over about 2/3 of it a few years later, but they managed to limp along for another decade.

Saw this trailer yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0GsVS2gSAE

There's a great documentary to be made about the history and eventual collapse of the baseball-card industry, but not sure that this is it--seems to be hooked around some father-son reunion story.

Best-looking Topps card of each year according to a panel:

http://www.mlb.com/cut4/the-coolest-topps-baseball-card-from-every-year/c-289614258

Ten best:

http://www.mlb.com/cut4/coolest-topps-baseball-cards-ever-made/c-289734612

I own two of them. The wrong two.

Links aren’t working for me

yeah, same here. and the link to a video you posted the other day also didn't work - might just be a thing with accessing the site from canada? i'm not sure.

Weird--I took both of the MLB site. Maybe taking off the 's' from 'https' messed it up. Let me try again.

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/the-coolest-topps-baseball-card-from-every-year/c-289614258
https://www.mlb.com/cut4/coolest-topps-baseball-cards-ever-made/c-289734612

Those work for me.

oh yep! those work, thanks

rad thanks.

marilyn manson was nice with it
https://img.playbuzz.com/image/upload/q_auto:good,f_auto,fl_lossy,w_640,c_limit/v1533673835/e4eaukgk650okjtxsjde.jpg

That '88 Fleer Tekulve they talk about is great too...

https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/121/121-318Fr.jpg

haha!

i had that topps tekulve

https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/mlb/2019/1/25/18174412/bill-ripken-card-1989-fleer-frick-face-look-google-wont-index-this-if-the-url-has-the-actual-swear

Has there been a 30 For 30 on "Big, Dumb Baseball Card Collecting", because I would watch the fuck(face) out of it.

If you scroll up a bit, I posted a trailer last year for Jack of All Trades--still hasn't shown up here.

I have not finished this but no way is it not going to live up to the premise: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27425987/guy-ball-crotch-story-funniest-baseball-card-ever-made

I mean fuck face exists so the premise is false

https://www.mlb.com/cut4/coolest-topps-baseball-cards-ever-made/c-289734612

whoa I have 2 of these and I wasn't a big collector. The Don Mattingly was the only card I had that was over like $15 in Beckett's. The Frank Thomas one I have signed...does that make it worth more or less?

More pre-move winnowing: sorted cards for a few hours yesterday so I could take a few thousand useless extras to the thrift store. I kept HOF'ers, plus guys I figure may one day get in (strong bets like Larry Walker and Lou Whitaker, plus a few longshots like Will Clark and Rick Reuschel). But the time had come to close the book on Greg Jeffries and various other early-'90s luminaries.

sounds deeply pleasurable

that's Gregg with 3 G's

and JeffEries of course

i complete forgot that he went to STL and hit .342(!) in 1993. and finished in the ROY voting two years in a row. oh if i'd only cashed in on those GJ and Steve Avery rookies when i had the chance.

Don't know how I messed up the spelling--I only looked at eight thousand Jefferies cards yesterday...Was just reading up on him and looking at his career box. Definitely looked like a potential HOF'er out of the gate, right up until 26. (Got ROY votes two different years--that must be rare.) Conflict seemed to follow him around.

Suggestion for anyone who's still misguided enough to take an interest in this stuff.

http://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/JNoceraCollectibles

I bought 20 reprints from this guy. The cards are cheap (under $3.00 each), and the shipping is free. I'm not even sure if they're actual Topps reprints or knock-offs, but if they are, they're really solid. Bought Koufax, Mays, Clemente, Maravich, Namath, Orr, etc.

guys. The Met is closed, of course. But they have posted images of all the exhibited cards online. Looks like the collector had a keen interest in Chief Bender. And apparently he never attended a game in person!

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2020/burdick-collection-january-rotation

Sweet.

I had only a brief flirtation with buying baseball cards as a kid. My best card was a 1980 Topps Rickey Henderson rookie card, which I sold for $18 (iirc) in 1987. It wasn't in NM or anything but this card is still worth a decent amount of money these days in good condition.

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9781496218742/

this looks interesting, might scoop it up soon. guy opens up a random pack of 80s cards and then tries to track down all the players in the pack.

Sounds like a good podcast :)

Here’s a bit of background on the Burdick collection and the notion of “printed ephemera”:

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ball/hd_ball.htm

I'll show off my new T-shirt here.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/bubblegum.jpg

I scrolled through the Burdick collection quickly--was there a Wagner and I missed it?

1952 store display.

http://phildellio.tripod.com/1952.jpg

How much are all the Mantle rookie cards in there worth (or at least how much three months ago...)?

^ partially colorized for your viewing pleasure

btw, I never quite understood the love for Mickey Mantle, who was just a big strong yokel who could hit the curveball, plus he played for the Yankees, so you couldn't very well pitch around him to the weak parts of the lineup. Willie Mays was twice the player Mantle was.

I'm a Mays guy too, but I would concede that Mantle's prime, at least offensively, was superior. And Mays had McCovey and Cepeda alongside him, so he wasn't on his own.

5 cards in those topps packs, hm. so a 1 in 5 chance that your mantle rookie card will be ruined by the stick of gum laying on it for 68 years?

IIRC mantle was #1 in the set and so few of them exist in good condition BC kids would wrap rubber bands around their collections

I thought so too, but it was #311--just looked at a checklist. (Andy Pafko was #1.) I wouldn't want that pack today, no...There are supposedly a few perfect Mantles out there.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidseideman/2018/04/29/forget-the-2-9-million-mickey-mantle-card-there-are-three-worth-10-million/#70a24a853a99

I'd happily settle for a Mays. (No Williams in the set.)

http://images.psacard.com/s3/cu-psa/cardfacts/1952-topps-261-willie-mays-mint-9-87181.jpg?h=1000&format=png&s.roundcorners=10

just a big strong yokel who could hit the curveball

insanity

I just dug out my cards, the ones I have in hard plastic, for the first time in maybe ten years.

I have a '54 Topps Hank Aaron rookie in excellent condition, and my heart just went into my throat seeing what it's going for on eBay. Three months' rent.

I just assumed there was this major depreciation in the last decade. I need to sell this card. Anyone have any tips?

you guys I am freaking out

I just found another card that I had no idea was worth anything remotely near this—way more than the Aaron.

It makes me nervous. HOW DO I SELL THESE?

Whoa!!

I have no idea but that is awesome!!!!

I can't believe it.

I'm okay selling a record or whatever online but I don't trust myself to grade these out or trust them to the mail or whatever

for context I am living month to month and my lease has expired

Sell them on eBay? Or alternatively contact a card shop (if any of those still exist) or professional reseller (ditto) and solicit a bid privately?

yeah I think so, I would happily give someone a commision to take them off my hands

looking at ebay it seems like the fall-off from M to EX/M is precipitious and makes all the difference, but both of these are in amazing shape, centered w/ good corners