Yeah, that $75 seems a little far-fetched.
I've got a whole bunch of rookie cards dating back to that time that I collected for a short time in the mid-'90s, after the bottom dropped out: Griffey, Thomas, Bonds, Bagwell, I-Rod, Maddux, Alomar, Piazza, Jeter, etc. Never the key rookie card, though, always the secondary ones.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 January 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
every kid of my generation grew up hearing stories about how their dads' moms threw away all their baseball cards, which would now be worth so much money, so they never threw away theirs, and hence they're worth nothing.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 03:40 (ten years ago) link
I still have all mine!!! I'd sell them all for $5.
― Jeff, Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:13 (ten years ago) link
yeah got mine too, just got them out the other day. 88-94
― Spottie, Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
I think mine are still under my childhood bed. I had a few notables. It looks from eBay like even my 1940 Lefty Gomez is not worth what it once was, and I would think that one is not super common.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link
yeah mine are in my room at my moms place, i wonder how much i could get for them (and my pokemon) cards
― k3vin k., Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:21 (ten years ago) link
did anyone ever actually strike gold, i.e. find a valuable card in a pack instead of buying or trading for it? I think my Will Clark rookie was the one example of that.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:21 (ten years ago) link
I think I have all of Garbage Pail Kids Series 3 too -- I actually put the entire set together from packs and trading.
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah i got a few good ones in normal packs but can't remember specifics.
― Spottie, Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
I have an Iván Calderón rookie card. And then he was MURDERED.
― Jeff, Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:24 (ten years ago) link
close thread
― Spottie, Sunday, 12 January 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
i bought so many packs that i found a lot of gold in them thar hills. the griffey upper deck rookie was my best score and i had a lot of good cards from my early days of buying (when i was 7 or 8, before i knew they were worth anything.) i had ripken's topps rookie somewhere, sandberg's rookie card, a few others.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 12 January 2014 07:02 (ten years ago) link
Same - got a lot of decent cards through collecting. Recently went through all my old cards and found Jeter and Rivera rookies I had no idea I had! I still buy the occasional pack and have managed to score a Bumgarner and a few Bundy rookies.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 12 January 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
I should probably try to sell my FT Leaf RC, but to hell with getting it gem-rated or whatever.
― Neil Nosepicker (Leee), Sunday, 12 January 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
If you have a Leaf Mariano, Thermo, that's good--just learned he was the rare player who only had one rookie card issued. His first Topps card wasn't until 1995, shared with Lyle Mouton (who, glancing at his career stats, didn't seem to get a fair shake).
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 January 2014 22:06 (ten years ago) link
http://espngrantland.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/14674983388_2be6f53941_o.jpg?w=700&h=934
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Oh my god does that dude live in Brooklyn? I think he goes to my Starbuck's
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
My cards, around 4,000 plus, were never in great condition so never that valuable, but some perverse part of me likes that there is no longer this crazy market. Did the market go south because everyone growing up in the 70s and 80s saved their cards thinking they would be valuable one day? I have a lot of 50s-60s cards that I never gave back to a lifeguard who lent me them one summer but their condition is highly variable
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
I finally threw out most of my '90s cards last week. What a heartbreaker — the hours and dollars I dumped into this crazy habit, everything meticulously sleeved and filed.
The mixture of lottery and "investment" and sports obsession were irresistible to 15-year-old me. I remember a friend in 1989 when we'd both just bought the Upper Deck Griffey set telling me with this self-assured grin, "Now we just sit back and watch it grow [in value]."
There's a chance that in another 20 years, the market might turn again once everyone my age has dumped their collections in the trash; but I can't keep carting these 500-count boxes around with me from home to home.
My best card is either my Patrick Roy or Guy Lafleur rookies (I'm Canadian). Of course, I'd trade the lot for a Gretzky, though that card's iconic up here, maybe the only one whose value has kept rising.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Yes everyone please start throwing your cards away / burning them
― unleashed profanity-laced tirade (Spottie), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
Mine are just in the closet at my parents. I assume they will stay there for eternity.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
my instincts for cards are still there, i was in a thrift shop and there were a few cards lying around and i found a GEM MINT CENTERED 10.0 gregg jefferies DONRUSS RATED ROOKIE. could have had it for a nickel but i didn't want to make the investment.
― nomar, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
i think the best part about cards were the statistics and learning about stats through them and i always thought it was awesome that there was a stat devoted to SLUGGING
― nomar, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:25 (eight years ago) link
Truthfully, dinnerboat, I think the hockey-card market is still pretty strong up here. Whenever I go to the big card show at the International Centre in Toronto, it's like 95% hockey-card vendors--no interest for me, but I don't think it imploded like the baseball market did.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:29 (eight years ago) link
xpost I definitely knew more about sports when I had the financial incentive of card values.
clemeza, Maybe for historical cards, but I think those early '90s glossy vomit collections (Pro Set, Score, etc.) tanked across the board. At least judging by ebay auctions.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:31 (eight years ago) link
that really what i loved most about them. loved looking at the careers of guys like Ryan or Rice and getting the card of a guy towards the end of a great career was so much more exciting than some flavour-of-the-month rookie card.
anyways - it was my mother moving into a much smaller space that caused me to toss most of my 90's cards (also is how i discovered the Jeter and Rivera cards i was unaware of)!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:32 (eight years ago) link
um – Clem, i would totally love to go to a card convention again. used to go all the time when i was a kid!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:33 (eight years ago) link
(xpost) True--but I think Lafleur and Roy rookies would be worth something if they're in good shape.
Let's catch the next one in the spring, Thermo. Last time I went, I ended up buying almost a thousand dollars' worth of baseball media guides from a guy over the next several months. These contain secret information available nowhere else except six or seven different internet sites.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
my gooden rookie is worth less now than it was in 1989 :(
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
My Juan Gonzalez and Albert Belle rookies are worth less than a George Pataki endorsement.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 22:46 (eight years ago) link
https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/1/14/Omar_Vizquel.png/250px-Omar_Vizquel.png
― nomar, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/03/family-rare-ty-cobb-valuable-baseball-cards-in-house
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 3 March 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:34 (seven years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 25 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
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
― clemenza, Saturday, 11 August 2018 00:45 (five years ago) link
Ten best:
http://www.mlb.com/cut4/coolest-topps-baseball-cards-ever-made/c-289734612
I own two of them. The wrong two.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 August 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
Links aren’t working for me
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:09 (five years ago) link
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-289614258https://www.mlb.com/cut4/coolest-topps-baseball-cards-ever-made/c-289734612
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
Those work for me.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:32 (five years ago) link
oh yep! those work, thanks
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 12 August 2018 01:37 (five years ago) link
rad thanks.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Sunday, 12 August 2018 05:32 (five years ago) link
marilyn manson was nice with ithttps://img.playbuzz.com/image/upload/q_auto:good,f_auto,fl_lossy,w_640,c_limit/v1533673835/e4eaukgk650okjtxsjde.jpg
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Sunday, 12 August 2018 05:59 (five years ago) link
That '88 Fleer Tekulve they talk about is great too...
https://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/121/121-318Fr.jpg
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
haha!
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Sunday, 12 August 2018 06:23 (five years ago) link
i had that topps tekulve
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 12 August 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 January 2019 17:54 (five years ago) link
If you scroll up a bit, I posted a trailer last year for Jack of All Trades--still hasn't shown up here.
― clemenza, Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
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
― William Tao Overture (Leee), Friday, 23 August 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link