July 27, 201511 yr Tim Foli was the last card I needed to complete my 1976 collection. I traded all of my doubles to get him. Mom threw them away later and I never knew it.
July 27, 201511 yr "Closests," in which each player (2, 3 or more) flipped a card, and the closest to the wall took all the cards. Played that one quote a bit, myself.
July 27, 201511 yr My mother in law gave me a handful of Cracker Jack cards from 1914 and 1915. Pretty cool stuff. I had one of them graded to be sure they were all authentic.
July 27, 201511 yr Author This is the one card that seemingly took forever to get that completed my 1975 collection.
July 27, 201511 yr I collected baseball cards for years, but only had one complete set. I believe it was 1989 Fleer. I'm pretty sure that set included Junior Griffey's rookie card & Billy Ripken's infamous error card.
July 27, 201511 yr I was but a mere tyke but on our street the boys in one family were Brooklyn Dodgers fans and their most coveted cards were Duke Snider and, for some reason, Clem Labine.
July 28, 201511 yr I was but a mere tyke but on our street the boys in one family were Brooklyn Dodgers fans and their most coveted cards were Duke Snider and, for some reason, Clem Labine. How could you not, with a great name like that?
July 31, 201511 yr Before people started placing $$ values on cards you often were disappointed to get a Rookie card. "Who are these guys?" I'm pretty sure I have this one as well. I would guess that the most valuable card I own is a 1969 Mickey Mantle. No idea what it's worth though.
August 1, 201511 yr Cardboard Gods | Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Love this site for this kind of stuff.
August 1, 201511 yr I didn't collect cards as a kid; my mom thought any kind of cards was evil. But when my son was about eight, I got bitten by the bug. We both collected for about ten years, and still have all of them...maybe have 10,000 cards between us. We didn't necessarily go for valuable cards, we just like to sort them, trade them, etc. When he went to college in the late 90's, we both quit. I tried to buy a pack of every brand from every year from every sport...and use a binder page for each one. Would put the wrapper in one slot, a piece of paper telling where I bought the pack and for how much in another, then seven of the best cards in the pack. I haven't been through the binders in several years, but I think I went back to maybe 1972 or 73 for all four sports. Then...a month ago...Junior's girlfriend said a teacher friend had given her a box of loose cards to use as prizes in her classroom several years ago...and she still has them. I mentioned I wouldn't mind going through them; he bought a Beckett Baseball Magazine which we both perused; and for my birthday this week he gave me a box of 2015 Topps Series 1. Not sure I will ever open them, but lotsa great memories "re-opened."
August 2, 201511 yr Anybody know where you can sell these cards nowadays? Not really unless you're willing to go through the e-bay process and parcel them out one by one. Or sell the whole lot to somebody at a flea market or dirt mall and take a loss.
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