Baseball Cards

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.

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

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

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a193/ironsij0287/osmith.jpg

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.

how uncomfortable for Ozzie, too

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

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

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

http://www.baseballcardproject.com/Donruss/R/1988/443.jpg

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.

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!!!

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Remember the Score Dream Team cards? Those were hot:

http://www.stonekitty.net/%7Elucyscloset/061607/Image001.jpg

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

http://www.flapa.com/baseball/cards/KevinMitchell1987_653.jpg

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.

This one kills me, stick figure Barry:

http://www.homeruncards.com/imagesrc/bondstp.jpg

Awesome:

http://www.johnstoncrew.com/GregMadduxRC.jpg

I had this exact same binder:

http://i11.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/b8/ag/a7b7_1.JPG

Oh the lols:

http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/4/8/5/6/9/8/webimg/69023815_tp.jpg

http://images.collectors.com/Articles/b&bhull2.jpg

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

http://tigerwoodsfistpump.blogspot.com/2007/08/when-baseball-cards-mattered_19.html

Holy shit, remember Brien Taylor?!
http://www.checkoutmycards.com/CardImages/Original/008/989/04F.jpg

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.

Never even made it to the majors,

injured himself in a bar brawl while in the minors and his career was over.

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?

I have Orel Hershiser's RC somewhere. I also have a signed Mike Richter (G, NYR) RC at home in CA.

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

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.

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?

Yep, with McGwire's cards during the season that he and Sosa were chasing 70.
In retrospect, I made the completely wrong decision.

dude, you're only going to get like 25¢ more for it anyways.

The card worth anything these days is a Bonds card with a signed confession on it.

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.

this was at the start of the season, wouldn't expect to find them now

I'm pretty sure Target sells baseball cards -- packets or boxes (no more wax boxes these days I reckon)

x-post . yea
Target sells them. 7 11 did years ago.

Sports Authority and Toys R Us sometimes sell 'em

thanx!

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?"

"..."

http://www.snopes.com/sports/graphics/ripken.jpg

http://tigerwoodsfistpump.blogspot.com/2008/01/dealing-with-agony-of-once-valuable.html

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!!

I never got into this kind of collecting, cert not as an investment.

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

come with us to 1971...

http://thebaseballchronicle.com/personal_stories/1971_topps_baseball

my dad's collection is at about 40,000. i used to catalog them for him!

i have a mark mcgwire rookie card that he gave me...somewhere...

yr grandma didn't throw them out? xp

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!

anyone want to buy 5,000 '88-'90 donruss and topps cards, btw? $20.

http://onthescene.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/09/29/the-baseball-card-industry-is-in-a-serious-slump/

Colossal look from Tom Hume

https://i.imgur.com/SMwcDRn.jpeg

crazy

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/business/sports-memorabilia-collection-discovery.html

Speaking of priceless* collection discoveries I found ozzie smith, kirk gibson, ron guidry and tim raines RC's in a 15 dollar church basement box

*squishy condition aside.

Was I hoping for a Rickey RC, reader you should know I was.

Came home from a stressful trip to the vets to find a parcel from Tracer Hand containing a set of cards for the famously stacked 2024 Portland Sea Dogs roster, of which the most notable:

https://i.postimg.cc/wM0sKssV/IMG-1282.jpg

Kristian “Barry Bonds” Campbell isn’t in this but i had to check and find out he started the season in low-A Greenville before being promoted to double A Portland in June, and then triple A Worcester in August.

Zach Penrod and Nick Yorke have both made their MLB debuts already (Yorke was traded to the Pirates and debuted with them), but the top row (the former big three) should all debut in 2025.

From left: Kyle Teel (now a White Sox), Marcelo Mayer, Roman “gets on his horse” Anthony.

Thank you TH!

It gives me great pleasure gyac!

Absurd:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6549780/2025/08/13/grading-rainbow-griffey-sanders-psa/

If you can't access that, the title explains all: Why Ken Griffey Jr. rookie cards in bad condition can command premium prices. (The "why": because they're much scarcer than ones in average shape.)

Thanks to gyac for some nice and unexpected cards that arrived in the mail today. Two Casases (Casasses? Casi?), or course--I need him to return for the sake of my growing Casas collection.

https://i.postimg.cc/dVZ7LfC9/casas-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Dzq8cbBJ/casas-2.jpg

A Max card from his Ranger days (or hours):

https://i.postimg.cc/9MCzgFnx/max.jpg

Also: Kutter Crawford and Reese McGuire (both of whom I know), and NaoYuki Uwasawa and Zach Neto (both of whom I don't). I want them all to thrive (in 2026).

Can I just say a couple of those are throw-ins, I absolutely did not buy an Uwasawa card or Reese McGuire! Zach Neto is legit, though, very fun player to watch imo. Also I checked my account to see what I actually bought and I have no memory of any of this so must have been when I was sick so apologies for such a random selection.

Neto has the funniest expression I’ve ever seen from a guy who hits a home run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgnajJcci24

Is ordering baseball cards in 2025 while in a feverish daze a distant cousin of drunk-dialing someone in 1983?

I quite literally wouldn’t know…

The 2026 Topps set includes an autographed Jesse Eisenberg card. Why?

Normally that silliness is reserved for the Allen & Ginter cards. Gf picked us up a box for Xmas and we got Billy Ripken and Michael young autograph cards

"Fuck You, Billy Ripken"

I would be a millionaire if I pulled a signed version of that card.

I do have a less-rare version of that one tho, where it was blacked out before they ran a cleaner fix

An autographed 2013 Judge Bowman Chrome Draft Superfractor just sold for a record $5.2 million

I should say THE card, as it’s a 1 of 1