The Baseball Card Thread

on2legs said:

I’m sure you’ll get lots of great suggestions, but I’ve been using these holders lately and love them.  No more screws - they have a magnetic closure and they make for a nice presentation of cards that you’re not going to be getting graded.  I included an eBay link - not my auction - for some of the holders. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115155058727?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=h91uILq6S-y&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=kYME0-sMTlO&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Not a fan of the one touches.  They will scratch your chrome cards if you move them around a lot.  People love them and I avoid them.

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.

A vacuum cleaner! Oh my, that is hilarious.
I have decided to have some fun and build up what's left of my baseball/football card collection. I went on ebay this weekend and purchased some cards. I stuck with the PSA 4-7 graded cards, and still spent way too much money! hahaha
I did plenty of homework on completed listings and visited some websites that list card values according to psa grades. I also visited a few of the online stores and looked at their inventory, and their sales history as far as pricing goes. I actually think I did pretty damned good. I realized that the Mickey Mantle cards are just too damn overpriced, no matter what the cards graded. Also the Mays cards were expensive. But I got some beautiful 1959 cards that were affordable. 
Koufax
Banks
Aaron
Picked up a 1955 Ernie Banks, a 1956 Ernie Banks and a 1960 Banks. 
Picked up a couple other Aarons, another Koufax, and a Mays. 

YEAH, I spent some money, but oh well.
Ill slow it down for a month and work on how I want to display these. 
 

SPEEDY MCCREADY 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.

A vacuum cleaner! Oh my, that is hilarious.
I have decided to have some fun and build up what's left of my baseball/football card collection. I went on ebay this weekend and purchased some cards. I stuck with the PSA 4-7 graded cards, and still spent way too much money! hahaha
I did plenty of homework on completed listings and visited some websites that list card values according to psa grades. I also visited a few of the online stores and looked at their inventory, and their sales history as far as pricing goes. I actually think I did pretty damned good. I realized that the Mickey Mantle cards are just too damn overpriced, no matter what the cards graded. Also the Mays cards were expensive. But I got some beautiful 1959 cards that were affordable. 
Koufax
Banks
Aaron
Picked up a 1955 Ernie Banks, a 1956 Ernie Banks and a 1960 Banks. 
Picked up a couple other Aarons, another Koufax, and a Mays. 

YEAH, I spent some money, but oh well.
Ill slow it down for a month and work on how I want to display these. 
 

I am planning on getting some Reds cards from the Big Red Machine era. Maybe try to get rookie cards for each.

Bench/Perez/Morgan/Concepcion/Rose/Griffey/Foster/Geronimo

I tried to score a Bench rookie on ebay and the bids were going above recommended value so I backed off

SPEEDY MCCREADY 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.

A vacuum cleaner! Oh my, that is hilarious.
I have decided to have some fun and build up what's left of my baseball/football card collection. I went on ebay this weekend and purchased some cards. I stuck with the PSA 4-7 graded cards, and still spent way too much money! hahaha
I did plenty of homework on completed listings and visited some websites that list card values according to psa grades. I also visited a few of the online stores and looked at their inventory, and their sales history as far as pricing goes. I actually think I did pretty damned good. I realized that the Mickey Mantle cards are just too damn overpriced, no matter what the cards graded. Also the Mays cards were expensive. But I got some beautiful 1959 cards that were affordable. 
Koufax
Banks
Aaron
Picked up a 1955 Ernie Banks, a 1956 Ernie Banks and a 1960 Banks. 
Picked up a couple other Aarons, another Koufax, and a Mays. 

YEAH, I spent some money, but oh well.
Ill slow it down for a month and work on how I want to display these. 
 

Those are a good investment.  Solid.  I wouldnt tell anyone to flip their 401K and invest in old cards for retirement or anything though
IMO, they should always hold value as they will always be scarce and in-demand unless some sort of apocolypse happens or something

tempo_n_groove said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Well, for $4500 I am contemplating going on ebay and purchasing a T206 TyCobb.

And YES IM FUCKING SERIOUS. 

Damn that would be nice to have.

Which one?  Bat off shoulder?  Portrait?

For 4500 it will be a poor grade I think but as long as it looks good.

Enjoy!!!

Red Portrait

MayDay10 said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Well, for $4500 I am contemplating going on ebay and purchasing a T206 TyCobb.

And YES IM FUCKING SERIOUS. 

Damn that would be nice to have.

That is a holy grail card for me.  

I hear you. 
Im also looking at the Goudey 1933 Lou Gehrig. For $2500 I can have a psa 1, miscut, beat to hell card. But I would have a LOU GEHRIG!!!!

Gern Blansten said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Gern Blansten said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY 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.

A vacuum cleaner! Oh my, that is hilarious.
I have decided to have some fun and build up what's left of my baseball/football card collection. I went on ebay this weekend and purchased some cards. I stuck with the PSA 4-7 graded cards, and still spent way too much money! hahaha
I did plenty of homework on completed listings and visited some websites that list card values according to psa grades. I also visited a few of the online stores and looked at their inventory, and their sales history as far as pricing goes. I actually think I did pretty damned good. I realized that the Mickey Mantle cards are just too damn overpriced, no matter what the cards graded. Also the Mays cards were expensive. But I got some beautiful 1959 cards that were affordable. 
Koufax
Banks
Aaron
Picked up a 1955 Ernie Banks, a 1956 Ernie Banks and a 1960 Banks. 
Picked up a couple other Aarons, another Koufax, and a Mays. 

YEAH, I spent some money, but oh well.
Ill slow it down for a month and work on how I want to display these. 
 

I am planning on getting some Reds cards from the Big Red Machine era. Maybe try to get rookie cards for each.

Bench/Perez/Morgan/Concepcion/Rose/Griffey/Foster/Geronimo

I tried to score a Bench rookie on ebay and the bids were going above recommended value so I backed off

I always loved that 2nd year Bench card, with the trophy. That card is magical. And I am guessing Bench is 20 years old in that pic? 
I spent the last weekend looking at a ton of cards from the Big Red Machine. 

Yeah I was going for that one on ebay as well....a PSA7 went for $440

Funny, I spent all weekend looking at a psa 6 going for $269 Buy It Now. I passed, for now. But damned, I was THIS CLOSE to pulling the trigger on that card!

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

Gern Blansten said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY 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.

A vacuum cleaner! Oh my, that is hilarious.
I have decided to have some fun and build up what's left of my baseball/football card collection. I went on ebay this weekend and purchased some cards. I stuck with the PSA 4-7 graded cards, and still spent way too much money! hahaha
I did plenty of homework on completed listings and visited some websites that list card values according to psa grades. I also visited a few of the online stores and looked at their inventory, and their sales history as far as pricing goes. I actually think I did pretty damned good. I realized that the Mickey Mantle cards are just too damn overpriced, no matter what the cards graded. Also the Mays cards were expensive. But I got some beautiful 1959 cards that were affordable. 
Koufax
Banks
Aaron
Picked up a 1955 Ernie Banks, a 1956 Ernie Banks and a 1960 Banks. 
Picked up a couple other Aarons, another Koufax, and a Mays. 

YEAH, I spent some money, but oh well.
Ill slow it down for a month and work on how I want to display these. 
 

I am planning on getting some Reds cards from the Big Red Machine era. Maybe try to get rookie cards for each.

Bench/Perez/Morgan/Concepcion/Rose/Griffey/Foster/Geronimo

I tried to score a Bench rookie on ebay and the bids were going above recommended value so I backed off

I always loved that 2nd year Bench card, with the trophy. That card is magical. And I am guessing Bench is 20 years old in that pic? 
I spent the last weekend looking at a ton of cards from the Big Red Machine. 

I just picked one up from a collection recently.  Great card because it's a full shot of a very young Bench and it's got the gold cup!

trying to score these two

This thread made me want to go through my cards. I think it's the first time in about 15 years that I looked at them. Outside of a Shaquille O'Neal 2nd or 3rd year card, I have a big old pile of nothing lol. I bought a complete set of baseball cards (Donruss, I think) from the late 80s for $20. Looked up the value and it's now worth $15. Great return on investment

I know I spent a lot of allowance money on cards. Even though they're pretty much worthless, the nostalgia was worth every penny.