Great story 59- I can relate to those MLB sports card days. Although my buddies put their MLB/NFL/NBA cards in the spokes of Schwinn Sting Rays. I would opt to kipe some of my Mom's playing cards. Every weekend or so, she would play Canasta & other games with here family. I'd always get the "Bobby, what the hell did you do with my cards, I don't have one full set". She kept 4 packs. Due to my habit to ruin her cards, and not mine. Her family began to bring their own card sets. My Grandad would chuckle when he heard her chewing me out, then he'd give me a quarter, and off to the store I went to buy more Wax Packs. I clearly recall those 1 cent packs, then 2 cents, 3 cent, then a NICKEL-WTF? (I thought the gum would of not been so hard and stale, once the price rose to a nickel: Oh, now they're going to give me fresh gum, that doesn't break my teeth. I would take a bag with me to Little League Practice. On the way home afterwards, I'd find plenty of quart Coca-Cola bottles, (redemption value=10cents), a single 12 or 16 oz. bottle was redeemed for a nickel. Same here, always on the look out for Mantle, Ford, Berra, Howard (Ellie and Frank), Mays, McCovey, Marichal, Koufax, Drysdale......et al. Those were truly the Golden Years. I hope that doesn't mean were also antiques...
Personally, i don't like asking for anything. 2 org.s, many leagues, instructional ball, having had the priviledge of playing with some of the best, and hanging out with a few, just didn't want to bother em. do i regret it , not for myself, but for my kids? YES
i have a card, who has the picture of 1 player and the stats of another, it is a misprint obviously, not a great player.. curious to know what it is worth...
Always a great card back then and now! I'll never forget gambling on a Topps-rack pack back then, and finding my first Mattingly Rookie. 84 Donruss/Fleer/Topps-Mattingly cards, got pricy for quit awhile, back then. Now, one can buy any of them for a 1/4 what they were selling for. Then again, my 58 Maris Rookie, plummeted like all cards, to 1/4 of its value, as has many great Hall Of Fame Rookie Cards, and their additional following years of cards, thereafter: (less a Topps 52 Mantle, or T-206 H. Wagner). Even then, with a very soft market, obtaining or trading for Hall Of Fame players cards, (pre-1986 cards) are always a worthy venture.
I agree, Totus, you have to be sitting on some great cards. 1940s Holy Cow, do you want me to drive down and help you open those old boxes? J/K...those 70s had some great rookies, and of course Hall of Famers too. Sure you don't want me to drive down, hell I'd parachute in to see those 40s cards of your Father's, as well as your own.
Yes, Puig, Trout, Goldschmidt, Corbin, Wacca. Maybe-Byron Buxton (OF, #1 Mid-season Baseball America‘s Prospect), Byron Bradley (D‘Backs-SP rookie), Xander Boegarts (Bosox top prospect SS), could turn out to be good to great historical players. Quit a few others. Funny though, how many Top Prospects, (only approximately 25-30% according to Prospectus) make it to have a decent career. That's not including those very very few who will ever be considered great enough to garner HOF votes. However- Pitchers are always suspect when collecting their cards. Or investing big contracts for their services. I heard Corbin is already on the DL with a worn out arm. So many great Pitcher’s start out with a big bang, only to fall prey to the knife. Ex: 85 Topps-Brett Saberhagen, Orel Hershiser, to many to name, from all years of MLB History. So often a player makes a huge splash, only to decline from injury. PED use, has more than destroyed collecting sports cards.
archie bradley? and yeah, pitchers are a crapshoot, as evidenced by my amazing ben mcdonald collection
. Ha! Those cards are back in Jersey. When I moved to CA back in '91 I traveled light, whatever fit in my old beater dodge k car I inherited from grandma, lol!
My biggest miscu venture with sports cards, was not trading or selling or gaining. It was reaching above my head and eyes, stupid not to of gotten a ladder, as I pulled out a plastic box of cards, and felt a bit of resistance, thinking the box caught on something. I pulled the entire box down only to find 1 of 2 Lew Alcindor Rookie Cards, had a crease clean across the center! Damn It! Even then, I kept the one Alcindor RC, and traded the other. That card went from a premium price, to worthless junk, in the blink of an eye!
Speaking of cards, and more-so Collectibles, game worn uniforms, gloves, bats, balls signed by the 1,000s. Does anyone remember our late Minority Owner, Barry Halper's collection? I recall reading about Halper's collection in Sports Collector's Digest in the early 80s. Not knowing what I know now: take a look, the guy was 1/4 fraud, or rather, his collection became such: (just 1/4, maybe less, tho' in the world of memorabilia, Halper soiled his own reputation). Read on and you will see, if your not already aware. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Halper
Hockey?, what's ...hockey? Is that where a bunch of 25-30 year old toothless guys run around on the ice beating up other guys? sorry, I only follow sports played with a ball
mattingly23, i want you to know that i just responded to you in depth about my career, took me a significant time to post it, i don't know if this has happened to anyone one else on here but when i was done and pushed to reply i was logged off, that has happened to me many times and it is frustrating as heck when it happens , why does this site log you off when you don't do it!!!!!
Maybe its a hint.......................................................Sorry pasta, I couldn't resist. This is the 1st of heard of it. If it keeps up send a PM to either Messiah or Denny.
