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barterer2002
April 19, 2006 at 03:47AM View BBCode
We used to hate getting the manager cards, or the checklists, or any cards without the stats. They didn't fit into the games we played and were thus useless. Well maybe not as bad as the guy with the .160 batting average but at least he had stats to play with and if we were trying to make the worst team possible (which we did sometimes "just to mix it up") then the .160 average was GOLD.
yankeekid
I admit I like to get cards with value just because it's fun but I will never sell my cards. I do it for the fun of it and because it's just an enjoyable hobby not to boost my allowance (the allowance that I don't even get).
April 19, 2006 at 12:30PM View BBCode
Originally posted by whiskybear
Jeter's a kid; he's collecting because he wants to find something worth more than his allowance (which he just blows on Pez and Micro Machines, anyway). When I was a kid, I opened packs and packs of cards looking for that elusive rookie card that I thought might appreciate in value.
Now when I go through my old cards, it's to chuckle at all the different Eric Anthony "Future Stars" cards that every single brand minted, to see ageless Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager, or to wonder just what the photographer slipped Deion Sanders before taking the photo on his 1990 Topps card.
I admit I like to get cards with value just because it's fun but I will never sell my cards. I do it for the fun of it and because it's just an enjoyable hobby not to boost my allowance (the allowance that I don't even get).
folifan19
Makes sense. I'm probably old enough to be your Dad.
April 19, 2006 at 12:48PM View BBCode
Originally posted by jetpac
Originally posted by folifan19
75 Topps is my favorite
then 76 Topps
hey, my dad has about 8,000 cards that look like those
Makes sense. I'm probably old enough to be your Dad.
folifan19
April 19, 2006 at 02:44PM View BBCode
I think this means it's time to go back to a baseball card avatar.
folifan19
A bunch of my work friends tried like mad to get one of these cards. Were paying up to 5 bucks per pack. That was money well spent.
[Edited on 4-19-2006 by folifan19]
April 19, 2006 at 03:04PM View BBCode
Here's that elusive Billy Ripken card.
A bunch of my work friends tried like mad to get one of these cards. Were paying up to 5 bucks per pack. That was money well spent.
[Edited on 4-19-2006 by folifan19]
yankeekid
April 19, 2006 at 06:06PM View formatted
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What fleer year is that?
folifan19
April 19, 2006 at 06:15PM View BBCode
I think it's a 90. May be 89. Someone mentioned it earlier. Too lazy to go look for it.
FuriousGiorge
April 19, 2006 at 06:36PM View BBCode
89. I'm pretty sure I knew someone who chanced on one in a pack, maybe it was the scribbled out version. At least it gives Billy Ripken something to be known for besides being the brother of a Hall of Famer.
folifan19
April 19, 2006 at 06:39PM View BBCode
It's been ages since i last looked at a Beckett. I wonder what all the different versions of that Billy Ripken card are valued at now. There was a lot of cash flying around trying to get those cards. There's like 3 or 4 versions if memory serves.
FuriousGiorge
April 19, 2006 at 06:44PM View BBCode
There was the unaltered version, the scribbled out version, the one with the white box over the words. There may be more. At the time, I remember at least one of the versions going for $60. Who knows what they're worth now. I remember being pretty overwhelmingly obsessed with error cards as my ticket to the good life - I also looked for the Gary Sheffield 89 Upper Deck error forever. Actually, that one I might have found, I had a lot of 89 Upper Decks.
folifan19
April 19, 2006 at 06:58PM View BBCode
I had the Score (90?) Sandberg error card. It's value spiked really high, and I got it as the value droped like a led baloon. Since I tried to get my hands on any and all Sandberg cards I could, I patiently waited for the excitement to end, and buy it cheap. I think I got it for 5 bucks or less.
whiskybear
Perhaps even a zeplin (sic)?
[Edited on 4-19-2006 by whiskybear]
April 19, 2006 at 07:02PM View BBCode
Originally posted by folifan19
...as the value droped like a led baloon.
Perhaps even a zeplin (sic)?
[Edited on 4-19-2006 by whiskybear]
yankeekid
I have a card that says like.... I forgot something belle but not Albert, is that an error card by any chance would you know?
April 19, 2006 at 07:27PM View BBCode
I think I have a full year of fleer 90.I have a card that says like.... I forgot something belle but not Albert, is that an error card by any chance would you know?
DeVeau31
No, that's his name and then he started using Albert "Don't call me Joey" Belle.
I had that Billy Ripken card at one point. Took me about 40 packs to get it.
April 19, 2006 at 07:53PM View BBCode
Joey Belle?No, that's his name and then he started using Albert "Don't call me Joey" Belle.
I had that Billy Ripken card at one point. Took me about 40 packs to get it.
arturo
Remember Al Spangler, Don Moss, Ed Roebuck, Larry and Norm Sherry?
Arturo RSL, WDL, JML, SCL
April 20, 2006 at 03:29PM View BBCode
Damn, you guys make me feel old! I was born in 1951. In the late 50's, early 60's, Topps was all you could get. Five cards for a nickle! Plus the gum. I would collect pop bottles, return them to the store for the 2 cent deposit, and make enough to buy 4-5 packs. What a rush to open them, looking for guys like Mantle and Kofax! I used to use chalk to draw a baseball diamond on my concrete front porch. My friends and I would then play games, using dice, and drag those cards around on the concrete! Wore them down pretty good. My younger brother, age 46, still has most of them, not worth much due to the wear. There was no thought of putting Mantle, etc, in a plastic sleeve. Ah, hindsight!Remember Al Spangler, Don Moss, Ed Roebuck, Larry and Norm Sherry?
Arturo RSL, WDL, JML, SCL
folifan19
Returnable GLASS soda bottles. Those were the days. It would take about 500 aluminum cans to get enough to buy 1 pack of cards now.:(
April 20, 2006 at 04:13PM View BBCode
Plastic sleeves were probably not even thought of by manufacturers yet either!Returnable GLASS soda bottles. Those were the days. It would take about 500 aluminum cans to get enough to buy 1 pack of cards now.:(
mantlefan
April 21, 2006 at 02:41AM View BBCode
Ah yes, I remember flipping cards once upon a time. That and keeping them in the spokes of my bike.
folifan19
April 21, 2006 at 05:56PM View BBCode
It's OK kid, he didn't put Yankee cards in his spokes. Well, maybe the Billy Martin cards.
mantlefan
April 21, 2006 at 09:50PM View BBCode
You know Yankeekid, when I was growing up in the fifties and sixties that's what we did with cards. It never occurred to any of us that they'd be worth lots of money some day or that adults would obsess over them as much as we kids did. It isn't evil, its just a different time.