Come forth and tell us: What MLB cards do you have, or had? Do you still have the cards you collected as a kid? What players cards, or years were your favorites, or sought to collect? Include any error cards as well. What cards did you once trade, and what did you get in return, which you may regret or made out for the better by trading; ie. -(Dumping McGwire/Bonds Rookie Cards, when those cards had peaked in prices)? A couple of my own favorites, I still have: 1972 Thurman Munson-In Action: An error card, showing Munson and Sam McDowell on the front, but with Frank Harmon’s one game highlight on the back. 1990 Fleer Joe Montana: error card, has his TD’s and Passing Yardage reversed. Imagine as it reads: 3,521 TD’s with but 31 Yards passing, 3,653 TD’s with 27 Yards passing, et al. Any year showing League Leaders in HR’s, B’Avg., Wins, ERA., Strikeout Leaders, and RBI Leaders. I always loved those, feeling as if I got 3 cards in one, of mostly HOF caliber players. Of course 50s-60s era cards have a lot of Hall of Fame players in those League Leaders Cards. I could go on forever, on this subject, but am more curious about what you had or have had, traded for et al.
...hell, I wish I still had some of the cards I had and then threw away as a kid. I'd spend all my money on cards that came in either 1 cent or 5 cent packs, both came with that awful bubble gum as a bonus. ...the crummy cards no one wanted were relegated to being clipped to my bicycle with clothes pins so that they made a cool noise as the flapped on my spokes. ...for me, the holy grail was a Mantle card and though I don't recall actually ever finding one in a pack of cards, I do vividly remembering trading a Minnie Minoso and a Duke Snider for a Mantle card...ahhh, good times.
I think the best I have/had is a Mattingly Rookie card... I didn't get cards as a season for more than like 2 or 3 years...
I think right now people should be looking for the rookie cards of Puig & Trout. Any others come to mind?
got a bunch of cards by the way of an old friend, would borrow money from me and not pay back, so i got his card collection. Rookie cards of the likes of clemens, bonds. big mac etc.. funny, none of em will be worth anything, PEDS? then i found some of my own cards i had as a kid, clemente, remember the kelloggs hallogram cards? got some good ones, looked it up some worth $60 apiece... then there's my own sellin for a bus ticket. local that is!
not 1! never thought of it, it really wasn't prevalent amongst us. even the cards of my teammates, we never signed for each other when they came in, nowadays. i'm pretty sure they all do it $$$$
How could you have not thought of it? A few years back I was having a few drinks with Steve Karsey who grew up in the same town I hung out out in when I was younger & he told me that he got autographs of many of the players he played with like Henderson & Gossage from when he started with Oakland, Manny & Doc from his days with the Indians. And all the greats with the Yankees from Clemens to jeter, Bernie & Posada & even Mo's. Pasta unless you played with guys that just wasn't worth it I can't believe you didn't think of it.
A couple of Topps complete sets from the late 70s. Still at my folks place in storage. Definitely a couple of rare cards in that collection, turns out a bunch of cards from my dad ended up in the misc. pile. Some cards dating back to the 40s, but I haven't looked at them in 30 years. Waiting for the sets to hit 50.
Totus I think you should make the time to go through them. If for no other reason then to put the more valuable ones in plastic holders so they stay new. Recently a friend showed me a 1965 topps Willie Mays card that he had in a plastic holder. He took it out of the case & I could swear you could still smell the bubble gum on it.
Mom and Dad put everything into those plastic holders a long time ago. Should have sold them in the 90s when the market was highest. Pries have slipped 10-30% since then, but has flattened out. In another 10 years will sell and gift the money to my nephew to pay for his college.
Ive got like 10k cards, all the big rookie cards from the 80s, some 1960s football cards, David Robinson's rookie card, old Jordans, I have jaromir jagrs rookie card, patrick roy, a few giants cards from the 70s, and a great collection of will Clark Haha. Like someone else mentioned though, the commons aren't worth the paper they are printed on, the market dropped out for everything except the cream of the crop
That's pretty much what I had planed for my grandsons with the rookie cards I had. Unfortunately, Bonds, Clemens, McGuire, A-Rod etc had to take short cuts. Let me ask you, besides getting rookie cards of guys like Puig & Trout what cards would you be looking to get now?
I have a bunch of garbage pail kids cards You guys remember sportflix? Those cards that you can wiggle and the image changes? I have full sets of a couple years (88 and 89?) Have some topps 3d cards, Brett saberhagen and Doin mattingly I believe, kobe rookie, Tim hardaway rookie, Gary Payton rookie, bunch of basketball and hockey cards
Not to butt in, but the cards you want now are the game worn jersey or autographed cards. Byron Buxton looks like the next big thing
