The Baseball Card Thread

xavier mcdaniel said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Haven't bought a pack of cards in over 45 years, but back in the day I had some gems. 
I was more into the football cards. At one point I had 
3 rookie Walter Payton cards
Rookie Jim Brown, 2nd and 3rd year Brown.
Rookie Fran Tarkenton, also 2nd and 3rd year.
3rd year Johnny Unitas
Rookie Gale Sayers
Rookie Dick Butkus
Had many different Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Clemente, and other big names from the 50's and 60's. I still have a bunch of Ernie Banks from the 50 and 60's.

Still have most of the baseball cards but the football cards are long gone. 

Those are great. I have every topps set from 1984 through 1994 along with various fleers, donruss, score, bowman and a set of minor league cards. Also had the pro set cards and various NBA and NHL cards in the 1990s. Topps turned me off by selling the complete set as series one and two and I haven't bought one since then.

Gern Blansten said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Haven't bought a pack of cards in over 45 years, but back in the day I had some gems. 
I was more into the football cards. At one point I had 
3 rookie Walter Payton cards
Rookie Jim Brown, 2nd and 3rd year Brown.
Rookie Fran Tarkenton, also 2nd and 3rd year.
3rd year Johnny Unitas
Rookie Gale Sayers
Rookie Dick Butkus
Had many different Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Clemente, and other big names from the 50's and 60's. I still have a bunch of Ernie Banks from the 50 and 60's.

Still have most of the baseball cards but the football cards are long gone. 

good stuff....I remember we used to use fishing tackle boxes to store our cards. I sure wish I would have hung onto those.

I have a memory of having a bunch of my cards laid out on the floor and my grandma rolling over them with a vacuum cleaner because she told me to pick them up and I didn't. At least she warned me.

markymark550 said:

Gern Blansten said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Haven't bought a pack of cards in over 45 years, but back in the day I had some gems. 
I was more into the football cards. At one point I had 
3 rookie Walter Payton cards
Rookie Jim Brown, 2nd and 3rd year Brown.
Rookie Fran Tarkenton, also 2nd and 3rd year.
3rd year Johnny Unitas
Rookie Gale Sayers
Rookie Dick Butkus
Had many different Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Clemente, and other big names from the 50's and 60's. I still have a bunch of Ernie Banks from the 50 and 60's.

Still have most of the baseball cards but the football cards are long gone. 

good stuff....I remember we used to use fishing tackle boxes to store our cards. I sure wish I would have hung onto those.

I have a memory of having a bunch of my cards laid out on the floor and my grandma rolling over them with a vacuum cleaner because she told me to pick them up and I didn't. At least she warned me.

Lol. That sounds like my grandmother. My dad had a good bit of cards from the 50s/60s when he was a kid. He swore that he had a Mantle rookie card and some Aaron and Mays. He kept them in a shoebox in his closet. My grandmother went on a cleaning spree one spring and just threw them all away. She said it was a shoebox with no shoes, so it was trash to her.

on2legs said:

The irony is that if all those cards didn’t get tossed in the trash long ago, baseball cards would be worth a lot less today.  

xavier mcdaniel said:

tempo_n_groove said:

GlowGirl said:

markymark550 said:

Gern Blansten said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Haven't bought a pack of cards in over 45 years, but back in the day I had some gems. 
I was more into the football cards. At one point I had 
3 rookie Walter Payton cards
Rookie Jim Brown, 2nd and 3rd year Brown.
Rookie Fran Tarkenton, also 2nd and 3rd year.
3rd year Johnny Unitas
Rookie Gale Sayers
Rookie Dick Butkus
Had many different Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Clemente, and other big names from the 50's and 60's. I still have a bunch of Ernie Banks from the 50 and 60's.

Still have most of the baseball cards but the football cards are long gone. 

good stuff....I remember we used to use fishing tackle boxes to store our cards. I sure wish I would have hung onto those.

I have a memory of having a bunch of my cards laid out on the floor and my grandma rolling over them with a vacuum cleaner because she told me to pick them up and I didn't. At least she warned me.

Lol. That sounds like my grandmother. My dad had a good bit of cards from the 50s/60s when he was a kid. He swore that he had a Mantle rookie card and some Aaron and Mays. He kept them in a shoebox in his closet. My grandmother went on a cleaning spree one spring and just threw them all away. She said it was a shoebox with no shoes, so it was trash to her.

My grandfather did something similar to my dad’s comic books from the 40’s and 50’s. When my dad went away to college my grandfather gave all the comic books to a children’s hospital without asking him. That was nice of him, but still..  My dad thinks he had early editions that may have been worth something today. 

My father and I collected since I was 2.  Around my 8th birthday she threw out everything we had collected.  We had them all wrapped up nice and neat, untouched, and she threw them all out...

The first set I remember being bought for me as a kid was the 1987 Topps, which is probably why it's my all-time favorite. I actually wound up working at a game company for a few years and when one of the researchers was cleaning out his office to move to the different space he gave me the 1985, 86 and 88 Topps sets.

tempo_n_groove said:

xavier mcdaniel said:

tempo_n_groove said:

GlowGirl said:

markymark550 said:

Gern Blansten said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Haven't bought a pack of cards in over 45 years, but back in the day I had some gems. 
I was more into the football cards. At one point I had 
3 rookie Walter Payton cards
Rookie Jim Brown, 2nd and 3rd year Brown.
Rookie Fran Tarkenton, also 2nd and 3rd year.
3rd year Johnny Unitas
Rookie Gale Sayers
Rookie Dick Butkus
Had many different Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Clemente, and other big names from the 50's and 60's. I still have a bunch of Ernie Banks from the 50 and 60's.

Still have most of the baseball cards but the football cards are long gone. 

good stuff....I remember we used to use fishing tackle boxes to store our cards. I sure wish I would have hung onto those.

I have a memory of having a bunch of my cards laid out on the floor and my grandma rolling over them with a vacuum cleaner because she told me to pick them up and I didn't. At least she warned me.

Lol. That sounds like my grandmother. My dad had a good bit of cards from the 50s/60s when he was a kid. He swore that he had a Mantle rookie card and some Aaron and Mays. He kept them in a shoebox in his closet. My grandmother went on a cleaning spree one spring and just threw them all away. She said it was a shoebox with no shoes, so it was trash to her.

My grandfather did something similar to my dad’s comic books from the 40’s and 50’s. When my dad went away to college my grandfather gave all the comic books to a children’s hospital without asking him. That was nice of him, but still..  My dad thinks he had early editions that may have been worth something today. 

My father and I collected since I was 2.  Around my 8th birthday she threw out everything we had collected.  We had them all wrapped up nice and neat, untouched, and she threw them all out...

The first set I remember being bought for me as a kid was the 1987 Topps, which is probably why it's my all-time favorite. I actually wound up working at a game company for a few years and when one of the researchers was cleaning out his office to move to the different space he gave me the 1985, 86 and 88 Topps sets.

87 topps is iconic with that wood grain.  Reminded everyone of the 62 topps.  It's anniversary was last year so Topps had some inserts with them included in the packs.

88 any set is most likely the most awful designs and overprinted cards in any year.  All of them, Topps, Fleer, Donruss and Score have just putrid designs, lol.

tempo_n_groove said:

xavier mcdaniel said:

tempo_n_groove said:

GlowGirl said:

markymark550 said:

Gern Blansten said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Haven't bought a pack of cards in over 45 years, but back in the day I had some gems. 
I was more into the football cards. At one point I had 
3 rookie Walter Payton cards
Rookie Jim Brown, 2nd and 3rd year Brown.
Rookie Fran Tarkenton, also 2nd and 3rd year.
3rd year Johnny Unitas
Rookie Gale Sayers
Rookie Dick Butkus
Had many different Mays, Mantle, Aaron, Clemente, and other big names from the 50's and 60's. I still have a bunch of Ernie Banks from the 50 and 60's.

Still have most of the baseball cards but the football cards are long gone. 

good stuff....I remember we used to use fishing tackle boxes to store our cards. I sure wish I would have hung onto those.

I have a memory of having a bunch of my cards laid out on the floor and my grandma rolling over them with a vacuum cleaner because she told me to pick them up and I didn't. At least she warned me.

Lol. That sounds like my grandmother. My dad had a good bit of cards from the 50s/60s when he was a kid. He swore that he had a Mantle rookie card and some Aaron and Mays. He kept them in a shoebox in his closet. My grandmother went on a cleaning spree one spring and just threw them all away. She said it was a shoebox with no shoes, so it was trash to her.

My grandfather did something similar to my dad’s comic books from the 40’s and 50’s. When my dad went away to college my grandfather gave all the comic books to a children’s hospital without asking him. That was nice of him, but still..  My dad thinks he had early editions that may have been worth something today. 

My father and I collected since I was 2.  Around my 8th birthday she threw out everything we had collected.  We had them all wrapped up nice and neat, untouched, and she threw them all out...

The first set I remember being bought for me as a kid was the 1987 Topps, which is probably why it's my all-time favorite. I actually wound up working at a game company for a few years and when one of the researchers was cleaning out his office to move to the different space he gave me the 1985, 86 and 88 Topps sets.

87 topps is iconic with that wood grain.  Reminded everyone of the 62 topps.  It's anniversary was last year so Topps had some inserts with them included in the packs.

88 any set is most likely the most awful designs and overprinted cards in any year.  All of them, Topps, Fleer, Donruss and Score have just putrid designs, lol.

myoung321 said:

eeriepadave said:

What's a slab (in terms of cards)? is that card sleeve or holder you put it in?

A "slab" refers to the case a graded card is in and the company that grades them... PSA being the most popular grading service. 




The plastic sleeves are usually called "Penny Sleeves"


Hard plastic cases where the cards slides into it is a "Top Loader"





Then you have magnetic "One Touch" holders that have replaced the old screw down version.. 

on2legs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

on2legs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

on2legs said:

The irony is that if all those cards didn’t get tossed in the trash long ago, baseball cards would be worth a lot less today.  

Not entirely true.  Topps literally dumped truckloads of 1952 topps into the ocean/landfill.  The 52 Mantle is actually a double printed card.  Sometimes people just like the cards and nostalgia helps.

What part wasn't true?

Nostalgia is great and certainly helps, but people loved baseball in the 80s and those cards will never approach the values of the cards printed before they became a collectible no matter how much people love Don Mattingly. 

I get your point.  I am also stating that some cards are not necessarily rare like the 86 fleer basketball stuff or 89 Upper Deck, even 2011 topps update.  There are tons of it out there but it remains very sought after.

Now cards from the 30's and early 40's are a different animal.

I love the 86 Fleer basketball.  At the National I met the guy who is hoarding half the Johnny Moore PSA 10’s that are known to exist. He wanted like $60k each!  

on2legs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

on2legs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

on2legs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

on2legs said:

The irony is that if all those cards didn’t get tossed in the trash long ago, baseball cards would be worth a lot less today.  

Not entirely true.  Topps literally dumped truckloads of 1952 topps into the ocean/landfill.  The 52 Mantle is actually a double printed card.  Sometimes people just like the cards and nostalgia helps.

What part wasn't true?

Nostalgia is great and certainly helps, but people loved baseball in the 80s and those cards will never approach the values of the cards printed before they became a collectible no matter how much people love Don Mattingly. 

I get your point.  I am also stating that some cards are not necessarily rare like the 86 fleer basketball stuff or 89 Upper Deck, even 2011 topps update.  There are tons of it out there but it remains very sought after.

Now cards from the 30's and early 40's are a different animal.

I love the 86 Fleer basketball.  At the National I met the guy who is hoarding half the Johnny Moore PSA 10’s that are known to exist. He wanted like $60k each!  

There are only 67 of them...  Want to hear something stupid?  There are 66 Jeff Malones in a PSA 10... And nobody goes ape shit over that one...

EDIT:  Speaking of the National, did you see the Jordan Supercollector showing off every rare insert there was?  He had them all.  I was blown away by that one.  Most of those cards I had only seen on the web.

It's not about the player.  It's that one dealer is hoarding half the known PSA 10's for Johnny Moore. So he's basically controlling the market and if you want to put together a PSA 10 set you're likely going to have to go through that one guy to get a Johnny Moore.  My buddy and I were just about done for the day and we stopped to look at a table with a ton of 86 Fleer graded cards.  I saw the Johnny Moore card on the table with a price tag of 60k and I asked my buddy why it was worth that much.  Another customer near me overheard and said it was because one dealer owned almost all of them and was controlling the market.  At that point the dealer behind the table said, "Yeah... that's me but I actually only have half of them". 

I didn't see the Jordan collection... would have loved to see it.