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some trout rookie chrome/platinum/refractor/whatever card sold in an auction last week for $147k.

BTW, penmanship is dead.

Angels vs Royals... right now.. (3/6/20)

Holy shit I didn't know this was going on. This is fantastic:

https://theathletic.com/1457115/2019/12/17/the-baseball-100-a-project-celebrating-the-greatest-players-in-history/

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Wait, what? I thought baseball cards were worth shit now. Or is that only the overproduced stuff from the 90's?

Pretty much only the junk was era stuff is worthless, and even that's starting to climb, especially if its graded/gradeable.  Phil's Pulls is a great channel.  So is Jabs Family.  My LCS is actually the same one that Erik Jabs goes to.  It's about an hour away for me.  Sucks because I'm usually stuck buying retail and there's never shit in those packs bc all the assholes go searching thru them.

Man, I don't have any idea what you just said, but cool. 

The underlined part by me above starts to make me think we're approaching some kind of bubble again.

The junk wax era was around 1987-1993 give or take a couple years on either end.  Millions upon millions of cards were produced, making them super easy to find and worth absolutely nothing.  You can got to a $1 bin and grab about 30 Jose Canseco rookies in one swoop these days.  Everything after that first sentence was a completely different thought, sort of replying to other posts in the thread without quoting them. Didn't mean to throw you off there.

We are definitely approaching another bubble soon.  I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, either.

So there are some absolute gems in the "junk era" years.  If you find a Barry Bonds/Johnny Ray opening day error, Frank Thomas No name on front, 93 SP Jeter or the Desert shield cards from 891 you are doing good.

The 91 cards also have a rabid following because Topps did some crazy shit w the backs of the cards.  They have "black light" versions and different print on the backs.  Crazy stuff.

As for a bubble?  This Corona virus thing may jump start that.There are definitely wayyy too many people in the hobby right now but that is good for me and my selling.

I just bought new boxes for my collection and as I was transferring stuff, going thru my 90 Topps, Frank Thomas was the ONLY card missing from the set.  I am willing to bet that set had the NNOF and it was picked through before my folks bought it for me as a kid.

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

Jearlpam0925 said:

Wait, what? I thought baseball cards were worth shit now. Or is that only the overproduced stuff from the 90's?

Pretty much only the junk was era stuff is worthless, and even that's starting to climb, especially if its graded/gradeable.  Phil's Pulls is a great channel.  So is Jabs Family.  My LCS is actually the same one that Erik Jabs goes to.  It's about an hour away for me.  Sucks because I'm usually stuck buying retail and there's never shit in those packs bc all the assholes go searching thru them.

Man, I don't have any idea what you just said, but cool. 

The underlined part by me above starts to make me think we're approaching some kind of bubble again.

The junk wax era was around 1987-1993 give or take a couple years on either end.  Millions upon millions of cards were produced, making them super easy to find and worth absolutely nothing.  You can got to a $1 bin and grab about 30 Jose Canseco rookies in one swoop these days.  Everything after that first sentence was a completely different thought, sort of replying to other posts in the thread without quoting them. Didn't mean to throw you off there.

We are definitely approaching another bubble soon.  I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, either.

So there are some absolute gems in the "junk era" years.  If you find a Barry Bonds/Johnny Ray opening day error, Frank Thomas No name on front, 93 SP Jeter or the Desert shield cards from 891 you are doing good.

The 91 cards also have a rabid following because Topps did some crazy shit w the backs of the cards.  They have "black light" versions and different print on the backs.  Crazy stuff.

As for a bubble?  This Corona virus thing may jump start that.There are definitely wayyy too many people in the hobby right now but that is good for me and my selling.

I just bought new boxes for my collection and as I was transferring stuff, going thru my 90 Topps, Frank Thomas was the ONLY card missing from the set.  I am willing to bet that set had the NNOF and it was picked through before my folks bought it for me as a kid.

I wouldn't get too upset about that because the NNOF card was only found in certain areas in New England and in wax boxes, not the sets.

tempo_n_groove said:

Forgot to mention that the Lux was a card I got back from grading and the others were just sent in.

Stop buying cards a while back... but did buy these for my son during Trouts rookie season. 

 

tempo_n_groove said:

myoung321 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Forgot to mention that the Lux was a card I got back from grading and the others were just sent in.

Stop buying cards a while back... but did buy these for my son during Trouts rookie season. 

 

I am going to call you a liar only because of the labels.  If you tell me that you got them graded seven years ago I will believe you.  Those labels aren't from his "rookie" year.

Good cards.  

Crack them both open and send into PSA.

PM me if you want to chat more.

F@#$ man... really?   A liar? wow... why lie about something like this?  hahaha   It was his Rookie year or first couple of years IDK... somewhere in that time frame. I paid like $25 for them.. my son was playing high school baseball at the time. He graduated after playing in his state finals in 2015. I bought them around his freshman year.. I bought them already graded... 

Seriously man... wtf is wrong with you?..I share and you say that shit?.. Fucking people..  man I've tried to be nice to you in many threads.. guess that was a mistake..

  later.. have a nice day!  

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Wobbie said:

some trout rookie chrome/platinum/refractor/whatever card sold in an auction last week for $147k.

BTW, penmanship is dead.

2009 orange refractor.

The whole card world knows, lol.

For penmanship look at Luis Severino's sig.  He has a beautiful auto.

Always liked The Hawk's signature:

hawk harrelson?

Wobbie said:

HesCalledDyer said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Wobbie said:

some trout rookie chrome/platinum/refractor/whatever card sold in an auction last week for $147k.

BTW, penmanship is dead.

2009 orange refractor.

The whole card world knows, lol.

For penmanship look at Luis Severino's sig.  He has a beautiful auto.

Always liked The Hawk's signature:

hawk harrelson?

Andre Dawson